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Rep. Ron Paul Gets Irked By Newsletter Questions, Walks Out Of CNN Interview

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Ron Paul walked out of an interview with CNN’s Gloria Borger following a heated exchange over the controversy regarding racist newsletters sent in his name during the 1990s. Borger asked the Congressman if he had ever read the newsletters. “Did you ever object when you read them?”

“Why don’t you go back and look at what I said yesterday on CNN and what I’ve said for 20 something years. 22 years ago? I didn’t write them, I disavow them, That’s it.”

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“But you made money off them,” Borger contended.

“I was still practicing medicine,” Paul responded. “That’s probably why I wasn’t a very good publisher, I had to make a living.”

“There are reports you made almost a million dollars off of them in 1993.” Borger noted.

“No, I’d like to see that money,” Paul responded. “I never read that stuff. I was probably aware of it ten years after it was written and it’s been going on 20 years that people have pestered me about this and CNN does it every single time. So when are you going to wear yourself out?”

“Is it legitimate? Is it a legitimate question to ask that something went out in your name?” Borger continued.

“And when you get the answer, it’s legitimate you sort of take the answers you get. I didn’t write them. Didn’t read them at the time and I disavow them. That is your answer.”

“It’s legitimate, it’s legitimate. These things are pretty incendiary,” Borger pressed.

“Because of people like you,” Paul riffed.

But Borger continued to barrage Paul with questions, at which point Paul took off his mic and walked out of the interview

“It seems like Ron Paul got tired of talking about it,” CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said.

“I did have to ask them. He clearly thinks its irrelevant.” Borger explained to Blitzer. “He thinks it’s been asked and answered…It’s clearly a question he’d rather not be asked.”

Watch Paul walk out of Borger’s interview below via CNN:

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  • Anonymous

    How many times do you have to ask him THE SAME QUESTION and get the SAME ANSWERS??????????????

  • http://twitter.com/usernamenuse sailing

    It has been asked and answered FOR TWENTY YEARS!!

    Meanwhile while he was practicing medicine he never turned anyone away because they couldn’t pay, and never accepted medicare or medicaid. He gave discount or free service as needed to patients, regardless of race.  That was him, personally, doing that.  Seems to me, they should give that equal air time.

  • Anonymous

    OMG this is groundhog day but the presstitutes want us to believe they have amnesia. She could have played the 2008 taped interviewed with Blitzer and Dr Ron Paul? They trying to convince the voters that a person who defends civil rights through individual rights is a racist?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Zad/100003224482875 Charles Zad

    If you got medical help from Doctor Ron Paul, I hope to God you got a second opinion.  The man is and always has been certifiably insane.

  • Anonymous

    Glad he stopped the interview, she kept asking the same question that he’d already answered.  Ron Paul rejects the idea of “white rights” because he is an individualist and not a collectivist; he abhors racism because it sees people as belonging to groups instead of as individuals.

  • Anonymous

    Gloria Borger needs to be fired. She’s crossed the Rubicon and is now attacking her interviewees.

    If she does not harangue Newt Romney on their past from 25 years ago next time she interviews them then you pretty much know this was a planned attack.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Zad/100003224482875 Charles Zad

    How many times have they asked Barack Obama about Fast & Furious?  Solyndra?  Five trillion in new debt under his watch?  Unemployment dropping because people are stopping looking for work?

    I think all of maybe ONCE so far….when it should have been THIRTY times.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Zad/100003224482875 Charles Zad

    The WOOKIE has a large ass.

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Until the answers make more sense.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eric.boisen Eric J. Boisen

    That wasn’t bad compared to others I’ve seen

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Why, in this era of bills thousands of pages long that nobody has read and nobody will admit to writing should the nation elect a man who said he was too busy to read his own maddog newsletter?

  • http://twitter.com/vakeraj Vake

    Yeah, he’s safely delivered 4000 babies. Sure sounds like an insane man.

  • Anonymous

    Unbelievable! Again and again and again…. and he answers answers answers and they keep repeating to make the news out of nothing.

    This is a SICKENING image of democracy… and they will eventually convince Iowa not to vote Ron Paul.

  • Anonymous

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NZfeHN7DxQ
    Watch this debate from 2007, he’s not racist.

  • joey_ovah_here

    Ron has fought for minority and civil rights his whole life. He has never been known by anyone close to him to ever say or show any racist action. Other people did pieces in the newsletter, and he wasn’t able to keep tabs on everyone. Ask yourself this, does the top editor/publishers of Time Mag or any other big name magazine, or any forums they host online, ready EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE that is written? If i were to post something ‘damaging’ on some well known celeb or journalists FB page or something, you can’t expect them to know about every little thing being said.

    Ron gave free medical care to dozens of indigent people when he was a medical doctor/obgyn, including blacks, hispanics, etc. If they couldnt afford it, a simple home cooked meal or a simple free gift from where they worked sufficed just fine. He was against all the medicare and medicaid garbage and other policies he didnt agree with from the government that caused problems for some of his patients, just as he does right now. If that sounds racist to you, then you need your head examined.

    This garbage was debunked long ago, and they brought it up 4 years ago as well, because they have nothing on him, unlike the endless baggage on Newt and the other flip flopping idiots out there. If Ron stepped on a praying mantis, they would most likely launch endless smear tactics on that :rolleyes:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMQmInReYlI    —watch this and you decide.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FFX7H5G2URZVSTPTJR4ETEXOFY Sean

    Wait, so the only Republican at the debates against racial profiling Muslisms at the airport is the racist? The same guy that said 4 years ago that minorities are arrested unfairly more than any other group because of the war on drugs? Laughable, really.

  • Anonymous

    It’s no one but Paul for me.

  • joey_ovah_here

    Ron has fought for minority and civil rights his whole life. He has never been know by anyone close to him to ever say or show any racist action. Other people did pieces in the newsletter, and he wasn’t able to keep tabs on everyone. Ask yourself this, does the top editor/publishers of Time Mag or any other

    big name magazine, or any forums they host online, read EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE that is written? If i were to post something ‘damaging’ on some well known celeb or journalists FB page or something, you can’t expect them to know about every little thing being said.

    Ron gave free medical care to dozens of indigent people when he was a medical doctor/obgyn, including blacks, hispanics, etc. If they couldnt afford it, a simple home cooked meal or a simple free gift from where they worked sufficed just fine. He was against all the medicare and medicaid garbage and other

    policies he didnt agree with from the government that caused problems for some of his patients, just as he does right now. If that sounds racist to you, then you need your head examined.

    This garbage was debunked long ago, and they brought it up 4 years ago as well, because they have nothing on him, unlike the endless baggage on Newt and the other flip flopping idiots out there. If Ron stepped on a praying mantis, they would most likely launch endless smear tactics on that :rolleyes:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMQmInReYlI    –watch this and you decide.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QIWMC27ZATOS6L44OUKV4U2IGE jason s

    Good for him he has answered this over and over and over again.
    Im glad he walked out.

  • Anonymous

    Reason onemillionsonehundredthousandandone why no one watches CNN.  How utterly pathetic this is.  This is the same Gloria who bats her eye lashes at hehimself and has never asked him a hard quetsion, ever.

    CNN -complete nonsense network.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Racists are capable of delivering babies.

    –Cobra

  • http://twitter.com/WYApril April

    Gloria is such a moron. When we were in Vegas and his fans were getting pictures with him, chatting with him, etc, she came barging up through the fans. When he said he wasn’t talking to press at that time and was only talking to supporters, etc, she ignored him and not only did she keep sticking the mic in his face, she stepped up ONTO the stage. The security guys immediately told her to get off the stage and that the man said NO PRESS RIGHT NOW and she ignored them and continued to shove the mic in his face. At that point, I thought the security ought to pick her up and toss her off the stage, but instead they ushered Ron Paul off the stage and away (before I could get my darn picture with him). So I can’t stand this woman!!!

  • dbpman

    Everyone has pressed him about the newsletters for 20 years.  They
    delved into this issue when he ran in 2008.  Just like when they
    constantly ask him if he is going to run as a third party even though he
    is running 2nd in many polls.  The American people are suffering and
    CNN wants to play gotcha on non-issues. Give it a rest this isn’t Access
    Hollywood. We’ve got millions of people unemployed, prices are rising,
    and the government wants to spend more and more. Yet the media thinks this is all a big game.

  • Anonymous

    I have no use for Ron Paul but this is just lazy journalism.  The media sucks.

  • Anonymous

    wow, she is annoying…but reminded me of something else paul walked out of.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7RnlPQCKBQ 

  • Anonymous

    “It’s legitimate, it’s legitimate. These things are pretty incendiary,” Borger pressed.

    “Because of people like you,” Paul riffed.

    Paul summed it up perfectly. This is just another case of the four legged animal called “liberal” doing what they have been programed to do since their masters indoctrinated them. And that’s making it all about race. The selfish pigs know they can’t go after Paul because of his policies, they would loose. So they attack him with newsletters that he didn’t even write. Pathetic. But then again what can you expect from those bumbling collectivist “liberal” fools.

  • http://twitter.com/WYApril April

    This is a FAILED character assassination. FAIL. The man’s character is rock solid.

  • Anonymous

    David Frum does NOT molest children. As far as I know.

  • Anonymous

    Why is CNN even bothering?  They’re in the business of protecting the current POTUS and Ron Paul isn’t a threat to that.  They should use their resources more wisely.  

  • joey_ovah_here

    Well duh, wouldnt you have done the same if some weirdo was pulling his pants down and making sexual advances? Anyone here would have reacted the same way. He got punked, nothing new here, just like the 2030939 others who have been punked.

  • Anonymous

    They’re not capable of criticizing the death penalty for unfairly targeting Blacks: 
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NZfeHN7DxQ

  • http://twitter.com/JustinFrom1776 Justin Brewer

    They’re baffled by his integrity.. No one but Paul!

  • Anonymous

    As a Paul supporter who trolls comment sections, this is all becoming tedious.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Ron Paul in his own words.


    1. ‎”We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man
    of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have
    been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as
    big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be
    treated as such.”

    2. “What else do we need to know about the political establishment
    than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on
    grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn’t that true of complex
    embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?”

    3. ”Six-hundred-thousand Americans died in the senseless Civil War.
    No, he should not have gone to war. He did this just to enhance and get
    rid of the original tenet of the Republic.” -Regarding the Civil War

    4. ”Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal
    justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the
    black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal. These
    aren’t my figures, that is the assumption you can gather from” the
    report.”

    5. “Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act
    of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did
    not improve race relations or enhance freedom. Instead, the forced
    integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial
    tensions while diminishing individual liberty.” -On the 40th Anniversary
    of the Civil Rights Act

    6. “The Criminals who terrorize our cities – in riots and on every
    non-riot day – are not exclusively young black males, but they largely
    are.”

    7. “I wouldn’t vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.” -When asked if he would have voted for the Civil Rights Act.

    8. “Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of
    blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market,
    individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action.”

    9. “Immigrants can spread diseases for which we may have no immunity.
    There is also the question of crime and culture. Many immigrants come
    from countries with different legal structures and are not willing to
    behave in the way we expect American citizens to behave.”

    10. “There is no such thing as a hate crime.”

    http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/09/07/10-quotes-that-make-ron-paul-sound-racist/

     Joey, you can support Ron Paul all you like.  It’s a free country. IMHO, though, Paul can’t get ENOUGH questions or scrutiny, and you’ll never catch THIS Black man voting for him.

    –Cobra

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    I’m going to ask you this. Were you born a partisan hack or is it a learned thing?

  • Anonymous

    and how many times have they asked george bush about lying to go to iraq?
    which has to do what about gloria borger not understanding an answer?

  • http://twitter.com/scottangel scottangel

    Here are the words of his patients in a new ad. http://youtu.be/f_qBSow4FrE

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, they are also capable of being president and attorney general….oh wait, they are capable of holding the office but incapable of performing their constitutional duties.

  • bob ross

    Sounds like he saw them, Made money off of them, Forgot about about them, Now he’s mad they came to light…Welcome to front runner status for President of the United States don’t like it get out of the race or answer all the question unless your hiding something….and he is.

  • http://twitter.com/jtstellar htu

     cobra, post this again at another thread, or as an alternative, learn how the world of ghost writing works.  well, not that unsuccessful people would have anymore care how the world of professions function.  http://www.dailypaul.com/194188/the-ron-paul-newsletters-a-ghost-writers-perspective-and-open-letter-to-james-kirchick

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Hell no. Question him. Interrogate him. Dog him at every turn.  Make him produce his birth certificate. Find out what grade school he attended and interview teachers/students. Question his academic credentials and demand to see transcripts. Research what churches he’s ever attended and post the transcripts or videos of every preacher’s sermon.

     Do unto others…..

    –Cobra

  • joey_ovah_here

    Lol so all you did was quote most of the junk on the newsletters, which again, wasn’t from him at all. The civil rights and jim crow laws he also explained, in that he would allow private churches, and businesses to decide what they deem necessary to allow into their establishments. This, after all, is a PRIVATE PROPERTY issue, as well as civil liberties and giving those owners a right to choose. Public civil rights issues is a whole different ballgame, and he is clear where he stands on that.

    He has a ton of support from blacks and other minorities and its sad you are being blinded by this wear media smear attempt.

  • Anonymous

    Except for those aren’t his own words.  That’s like saying that everything at the Huffington Post is written by Ariana Huffington.

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    IT DOESN’T MATTER IF HE’S RACIST OR NOT.  All that schtuff is on record with his name on it.  This is not calling someone “macaca” or some rock with a slur on it that may or may not have been owned by him, this is HIS newsletter that HE published and that HE made at least $1,000,000.00 dollars from. Either he’s an idiot for writing that stuff, or he’s an idiot for letting it be published under his name.  Think we can’t do better than that for President?

    Get it through your skull — when it comes to the MSM, only Democrats are allowed to be drunkards, adulterers, and bigots. That’s why Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Robert Byrd didn’t get pilloried on a regular basis.  Paul would lose in a landslide to Obama, whose own bigoted religious background was swept under the rug in 2008 to grease the skids toward Pennsylvania Avenue. 

    The rules of the game ain’t fair, but if you’re playing, you gotta play by them.  The rules will NOT change for Ron Paul.

  • Anonymous

    The man has been quoted as opposing the Civil rights act!  Fail.

  • Anonymous

    I love it when Conservatives ask for decency one moment, then spew horrible garbage the next moment.

  • http://twitter.com/Donna4843 Donna4843

    ten yrs according to ron paul…see everyone exagerates. Why not answer the question did you make a million bucks off racist news letters or not?

  • http://twitter.com/Donna4843 Donna4843

    He said ten yrs not twenty…why does he not answer the question if he made a million bucks off tanted news letters?

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Tellya what — if Ron Paul refuses to talk about stuff that Newt, Mitt, or whoever did 20 years ago, we’ll let this go. Deal?

  • joey_ovah_here

    Hiding something? Perhaps if you knew more about him, and the things he has done and said in his life, you would see this is weak media tactics because he is in first place. Funny, i wonder why they never bring up Douhboy Gingrich’s foreword he wrote in Alvin Toffler’s book ‘The Third Wave’ which advocates the abolition of the constitution. Everyone knows Newt is a globalist shill and a  closet-communist, yet he parades around quoting Jefferson and Madison, like the phony he has always been.

    His past speaks for itself:

    Ron has fought for minority and civil rights his whole life. He has never been know by anyone close to him to ever say or show any racist action. Other people did pieces in the newsletter, and he wasn’t able to keep tabs on everyone. Ask yourself this, does the top editor/publishers of Time Mag or any other big name magazine, or any forums they host online, read EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE that is written? If i were to post something ‘damaging’ on some well known celeb or journalists FB page or something, you can’t expect them to know about every little thing being said.

    Ron gave free medical care to dozens of indigent people when he was a medical doctor/obgyn, including blacks, hispanics, etc. If they couldnt afford it, a simple home cooked meal or a simple free gift from where they worked sufficed just fine. He was against all the medicare and medicaid garbage and other policies he didnt agree with from the government that caused problems for some of his patients, just as he does right now. If that sounds racist to you, then you need your head examined.

    This garbage was debunked long ago, and they brought it up 4 years ago as well, because they have nothing on him, unlike the endless baggage on Newt and the other flip flopping idiots out there. If Ron stepped on a praying mantis, they would most likely launch endless smear tactics on that :rolleyes:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…    –watch this and you decide.

  • Anonymous

    This reminds me of the downfall of Campbell Brown, when she took her lead from journolist and started the whole “Palin is an unfit mother” routine one night – she was so bad, that McCain cancelled an appearance that night and so Wolf had to come on and lie about Campbell’s attack on Palin.  It was the beginning of the downfall of CNN.  These idiot lefties need to stop with their incessant attacks.

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    I think Paul was just frustrated that CNN is not smart enough to just run old file film which he answers the question over and over for them. It probably does get Frustrating when a Journalist? cannot come up with more than one question to the lead runner in the Republican party.

    It’s like Obama having to say he was born in America over and over again..and people still don’t believe him..sigh. we just have no faith in media or politics anymore… same ole same ole..

    Least Paul has stuck to his guns over the years and is truely the Republican front runner with the right direction this country needs to take.

  • Veteran For Peace

    Sounds like biased reporting that’s just trying to harass him after he answered the same questions at the same news agency just 24 hours prior.

    I’ll just leave this here:

    “Racism is simply an ugly
    form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans only as members of groups
    and never as individuals. Racists believe that all individual who share
    superficial physical characteristics are alike; as collectivists, racists think
    only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality,
    the advocates of so-called “diversity” actually perpetuate racism. Their intense
    focus on race is inherently racist, because it views individuals only as members
    of racial groups.

    Conservatives and
    libertarians should fight back and challenge the myth that collectivist liberals
    care more about racism. Modern liberalism, however well intentioned, is a
    byproduct of the same collectivist thinking that characterizes racism. The
    continued insistence on group thinking only inflames racial tensions.

    The true antidote to racism is
    liberty.

    -Ron Paul”

    http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul68.html

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    How many times has CNN asked Larry Sinclair about the experience of performing oral sex on then Illinois Senator Barack Obama while Obama smoked crack cocaine and Sinclair did powder cocaine provided by Obama.

    Clearly the Larry Sinclair story, which has stood the test of time, would have political edges, and appeal to the tabloid section of their audience.

  • Veteran For Peace

    He did. He said “no”

  • Veteran For Peace

    This seems to be ignored by the news, which proves CNN is out on a smear campaign.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i3EADdr-5AY#!

  • Anonymous

    I have made so many adverse comments regarding Ron Paul that I would like to pay him a complement: he would have made a wonderful character in a Looney Tunes short.

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Gawd, puhleeze. Larry Sinclair is a career criminal and a certifiable flake with a deadbeat dad disbarred lawyer. The MSM should ignore him because he’s not credible. What we know to be true about Obama’s bad enough. Knock it OFF!

  • http://flyingdingo.com rickroberts

    Gloria wouldn’t let it go. He gave his answer. Why did she keep asking the same thing?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7JOFKJDIQ7RCTLR73WZ2IZ7Q3M Pizzaiolo

    not to mention the birthers!

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    The way “the world of ghost writing works” is that someone else writes, and YOU TAKE CREDIT FOR IT. But Paul wants to say that he shouldn’t be held accountable for quality control of The Ron Paul Political Report. 

    As we know, Paul is unclear on many, many other simple concepts.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    “Ton of support from Blacks and other minorities”—ROTFLMBAO!!!

     Sorry. If you support Jim Crow Laws the only minority support you’ll get is from the mentally challenged and those on the RNC/Think Tank payroll.

      Any conscious minority who supports the libertarian position on civil rights is a not only a fool, but a damned fool no matter how well he or she gets paid to maintain that position.

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    You can tell even she felt bad having to pester him.  When he says “You have my answer” and she keeps going on she has to know she is being a hack.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, your mother delivered YOU, you racist.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

      Oh I get it now.  We should IGNORE anything written in the past with Ron Paul’s name or byline because he’s not responsible for the content?

      Barack Obama was responsible for Bill Ayers’ actions in the 60′s, and all of Jeremiah Wright’s sermons, but Ron Paul should get amnesty from the words of his OWN NEWSLETTER?

     Really?

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    Ron,  if ya had only been in the church of a racist and hater of America for 20 years, the libs wouldn’t have cared one bit!

  • Anonymous

    If they didn’t ask him the same thing yesterday, I’d say OK, they stink but they do their job… but yesterday they were insisting and went on and on and on and on… he was patiently responding… and today AGAIN!

    If Iowa voted against Paul because his proposals were crazy, he was phony… that would be OK. But neither he’s phony  (despite CNN), nor his proposals were crazy (despite Fox). A sincere, rock solid man is talking common sense, and that doesn’t please establishment…

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    This “garbage” has not been “debunked.” His name was on the newsletters, and he made the money from people who subscribed to them.  HE OWNS THEM, regardless of whether he actually put pen to paper. 

    Notice that he never identifies who DID write them.  Why not?  What good reason would he have for failing to place the blame squarely where it belongs?  IMHO, it’s because whoever he names will sought out by the MSM, and that person(s) will go into defense mode, perhaps with evidence that Paul knew what was written and signed off on it.

  • Anonymous

    Asks the Chief Partisan Hack of the libs.

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    I don’t believe anyone has said Obama shares responsibility for Ayers & Dohrn’s terrorist actions in the ’70s (not ’60s), but nobody with a brain believes that BHO had no idea that they were (and remain) unrepentant revolutionary radicals.

  • Anonymous

    They didn’t have to let it in the air. They could have trashed the trashy journalism. No one would’ve cried…

    If they keep playing this way, they might easily find themselves discussing the details of the political platform of the GOP presidential nominee  Ron Paul. People don’t like eating sh*t too much and for a very long time.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul is not a Conservative, he is a Libertarian. A Liberal Libertarian. do not take my word for it, take his.

  • david r

    Oh.  Your black. 

  • Anonymous

    I was speaking of Laylasa’s comment, not Ron Paul’s.

  • david r

    It’s clearly a question he’d rather not be asked.”

    Just another smear from a little attack dog trying to make a name for herself.  Maybe he is a Klansman like Romney. 

  • Anonymous

    Sure they are, but  your comment was uncalled for. I’m sure you’re better than that.
    Cheers

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HTAKOP4VYJVQDS42XH2AGNPVJM Starider Starider

    dgsvb

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7WRWABKAZAIBUZBHHESJI5LH5E Iva

    Why do the other candidates get a free pass when it comes to the open racism against Muslims on the debates?  They also put illegals and gays in the hotseat.  Let’s hear something about that. 

  • http://twitter.com/bro43rd Big rob on 43rd

    ^^^^SmearTroll^^^^
    No better than a birther!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    how many times does MITT and  the other candidates get the same questions too????  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/S-Hacim-Wilson/100000801791174 S Hacim Wilson

    Seems like an attack to me.

    “Are you a racist?”

    No

    “Well, are you a racist then?”

    No

    “Arent you a racist?”

    Screw this i’m leaving…..

    How many different ways to say no? Not, nor, negative, no, nope…. hmmmmm dont they all mean the same thing or something? Yea, the man wanting to end the war on drugs partly because its discriminatory effects on minorities is somehow racist. hahahahahaha the reasoning behind some of the claims show how desperate they are to stop the Ron Paul train!

  • Kon Man

    Please prevent some evidence for any of your claims.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/S-Hacim-Wilson/100000801791174 S Hacim Wilson

    Its clearly a question he’d rather not have to answer a billion times, when it has been addressed before.

    How the is man who wants to end the drug war racist?
    How is the man that is against everything collectivist, somehow racist? 

    Makes no sense because their is no sense to be had!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HTAKOP4VYJVQDS42XH2AGNPVJM Starider Starider

    reporters are such azwipes, i once had a reporter and camera assistant illegally enter a burning chemical plant try to interview me while i was trying to secure at tank that could have blown up any minute, i had to stop what i was doing to get the fire marshal to throw the bstrd out

  • Anonymous

    It’s been debunked, period.

  • Anonymous

    Muslims are not a race.  Which is why profiling them does not work.  Persians, Eastern Europeans, Asians, and Africans can all be Muslims. 

    Sort of the same reason why Dems & Paul get a pass on being negative (racism!) to Israel.  I blame Sammy Davis Jr.

  • Love of Country

    Oh God, the Drama Queen is back!

    You patsies are so indignant that Barry was asked to show his birth certificate …. it only reveals how weak and thin skinned you patsies and Stockholm trolls really are.
    Oh I know it was of absolutely zero concern when lilly white Hillary wanted to see it .. but when the Donald asked for it entire networks went apeshit with wall to wall coverage of the racist outrage …ROTFLMAO … and in kind, misguided patsies did the same thing feigning outrage from the top of your lungs for anyone naive enough to listen but when Hillary had done the exact same thing patsies like you were nowhere to be found.

    For two years DingleBarry dragged the country through heII when he should have showed it to Hillary from day 1.

    BTW – He’s still hiding all of his transcripts … God …. have you ever spoken a true word in your life?  (rhetorical question)

  • Anonymous

    Paul answered all those questions several times.

  • Anonymous

    EXACTLY RIGHT! The owner, publisher and editor. All under his name and went out for 20yrs. Anyone would be held accountable for the content under these circumstances. It is not acceptable to disavow them 10yrs after they stopped being published and think you should not be held accountable. Why should he get a pass, no one else would. It would take a suspension of disbelief, as Hillary would put it. Although the Cult of Paul is willing, the majority of Americans will not. And that is the point, the issue newsletters will not disappear if he were to run in the general election. A billion Obama dollars would make sure of that. Fair or not, that is the reality. WAKE UP!  

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000142478246 Michael Jones
  • http://twitter.com/bro43rd Big rob on 43rd

    Did you encourage the Obama birthers as well? Did you show the same attitude when the media questioned Obama’s relationship with Ayers/WU & Rev Wright? Remove the beam from thine eye before attempting to remove the splinter from another’s.

  • Anonymous

    Ya got to love it- a week ago or so  libs like Ed Schultz, Bill Maher and others were talking about what a great candidate  Paul was when in fact they had this planned all along.

  • http://twitter.com/MinneMike Michael Wiley

    I wouldn’t vote for Ron Paul, but come on, show a little dignity at CNN (Clown News Network). Gloria seems to not take the answer as the answer.

  • Anonymous

    cobra, please , you are just an anachronistic racist.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1128337205 Nita Ell

    What a douche she is!  RON PAUL 2012…attack ads, really?  Exposing the truth…go ron paul go..right into the White House!

  • Anonymous

    Even though I am not staunch supporter of Ron Paul’s bid for the presidency in 2012, sometimes I do wonder if the liberal media have no shame at all.

    So the stuff was written in the 80′s and 90′s, meaning 30 or 20 years ago, and all this hype by the left-wing media for someone who is campaigning for the presidency for the THIRD TIME having run in 1988 and 2008??? The fact that the issues is now being hammered by the media really questions the “objectivity of the journalism” or perhaps the motives of the media who we all know have taken it upon themselves to ward off any threat to the messiah in the White House; I mean the old man Ron Paul has been answering to this same issue for more than a decade or two. Honestly it is really shocking to see that someone I’d still consider a stranger to Americans now serves as commander-in-chief without the media scrutiny that Republican candidates have received so far. Obama’s entire academic history have been sealed, scrubbed from the web and entities when they existed locally, and in some cases missing, and that includes his SAT scores,his Columbia College records, his Occidental College records, even his College thesis, and no one can actually find his school records for the elite K-12 college prep school, Punahou School, he attended in Hawaii. His strong ties to his mentor Communist Party leader, Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, etc… were never scrutinized by the media establishment.

    It is quite scary to note that we know less about President Obama than perhaps any other president in
    American history, and much of this is due to actual efforts to hide his
    record. This should concern all Americans and the media, but instead they are more interested in 30 year old paintings on a rock in a rented property, “unproven” sexual allegations on a successful businessman, 30 year old racist newsletters, and the media witch-haunt list on Republicans goes on…

    In Obama’s home state, Illinois, independent investigators tracked down 16 different
    addresses for a Barack Obama or a Barack H. Obama, of which all are
    addresses he was known to have lived at. Two Social Security numbers
    appear for these addresses, one beginning with 042 and one starting 364. In California, where Obama attended Occidental College, there are six
    addresses listed for him, all within easy driving distance of the
    college. However, there are three Social Security numbers connected to
    these addresses, 537 and two others, each beginning with 999.There are no addresses listed in New York where he attended Columbia
    University, but there is one listed for him in nearby Jackson, NJ, with a
    Social Security number beginning with 485. At the 713 Hart Senate Office Building in Massachusetts where Obama attended Harvard Law School,
    three addresses were found, all using the 042 Social Security number. After Obama
    was elected to the United States Senate in 2005, he moved into an
    apartment at 300 Massachusetts Ave NW; the Social Security number
    attached to that address is the 042 one. Yet, three years later, Obama
    used a different Social Security number for an address listed as: 713
    Hart Senate Office Building. This was the address of his United States
    Senate office. This Social Security number began with 282 and was
    verified by the government in 2008.

    This mystery of Obama’s history is quite a long one that has been totally ignored my the mainstream media, but the reason I am pointing out all this is because had it been a Republican or conservative candidate with all this mystery in his or her background, there would have been thousands(I mean thousands literally) of investigative reports being hammered by the media.

    The funny thing is that the media hardly ever puts emphasis on highly critical issues facing the Republic, but there is always time for consistently stressing an issue that does nothing to enhance the lives of millions in America.

  • http://vforvandyke.com vforvandyke

    Iowans have got to be smarter than that. This is not a legitimate talking point and is simply an absurd pretense of journalism.

    They should ask Jerry Springer, he could tell people which candidates are probably the real racists and CNN could still fill the sensationalist ratings quota for political news coverage.

  • Anonymous

    The president of the Austin NAACP says Paul is not racist:
    http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/011308_not_racist.htm 

    Out of thousand of news letters certain passages were taken out of them to appear racist when in context they were not.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1127971822 Mark Wilmoth

    She is not a reporter, she is a troll. He answered the question, then she talks like he didn’t answer it and then she puts words in his mouth “he clearly thinks it is irrelevant.” How stupid can a reporter be?

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    CREDIBLE.

    He’s why Biden got on the ticket. A.G. Bo Biden took Sinclair out of circulation for a while, with no charges filed.

    Read “Sex, Lies, Cocaine, and Murder” by Larry Sinclair for all the gruesome details!

  • http://twitter.com/Nietzschean John Smith

    Blitzer sickens me. He’s an outspoken zionist shill and yet he has the nerve to stand there as if objective and go after Paul.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Zad/100003224482875 Charles Zad

    The WOOKIE Michele Obama has a VERY LARGE ASS.

  • http://twitter.com/Nietzschean John Smith

    From the NY TImes:

    “Gloria Anne Borger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Borger of New
    Rochelle, N. Y., and Lance Morgan, son of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Morgan
    of New York, were married yesterday afternoon in the Beth-El Synagogue
    in New Rochelle by Rabbi Philip Weinberger”

    How’d I know?

  • Anonymous

    The man published racist and homophobic works.

    Let me say this gain- HE PUBLISHED RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC WORKS.   He can answer it on his tombstone and it will not be good enough.  This should come up every time Paul shows his face in public.  No excuses- Paul should be happy to explain this in every interview as it will never go away.  His temper-tantrum just proves the man is unfit for office.

    Now imagine him running against the first Black President with a hostile media who calls anyone who opposes Obama’s economic policies ‘racist’. 

    Paul will never be elected President.  All it will take is a person reading his published works in an attack ad.  Paul may win in Iowa- but the only way he wins any other state is if that state has open primaries and people who are Obama supporters come out in droves to push Paul onto the ticket for the easy Obama win.

    I am not saying Paul doesn’t have some great ideas (which is why I hate him and the Paulbots for not getting behind an electable Libertarian).  I am saying Paul is disqualified from the get-go.  If he wasn’t such a flaming egomaniac Paul would have put his support behind Gary Johnson or even Rand Paul who I like a lot.

    Other areas where Paul is a non-starter in the GOP:  Flirting with 9/11 Trutherism, supporting Cynthia McKinny, age (he is older than McCain), bad temper (watch Paul here and then watch Newt handle adversity in half the videos on this site- it will only get worse for Paul) and the fact that almost everyone knows Paul will “take his ball and go Libertarian” once he loses enough primary states.

    Libertarians and Paulbots need to get there heads out of their collective behinds and find a guy with Paul’s ideas that can win. 

  • Anonymous

    Media bias, ya say?

    Tonight on NBC Nightly News one of its reporters called the WSJ “that Republican newspaper.”

    Now when was the last time you heard any MSM outlet refer to the  The Washinnton Post, The LA Times , The NYTs, Time or Newsweek as “those Democrat publications?”

    MG they won’t even call ‘em liberal publications!!

  • Anonymous

    Proving that once a lib idiot always a lib idiot:

    North Korea’s state-run news agency is reporting that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter expressed his condolences following the death of brutal dictator Kim Jong Il.

    “In the message Jimmy Carter extended condolences to Kim Jong Un and the Korean people over the demise of leader Kim Jong Il,” read a report on the Korean Central News Agency’s website

  • Anonymous

    Matt Damon turns racist:

    “In one of his most biting comments on Obama yet, Damon told Elle magazine that “a one-term president with some balls” would have been better.”

  • joey_ovah_here

    Cobra, give it up. There isnt one thing you can do to prove it, and the man has done everything possible stand up for, and help minorities his whole life. Wake up already:

    And what i find even more funny and ironic, is Herman Cain did the same thing when he got tired of being asked about the sexual scandals all the time, and said outright, severa times, that he would not answer any more questions on it. He was even more intense and agitated about it than Ron is being right now. The only thing that damaged Cain, was he said he ‘wasnt aware of any settlement’, then comes out the very next day and says ‘Ohh uhhh ohh, yea, well i was aware of an ‘agreement’. I will even admit i didnt take sides right away, as the first woman who came out seemed really out there in her explanation, but the 3rd woman proved it with physical evidence, via the phone calls, texting, the signed book, the gifts, etc.

    Again, there is no proof out there that Ron wrote them. His actions, voting record, deeds, and all he has stood for concering blacks and other minorities, LONG BEFORE the newsletter was even created, goes against him being any type of racist, so that in itself, completely debunks all of this. Yes, the newsletter was under his name, but many other people did pieces in it, and again, you cannot expect any publisher/owner/editor, of any type of medium to read and know about every single thing that is mentioned in them. The man is hated by the establishment crooks, especially those in the corrupt and sorry excuse we have as a republican party. He wants to end their endless crimes and oppression of the people. They have had their hand in the cookie jar for decades, so with Ron wanting to end all of their gluttony and thievery, it is only natural they are going to try and stop him from doing the right thing.

    The president of the Austin NAACP says Paul is not racist:

    http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/011308_not_racist.htm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…    –watch this and you decide.

  • joey_ovah_here

    And what i find even more funny and ironic, is Herman Cain did the same
    thing when he got tired of being asked about the sexual scandals all the
    time, and said outright, severa times, that he would not answer any
    more questions on it. He was even more intense and agitated about it
    than Ron is being right now. The only thing that damaged Cain, was he
    said he ‘wasnt aware of any settlement’, then comes out the very next
    day and says ‘Ohh uhhh ohh, yea, well i was aware of an ‘agreement’. I
    will even admit i didnt take sides right away, as the first woman who
    came out seemed really out there in her explanation, but the 3rd woman
    proved it with physical evidence, via the phone calls, texting, the
    signed book, the gifts, etc.

    Again, there is no proof out there
    that Ron wrote them. His actions, voting record, deeds, and all he has
    stood for concering blacks and other minorities, LONG BEFORE the
    newsletter was even created, goes against him being any type of racist,
    so that in itself, completely debunks all of this. Yes, the newsletter
    was under his name, but many other people did pieces in it, and again,
    you cannot expect any publisher/owner/editor, of any type of medium to
    read and know about every single thing that is mentioned in them. The
    man is hated by the establishment crooks, especially those in the
    corrupt and sorry excuse we have as a republican party. He wants to end
    their endless crimes and oppression of the people. They have had their
    hand in the cookie jar for decades, so with Ron wanting to end all of
    their gluttony and thievery, it is only natural they are going to try
    and stop him from doing the right thing.

    The president of the Austin NAACP says Paul is not racist:

    http://www.prisonplanet.com/ar...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…    –watch this and you decide.

  • Anonymous

    Hate to break it to you, but that wasn’t a good answer. 

    It seems Paul supporters (and Democrats) want a crossbreed of Bart Simpson “It wasn’t me!” and Sgt. Schultz “I knew nothing!!!” as the guy to go up against Obama.  

    Any true reporter would keep hammering Paul on his silly answer.  The problem for the GOP is that Obama will never get this level or scrutiny from the press, or Jon Stewart, or SNL.

    The fact of the matter is you cannot publish racist and homophobic works for years and then be President of the USA.  

    Paul should find a person that will carry forward his ideas and become an adviser. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Zad/100003224482875 Charles Zad

    The reference to “some balls” is a DIRECT RACIST slap at blacks who don’t have any balls.

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Nobody who sues a sock puppet on YouTube has credibility.

    Nobody who admits to involved in human trafficking has credibility.

    Nobody who has a kilt-wearing suspended attorney who says he doesn’t wear pants because his penis is too big and worked out of a Kinko’s because he didn’t pay rent on his office and who is now getting into the medical marijuana business has credibility.

    If you believe Larry Sinclair, you’re even more brain-dead than a Ron Paul voter.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, he already said he took moral responsibility for not overseeing it and apologized.  Some time ago.  Nothing more he can really do.   The fact is, the media is giving those words more attention than his little news letter ever did. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Zad/100003224482875 Charles Zad

    Tonight on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams NBC LEAD the news with showing two lesbians in the military engaged in a sexually charged deep kiss with each other.  

    When the camera panned back to Brian Williams it was almost as if he was saying “take that conservatives and I don’t give a rip if your kids were watching”.

  • Anonymous

    This news media will not get it till they are in the cross hairs of this administration.
    Being a Republican candidate on any level is not good for ones’ health…..I’d have walked out too.
    Seems that interviewing any Republican candidate is a game of ‘gotcha’….
    If this Borgia chick thinks she is a journalist then she must be living in some rare time in space.
    TWIT!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Kirkus/100002630855564 Ray Kirkus

    read a little more about it and which section he opposed, then comment again

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Harden/1197492169 Robert Harden

    he’s Against the Civil Rights Act because he feels it a businessman’s right to be racist! Is it a bad business idea to be racist, yea, but, should you have the right to be racist, yea! The federal government shouldn’t be telling people how to run their  
    businesses! That’s all guys like Paul and Stossel are saying! 

    Before you say anything, Racist are morons!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Kirkus/100002630855564 Ray Kirkus

    So you want a more dramatic answer? Not good enough for you and thee is nothing else for the media to find.. nothing in 30 years. Cmon.. This man is the real deal. Lets ask Obama about Larry Sinclair..

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Knock knock – anybody home? Think, Kon Man, THINK!

    This is not as if someone is accusing Bill Ayers of having ghostwritten Dreams From My Father, which is an interesting theory, but can NEVER be proved.  Ron Paul has already put his name on his own newsletter.  He doesn’t get to say he didn’t write it because he’s already taken over million dollars by saying he did.  If now he wants to say he DIDN’T write it, he’s got to provide the proof, not anybody else.

    GET IT NOW?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Kirkus/100002630855564 Ray Kirkus

    He talked about it he answered it in numerous interviews.. What the heck do you want?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Kirkus/100002630855564 Ray Kirkus

    No they wont cuz people can see that Ron Paul is the ONLY true conservative. Like Reagan said ” Libertarianism is the heart and soul of conservatism.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WH3ZLMM7CUKUHUIMK4TKXW6SQE John

    I’m not a “Paultard” but this was horrible.  They need to let Gloria Berger go.  That was an utterly disgraceful “interview”.  Here is a hint:  If you are asking a question for the millionth time that has already been answered a million times then you are not really asking a question!  YOU ARE TRYING TO CREATE A NARRATIVE.  And a most disgusting one at that.  To imply Ron Paul is racist is insane and disgusting.

  • Anonymous

    Paul may not have written them (seems to be zero proof either way).

    What is not disputable:

    Paul published a magazine in Paul’s name with racist and homophobic anonymous editorials (which usually means they have the owners/publisher’s backing).

    Paul profited from the magazine.

    The other thing Paulbots love to say is that everyone knows about this.  I hate to break it to you, but the real killer for Ron Paul is that almost no one except political wonks know about this story.  This is going to get much worse for Paul.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Kirkus/100002630855564 Ray Kirkus

    Again you quote the newsletters which he did not write.. 

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Truth is not a smear.

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    So what? Joran Van Der Sloot and Casey Anthony have answered the same questions several times, too. Should you believe them?

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Yeah, I know.  La la la la la la la, you can’t hear me.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    You do know about Fox News and Talk Radio, right?  I don’t think they share your opinion.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Yup. Problem?

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    You’ve been watching way too much Nancy Grace.

  • ProChoiceGrandma

    Does Ron Paul REALLY expect anyone to believe that not a single person EVER mentioned anything to him about those racist newsletters for TEN years before he read them???  REALLY???  Surely a fellow racist slapped him on the back and congratulated him on his racist newsletters.  Even if he denies that he wrote them, someone would have mentioned it to him.  I believe he has just proven that he knew about them and did NOTHING to refute them.  He is a racist AND misogynist.

  • 12voltman1

     The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well… it didn’t really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative post was pitiful.

  • 12voltman1

    I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective… Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success.

  • Ken Caudll

    Yeah, whatever you say there, slick.  After all, you know what will happen before it happens.

    Looks to me like it’s a desperate ploy to discredit Paul before the caucus.

  • Anonymous

    “This is politics and if you can’t stand the heat in this little kitchen, wait until the Obama hell’s kitchen turns up the heat.”  Mitt Romney.  How presidential of the “crazy uncle.”  The circus continues.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    This is what I think about Stossel:
    http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/252041_10150195156378589_6277368588_7276546_6674858_n.jpg

      A minority supporting the libertarian position on civil rights is like a cow wearing a McDonald’s t-shirt.

    –Cobra

  • 12voltman1

    Why must you always be abusive, belligerent and socially-retarded?

  • Anonymous

    What is interesting too is that this stuff did not come out in the past.  So who brought it up? Newt or Romney?  Can’t blame Obama or the “Libs” for this.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    You know there is this thing on a keyboard called a number pad…  If you dont have one, they are on the top row of your keyboard.

  • 12voltman1

    Justplaythegame. Good to see you back!

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Hey, go ahead and watch the 2008 interview with Blitzer. It does NOT exonerate him.  When Wolf asks who wrote the stuff in the newsletter, Paul says, “I have no idea.” When Wolf asked if he even read it, Paul said he didn’t!  Are you telling me that it makes sense to you that he had NO idea who in his lucrative publishing business might have been responsible for what went out under his name?  Are you telling me that YOU would dare put your own name on a publication that you NEVER read yourself?

    Barack Obama may suck at being President of The United States, but he never would have been elected if he had proudly said that as President of the Harvard Law Review, he never even read it!

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    I thought Libertarians always preached personal responsibility.  If Barack Obama is responsible every word his minister ever said, then shouldn’t Paul be held responsible for the words in the Ron Paul’s Political Report, Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report and the Ron Paul Investment Letter?

  • http://www.clubvalenciacf.blogspot.com SlickR

    Don’t get over confident because stuff may come up about Bank of America and company!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tom-Pain/100001856256179 Tom Pain

    Message to Minorities  ”Ron Paul is Spelling this Sh*t out for You”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFWNRifg2jA&feature=player_embedded

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Uh uh. It’s a call for people not to discredit the GOP.

  • 12voltman1

    Absofuckinlutly clueless!

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    I want an answer that doesn’t insult my intelligence. Apparently, that’s not a problem for a lot of other people.

  • http://twitter.com/BMartin1776 Benjamin Martin

    He denies writing it but he allegedly approved it! “…Ron Paul “did read them, every line of them, off his fax machine at his Clute office before they were published. He would typically sign them at the bottom of the last page giving his okay, and refax them to Jean to go to the printer.” “
    http://thedaleygator.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/ex-ron-paul-aide-disputes-paul-on-newsletters/

  • http://twitter.com/BMartin1776 Benjamin Martin

    He denies writing it but he allegedly approved it! “…Ron Paul “did read them, every line of them, off his fax machine at his Clute office before they were published. He would typically sign them at the bottom of the last page giving his okay, and refax them to Jean to go to the printer.” “
    http://thedaleygator.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/ex-ron-paul-aide-disputes-paul-on-newsletters/

  • http://twitter.com/BMartin1776 Benjamin Martin

    He denies writing it but he allegedly approved it! “…Ron Paul “did read them, every line of them, off his fax machine at his Clute office before they were published. He would typically sign them at the bottom of the last page giving his okay, and refax them to Jean to go to the printer.” “
    http://thedaleygator.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/ex-ron-paul-aide-disputes-paul-on-newsletters/

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Has he named the person who wrote it?  Has he explained why he didn’t read it?  Has he explained why someone who admittedly can’t run a newsletter should be trusted with the whole damn country?

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    I believe that Obama has been on the Down Low since he learned it from Frank Marshall Davis, and I believe every word that larry Sinclair said about his “close ties” with the Illinois Senator.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    You can’t deny what happened.  You can’t deny that cable news networks were not only giving live coverage of damn near every public event Jeremiah Wright attended, but Fox News even went after damn near any pastor, at any church Barack Obama showed up at:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYXIFfVEpsw

     Yet I bet you couldn’t name the pastor of ANY of the GOP nominees, much less the churches they claim to attend, can you?

     This is the digital age, Big Rob.  You can Google up all this stuff.  But I’ll give you credit, Rob…we can have an honest dialogue here.

     Love of Country seems to want those Jim Crow days back when Black men had to produce PAPERS or take literacy tests in order to vote. LOC, perhaps you think “Whites Only” signs need to come back to the marketplace.

     Well, Ron Paul doesn’t have a problem with “Whites Only” signs.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbJBHhqftc

    –Cobra

  • Mo Fokker

    Teabagger-fundies routinely accepted Herman Cain’s denials about sexual harassment, so why shouldn’t America accept Ron Paul’s word on this. I know I do.

  • Anonymous

    I guess that makes you a moron; you racist.

  • Anonymous

    Teabagger? Go screw yourself you piece of Obama loving crap.

  • Pablo

    Then there’s the fact that he thinks Bradley Manning is a heroic patriot.

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Great. I knew someone like you would show up eventually.

    Dude, you’re like Obama in that you think the best way to get out of a deep hole is to keep digging.

  • http://twitter.com/HansBarenjager Hans Barenjager

    Racism is a THOUGHTCRIME. We know the routine.
    If someone does not BELIEVE that the lone sharking of the Federal
    Reserve Bank, the ponzi cons of wall street, war crimes of the
    Military Industrial Complex, apartheid in Israel is GOOD, that person
    must be assassinated with words like racist, anti-semite. CNN’s job
    like the Catholic Inquisition is to make sure that Americans only
    have kosher thoughts. Heretics will be burned at the stake of public
    opinion that CNN will manufacture.

  • Mo Fokker

    No, teabagger-fundies.  This is the group that supported Sharon Angle and Christine O’Donnell.  If you supported them I am speaking of you.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Our military is off risking their lives carrying out the missions the leadership of this nation has tasked them to.  “I don’t give a rip” what haters think if they kiss one another on camera.

    –Cobra

     

  • Anonymous

    If they don’t have any new ionformation about a 20 year old issue then there’s no point in continuing to bring it up.
    It’s total nonsense in light of how many serious sissues there are that are far more relevant.

  • Mo Fokker

    You don’t have a typical blog in the sense you don’t make daily entries. Do you update that web page that has all that writing?

  • Anonymous

    Now, now, play nice.  Go re-apply Preparation-H if needed.  You should be proud to be a teabagger.  After all you coined it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Zad/100003224482875 Charles Zad

    You and your gays and lesbians that want to SHOVE their sexuality in our kids faces can put it where the sun doesn’t shine. 

    Oh, you probably would like that….

  • Anonymous

    In regards to Mr. Paul’s short interview with Borger.

    Brief analysis of the interview:

    1min-18secs in the video Borger says:

    “Today I pressed him about whether he had actually read any of those newsletters that went under his name. Listen to what he said.”

    The interview segment starts IMMEDIATELY, with Mr. Paul obviously answering another question (which we do not get to see). Mr. Paul says:

    “Not all the time. On occasion yes.”

    This has been edited and taken out of context, to make Ron Paul appear as if he admits that he read the newsletters “on occasion”.

    Skip to 1min-53secs. Borger says:

    “So you have read them but you didn’t do anything about it.”

    This is the second time in this interview that this unethical reporter implies Mr. Paul has admitted that he had read the newsletters.

    Mr. Paul responds categorically:

    “I never read that stuff. I became aware of them 10 years after they were written.”

    Conclusion:

    This is slander, and CNN owes Mr. Paul an apology.

  • Anonymous

    Your link says
    “If Dondero is telling the truth,” which translates into  there’s still no new evidence. Paul may have signbed ogff on them without reading them, or perhaps he read them, but it was over 20 years ago and he has repeatedly disavowed them. Is there anything in hi s long record to indicate he agree with the controversial statements? Anything at all. If not , it’s pretty much a dead issue and he’s right to ask reporters with NO new information to stop asking the same question. The lady in the clip and then Wolf says “well it’s our job to ask”I call BS. If you have no new information on a 20 year old issue, then you’re not contributing anything by dredging it up again. It’s a dam lazy excuse for journalism.

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    Ron, is that you?

  • https://me.yahoo.com/a/7nZpGKwT1fVdlb3YN6DXlA8PViJDMLL2bO_q#5aa2e ganymede

    This whole Teapublican Presidential Sweepstakes is getting weirder all the time. Each character, Cain, Bachmann, Perry, Trump (!) steps up to the plate and strikes out. I actually thought Gingrich would give us a  a few more weeks of entertainment, but it looks like he’s going to swing air for a third strike. He’s an impulsive swinger! Now it’s Ron Paul, the libs favorite rightwinger because he’s not an overt warmonger like the rest of them and his philosophy of no-government rules or regulations would allow us to buy marajuana at our local 7-11. However, now that we’re taking a good look at the good doctor, many unsavory issues are going to emerge. Chief among them is his association with far right bigots and racists. Ron Paul was an early member and supporter of the John Birch Society which was a far far right racist bunch of well financed kooks who during the cold war advocated having a nuclear showdown with the Soviets and other intelligent policies. Ron Paul and his son are for tiny government, tiny taxes, a very flimsy safety net, no sensible health care and, of course, no regulations at all for the Robber Barons.What gets me is that while Paul certainly has a degree of integrity, which most of the other candidates don’t have, he’s still an extremist who the Americans will reject as they’ve rejected all the other Teapublican candidates. It’s pathetic that the rightwingers haven’t nor does it appear likely they will be able to find someone to beat Obama.Says a lot about what they stand for.

  • Anonymous

    That’s very interesting, please tell me more.

  • http://twitter.com/SquidEatinDough SquidEatinDough

    TRIVIALIZING RACISM IS LOLz

    Keeping reaching for the stars, conservative retards, with your pseudo-sensical EIB Network-approved “jokes.”

  • http://twitter.com/SquidEatinDough SquidEatinDough

    Seriously, though. Not enjoying lesbians… You’re a gay, amirite?

  • http://twitter.com/SquidEatinDough SquidEatinDough

    But did he call him Kim Jong the Second? Or Kim Jong Two? Because not even the peanut farmer can ever hope to top the epic idiocy of the Right’s most exemplary politicians.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    They don’t follow the logically conclusions of their own policies.

    –Cobra

  • SouthernYankee

    I am not a fan of Paul.  I have heard of this kind of talk before.  Now saying that how much does a person keep beating the drum.  I don’t care if he is a republican or a democrat sometimes this beating the drums over and over is to much.  Many knew that Paul hates Jews and minitories long ago.  Enough already.

  • http://twitter.com/SquidEatinDough SquidEatinDough

    Fantastic combination of Ron’s racism and Herman’s base sexual appetites. It’s like you put the both of them together in a telepod and produced BrundleTard.

  • http://twitter.com/SquidEatinDough SquidEatinDough

     Awesome Jew-sniffing skills, brah. You could’ve been a popular guy in the SS.

  • http://twitter.com/myconoclast Dave

    Romney is really not a bad candidate on the face of it, he attracts a lot of support from older voters and I could easily see him beating Obama if the economy doesn’t recover.

  • Anonymous

    Right. Our rulers  think nothing of launching mass murder operations all over the globe and shredding what’s left of civil liberties at home-but some ethnic jokes in newsletters written 20 years ago is a near capital offense. 

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    You know I love you stone and that I am a good liar, but I was looking at a exchange we had.  I was looking at both of our “likes” and discovered that a lot of your “likes” come from people with no activity but liking your comments.   Some even have the same name with a few letters different or rearranged. Doesn’t that strike you as odd or a desperate need to be loved?

    What is your major malfunction? Did mommy and daddy not love you enough?

  • Anonymous

    I am not a fan of Ron Paul but since it is CNN (Communist New Network) who was doing the interview – I’d walk out too.

  • Anonymous

    Why arer you asking a ron paul supporter about Obama? Ron Paul supporters are libertarians NOT LIBERALS. Go ask a liberal your questions.

  • Anonymous

    Why are you asking a ron paul supporter about Obama? Ron Paul supporters are libertarians NOT LIBERALS. Go ask a liberal your questions.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul supports the constitution. If you do not agree with Ron Paul then you do not support the constitution. Are you an american?

  • Anonymous

    He is NOT a liberal Libertarian There is no such thing. He is a constatutiionalist Libertarian.  no where near the left. Have you ever heard his message?

  • Anonymous

    You have no clue of what you are talking about. You have not listened to a word Ron Paul has said. He is strictly for te constitution. If you do not agree with him then you are not a patriot and you probabl don’t even live in america. If you do then you are the part of the problem as republican along with the dems.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kevin.ghiassi Kev Gia

    STFU “J” Boy!

  • Anonymous

    Just wait until the crazy stuff from all his appearances on the Alex Jones Show start popping up.

  • Anonymous

    I see you don’t support the constitution. Way to go you live in this country and you don’t even believe in the foundation of it. Ron Paul is a strict consitutionalist. It is people like you who are ruining this country. you are as bad as the far left. you probably would amend the constitution tell there is nothing left of it. Just like the leftist.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000588397949 Drew Janiszyn

    Ron Paul #WINNING

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000588397949 Drew Janiszyn

    Link us to a wordpress site during a debate. First time I really LOL’ed on the computer.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000588397949 Drew Janiszyn

    Newt Gingrich stole 1.6 million dollars from taxpayer money and you are sitting on a website’s comment section bitching about how a Ron Paul related publishing group made a fraction of that divided by multiple people and equipment and the expenses of running a business. 

    You led down dead end paths this easily, this often?

  • Anonymous

    Solyndra failed because ultimately could not compete with the Chinese on price.

    It was a bad bet but not criminal if you remember George Bush’s invasion of Iraq based on phony-baloney intel cost America a trillion dollars and thousands of lives lost but I’m sure you’ve forgot that by now, now that Obama has ended it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000588397949 Drew Janiszyn

    The neocons are getting a little testy tonight. Their RINO Establishment joke candidates are getting their faces stomped in by Paul and it makes them a little irritable. 

  • Anonymous

    Do you people do ANYTHING other than whine about Liberals?

  • http://www.facebook.com/kevin.ghiassi Kev Gia

    Gloria Borger and her her husband Herr Morgan are Israeli Mossad agents just like Wolfy, we know her motive , we know why the Zionists are so pissed off right now, a Ron Paul presidency would put an end to all illegal wars,no more blood shed of our young for their wars and they could not milk us anymore , ask yourselves, why Bill Krystal the Jewish Zionist, the architect of the new American century and strong supporter of all these illegal wars in middle east , decided to re-hatch these old BS , debunked newsletter writings over there at weekly standard , which Dr. Paul has repeatedly  denounced , disavowed and said, he did not wrote them and he did not red them, Ask yourselves how could some one who is for individual liberty and freedom be  racist. you have a brain use it. The establishment tried to ignore him, but the American people are waking up,and the dinosaur media and the presstitutes are shaking in their booths,and there is a full panic mode in halls of power, corruption and greed.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MM4B2AIHRSUH3YT7YW2FXFV32Y Ben

    A responsible journalist would have cited the “reports” rather than simply saying “There are reports that you made almost a million dollars….” 

    Multiple “reports” said this nonsense?  Give me a break.

    No one–Ron Paul or otherwise–could make a million dollars off a Ron Paul newsletter.  These reports are either non-existent or bogus enough for a responsible journalist to have discredited prior to the interview.

    He should sue CNN.  Then he really would make a million dollars off the newsletters.

  • Anonymous

    I know. Asses!

  • Anonymous

    No, they don’t. That would need a human sized brain to accomplish. 

  • Anonymous

    I never thought I’d say this, but–thank you CNN.

  • Anonymous

    He’s personally conservative, politically libertarian. 

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Oh…and what did you expect to hear at Morgan State–an historically Black school, to a largely Black audience…from a politician?

     Did you expect the Rick “we sure kill ‘em good and dead in Texas” Perry standing ovation crowd?

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    You’re absolutely right. The Presidents on Mt. Rushmore were demonstrably racist. I’d make a bet most Presidents in history were.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Politics isn’t bean bag.  If I was to run for office, people would search through every blog post, comment, song or cartoon I’ve ever made and pull out things to use against me.

     And it would be fair game.

     That’s why I’ll never run for office, and I accept that.

     Why are you defending Paul and his newsletters?

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    What part of “I didn’t write the, I didn’t read them until much later, and I disavow them” does not make sense to you?  Will any answer REALLY satisfy you?  OR you just grabbing on to something you can use as a political weapon?

  • Anonymous

    There actually is. There are right leaning libertarians and left leaning libertarians. Sigh. 
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism 

  • Anonymous

    BTW< your if this was a trial they get to ask the question one time. Once it is answered he doesnt  not have to answer again.  Its really that simple, unless they can prove he lied and then cross examine, so your comparison to people being charged of a crime having to answer questions over and over again is false.

  • OSTL

    “cobra” stop acting like everybody owes you something. It’s really pathetic

  • Anonymous

    Tsk tsk, Liberals couldn’t “get” Ron Paul on facts, so they made up some stuff and now they are ridiculing, their USUAL MO when they cannot possibly win an argument.  Just ridicule anyone who opposes them.  I still say the case would be much more effective IF the Dems or CNN could produce the actual newsletter, and let us read it for ourselves without the biased reporting about it (and editorialiing, even).   We Ron Paul Supporters are not fooled by this stupid trick.  We’ve been expecting it.  How lame, even for a liberal.

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Ladies & Gentlemen, there you have it. The mentality (such as it is) of the Ron Paul voter.

  • Anonymous

    The issues he talks about and how he would handle them are from the constitution. How can you say you disagree with the constitution? He is neither left nor right. He is strict libertarian. This is why reps and dems don’t agree with him because they don’t agree with the constitution. It amazes me how americans on both sides can call themselves patriots and not uphold this honorable contract. We finally have someone who is willing to stand up and fallow it and people are rally againest him. We could actually get our country back for the people.

    I am sorry for saying there was no such thing. I learned something new. Thank you.

  • Anonymous

    Because he’s too doctrinaire. The Constitution was written some 250+ years ago. It’s impossible for such a dated document to be 100% applicable to life as it is today. Some nuance is required, but, the people should amend it directly, not the govt with their freedom-robbing legislation. I respect his originalist philosophy, especially where it comes to civil liberties. however, I am not as isolationist as he is in foreign policy, and not as strict as he is when it comes to the social safety net. My views are still more conservative than status quo on that issue. Minor issues, but I would still vote for him over Obama.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Reagan was against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, too, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 65, and the Fair Housing Act of 66.

    Birds of a feather…

    –Cobra

  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi

    ZNN                                                                                    
    Real Racists use the poor and minorities as cannon fodder
    real racists keep the poor and minorities in Federal Prisons
    five very real dancing racists were arrested in NYC on 9-11
    ZNN                                                                                     

  • bob ross

    Well you can call it lame all you want too but it’s a fact that the news letters were racist and Ron Paul took money for them. That makes him responsible for the content! Just don’t call people lame for seeing them for what they are just because you cant…No one cares who you support just don’t lie just to make them look better.

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    So Ron Paul is not responsible for the content of the Ron Paul’s Political Report, Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report and the Ron Paul Investment Letter.  You Ron Paul nuts are in denial.  I agree with Paul on some issues but he is far to extreme on domestic and economic issues to ever get my vote. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FJ3TMPXQUUYEQQNSGYX7NNR2KQ Homechicken

    1. It’s unusual for a newsletter to be written by the figurehead. My clients put out newsletters, they don’t write them. When getting advice about starting one, my most successful client told me specifically not to do the content myself. Likewise, Paul says he didn’t write them or see them.
    2. Paul’s known for his consistency. But one of the few issues he’s changed his mind on is the death penalty… because of it’s disproportionate use on minorities and those living in the inner city.
    Video: http://dotsub.com/view/d0...
    3. When challenging the war on drugs, Paul often points out the injustice of blacks and minorities being imprisoned at a higher rate than whites for the same crime. Video: See video above.
    4. When challenging foreign wars, Paul often points out that war disproportionately affects minority families.
    5. In 2008 Paul pointed to these positions as a possible reason why he received more support from blacks than any other GOP candidate, which polls showed to be true.
    6. Paul often cites Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi as his heroes.
    7. When asked in 2007 who he might pick as a running mate, he named one guy, Walter Williams, a black man as a strong possibility. Walter also refers to Paul as a friend and said of Paul he’s one of 3 people the founders would even talk to. Video: 4 minute mark

  • Anonymous

    But Paul acknowledges both the newsletters and that they are bad, otherwise he would not be disavowing them. No one made any of that up. Paul argues that though the newsletter was put out as if by him personally, in his name, that he never read any of the offending stuff, etc.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    I agree with you to a point, but what is this “Obama will never get this level of scrutiny from the press” stuff?  Did you watch the 2008 campaign?  What, besides “X-Files” conspiracy theories did you want the press to ask candidate Obama and which Press?

    Senator Obama appeared Fox News Sunday
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vYLXZEVsz0&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLB0C3519D9FC91D20

    Senator Obama interviewed by Major Garrett on the Rev. Wright controversy Fox News
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79JbkOG31sA

    Senator Obama interviewed by Bill O’Reilly–Ayers, Wright, Daily Kos, etc.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BEF4qdtwDs&feature=related

     You may or may not look at all of those videos, but you can’t with a straight face say that candidate Obama never faced an adversarial interview with follow-up questions.

    Why can’t Ron Paul do the same?

    –Cobra

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

     So, Ron Paul’s Political Report, Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report and the Ron Paul Investment Letter were not from Ron Paul?    

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    No but she is responsible for the content of her writers. 

  • Anonymous

    Obviously Walter and Paul are both eccentric fools. Which shows that foolishness knows no color barrier.

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

     Ron Paul isn’t responsible for Ron Paul’s Political Report, Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report and the Ron Paul Investment Letter?  Why do you believe everything Dr. Paul tells you?  You do know that he is a politician and has an incentive to lie about his past. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    Most Americans have no idea about the content of Ron Paul’s Political Report, Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, the Ron Paul Survival Report and the Ron Paul Investment Letter.  And Ron Paul wants it that way.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    Paul told The Dallas Morning News in 1996 that the contents of his newsletters were accurate but needed to be taken in context. Some issues of the newsletters included racist, anti-Israel or anti-gay
    comments, including a 1992 newsletter in which he said 95% of black men
    in Washington “are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”In 1996, Paul told TheDallas Morning News
    that his comment about black men in Washington came while writing about
    a 1992 study by the National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives,
    a criminal justice think tank in Virginia.  Paul
    cited the study and wrote: “Given the inefficiencies of what DC
    laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely
    assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are
    semi-criminal or entirely criminal.”"These aren’t my figures,” Paul told the Morning News. “That is the assumption you can gather from the report.”

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2011-12-21/ron-paul-racist-newsletters/52147878/1

  • Anonymous

    Ah, that was so awkward to watch.  It actually made him look more “guilty” because he lost his temper and walked away.  Not that I really blame him for losing his temper.  From looking at those newsletters, it sure doesn’t look like he wrote them, but that was still either incredibly stupid of him to deliberately turn a blind eye to this or incredibly oblivious of him not to notice that foul propaganda.

    I’m almost surprised I haven’t heard this being spun constantly on Fox yet; it’s unbelievable how much of their coverage of Paul is openly contemptuous.  Either I missed their coverage of this, or they’re saving it for slightly closer to the Iowa caucus…

  • Anonymous

    Good point!  Where is Congressman Ron Paul’s Birth Certificate?  How do we know that he was not born in Kenya?

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    A 1992 newsletter about Washington referred to
    Martin Luther King Jr. as “the world-class philanderer who beat up his
    paramours.”Another newsletter about AIDS
    said people suffering from the disease should not be allowed to eat in
    restaurants “because AIDS can be transmitted by saliva,” a claim that
    is not supported by medical evidence. Paul is a physician.
     

  • Anonymous

    The thing is, you are quoting Fox, Fox, and only Fox.  Remember Obama and his people wanted to shut down Fox?

    After that you have Rush and a few other AM DJs as well as a few websites  that take Obama to task.

    The other side of the spectrum is almost every other network, newspaper, movie, TV show, and musician will come out in favor of the Democrat. 

    That is just how things go.  Not complaining about it.

    Paul will get massacred.  None of the old school right-wing groups will support Paul until he wins the Primaries.  None of the left-wing groups will support Paul after he wins the Primaries- for reference see McCain and the New York Times.

    If ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR,  the NYT, the Washington Post, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, Comedy Central and AP went after Obama like Fox goes after Obama (or any other Liberal) you might have a point.  Instead you will all have the above hounding Paul like Fox did Obama. 

    The would do it to Romney, Newt, and Perry as well, but Paul has a much more definable boogeyman of racism than the other candidates. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    A 1992 newsletter about Washington referred to
    Martin Luther King Jr. as “the world-class philanderer who beat up his
    paramours.”
    Another newsletter about AIDS
    said people suffering from the disease should not be allowed to eat in
    restaurants “because AIDS can be transmitted by saliva,” a claim that
    is not supported by medical evidence. Paul is a physician.
     

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

     Nor did Paul dispute in 1996 his 1992 newsletter statement that
    said,”If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know
    how unbelievably fleet of foot they can be.”

  • Anonymous

    He has delivered over 4000 babies.  Once the babies are born, no second opinion is needed.  They cannot be returned from whence they came!

  • Anonymous

    In all fairness, I have never heard him say he opposed the Civil Rights Act!

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    On the L.A. Riots

    “Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began,”

    ‘civil rights,’ quotas, mandated hiring preferences, set-asides for government contracts, gerrymandered voting districts, black bureaucracies, black mayors, black curricula in schools, black tv shows, black tv anchors, hate crime laws, and public humiliation for anyone who dares question the black agenda

    On African-American Political Opinion

    Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action

    http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/opinion-ron-paul-is-a-white-supremacist/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FJ3TMPXQUUYEQQNSGYX7NNR2KQ Homechicken
  • Anonymous

    well, consider me a lurker who rarely comments but let me tell ya, cobra is a worthless idiot here on this blog.

  • Anonymous

    Why would they? Would you?

  • Anonymous

    That would require that they get a life.

  • http://twitter.com/mmoheeka V

    everyone already knows about bush and enron dum dum. solyndra failed because he scratched the back of a solyndra board member who donate a huge amount of money to his campaign.  it didn’t matter if they failed or not it was a returned favor. bush and obama are equally terrible presidents.  this conversation is about cnn being one of the worst news outlets in america.  They are about as bad as fox and msnbc.

  • Anonymous

    She understood it, she just wasn’t buying it.

  • http://twitter.com/mmoheeka V

    hahaha i hate you and your mentality but that was pretty funny.

    no one really knows that the kkk was formed by southern democrats in an effort to opress black and white republican office holders which there were.
    no we cant do any better and i also think he would beat obama for presidency.  what is obama gonna do if they debate? is he just gonna say “racist 20 year old new letters” over and over again until his time is up. Ron Paul would destroy him in debate.

  • Anonymous

    It was hysterical to watch the demeanor of Gloria Borger & Erin Burnett this past evening as they attempted, oh so hard, to corner Ron Paul.  An expert on body language was not needed to see the disheveled wild eyed, pursed lipped Borger stumble on her ploy to trip up Dr. Paul.

    Burnett, makeup askew, was totally stumped on how go about belittling Ron Paul on her show tonight. 

    The main stream media, refuses to ask or answer one question “Why do legions of folks support Ron Paul & his positions?”  In fact, so many folks believe in the Texas Congressman, that he’s leading in many of the so called “polls” around the U.S.A.

  • http://twitter.com/mmoheeka V

    or he’s trying to save someone from some serious embarrassment and ridicule, which fits his character more, not in line with your answer. 

    “IMHO” i think it was lew rockwell.  he ran the publishing during that time period while ron paul was working and he is also what we call an anarchist libertarian.  they like to argue about race a lot.  but through all of that he is still ron pauls friend.  but that doesnt mean ron paul is a racist or “guilty by association” and it is extremely unfair for you or anyone else to state otherwise.

    now, go kill yourself cuz it looks like you spent your whole day commenting on this page and you have no life.  :)

  • Anonymous

    Towards the end she felt bad…. “you understand it’s our job to ask them.”
    Basically, she got a memo from CNN to attack Ron Paul.  See, CNN is owned by Time Warner.  Time Warner donated plenty of money to the Obama campaign.  Almost a million dollars.  Ron Paul will win.  

  • Anonymous

    Newsletters with racist garbage written by someone else isn’t a problem.  Government corruption is a problem.  Big difference.

  • Anonymous

    Um, Obama is a member of Manscountry in Chicago.  A gay bathhouse/sex club.  

  • Anonymous

    Paul would lose to Obama?  Ron Paul’s got appeal to Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.  I voted for Obama, realized he’s no different than Bush, so I’ll be voting Ron Paul.  

  • Anonymous

    I’m up!  That’s why I’m voting for Ron Paul.  :)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

    Who said anything about profiling muslims.  People who look like they are from North Africa or the Arab states should be profiled if they also have a suspicious past.  Very easy to do.

  • Anonymous

    Look at Ron Paul’s decades in public  service.  He has never said, done or  written anything that fits with the  racist nature of some of the  newsletters, which were written by  staffers while he was busy with his  medical practice.  

    Here is a TX NAACP leader who knows  Ron Paul, saying he is in no way  racist.

    in a radio interview:  
    NAACP Nelson Linder speaks on Ron  Paul and racism
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGhv3paNz6U&sns=em

    in an article about another radio  interview:  
    ‘NAACP President: Ron Paul Is Not A  Racist’
    http://www.nolanchart.com/article1134-naacp-president-ron-paul-is-not-a-racist.html

    Or you can listen to Ron Paul’s  debate responses on African American  and minority issues at The All  American Presidential Forums on PBS:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3EADdr-5AY

    This has been asked and answered  every time Ron Paul ran for  reelection to Congress over the past  20-some years,  as well as during  his runs for the presidency.  Ron  Paul wants to focus on the issues in  the campaign, not on things that  have long since been asked, answered  and dismissed as nonsense.  

  • Anonymous

    If CNN doesn’t understand the answer after 10 years of explaination, they’re not going to be able to understand.  Explains why they support Obama and why their viewers are so ignorant.

  • Anonymous

    Paul’s supporters are out in full force.  They will never accept that Paul made a mistake in allowing his name to be associated with these newsletters without reading everything that was going to be in them prior to publishing. 

    If he had admitted his mistake rather than pretending he knew nothing about this at the time of publishing, it would have been easy to conduct a short interview & walk away holding his head high.  However, his excuses sound shallow and trying to pretend it’s a “gotcha” question is just more RW nonsense. 

  • Anonymous

    This country is falling apart and the only person who had the courage and foresight to warn the people consistently, patiently was Dr Ron Paul. How do these presstitutes sleep at night, look their kids in the eye, participating in the dumbing down, destroying their own futures!

  • http://twitter.com/LNSmithee L.N. Smithee

    Imagine that – a Paulpod saying someone else has no life.

  • Anonymous

    Actually I’m not right-wing, but I think this has gotten way out of proportion and this CNN ‘interview’ is another example hatchet journalism. Even though I don’t agree with Ron Paul on a lot of things, he’s actually the only person I hear talking about issues and all CNN can ask him about is this.

    Question asked and answered, repeatedly, and if this story had any real legs to it they would have found more I suspect. Until then this is a dead issue pretty much.

    Noam Chomsky was right – the media is only interested in discussing people’s attributes and completely obfuscates any substantive discussion about the issues and positions. Voting is based nearly exclusively on people’s feelings and people are ill-informed by idiot journalists (who don’t do their job at all)

    CNN have become a bunch of hacks (don’t even get me started about FOX). They have not been a serious news organization since they ‘made it’ many years ago. It’s a sad slow decline. Read, check out BBC, RT, Al Jazeera, and other news organizations from around the world and verify things as best you can. Don’t trust anybody’s word or spin. 

  • Anonymous

    I can’t imagine voting for Ron Paul, but I’m with him on this. 

    That question has been answered repeatedly, especially over the past week, but I don’t think Ms. Borger was interested in the answer: She got what she really wanted when she made news by getting under his skin. 

    I’m sure she got “high-fives” from her colleagues afterwards.

  • Anonymous

    Not true. The “staffers wrote the articles” claim is only a few years old. Originally he owned up to the newsletters with pride. Then he said someone else wrote them. Then he said “What newsletters” and claimed he didn’t even know what they were. Now, it’s staffers who wrote them.

    If something appears with your name attached to it, you are the publisher, people subscribed and you cashed the checks, and if you paid for the printing and distribution, it’s your newsletter. 

    These newsletters did not magically appear in subscriber’s mailboxes. He was the publisher. He wrote them. He cashed the subscription checks. He paid for everything. Now he’s trying to walk away from them because they are racists. Many of the policies he advocates are racist. And when they were first published he gave speeches about them and said he wrote them. He can’t undo the past. You can google and find all the newsletters online. And they are very racist.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MM4B2AIHRSUH3YT7YW2FXFV32Y Ben

    He didn’t walk off.  She was apologizing after the interview was over.  Watch the edits.  They edited to make it sound like he acknowledged reading some of the newsletters.  He didn’t.  They edited to make it look like he walked off the set.  He didn’t.  The interview was over and staff was removing his microphones.  They were having a post-interview conversation and CNN made it look like part of the interview.  Again, watch all the edits.  This is a shameful hatchet job.  Dr. Paul should sue CNN.  They didn’t even say he walked off in the discussion of the interview.  Just made it look that way so everyone would run with it.  What a shameful display,

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MM4B2AIHRSUH3YT7YW2FXFV32Y Ben

    He didn’t lose his temper and walk away.  What you saw was after the interview.  If he really had stormed off, you’d better believe she would have made more of an effort to stop him, and the staff wold not have so casually been removing his microphones.  They edited the thing like crazy to leave a number of false impressions.  Watch again and look at all the edits. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MM4B2AIHRSUH3YT7YW2FXFV32Y Ben

    What money?  That was a crock on her part.  Notice she doesn’t cite the alleged “reports” that say he made almost a million dollars off the newsletters.  No one–not Ron Paul, and not anyone else–could make a million dollars off of a Ron Paul newsletter.  It’s absurd.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MM4B2AIHRSUH3YT7YW2FXFV32Y Ben

    Watch the editing and see if you still feel thankful.  This is not responsible journalism.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MM4B2AIHRSUH3YT7YW2FXFV32Y Ben

    I’ll tell you more:  He didn’t walk out.  They aired an after-interview exchange (no interviewer would apologize like that during the interview, and act so casually at an interviewee fleeing) and made it look like he fled.  They owe him an apology, a public explanation/retraction, and the million dollars they allege he earned from the newsletters.

  • Anonymous

    That’s the way it struck me. This Gloria Borger is a complete twit. Why doesn’t she get these articles analyzed to see if they’re even in Paul’s writing style? Or maybe she did and found that they weren’t. In any case, the Paul campaign ought to freeze her out, permanently.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    The Paul Syndrome, a condition that ought to be categorized in the latest DSM, on display.  It can be seen in the erratic, often idiotic, behavior of certain members of the Paul family, i.e., Ron and Rand. 

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    So you are saying that Paul should be excused because of a lack of scrutiny toward his underlings. That’s Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld all over again. If you think that’s good, fine, but say that clearly. This is not about Paul being racist (he’s not), but about him lacking the executive skills to manage his team and excise parts when they do wrong. That is what a president does every day. If Paul can’t see that is the heart of the issue, he’s not prepared to be president–period.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    And he didn’t have the executive skills to manage his team. He’s cleaning up afterward. Like I’ve said many times, if you want that kind of presidency, look back to the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld triumvirate. There you will find another “leader” that allowed his underlings the final say and, honestly, that anyone should excuse new candidates of that same thing only four years later is an utter embarrassment on them.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    How? That he’s actually Dennis Kucinich?

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Paul’s said that on cable television THIS YEAR.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvbJBHhqftc

    And on an aside…Tim Russert shredded Paul with facts on government spending:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyPLFKUdhqY&feature=related

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

      Of course I’m quoting Fox. Some people seem to believe that Fox News is “not” a mainstream media outlet. AM talk radio today is little more than sports, traffic, and right wingers 24-7, so it’s more than just “Rush and a few other AM DJ’s” as you put it. But let’s be honest here…

      When Kerry ran in 2004, T-Boone Pickens and his swift-boaters turned the entire journalistic world on its ear.
      Clinton didn’t get media scrutiny or tough questions? Really?
      And if you REALLY think about it…Bush who started two wars and presided over an economic collapse was questioned how in the 2000 campaign, or the 2004 campaign for that matter?

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    I struck a nerve didn’t I?

  • Anonymous

    Hey lib, you re as dumb as Jimmy is!

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    I struck another nerve in a stupid lib.

  • Anonymous

    Someone seems jealous.

    I’m so glad.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Walking out of an interview is NOT very presidential, is it?

    Take the heat or get out of the kitchen.

    I guess we know which one Ron Paul chose.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Get real, kim il.

    The heat got too hot, and Ron Paul scurried out of the kitchen like a squirrel with his tail on fire.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Obama supports the Constitution. If you do not agree with Obama then you do not support the constitution.

    Are you not an American?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    maybe sew, maybe knot

    but most Liberals I know agree with his foreign policy, and most conservatives do not

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    if anything, he’s a rightwing Libertarian…an isolationist on international policy and an “everyone for themselves” on domestic policy

    his message has appeal to niches of both the left and the right, and the trick he’s trying to pull is that the far left will vote for his foreign attitudes and the hard right will vote for his abortion position as well as his take no prisoners domestic slash and burn policies

    it    just    might     work

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    He was born in Pennsylvania. He may be a real American, but he’s a carpetbagger too…not even a real southerner….is there anything genuine about this man?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Funny, because other than Ron Paul, ALL THE REPUBLICANS support Bush policies and would revert everything back to 2000, so they can destroy the country a SECOND time.

    Politics for rightwingers is just a joy ride, and the rest of us are just road kill

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    convenient position to take…change the subject by pointing to a “bigger problem”….Look over there!

    got any specific scapegoats in mind?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JC5YLTC5RPWG7AQO3NIACEWXCA Ron

    If this lady is such a thorough reporter, why hasn’t she gone in-depth with Obama on his myriad of background issues, including but not limited to his relationships with socialist hacks like
    Saul Alinski, Van Jones or Bill Ayers.  Maybe she could go beyond his responses to some of these guys as  just being from the neighborhhod.  Obviously this person is just another liberal hack trying to carry out white house and CNN wishes, demonize the opposition any way you can.  Sorry about using the word heck so oftenj.  Can’t think of a better description.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    How many times do you have to answer a question before it magically doesn’t matter any more?

    How about AFTER he admits he wrote or edited the newsletters and KNEW what was in them and PROFITED off them.

    Walking out of an interview is not presidential, so I don’t even know why we’re talking about this kook

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Its a desperate ploy to shine light on a snake in the grass before we all get bit on the leg by this kook

  • Anonymous

    Blech. Reporter whimpering “You understand we have to ask these questions.” Just ask. Don’t whimper.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    I assume you are making a joke here. I don’t think even a Ron Paul supporter would make this statement so bluntly.

    It defies logic.

    You are just pretending to be a Ron Paul supporter.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    How many debates did Bush win?

    You rightwingers are so demented with Obama hysteria that you think all you need is an attack dog and some good one-liners to win the presidency

    hows that Palin VP thingy working out for ya?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Ron Paul won’t be nominated by the GOP.

    So how the heck you gunna vote for him?

    Get real, Kim il.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    He also said he didn’t even learn about them until 10 years later.

    Maybe he was getting so many bribes into his private accounts that he didn’t even notice the newsletter money he received

  • Anonymous

    So you won’t stop asking the same question until you get the answer that you’ve already determined should be the right one. That’s the definition of bias.

  • Anonymous

    Well, that is just it, they did go after Obama for Wright’s racist rants (not Obama’s). Obama said that he was not present when the racist statements were being made, and did not agree with them, etc. Paul claims that he didn’t read the racist newsletter writings, presented in his name, with his permission, on his web site, and that he has continuously disavowed those statements.

  • http://profiles.google.com/donn3336 Donn Bryant

    Let’s stop talking about being a third party candidate and concentrate
    on winning this outright. I think Neil is listing right on the edge with
    Rupert Murdoch, he could be off the channel if he doesn’t come around
    to getting rid of Paul. Has anyone ever researched News Corp? Look at
    Wikipedia News Corp. Then look under holdings. You talking about the 1%.
    Murdoch owns the world of broadcasting and News papers. The Dow Jones
    to the Wall Street Journal, and all of Fox News. Which means he has
    control of most of the Republican Party. So by association we have
    Rupert Murdoch really telling us who should be the Next Republican
    Nominee. Murdoch has a world empire, now I can see why the New World
    Order thing fits so nicely in his pocket. We need to stop this now. We
    can, vote Ron Paul and the World and especially the US will be given
    back to the people.

    Ron Paul 2012 Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/21/buchanan-ron-paul-wont-go-third-party-it-would-damage-sons-political-future/#ixzz1hGwrgqPa

  • Anonymous

    Put the liar sticker on his forehead, just like the other GOP lovelies!

  • Anonymous

    You’re funny Barry.  I like you.

  • Anonymous

    So true.  Everyone knows our government’s corrupt, I just don’t like hearing about it.  Bradley Manning would have also probably ratted out Sandusky! 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QARKA4DWX3A6QWV2ML7OVHTDXY Scott

         For starters, yes, the newsletter quotes are of the bottom feeder nature, but:  There are only 2 reasons that a reporter would ask a certain question over and over again after getting a proper response:  She was either drunk, or she wasn’t going to stop until Dr. Paul said, “OK, I believe ALL the stuff that was in that rag!”  Either way, it was unprofessional of her.
         And that is why the public’s opinion of journalists is getting deeper into the toilet every day.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll write his name in the ballot.  Just like when PA didn’t put Ralph Nader’s name on their ballots in 2004.  100,000 people wrote his name in.

  • Anonymous

    Paul’s response to questions about his newsletter is just so unacceptable that it seems like an open invitation to ask it again.   How can a decent journalist be satisfied with his answer, and let him off the hook?   

    Paul is basically saying:  I never knew that I was printing racist and incendiary viewpoints in my newsletters, because I never read the stuff in my newsletters.  Yes, I published them for profit and for political exposure, back when I was getting started in politics, and yes they went out under my name, and yes I made money from them — but how can you expect me to have read the stuff I put in them?   Now I “disavow” those vile opinions and you should be happy with that answer.  

    I for one am happy they keep asking the question, because I didn’t realize until yesterday what was in those newsletters (not being as much of a political news junkie as some).  I wasn’t a Paul supporter before, but I had some respect for the consistency of his positions and for his principles on certain topics.  But now, no, not at all.   Spare me, please.  

  • Anonymous

    Talkingpointsmemo has the CSPAN video from 1995 where Ron Paul claims ownership of his newsletter. That is why she kept pressing! Now we can see him being indignant & storming out, then bragging about his newsletter! It’s called giving him enough rope to hang himself! He played right into it! Kudos, Gloria.

  • Anonymous

    It’s a problem when the publisher wants to be my president!

  • Anonymous

    You want answers Borger? Here ya, go:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeuSa0oIB6A

    Listen carefully. LOL!

  • Anonymous

    From Wikipedia:  These [racist and homophobe newsletter] statements were first brought up by Paul’s opponent in 1996 Congressional Race, Charles “Lefty” Morris. At the time Paul admitted to writing the newsletters, stating that they were taken “out of context” adding “If someone challenges your character and takes the interpretation of the NAACP as proof of a man’s character, what kind of a world do you live in?”[142] In March 2001, Paul stated that the documents were authored by ghostwriters, and that while he did not author the challenged passages, he bore “some moral responsibility” for their publication.[143]

  • Anonymous

    What exactly is your point?
    Mine is that unless CNN has any new information about these old letters there’s no point in constantly bringing it up to Paul. MAYBE, he did have some bad attitudes 20+ years ago, that he has since disavowed, or MAYBE, he’s telling the truth and never wrote them. Rehashing it with zero new evidence or information is a waste of time and shoddy journalism.

  • Mudshark Bytes

    Which, of course, is exactly why they decided to drudge up this stuff now that he’s getting popular.  First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they attack you…  we’ve now started to morph from ridicule to attack.

    I can’t wait for the ‘then you win’ part.  I’m SO ready for freedom to return to this country.

  • Anonymous

    It becomes an issue when you don’t agree with his politics. 

  • Matt Stone

    Right, because those incredibly racist newsletters, from which he profited HUGELY, are simply something you can say ‘well gosh, I dunno, IT’S BEEN LONG ENOUGH LEAVE ME ALONE!’

  • http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.hall3 Jonathan Hall

    Excellent Point! Ron Paul doesn’t get any love from the GOP and he isn’t going to get any from the Main Stream Media. This is why I love Ron Paul. He is truly an outsider. Quite frankly, this scene made me even more sympathetic to him.

  • Anonymous

    Seems to me like answering the same question 3 times and Borger insisting on validation from Ron Paul that her questions substantial or relevant, he ended the interview. You can see her are psyche fall apart at the end – a professional could have kept the exchange on track.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.hall3 Jonathan Hall

    This stuff will only increase his support.

  • Anonymous

    There is a third reason, which is to make clear to the listening public that Paul is a “say anything” politician who changes his views with the tides and according to his audience of listeners, and that his former (possibly now changed) views were unusually repulsive.   

    Journalism is not a court of law to determine guilt or innocence.  It’s a process by which we, the public, become informed.  If it takes asking the same question multiple times to make a politician’s record and principles clear to us, that’s OK.  I’m much better informed after the CNN flap yesterday, and will thank my lucky stars if it puts us one step closer to not having a (possibly former) racist — and remember, folks, we’re talking the 1990s when he wrote this stuff, not the 1950′s — as our president.  

  • Anonymous

    I think it’s more like they don’t believe the answer, and they think we won’t believe it either if we have the opportunity to learn more about the newsletter, its content, and Paul’s history of sometimes embracing and sometimes denying the newsletters’ content.  That’s why they keep asking the question.  It’s called journalism.  

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Republican voters have the right to know if Ron Paul has racist view points!!

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t know it, actually — that Paul “hates Jews and minorities” or at least did “long ago” — and am glad to find out now before he gets a step closer to becoming my president!

  • Anonymous

    I stand by my point: This has been gone over (and over and over…).

    I think she was grand-standing and probably is very satisfied with herself. We collectively have **much** bigger issues to deal with, and rather than reaching for “good TV”, in the short time available she could’ve drilled down into some of those more important matters.

    She’ll not soon be a replacement for Bob Shieffer.

  • Anonymous

    If you look at news reports from that time, he never said he wrote them.  He only said that the content needed to be considered in its full context.  Personally, I believe he was either unsure which staffer wrote them back then, or – more likely – he knew who wrote them but figured the newsletters went out in his name and he would take responsibility for whatever the staffer wrote rather than throw the author under the bus.  I think the media then took that as an “admission” that he wrote them.  He took ownership of the responsibility for the content because his name was on them, not for writing them.

    But seriously, can you find anything in his decades in public life that sounds remotely like the crap in the newsletters?  

    Please elaborate on your contention that “ Many of the policies he advocates are racist.”  Which ones? I can’t think of a single one, especially since racism doesn’t fit with Libertarian philosophies.  

  • Adam Rodriguez

    He doesn’t. He views racism as “group think” and considers people individuals. Lew Rockwell likely wrote them and was the editor.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Vincent-Colbert/100000586928741 Vincent Colbert

    Let me help you. She asked about it, and he denied it like he has been the last 20 something years. Then she kept talking about it like he really DID endorse it. That’s not a real interview. So he walked out. 

  • Anonymous

    Most of the stuff on Huffington Post has a byline, i.e. it’s written by someone else who is claiming authorship.  If it doesn’t have a byline, it’s fair to conclude it’s got Ariana Huffington’s direct seal of approval as an “editorial opinion” of her site.  

    And anyway, if people on HuffPost were to start spouting racist demagoguery, I would hope that we’d call Ariana Huffington on it too, and not just the individual writers. 

  • Anonymous

    you honestly think that apparent racist attitudes shouldn’t be an issue for someone who might agree with Paul’s politics in other areas? 

  • http://twitter.com/SquidEatinDough SquidEatinDough

    Thanks for the confirmation that you read me eviscerate your amateur trollying. OH SHITS, I JUST PLAYED YOU LIKE A FIDDLE SON

  • DisConNectTed

    No need to whine about Liberals.  All I do is bring the cheese. :)  (Sorry, even I cringed at that one.)  In reality, I am too busy working 2 jobs to whine.. I cant wait until a true Conservative gets elected and I can quit one of my jobs.

  • Anonymous

    It’s new evidence and information to me, so I’m glad they’re bringing it up.

    And if he has said in the past that he embraced and stood by those views, and now he’s saying he never saw them and disavows them, what does that say about his character?  OK, for most politicians this is the kind of “say anything” posture we’ve come to expect, but Paul’s gotten a lot of positive mileage out of being different, more principled, more consistent.  

    What I say now is, sure thing dude…

  • SouthernYankee

    When you want to know something put the question to google.  Like yesterday I read a story about a baby in Brazil born with 2 head and sharing a body.  I remember we had a case like that in the states.  So I google baby born with 2 heads in america.  I remember on TLC a few years back them showing the girls.  Google it and there is a clip of Brittany and Abby Hansen.  No matter how dumb the question they usually have the answer.

  • DisConNectTed

    I agree with your response to your original post. Very well said.

  • http://twitter.com/SquidEatinDough SquidEatinDough

    Your rapier wit, oh how it wounds. I cannot parry another blow such as this. I must yield, O Porthos of Retardery.

  • DisConNectTed

    You are assuming that I care about both issues. If the man consistently answered the questions over a 20 year span, it’s a dead horse.  Or is it a convenient position to focus on such a trivial issue and ignore the bigger problem? 
    Man #1: The faucet had a lewak 20 years ago.
    Man #2 Yeah, but the house is on fire!

    Which issue are YOU going to deal with?

  • DisConNectTed

    @Barry Dalton:  Obama hysteria?  The man is ruining the country.  You may hate Conservatives and everything they stand for, but blindly following the ‘Pied Piper” takes away any credibility you have. 
     Being a true Conservative, I disagreed with Bush on numerous issues.  Obama is a different breed all together.  I cannot see how any intellegent Liberal can stomach him any more.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KTSTXIVQ7PW3LNS5KGGW5CY7LY belle

    Bradley Manning is a heroic patriot. Just like Daniel Ellsberg and the other whistleblowers who exposed the lies, deceit, corruption and fraud of our government. But since a Democrat is president, the media ignores it. If Bush were president…the media firestorm would still be raging.

  • Anonymous

    I can find some fault with Bush 43 and his team (e.g. Did you know that Rumsfeld used to put inspiring Bible quotes on the top of Bush’s morning war briefing, or that Bush told the French PM that the gulf war was against “Gog and Magog”?), but I do not know why you would suggest that relying on the advice of your key people is out of the ordinary for any executive. And there is no reason to believe that Bush did not make the ultimate decision on all key matters, whether he relied on the advise of his advisers or not

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KTSTXIVQ7PW3LNS5KGGW5CY7LY belle

    Another American wakes up to the Fraud-in-Chief! Ron Paul 2012!

  • drmaddogs

    Funnyest thing is that in the same letters were attacks on Ron Paul. That’s right, attacks on both Blacks AND Ron Paul.. some times in the same articles, lmao. See, that’s what happens when a KKK ‘independent writter from the smallest Republican disctrict of michigan is not vetted. Then fired.
    The same writter hates Blacks and Ron Paul.

  • John McCloud

    I think Borger asked her questions poorly, but the intent is legitimate: how could Paul let something so hateful go out under his name for 10 years without knowing what was in it? Publishers have a responsibility to monitor their publications. Saying he was too busy earning a living is not a sufficient answer. Paul is either lying or irresponsible. If he’s lying about knowing the content of the newsletter, then I would infer he endorsed that content and should not be president based on his racist beliefs. If instead he was simply totally responsible, then he is not responsible enough to be president.

  • http://www.facebook.com/paul.dextraze Paul Dextraze

    The heat was weak. Lukewarm at best. Maybe if they actually asked him a real question about the issues instead of bringing up lies to try and slander him.

  • http://www.facebook.com/paul.dextraze Paul Dextraze

    And you’re name calling. Guess that just makes you brilliant because you say so.

  • Anonymous

    Gloria Borger is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    Gloria Borger is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    Gloria Borger is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    Gloria Borger is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    GET THIS OUT!!!!

    Gloria Borger is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  
    This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • http://www.facebook.com/paul.dextraze Paul Dextraze

    Nah, if I asked you to talk about how you found out your mother is a known crack whore, and I continued to pester you about it as if it were real, would you dignify that with a response?

  • Anonymous

    PLEASE READ THIS!!

    Gloria Borger is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    DONN. PLZ GET THIS OUT!!!

    Gloria Borger is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!   This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    PLEASE READ THIS!!!

    Gloria Borger is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  
    This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    SCOTT CHECK THIS OUT!

    Gloria Borger is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  
    This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    Gloria Borger is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    Gloria Borger is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul wins even if he doesn’t gain the nomination. The consciousness of our country has been raised tremendously and his ideas have done nothing but gain momentum.  Oh and I got your crazy right here:

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  
    This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    hahahahahaahahahahaahahahahahahahahhahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  
    This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    Likewise, if you accept their advice, you shoulder their blame. Ron Paul seems to not want to take the onus of this negative literature. If it came out under his aegis without his consent, that’s a managerial failure. If he will not take the responsibility after the fact, that’s a character failure. If this was a subject other than racism, maybe, MAYBE, he could plead the case. That such material came out with his perceived implicit okay is a huge error of judgment.

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars! 

  • dodo d

    Senseless interview. Look at her face, she will ever be known for her stupidity and ignorance. She wanted Ron Paul to tell her what she wanted, boring journalist, shame on you.

  • drmaddogs

    He’s answered those same questions to hundreds of interviewers, thousands of people have asked. Intent eventually becomes iligitimate when the same news agencies asked the same questions over and over four years ago.
    It isn’t about the truth, its about each individual wanting to get TV time asking the same questions and expecting the Candidate to not tire, answering the same questions over and over enabling their job.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    If you look hard enough at your personal economy, you will find everyone has a form of conflict of interest in this. Also, if you think Ron Paul alone can end the Military Industrial Complex, I have two words for you: Congressional Gridlock. If Ron Paul is elected, he is elected as an immediate lame duck. He’d do better to hope he gets far, loses, and then can somehow shape the electoral conversation. If he wins, he loses. If he loses well, he will have influence.

    And never forget: the Military Industrial Complex will give up their power when you pry it from their cold, dead hands.

  • Anonymous

    I am sure if you try you can make a board game out of that.

  • Anonymous

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Interesting!!

  • Anonymous

    Well yes, Bush takes responsibility for his administration as a whole, even if he is not the actual person on the scene changing the light bulb, but as for the decision to go to war, Bush actually decided. He got congressional approval to make it all right with ron paul, but he decided. Nobody suggests otherwise. Bush is responsible. However, to blame Bush for the Iraq war presumes that the war was a bad idea. I am not so sure about that. It seems like our situation and the middle east’s situation is much better now than it was 9 years ago. Why? Because so many of the main tyrants have bit the dust, Iraq is liberated, several other countries have deposed dictators and are finally moving toward meaningful elections, and we have the jihadists always on the run. And there has not been another 911 event, which is amazing.

  • Anonymous

    This segment is all over the place in the media today. Disgusting!
    Gloria Borger must be thrilled. How does she sleep the night?

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul: The “Newsletters” Question.

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/76280303/PaulNewslettersFaq-Tunk

  • http://www.facebook.com/sharronliberty Sharron Liberty

    The
    reporter from CNN who “interviewed” Paul, Gloria Borger, is married to a
    LANCE MORGAN. Mr. Morgan is the chief communications and crisis
    strategist for POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a Washington D.C. firm that
    represents and lobbies for the very same MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
    flexing it’s political influence in our foreign policy that Ron Paul
    wants to stop! This is a total conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm
    includes overseeing a coalition to support congressional funds to U.S.
    Military contractors! She’s profiting from the wars that Dr. Paul wants
    to end! She’s got a lot to lose with a Paul presidency, to say the
    least.

  • Anonymous

    CNN intentionally and continuously ignores this candidate – we were curious what their reaction (read smear) would be when Ron Paul topped Romney and Gingrich in the Iowa polling.

    To Gloria Borger – no, he didn’t storm off on you because of your probing journalism.  He did what any normal human being would do faced with being asked the same question over and over by someone obviously just looking for some kind of negative reaction.

    Ms. Borger, please read the comments posted by so many.  It can not be in your best interest to be a source of constant embarrassment to Colgate, to CNN, and to real investigative journalism.  

  • Anonymous

    McCloud, you’re right.  Paulistas be damned, and never mind the connections or motives of one interviewer.  “Deny everything, make vigorous counter-accusations” is a funny slogan for a tee shirt, but doesn’t fly in a presidential campaign.  Ron Paul can no more deny this crap, than Obama can deny listening to Wright’s racist, hate-America sermons in 20 years of church attendance.  Paul can deny all he wants, but this stuff was in his newsletter, and if he didn’t write it, he sure as hell should have known about it. If I could believe he didn’t know about it, I’d consider him immediately disqualified for the Presidency for being an irresponsible dumb ass.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    Valkyrie: Ron Paul does not support U.S. intervention now. We can refashion this narrative after the fact and presume Iraq was a good thing and that Ron Paul has always been on the right side of history, but that’s just not the case. Plus it clouds my main assertion. If you want to be the boss, you have to pay the cost and, sometimes, that is taking the fall for bad that occurred under your watch. We expect a president to do that. Paul’s unwillingness to say, “I screwed up and allowed material out without truly knowing what was in it,” and instead to say “twenty year old stuff” is what turned people off of Herman Cain.

    There cannot be a double standard here. We cannot say one candidate can be forgiven for past judgmental or oversight errors but not the other.

    I want to stress again: Paul is NOT a racist, but if someone tried to publish something with my name on it that had that material, I believe I’d be forthright enough to stop that garbage from getting out and misrepresenting me.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    Did the newsletters take advertising? If the answer is yes, then it is possible. I’m not confirming nor denying: just stating that it isn’t entirely in the fiction realm.

  • Anonymous

    CNN reporters and pundits:  If only you would be REAL journalists, do your due diligence, investigate your story, find the facts (you have access to his bank accounts: did he deposit sums of money from that publication?) and ask the same questions with the same intensity of Republican and Democrat candidates. In short, make your reporting politically relevant to all of your viewers by providing fair, equal and accurate reporting. Blitzer is so pro-republican he is a joke as a credible journalist. By repetitiously asking these questions, CNN “personality reporters” look like third world attack goons of a kangaroo court!

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Yes i am jealous of a person who makes aliases to like comments he made on internet message boards for the sole purpose of making him feel better about a life that didn’t work out so well.

    By the way, you didn’t deny my accusations.

  • Anonymous

    You brain-dead Paulistas be damned, and never mind the connections or motives of one interviewer.  “Deny everything, make vigorous counter-accusations” is a funny slogan for a tee shirt, but doesn’t fly in a presidential campaign.  Ron Paul can no more deny this crap, than Obama can deny listening to Wright’s racist, hate-America sermons in 20 years of church attendance.  Paul can deny all he wants, but this stuff was in his newsletter, and if he didn’t write it, he sure as hell should have known about it. If I could believe he didn’t know about it, I’d consider him immediately disqualified for the Presidency for being an irresponsible dumb ass

  • http://24ahead.com/ 24AheadDotCom

    Hey Charles, away way back in 10/2008 I described for leading r/w bloggers an excellent way to reduce Obama’s chances of winning: ask him questions:

    24ahead.com/n/8071

    In Feb of that year I’d gone to one of his appearances and tried to ask him a question.

    Since the MSM won’t question Obama, that means regular citizens need to do it. Yet, aside from me, no other regular citizen – including r/w bloggers you might follow – is willing or able to actually press him on anything.

  • Anonymous

    If Obama supports the constatution then why did he sign the detention bill? This takes away the rights of american citizens along with terrorists. Do you realize who is on the list of suspected terrorist? Protesters, gun owners, etc…. This is not constitutional. He continued the patriot act. If people support Obama, they are not patriots. If people supported Bush they are not patriots. Bush started all this crap by taking away habius corpus, etc…
    Ron Paul wouls repeal all of these acts.by both past presidents.

  • Anonymous

    How about if an “Exalted Cyclops” is the democratic senior senator from WV?  Is it a problem then?

  • Anonymous

    Umm…a carpet bagger migrates for the specific purpose of winning an elected post.  Ron Paul, who exited the military in Texas liked the state and decided to stay to open his medical practice in 1968.  He didn’t even decide to get into politics until Nixon closed the gold window.  Big difference.

  • Anonymous

    Is it true that Gloria Borger is married to LANCE MORGAN?   Is Lance Morgan the same Lance Morgan that is the chief communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE? 

    http://www.gspm.org/caplancemorgan

    Is Powell Tate a D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul’s elimination of warrantless wars will reduce?

    If the answer to the questions above are “yes”, then it appears that CNN is guilty of allowing conflict of interest in the video by a biased journalist.  (Lot of that going around these days against Dr. Paul)

    (Note: Mr. Morgan’s firm includes overseeing a coalition to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military.)

  • Anonymous

    not gonna read the article nor the idiot comments i can imagine are posted..  but just want to make sure all the trolls know one thing:  I saw a clip of this interview on teevee and Gloria Borger is a longtime known REPUBLICAN and Bush / Iraq apologist  so don’t go whining about your ignorant belief that cnn is liberal bias.. emmmm k?

    your bitching is irrelevant …

  • Anonymous

    Is it true that Gloria Borger is married to LANCE MORGAN? (yes)  Is Lance Morgan the same Lance Morgan that is the chief communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE? (yes)

    http://www.gspm.org/caplancemorgan

    Is Powell Tate a D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul’s elimination of warrantless wars will reduce? (yes)

    If the answer to the questions above are “yes”, then it appears that CNN is guilty of allowing conflict of interest in the video by a biased journalist.  (Lot of that going around these days against Dr. Paul)

    (Note: Mr. Morgan’s firm includes overseeing a coalition to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military.)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YL7OR5ZW56D6HPMYGL5AJLOP5I William

    Exactly, Dr. Paul is cool, calm and collected and chooses to “QUIETLY” leave the set and intervew (watch the CNN video feed)…even the CNN interviewer applogizes for having to ask the question at the end!!! Watch Congreeman Paul WIN IN IOWA AND MASS. MAYBE N.H. AND S.C.  SCARY FOR YOU LEFTISTS…BUT NOT SOON ENOUGH AS THE GOOD ‘OL USA IS LONG GONE!!! I for one am OUT OF HERE!

  • Anonymous

    Cult of Paul?  Wake Up!  There is no “cult of Paul.”  There are real Americans that are sick and tired of being screwed by the neo-con war mongers and their financiers (the same ones that were bailed out for the bad loans) and other crony capitalists.  If the 20+ year old newsletters from which the 4-5 quotes that were taken out of context is the best you have against Dr. Paul – it just will not work.   

  • Anonymous

    This is all they have on Ron Paul??? I’ve got one for you.. Senator Byrd from West Virgina, the longest serving senator was head of the KKK at one time and yet they honored his old 92 year old ass when he finally died… Trying to put that kind of racism on Ron Paul is just hilarious..

  • Anonymous

    That’s a decision for the voters of WV.  I doubt that with his background he could have been elected in my state, even back when he started out.  But in view of the huge civil rights transformation of this country in the 1950′s-1960′s, you could make an argument that racism before 1960 should be more easily forgiven than racism after 1990.  

  • http://twitter.com/TheAgeofRonPaul The Age of Ron Paul

    Before the insecure status quo on both sides of the isle start to demagogue the true Constitutional and civil libertarian positions of Ron Paul with this asinine attack which is completely devoid of any rational premise because y’all have nothing else to attack him for, maybe it’s time for the status quo to realize that it is The Age of Ron Paul, The Age of The Constitution, The Age of Restoring Civil Liberties and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. http://youtu.be/eMQmInReYlI  

  • Just Ed

    CNN is so propaganda oriented they rival Pravda in its heyday!  Did CNN hire some of the old hacks from that “news organization” when it splintered off back in the 90′s?

  • Anonymous

    I’m with you albeit a bit less cynical.  I think the real story behind this story is this “journalists” bias.  Omitting the fact that she is clearly out to smear Ron Paul is where the dishonest of this piece needs to be called out.  Every bit of our evolution or process of change is incremental. I’m not naive to think Ron Paul’s gonna come in and just start pulling plugs from the wall (He’d get JFK’d quick as hell). I do think that we’ve come to a point where the writing is on the wall for many and status quo types are not taking our country in the direction Americans want it to go.  I think Ron Paul taps into that spirit and has the ability to start us in a better direction that the one we’ve been headed in…

  • Anonymous

    Eat it sucka! It’s journalistic dishonesty like this that provides shining, brilliant examples of blatant media bias and establishment fear of Ron Paul. That you still can’t recognize that means you are a chump that will be marginalized.

  • Anonymous

    reply to MJMD2…

    Starting 20 years ago, and for a number of years, Paul was one of the editors of a paper which published controversial articles which he didn”t edit and states he didn’t read.  Should this be relevant to Paul ?

    Starting 20 years ago, and for a period of 20 years, Obama was in attendance at a church in Chicago where the pastor made controversial speeches which were heard, yet attendance continued.
    Should this be relevant to Obama ?

  • Anonymous

    Weak brotha. You have no idea what you are even talking about. At one point Ron Paul had 14 different groups writing newsletters in support of him.  He fired a group of them for this very reason but, like a leader, will not throw them under the bus now to save his political image.  He could totally throw those guys to the wolves and discuss how he fired their ass and back it up with fierce rhetoric BUT HE HAS HONOR. He doesn’t feel the need to sellout because of baseless claims.

  • Anonymous

    You gotta be kidding me? Seriously? You’re gonna call RON PAUL A FLIP FLOPPER?????? BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    MJMD .. C’Mon maaaaan. You have the ability to think for yourself! Trust in yourself and form an objective opinion. It’s not that hard! 

    This reporter ,Gloria Borger, is married to LANCE MORGAN. Lance is the chief
    communications and crisis strategist of POWELL TATE. Powell Tate is a
    D.C. firm that represents every part of the very same MILITARY
    INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX that Ron Paul wants to reduce!  This is a total
    conflict of interest! Her husband’s firm includes overseeing a coalition
    to support congressional funding to parts of the U.S. Military! All of
    these “journalists” seem to be profiting from these wars!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Croydon-Kemp/1117135200 Croydon Kemp

    Paul is a smart guy in not allowing CNN to divert the attention to A B/S negative.

    YOU HAVE MY VOTE RON..

  • Anonymous

    Well I didn’t think so before — like many, I believed he was more consistent and principled than the rest of the bunch, although didn’t agree with all his ideas.  But now that I know about this newsletter stuff, and how he has, over the years, variously embraced it, distanced himself, and now denied any connection — well, now I know he’s just as “say anything” as the other politicians.  

  • Anonymous

    But Ron Paul doesn’t have any racist attitudes.  They weren’t written by him.  If anything, of all the GOP candidates, Ron get’s the most support from minority voters.  Some racist eh?

  • Anonymous

    Oh and btw, I think Gridlock is kinda the point in terms of spending with Ron Paul. Gotta get our elected officials off the teet.  Gotta put a kink in the Teet too (Federal Reserve).

  • Anonymous

    So, this Ron Paul is the guy Rachel Maddow endorsed as the right kind of Republican, huh? Not like them racist GOP pigs, huh Rachel?

    Never let your enemy pick who your friends are.

  • Anonymous

    Simple facts can be denied forever, but don’t go away.  Ron Paul is responsible for what was published in newsletters including Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, and The Ron Paul Survival Report, most of them published by a company Paul founded called “Ron Paul and Associates” in 1985. While they didn’t have a byline they invoked Paul’s name and were written in the first person. Others have quoted the offending passages so I won’t repeat them.  It’s this simple.  I don’t believe his disavowals, but even if I did, I’d consider him too irresponsible (in allowing this stuff to be published with his name on the masthead) to hold elected national office.

    If I had any doubts, all I’d have to do is look at the foolishness he spouts about international relations and national defense.  I wouldn’t mind seeing him serve as Secretary of the Treasury — oh wait, that’s in the line of succession to the Presidency, never mind. 

  • Anonymous

    Blaq liberation theology is based on racism and it’s been thoroughly proven that Obama attended for 20 years. If they’re journalists and racism is the issue then why haven’t they been persuing Obama in the same manner? We’re talking about a newsletter that Paul claims he didn’t write vs 20 years of practicing blaq lib theology. Journalists are unbiased.

    It’s also become clear that he lied about his relationship with Bill Ayers, his relationship with Alinsky’s IAF, and his practice of Alinsky’s teachings. Wouldn’t actual journalists consider that to be important as well?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    What is he supposed to do, stay there til he finally says “I wrote them.” and she says “I knew it?”

  • Anonymous

    Dr./Rep. Ron Paul geben muchaga auf tate unt a socialist — I mean a National Socialist. As long as I’m making this comment, let me add:

    Newt is also normally behaviorally challenged.

  • Robert WEIGEL

    It’s her job to try to MAKE things incendiary.  lol.  She did NOT have to ask because they’ve already been answered.  What more is he to say?  IF his testimony is TRUE then he SHOULD have nothing else to say?  What’s he supposed to do? Make up crap like they do?  What an annoying woman.

    And indeed WE HAVE A SCENARIO (listen up ‘news lady’ and learn something..fer cryin’ out loud) where HISTORICALLY (no thanks to you people) Politicians like Obama, Clinton, Bush etc. are allowed to MAKE promises and SELDOM (except Bush some) be taken to task by the media!

    That’s why you people have become a laughing stock. You are PART of the hypocrisy.  The double standards.  HOLD BARRY O-scama accountable for all the nonsense! DOWNLOAD his birth certificate from the internet and LOOK at the computer generated font that is RIGHT IN IT! LOOK at the fact it’s still in layers to indicate it’s been edity!  DO A REPORT on all these flagrant wrongs. THAT is relevant news.  We have a president that has defrauded the country on multiple issues.

    NOW when you are running AGAINST someone who has a history of changing his position for personal gain or to comply with lobbyists…and they are promising the world to people…. WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?

    A) try to make a bigger lie than them in hopes of looking MORE positive than them?

    OR

    B) expose the fact that they are probably lying again?

  • Anonymous

    I’m saying Paul didn’t write them and isn’t a racist.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    I don’t give a crap of he shows up with a freakin’ hood on!  Stop foreign aid-spend it here. Stop the damn wars now!!!   Stop the military industrial complex. Shut down the Fed…. 

  • Anonymous

    Yes I would imagine that a “progressive” drone like you would paint someone who talk’s about maximum personal and economic freedom as an extremist. Not everybody is mentally enslaved like you and you must learn to except that.

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  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul IS a liberal on foreign affairs.

  • Anonymous

    It was a bitch in heat that he scurried away from.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul fallows the constitution with forign affairs. He neither right or left. the right call him an isolationist and now you call him liberal. lol He says that we only go to war if we are being attacked and congree has to approve it. We are not to police the world or nation build. read the constitution to see Ron Pauls position.

  • Anonymous

    He’s a liberal on foreign policy so deal with it.

  • Anonymous

    His birth certificate is up your ass. Reach in there and pull it out.

  • Anonymous

    He can genuinely kick your ass!

  • Anonymous

    How will this affect the result in Iowa since there ain’t many niggas out there?

  • http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com SkeeterVT

    When I wrote my now-defunct blog on politics, “The ‘Skeeter Bites Report,” four years ago, I published a series of articles within days after CNN and The Atlantic Weekly first revealed the existence of Paul’s raciially-explosive newsletters, that exposed Ron Paul’s 2008 presidential campaign receiving both material and financial support from known white supremacists. 

    I folded my blog last February after five years, due to burnout. However, there remains an archived copy of my Ron Paul expose at OpEdNews.com, dated January 28, 2008. 

    That article — which also covered extensively the bitter and racially-tinged 2008 South Carolina Democratic primary contest between then-Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — can be summed up from the following paragraphs:

    “While the Democrats worry about a black-white divide opening up among its ranks, the Republicans must by now be wondering if one of their candidates is becoming as poisonous to them as kryptonite is to Superman — even though he has little chance of winning the GOP nomination.

    “Despite mounting adverse publicity over racist articles published in Ron Paul’s newsletter, or, perhaps, because of it, a growing number of self-avowed “white nationalists” and other far-right extremists — some with ties to the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups — continue to flock to Paul’s long-shot campaign.”

    Four years later, Paul has, to this day, steadfastly refused to disavow his racist supporters and has refused to return their contributions to his campaign.

    You can read the article in its entirety at the following link:

    http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_skeeter__080120_on_martin_luther_kin.htm

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Ron Paul Liked His Newsletter in 1995. As reported at Daily Beast, Ron Paul’s claim that he didn’t know about the racist content of the newsletter published under his name in the 1980s and ’90s is looking shaky a day after he stormed out of an interview with CNN’s Gloria Borger. “Why don’t you go back and look at what I said yesterday on CNN and what I’ve said for 20 something years, 22 years ago?” he told Borger when asked about the newsletter. People did, and they found a 1995 C-Span interview in which he described the newsletter as a passion project after his career in Congress, a “political type of business, investment newsletter.” And in a 1996 interview with the Dallas Morning News, he didn’t deny authorship of the racist statements but said they had to be read in context.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Nice spin.

    But he was interviewed about his newsletter in 1995 on C-Span and did not disavow the newsletter. He was proud of it. He admitted it was a business investment.

    He never said anything about not writing it or NOT KNOWING WHO WROTE IT.

    I mean how lame is that? You make millions off a racist newsletter but you have no idea who wrote it. Come on, people. Use your noggin.

    And his spin at that time was you had to look at the comments “in context.”

    The media gets to ask the same question over and over if you refuse to address the actual question honestly.

    Ron Paul is an establishment Republican.
    A phony Texan.
    A liar.
    And a kook.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    If you make millions off a racist newsletter.

    I’m sorry, you don’t get to dodge that question.

    If you did not write it Ron Paul, WHO DID?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    YES!

    if that’s the truth

    Or tell us WHO WROTE IT if he didnt

    I know you’re a RP fan boy but you gotta hold your heroes accountable

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    That’s awfully convenient.

    You rightwingers will even embrace cowardice if it helps your agenda.

    Amazing. You deserve a kook like Paul, but he’ll never be President.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Common sense is:
    1. Write a racist newsletter. Make millions calling Blacks “animals” and attacking Jews.
    2. Defend your newsletter in broadcast interviews.
    3. Run for President and lie about your newsletter–sure those Libs will call you on your lies, but common sense tells you that the ideologs who BOUGHT your newsletter will vote for you no matter what you say or do.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Gold: Paul Dextraze
    Silver: jwsjuls
    Honorable mention: bumsrush

    3 of the lamest slams ever attempted by a rightwinger in the last 24 hours…

    first of all, your crack whore metaphor is a lie worthy of Ron Paul. Maybe you should offer your services. Ron Paul admitted the newsletter was his–on CSPAN–in 1995. So this is reality, not one of your fantasies.

    second of all, if Ron Paul is so pure, why does he STAY IN THE REPUBLICAN Party? Why not CHANGE parties? No good answer, right? Because he’s either a phony or a sell out or both.

    Finally…either way, he did in fact scurry away. You make sexist attacks against the reporter, but it doesn’t change the facts. Turn off the sound if you want. Plug your ears like a good RP supporter. Visually, you can see him squeak away in a nonPresidential huff.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    bumsrush

    given your “handle”

    not sure I’d keep bringing up the subject of whose “butt” can be “beat” by whom.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Ron Paul’s birth certificate is up some guys “ass”?

    Again, you and your “bum” fetish.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    That makes one of us.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    The man SAYS he consistently answered the questions over a 20-year period.

    Problem is, he hasn’t.

    On C-Span in 1995, he not only refused to disavow his comments he bragged that it was a “business investment” and explained you had to take the statements “in context” to fully understand them.

    Man #1: The house is on fire!
    Man #2: Put the fire out in Ron Paul’s pants so it doesn’t burn down the whole country!

  • http://twitter.com/kansas778 Kansas778

    Sorry, but it’s clear that Paul did not write the newsletter.  The writing style and vocabulary are like nothing he has ever written.  Only the most die-hard nutcase like yourself can’t see what’s plain to everyone else. 

  • april showers

    Excellent point, further, after ten years of newsletters, all they can do is use a few sentences of politically incorrect, out of context, lines. Read in context, they are more inflammatory than outright racist. Obviously, many ghostwriters were involved and the usual confidentiality agreements would apply. Why don’t they go through the National Review with a fine tooth comb?  Oh yeah, the National Review is warmongers central.  That’s OK then.

    People, Ron Paul has published many books under his own name and they should be required reading in every high school.  Anyone who hasn’t read his books is too ignorant to call the only actual anti racist running a racist.  Ron Paul has spent almost 30 years in Congress.  Where are all the racist policies and legislation he endorsed? Oh, yeah, none.  How does a racist spend thirty years in Congress, write dozens of books, give thousands of speeches and not leave a racist trail a mile long?

    Ron Paul is against ALL the institutionalized racism in this country.  Freedom unites people and the establishment needs to keep us divided into special interest groups so that we argue amongst ourselves instead of uniting against our oppressors in DC.

    Anyone who believes this shameless, transparent smear is an uneducated fool.    

  • april showers

    Wait a minute!  Lew Rockwell?  Isn’t he the blogger hosting all the FREE MICHAEL VICK essays a while back?  Wow, I don’t think so.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    how does the fecal matter in your brain affect how you think…o i see…pretty ugly

    Why don’t you wash your brain out with soap and then jump off the nearest bridge?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Kansas778:

    I’d be pretty impressed by your loyalty in the face of the obvious if I were in your cult.

    Unfortunately, I’m thinking rationally.

    Interviews by Paul in 87 and 95 show a Paul proudly bragging about these newsletters, and admitting he was making money off them.

    Isn’t it convenient NOW, as he’s running for president that he knows nothing about it.

    Seargent Schultz and Colonel Klink would blush at this stupidity.

    “I know nothing! I see nothing!”

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Charles Ulysses Feney has gone down on both of them.

    So I think he would know.

  • Anonymous

    Seriously, are you saying that any answer should be accepted even when it makes no sense! That’s the strategy Weiner used with his texting issue, Cain used with his woman issue and every other politician uses when they don’t want to answer…they deny, lie and hope the questions end. IT’S A REPORTER’S JOB TO ASK QUESTIONS UNTIL THEY GET REAL ANSWERS!  Are you kidding? Just accept “I didn’t know” as an answer! Talk about naive! 

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    Why vote for a lesser evil?
    Cthulhu2012

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

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  • Anonymous

    That’s how it works in politics.  I don’t see you criticizing Paul for running the same attack ads on Gingrich even though he has answered all those as well.  Hypocrisy.  You are the epitome of hypocrisy.  In fact the reason it is being asked again is because there is now overwhelming mounting evidence that Ron Paul contradicted his previous statements and possibly lied.  That’s why he walked away.  If you are going to be the President you can’t just take your toys and leave because you don’t like the questioning. But why I’m I wasting my time here.  You are just another Ron Paul Stepford wife that can’t think beyond his flawed dangerous doctrine.  

    Your hypocrisy is so evident that it is almost laughable.  But the really laughable part is you will never see it.  Take the blinders off buddy. Paul has no chance of winning this election.  

  • http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com SkeeterVT

    You’re out of your gourd, Charlie! Larry Sinclair was exposed as not only a criminal, but also as a pathological liar. Even FOX NEWS refused to believe his wild accusations about having gay sex with Obama. Those claims went nowhere beyond the supermarket trash tabloids and a couple of wacko conspiracy-theorist Websites.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    The Republican won’t investigatethe origins of the mysterious entity known as “Barack Hussein Obama” aka Barry Soetoro aka Bari Malik Shabazz. They are not at all concerned about the Constitution, only their profit agenda, and the “entity” serves them well enough.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    The Republican won’t investigatethe origins of the mysterious entity known as =Barack Obama” aka Barry Soetoro aka Bari Malik Shabazz. They are not at all concerned about the Constitution, only their profit agenda, and the “entity” serves them well enough.

  • http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com SkeeterVT

    SIGH! I swear, the more things change, the more they stay the same. The comments posted here and on other Websites from Ron Paul supporters smack of the same cult-like devotion demonstrated by supporters of the (thankfully) now-retired political extremist Lyndon LaRouche. 

    If there’s one thing that I learned a long time ago about cults, it that it’s useless to get into an argument with cultists, because they’re so brainwashed that nothing you say is going to change their minds. Suffice it to say that as far as I’m concerned, many Paulites have a lot in common with the LaRouchies.   

  • Dead_Air

    LOLZ…for street cred?

  • Anonymous

    If everybody would just come over to your point of view, everything would be all right, is that what you’re saying? How convenient for you! I gotta hand it to you.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2IB7ROGONBLSSBO2KDNTLL7N6U Cindy

    Why don’t you all watch the entire uncut video from CNN? Maybe then you will understand how stupid this woman is.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLonnC_ZWQ0&feature=player_embedded

  • Anonymous

    So it’s okay for Obama to say:  ”I wasn’t there” and that’s it.  But if Paul says, basically:  ”I wasn’t there” he’s responsible?

    Are you a racist or something?

  • Anonymous

    Actually Gingrich hasnt answered things brought up in the ads. He only answered questions about his personal life which Ron Paul did not attack. But let me guess your for more wars, less constitution, and less liberty. Glad you exist.

  • Anonymous

    90% of people with newsletters never know whats in them. What about the fact the head of the NAACP in Texas came to his defense or that Paul was thinking about picking a black man for his VP in 2008. If you go on youtube you can watch videos of black people defending  Ron Paul on these newsletters. My guess is your a Gingrich supporter and your corrupt hero is falling. Now your clinging to what ever you can.

  • earl hickey

    Gloria Booger is fatally compromised.

  • april showers

    Interesting, while his associates were running the newsletter, he was busy in a full time obstetrics practice, delivering babies for minority and poor women at no charge or reduced fees rather than participate in Medicaid.  Wow, what a big, fat racist! 

    Ha! The media lies, distorts and disinforms as part of their mission (keep advertisers happy) and they have the unmitigated nerve to imply that Ron Paul is a closet racist because of some old newletter that he never wrote!  Anyone who has read Ron Paul’s books or reviewed his voting record will realize what a farce this report is and what a joke Gloria Borger is.  She obviously has not read any of his books.  So, why is she interviewing him?  

  • april showers

    Paul has agreed with you on this point that he shouldn’t have lent his name to the project if he wouldn’t have time to supervise the use of his name.  Obviously, he regrets this decision, has said so many times and rectified the situation when he discovered it and never let it happen again in 20 years…..

  • april showers

    Very racist?  That’s subjective.  Are they just as racist as bombing thousands of innocent people because of the country they live in? The newsletters are more politically incorrect than anything else. Get over yourself and argue the facts not your feelings.

  • http://www.popdose.com DwDunphy

    Well, actually that might be wishful thinking. You’ll understand when we get closer to the Iowa event, but saying that it hasn’t happened again in twenty years is an absolute no one can micromanage.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HYR2UBQIGRS3ZDOL24WOW3PWSA buckeroo

    The reporter acts like a robot if you watch the full interview. repeatedly asking the same thing over and over. He answers her the first couple of times.

    The full interview:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iOt-a5XNws&feature=player_embedded

  • Kathleen Hanover

    Uhm, yeah. Ron Paul has never denied having a newsletter. And here’s what he said about it in the 1995 interview that you conveniently don’t link to:

    “When I came back [from 4 terms in Congress], I resumed my medical practice, and I’ve been doing
    that ever since, but I’ve also stayed active in education. Long term, I
    don’t think political action is worth very much if you don’t have
    education, and so I’ve continued with my economic education foundation,
    Free Foundation, which I started in 1976.  So that’s been very active. 
    Actually, in the last several years, we’ve been doing some video work,
    in an educational manner.  We did 14 different 30-minute programs on
    video.

    But along with that, I also put out a political type of business
    investment newsletter that sort of covered all these areas.  And it
    covered a lot about what was going on in Washington, and financial
    events, and especially some of the monetary events.  Since I had been
    especially interested in monetary policy, had been on the banking
    committee, and still very interested in, in that subject, that this
    newsletter dealt with it.  This had to do with the value of the dollar,
    the pros and cons of the gold standard, and of course the disadvantages
    of all the high taxes and spending that our government seems to continue
    to do.”

    http://youtu.be/eW755u5460A

    My guess is that you didn’t link to the video because it makes Ron Paul look even more principled, intelligent, and prescient.

    Oh, and by the way, Ron Paul didn’t “storm out” of the interview. CNN edited the raw footage to make Ron Paul look bad:

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078343/Raw-footage-shows-Ron-Paul-DIDNT-storm-CNN-interview-racist-newsletters–interview-simply-done.html

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_B7WPII3FOXD4Q65653ZLVMZBWQ Josey

    So what’s CNN going to do? After viewing the raw video it’s obvious that Gloria Borger lied
    about Mr Paul walking out of the interview. Are they going to apologize to Mr Paul? Are they
    going to fire her? I would hope they do something to reconcile the fact that they allowed a rogue so called “journalist” to edit an interview to convey the appearance of Ron Paul walking out.

  • Anonymous

    I watched it and Paul does NOT get a pass on this. It was not a single newsletter that may have slipped by without his knowledge, these vile things went on for years! He made big money from the newsletters. He’s made speeches before the John Birch Society!! He can’t have it both ways. He’s either the author or he paid someone to write it. Should we also question how well he stayed on the cutting edge of medicine during this time??? If he had nothing to do with the crap he allowed his name to be tied to for all these years, then he needs to tell the truth now–that he was taking the hateful, racist bigots for all the money he could! He won’t do that because these are the people who want to make him POTUS. 

  • Kon Man

    Listen, I am a Ron Paul supporter. I understand that his name was on the newsletters and that he may have profited from them. However, if you listen to how Ron Paul speaks and has spoken, as opposed to the writings in the newsletters, it is completely different. It makes perfect sense that a ghostwriter wrote most of this stuff. Should Ron Paul have stopped this from happening? Yes. But the fact that he is the only candidate speaking any truth whatsoever regarding the drug war and judicial system means that people should think before they label him a racist. Do some research first. MLK was one of his personal heroes way before this whole scandal happened. If he wrote these articles he has to be an extremely functional person with multiple personalities.

  • april showers

    Seriously, not to mention that she should be forced to disclose her own conflict of interest when reporting on any candidate who talks about lobbyists in Washington and the auction of power happening in DC and why the whores can’t cut any spending. She’s married to a high powered DC lobbyist!.  When he started talking about the power auction, she should have immediately disclosed the fact that her husband is actually a successful DC lobbyist and his election would probably affect her lifestyle adversely.  But, no, she pretends to be impartial and misrepresents him in the final edited version of the interview.  She should be fired immediately just like Rather/Thomas/Olberman.
    As long as she is allowed to cover the Ron Paul campaign without publicly disclosing her personal conflict of interest, CNN’s “reputation” should continue to suffer. 

  • april showers

    Uh, Ron Paul’s ads did not manufacture information. Newt is a politician for hire to the highest bidder, always has been.  The ads are just a refresher course.  Nothing debatable at all.

    Ron Paul walked away because the interview was over.  Gloria and her producer edited the footage and lied to make it sound like he “stormed” out.  See the whole interview before you judge.  Be sure to notice when Ron Paul explains to her why Congress can’t cut spending because of the “auction”.  She knows about this very well because she is married to a big DC lobbyist.  Instead of disclosing her conflict of interest as professional ethics would demand, she finishes the interview with a lame attempt at a “gotcha” and edits the interview to try to make Ron Paul look “testy”.

    Very different

  • http://www.facebook.com/Tatalebuj Chuck Eckert

    I’d like to know why you think “Ron Paul supporters smack of the same cult-like devotion…” ?

    Perhaps there are some that can be labeled this way, but the vast majority of Ron Paul supporters seem to be well educated, tolerant and liberty-minded people.  Accepting of all people and fundamentally understanding the problems facing our country.  The Ron Paul supporters I know are waiting for the rest of our brothers and sisters to wake up and stop being dragged into the petty mud-slinging that goes along with politics nowadays.  

    I hope you realize that most Ron Paul supporters I’ve seen on the message boards have actually done research on Ron Paul and already knew about these newsletters.  When I was first looking into Ron Paul – and I was doing that because I couldn’t believe that it was possible to have a politician who actually voted using principles and integrity – I was shocked at all the great things he stood for, but the cynic in me shouted that “there must be some dirt!”  So I spent time looking for the negative things to fully understand this person.

    What I found was lacking in real hard evidence.  This “newsletter” that Dalton keeps talking about was actually 4 separate newsletters (notice the different titles?) and there were hundreds of them made for over a decade.  The bigoted comments (I don’t know if I can define them as racist or bigoted, but they just don’t seem harsh enough to be really racist – at least in my opinion.  Wrong for anyone to say, but people are entitled to their opinions, it’s why we have the Free Speech amendment.  I may not agree with the sentiment, but that doesn’t stop a person from being able to express an opinion.) were not the point of the newsletter, these were articles of a few and far between ones.  

    More importantly, I also found during my research the actual facts of what Ron Paul has done to promote equality of the races.  I have heard him speak passionately about the unfairness of our justice system for blacks of today.  He sees the reality that our “war on drugs” has caused to minority groups and says that it must stop.  Which other Republican candidate is doing that?  Yet somehow people want to say he’s a Racist for articles printed in a fringe newsletter sent out that bore his name.  He’s admitted to morally being responsible for the comments made and he’s apologized for not doing more.  What more do you want?

    What more can he do?  He’s walking the walk and talking the talk, but one time he slipped and we should throw him away for this?  How does this one minor transgression even come close to the issues/baggage that the other candidates have?  How is this even remotely comparable?

    There is no substance to these claims, and I think most Ron Paul supporters understand that.  So please don’t be surprised when you still see us posting in defense of our candidate.  He’s a real American statesman who sticks with his principles, has a focused and detailed roadmap for fixing our country and has proven his integrity time and time again.  Why wouldn’t you support him?

    Vote Ron Paul 2012!!

  • Anonymous

    This report is completely false, and I can’t believe this crap is still up here. The interview was 10 minutes long and they edited to make it look like he left right after she asked that question when in reality the interview continued on for 3 more minutes. It’s time for Mediaite to report the real news not complete regurgitation of falsehoods. COME ON EDITORS I BELIEVE YOU WANT TO REPORT THE TRUTH!

  • Anonymous

    Suffice it to say that Ron Paul must have the largest cult ever seeing as he is winning in almost every state he has run in. I like to call that cult the US Citizen cult. Paul is an upstanding citizen with a real track record to prove it, I am curious about your arrest record there skeeter beater, if you have a Terms as Congressman, Doctorate and a huge family that loves you then why aren’t running for office? I am not a huge Ron Paul fanboy, but I will probably vote for him this coming election. That being I am open to your discussion because at least you have some concept of history and that is refreshing coming from the Dem side of the field. :-P

  • Anonymous

    I despise these pukes at CNN…hate them with a burning passion!

    Ron Paul was correct to dismiss this question (and the brain dead twit asking it) which has been asked and answered possibly hundreds of times in the last two decades.

    Focus on news for a change CNN. Not some dead petty issue that was resolved twenty years ago. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=575171206 Nick Montana

    It turns out Paul didn’t “walk out” of a testy interview because I recently saw the uncut interview uploaded by his campaign, which clearly proves CNN maliciously edited the segment to portray something that didn’t happen. If you watch the entire interview in full, Paul simply takes off his microphone and heads off because the interview was over. It just goes to show CNN has an agenda to sabotage his campaign.

    I may not be a fan of Paul’s economic ideas or philosophy, but it’s astoundingly unfair to witness this sort of nonsense pulled by a major news network. This whole “racist articles” issue is just the desperate pursuit of yet another entity to insure Paul won’t get the nomination, so we can be rewarded with two great choices: Romney and Obama. This anti-democratic two-party system, which is really just two wings of the same party, just proves that there really isn’t a choice.

    For all the critical issues weighing against us, “racist articles” Paul obviously didn’t write, which conventional wisdom largely agrees a certain libertarian activist wrote them for his own agenda instead, is nonsense and irrelevant now. He gave his answer and we as voters should have the dignity to make of it what we want, not have the media forcibly and tediously repeat this mantra to steer us elsewhere. I don’t think people of conviction about issues care, and it’s only the die-hard liberals hammering it in to make up for the enormous deficiencies, governing weakness, and neoconservative underpinnings of Obama. At this point I’d rather vote for Paul and take my chances than support the guy who just enshrined into law (after claiming he wouldn’t do so) the right of the military to throw Americans into indefinite detention without a trial, indictment, or charge. No thanks.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KPKFYC5CCVUCNGVK4A4OSAT3ZM Amen Baby

    Ron Paul is a liberal….a neo libertarian

    This show is one far left liberal nuts supporters. versus another far left liberal nuts supporters.

    Tha’s why Ron Paul whachos are mostly Occutards and “like” Obama and Biden on facebook

    It’s like when the international socialists and neoNazis fought in the street in the 70′s.  Its fun to watch.

  • Anonymous


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLonnC_ZWQ0&feature=player_embedded THEY EDITED IT!!! THIS IS THE FULL INTERVIEW!! CNN and this disgusting reporter should be ashamed of themselves they removed 6 minutes of prior footage and all the parts where the reporter sounds provocative and incendiary. Then when writhing reports on it later they continued to lie about how it went down as seen here!!!! Im a liberal and a registered democrat who supports his party so this isnt some crazed Paul supporter ranting but disgustingly blatant editing by a so called news agency is bad for our democracy!! I agree with Paul when he says I know how the system works how sad.

  • Sterling Bushnell

    Go Ron Paul

    but that was funny

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