It's not like the bar was that high to begin with, but now they are taking stuff from the neo-con Weekly Standard and then obfuscating and omitting the ties.
"Old newsletters stirring scrutiny of Paul’s views" December 29, 2011|Tracy Jan, Globe Staff
NEWTON, Iowa - Less than a week before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, rising GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul is finding himself under intense scrutiny for inflammatory statements published by his newsletters decades ago about blacks, homosexuals, and America’s “disappearing white majority.’’
While most of the remarks were publicized during his presidential bid four years ago, they are getting more attention now that polls have him close to the top in the Iowa contest.
This is the dirtiest dirt they could dig up on Ron Paul in four years?
Paul dismisses the criticism, and he stalked out of a recent CNN interview when pressed on his responsibility for the newsletters’ content.
That's also a distortion and lie.
See: CNN Fraudulently Edited Ron Paul Interview to Create Media Storm Over "Walk Out"
So what ARE WE to make of the AmeriKan media and New England's flagship paper, dear readers?
So far, the revelations give little sign of undercutting his backers’ support of his candidacy.
Proving that NO ONE IS LISTENING to the MOUTHPIECE MEDIA ANYMORE!!!
The controversial statements are in political and investment newsletters Paul published in the 1980s and ’90s. A 1992 issue of the Ron Paul Political Report said order was restored in Los Angeles following the Rodney King race riots “when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks,’’ according to documents published by The New Republic. Another issue linked the AIDS epidemic to “hyper-promiscuous sodomy’’ practiced by homosexuals, saying gays were “far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.’’
An issue of the Ron Paul Survival Report worries about America’s “disappearing white majority.’’ Another defends the late chess champion and Holocaust-denier Bobby Fischer.
Paul, the libertarian-leaning congressman from Texas, has denied penning the treatises, which were published without a byline, or even having read them. But he stood silent yesterday while reporters asked about the newsletters as he entered and left a campaign forum.
Amazing how the Globe LEAVES OUT who REALLY WROTE THEM!
FLASHBACK:
"Caucuses are a test for Iowa" by Scot Lehigh | Globe Columnist, December 28, 2011
Finally, there’s Ron Paul, who sits at or near the top of a divided field, even as renewed focus on racially tinged newsletters once sent under his name have raised serious questions about both his views and his candor.
Related: Black Americans DO NOT Believe Ron Paul Is Racist
New Information Discredits “Racist” Media Smear Campaign Against Ron Paul
Eric Dondero (cited by Weekly Standard in Ron Paul smear article) is a Leftist and a Leftist Lover
"Eric Dondero aka Eric Dondero Rittberg is a self-described libertarian who supported Giuliani, which suggests that he infiltrated Ron Paul's campaign to be an agent provocateur, a role which was discovered resulting in his termination. Dondero is not at all well regarded on the blog-o-sphere and actually ran AGAINST Ron Paul in 2007! Eric has a long history of support for Zionist causes. Eric Dondero Rittberg blogs constantly preaching hate and intolerance against Muslims, and infiltrates in order to disrupt libertarian groups and events. In other words, Eric Dondero Rittberg is just the sort of "desperate for attention" person Weekly Standard would have to use to try to smear Ron Paul. And while we are on the subject of Ron Paul's alleged racism, will nobody in the corporate media have the courage to comment on the overt racism against Muslims being espoused by all the other candidates? -- Wake the Flock Up
And the Globe picked it up and RAN WITH IT on the FRONT PAGE, huh?
While campaigning in New Hampshire last week Paul brushed the controversy aside and characterized the attacks on him as “politics as usual.’’
It's not even that, Ron; this goes beyond politics as usual to media deception.
Oh, right, that is politics as usual.
He has also refused to disavow the support he receives from extremists, including white supremacist and antigovernment groups.
What we need now is for the Zionist extremists controlling Congress to be disavowed.
“Nobody talked about it for 20 years until they found out the message of liberty is making progress,’’ Paul said. “Everybody knows I didn’t write them and they’re not my sentiments.’’
Then WHO DID WRITE THEM, Globe?
The revelations and criticisms from other GOP candidates - Newt Gingrich has said he would not vote for Paul if he becomes the GOP nominee - have done little to diminish Paul’s large crowd of ardent followers. At a Newton town hall yesterday, hundreds, as usual, packed the media center at the Iowa Speedway. Many of Paul’s fans, even his younger, more mainstream supporters who have grown up in a more diverse society, seem to brush aside his ties to extremists and hate groups.
Gee, that sure is a different account and interpretation than what I was told:
"His mid-day event in Newton lacked the excitement, energy, and bustle.... Yes, he had his hard-core supporters, who applauded him to the echo. Yet a number of the people I talked to said that they were curious to see Paul, but"
But what, Boston Globe?!!!!!!
“For someone who doesn’t know much about Ron Paul all they hear now is that he’s a racist,’’ said Tom Trettin, a 20-year-old Tulane University student who is home in Newton for the holidays and plans to caucus for Paul next week. “But if there were a man in the Republican primary you would not feel is a racist, it has to be a man of libertarian values who believes everyone is equal in the eyes of the law. The newsletters are regrettable but he wasn’t personally responsible.’’
That's my mouthpiece media!
Trettin’s brother, William, a 19-year-old student at the Naval Academy, said Paul has done a poor job of refuting the allegations against him, but his failure to adequately explain himself will not affect the brothers’ votes.
“He needs to make it really easy for people to understand what the mix-up is,’’ said William Trettin. “He seems more like the smart grandpa they made run an election rather than a politician.’’
Like most other Paul supporters, the Trettin brothers said they are drawn to Paul for his consistent message of limited federal government and his no-nonsense yet nice-guy demeanor.
“For us being from a small town, people like the fact that he seems like someone you could run into and talk to and just get to know,’’ said Tom Trettin.
Paul, however, has not always denied writing or even reading the material in his newsletters, which he profited from. When Texas newspapers reported some of the statements about blacks during his 1996 congressional campaign, Paul denied being a racist but defended the statements, saying they were taken out of context.
There they go again!
Reuters recently uncovered a 1993 solicitation bearing Paul’s signature to get people to subscribe to his newsletters. The eight-page letter also warns of a “coming race war in our big cities’’ and of a “federal-homosexual cover-up on AIDS.’’
Gingrich, in a CNN interview this week, called Paul’s newsletters “totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American’’ and said “there will come a morning when people won’t take him as a serious person.’’
Then he will be right next to you, Newt.
The New York Times has also reported that members of white nationalist and anti-Zionist groups like Stormfront and American Free Press are actively supporting Paul’s campaign. Paul told the Times that he would not be happy to find his volunteers embracing racist views, but did not disavow their support.
“If they want to endorse me, they’re endorsing what I do or say - it has nothing to do with endorsing what they say,’’ Paul said.
Right.
In addition, Paul is also being accused of anti-Semitism for a recently publicized 2009 interview with journalist Jeffrey Shapiro in which Paul said he did not believe it was a “moral imperative’’ to send US troops against Nazi Germany during World War II to save the Jews.
I see that as a badge of honor these days. It means you have struck near the truth.
Oh, one small fact: at the time, America didn't see it that way either as it took a LIHOP at Pearl Harbor to get Americans into the war, and immigration officials were turning away Jewish requests to emigrate from Germany.
“I wouldn’t risk American lives to do that,’’ Shapiro quoted Paul as saying. “If someone wants to do that on their own because they want to do that, well, that’s fine, but I wouldn’t do that.’’
I really don't want to rehash all the lies we were told about WWII this morning, thank you.
Paul’s campaign last night dismissed charges he is anti-Semitic: “Dr. Paul is the most pro-Israel candidate in this race. He is the only leader who will stop sending tens of billions of dollars in aid and arms to her Arab enemies, cut off subsidies to companies who do business with Iran and allow Israel to defend herself as she sees fit, without the permission and interference of the US. or the United Nations,’’ said the campaign in an e-mail.
He's got that last part backward. AmeriKa is Israel's bitch.
None of the accusations appear to bother Iowa supporters.
“It’s not really an issue,’’ said Phil Holland, a 31-year-old plumber from Monroe who attended the Newton town hall with his wife, Amber. “It doesn’t affect my vote … He’s a front runner so obviously they’re going to try to find any reason to go after him.’’
Yeah, AMAZING how ISRAEL is NOT REALLY AN ISSUE to AMERICANS when they are deciding who the AMERICAN president should be, huh?
Jeremy Spice, a 23-year-old rubber factory worker, and his girlfriend, Sarah Howe, a 31-year-old hospital custodian, drove eight hours from their Fort Wayne, Ind., home to hear Paul speak yesterday. Spice sports a red and black Paul “Revolution’’ tattoo on his left forearm. Howe has a smaller version tattooed on the back of her neck.
Spice said he does not believe Paul is racist because the candidate has spoken out in the past about how minorities are unfairly treated by the criminal justice system.
“Ron Paul wants to change that,’’ Spice said. “That’s why I don’t see him as a racist in any way, shape or form. Plus, just look at the polls. He’s still rising.’’
Also see: Ron Paul Looking Strong 3 Days Before Iowa Caucus
Not according to the Globe.
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