Ron Paul’s racist newsletters have officially become a full-blown political controversy. Yesterday, he walked out of an interview with CNN’s Gloria Borger after she pressed him on the issue:
The video speaks for itself; Paul has questions he needs to answer, and the media isn’t going to stop hounding him until he does.
One quick point to add, though. As USA Today points out, Paul’s ever-shifting story on the newsletters changed yet again during the Borger interview yesterday. The issue first came up back in 1996, when Paul was running for Congress. At the time, he defended the racist content published in one of his newsletters from 1992, insisting it was taken out of context. But on CNN yesterday, Paul told Borger that “I never read that stuff, I was probably aware of it 10 years after it was written.” Paul needs to be asked about this discrepancy in the timeline.
Also, today’s USA Today story reports that Paul claimed in 1996 his racist comments about black people were actually taken from a study by the National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives:
In 1996, Paul told the Dallas 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.
But back in 1996, when the Austin-American Statesman tried to track down this think tank, it was unable to find it:
Paul’s spokesman, Michael Sullivan, said Paul’s comments about black men in Washington was based on a 1992 study by the National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives, a think tank in the Washington area. A search for the center, however, proved fruitless. No organization with that name is registered in Washington or its suburbs.
A Nexis search for the “National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives” turns up eight articles, all on the Ron Paul newsletter controversy from 1996 and later. Which raises the questions: Did this think tank ever exist? Or was it manufactured by the Paul campaign?
I'd understand asking Ron Paul the same questions if there was any new evidence but why continue to ask the same questions over & over when there's nothing new to report? Seems to me CNN isn't interested in news reporting but rather smearing potential opponents for Obama.
He hasn't answered the question. He's been exposed and doesn't much like it.
Hes answered the question a dozen times and you autistics are never satisfied because he would destroy your sociopathic domination of American politics. Where is Al Sharpton if this is so racist? Why is the NAACP defending Ron Paul?
So, Ron Paul people: you've been claiming for a long time that the media is 'ignoring' your candidate. Now that they're paying attention to him, you're whining about that too. Ron Paul's ever changing "explanations" in combination with his decision to lie about the existence of a think tank indicate that he is not the brave truth teller he claims to be, but rather a squirrelly liar who cares for little but his own career. It must be painful for you all to see your Dear Leader, Dr. Paul, squirm like a bug under the media's magnifying glass.
He's answered the questions 100 times by now, he didn't write it, at the time they were written he didn't read them, he read them years later, he doesn't approve of them and that's that! What more could he answer? He walked off because people are asking it over and over because it's ALL they have on him and they are trying to make it bigger then it is, look at her stuttering around trying to figure out new angles to twist the question, there is no new angle which is why she has such a hard time keeping the interview going. This lady has a history of walk off's because she's a complete moron and obviously working for the establishment to smear whoever they tell her to smear.
Theyre not paying attention to him. Theyre trying to destroy him with an irrelevant, meaningless story from 20 years ago that has already been picked over multiple times.
Gosh, who could possibly think Ron Paul would be responsible for editorial content of Ron Paul newsletters, with the Ron Paul brand plastered all over them, with Ron Paul's campaign staff sometimes doing double duty taking in subscriptions, with Ron Paul cashing the checks, and Ron Paull publicly defending their priceless nuggets with specious references to imaginary think tanks??!!! What a mystery! A real head scratcher. And follow the guy on Alex Jones and his various periginations and Johnny Reb secessionist huzzahs and the black helicopter whirring can still be heard in the background. n nA vote for Ron Paul is a vote for a crank. An American archetype for sure. Stranded in the cognitive Bermuda Triangle located somewheres between Huck's Pap ranting about "you call this a guvmint?" and Ezra Pound ranting against the Jewish money interests for a bemused Italian public and his warders at St. E's. Guess it might be back to the future for a significant portion of the GOP base.
Guess who delivered the 50th anniverary keynote address of the John Birch Society (for the kids, they thought Eisenhower was literally a Soviet agent of influence) this past September, as in this year, not 20, 10, 5, year ago. That Republican's Republican, scourage of Lincoln, cheerleader for secession–that guy.
Guess who doesnt care? America!
final word: Ron Paul in 2004 on …. the … Council of Foreign Relations and … the Trilateral Commission: n n"There was a time when nobody even knew who was a member of the CFR or the Trilateral Commission. I think it's a bad sign that they're not as secret as they used to be. They're bolder now. But there is an agenda. They're behind the scenes in many way—very secretive." n nFull body gear black helicopter None Dare Call it Treason survivalist (the moniker of one of the incarnations of his newsletter oeuvre) anti-New World Order warrior. n nAnd the GOP guys running for office can't bring themselves to bring it up, because who knows, maybe it's the base?
let's hope that this puts the final nail in the Paul campaign coffin. it's obvious to everyone but his most ardent supporters that he has no chance to win the Republican nomination. he does, however, have every chance of handing Obama the election, if he chooses to run as a 3rd party candidate. and if he should do that, then all his pretend patriot talk is just BS. n nwhich, since he's a loony, it is.
Hilarious. Conspiracy theories, extensive use of CAPITAL LETTERS, denial of reality. Ron Paul supporters never cease to disappoint.