Now That Ron Paul Suddenly Appears to be a Real Contender in the Republican Primary Race, the Mainstream Media 'Turns up the Heat' with an 'Insider Hit Job'
Ron Paul Walks Out on Interview with CNN:CNN's Gloria Berger was just starting to grill Paul about the details of how involved he was in the racist newsletters, when the candidate stonewalled her. "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?" Paul said right at the outset. "I didn't write them, I disavow them, that's it."
CNN Deliberate Insider Hit Job on Ron Paul
The Plot Behind This Seemingly Typical InterviewDecember 22, 2011
Daily Paul Liberty Forum - Gloria Borger is married to Lance Morgan. Morgan is according to the web site of his employer, Powell Tate,“chief communications strategist at Powell Tate in Washington, D.C. He specializes in developing and executing communications strategies for public policy debates, crisis communications and media training.”
So who might be the clients of Powell Tate, where Borger’s husband is “chief communications strategist and crisis communications” adviser for?
Just about every part of the military industrial-complex that Ron Paul wants to shrink or shutdown. According to the Powell Tate web site, they are strategic communications for among others:
The U.S. Army
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The U.S Agency for International Development
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce
and, I’m not joking, The National Pork Board.
Bottom line Gloria Borger’s husband is as inside Washington DC as you can get.
http://www.gspm.org/caplancemorgan
This was a total hit job, bringing up decades old accusations about a newsletter that everyone agrees was written by others, while Dr. Paul was practicing medicine. Further, as Justin Ramindo has clearly shown, most of the charges were made by people who couldn’t have read the newsletters in full context.
George Carlin Was Right
There's a reason for this, there's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got... because the owners of this country don’t want that. I'm talking about the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else.
But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin’ years ago. They don’t want that.
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.
And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this fuckin' place. It’s a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy.
The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good, honest, hard-working people continue — these are people of modest means — continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t care about you at all! At all! At all! And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant...
Ron Paul Suddenly Doesn't Want to Talk to Reporters About His Racist Newsletters
December 22, 2011
Atlantic Wire - Ron Paul furrowed his eyebrows before storming off completely during a CNN interview addressing allegations that he made money and won fame with the help of a sometimes racist series of newsletters back in the 1990s.
Paul is the same candidate that many have said has been ignored by the media -- some would say, though, he's not -- but since he's been climbing in the polls and suddenly appears to be a real contender in the Republican primary race, the media's turned up the heat.
CNN's Gloria Berger was just starting to grill Paul about the details of how involved he was in the racist newsletters, when the candidate stonewalled her.
"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?" Paul said right at the outset. "I didn't write them, I disavow them, that's it."Borger, like a good journalist, pressed on for a few seconds before urging Paul to react to what people are saying about the two decade old allegations.
"These things are pretty incendiary," Borger said.Later, when talking about the incident on air, Situation Room host Wolf Blizter suggested that Paul "got tired of talking about" the corruption allegations.
"Because of people like you," Paul snapped back, just before he pulled of his microphone and headed for the door.
"I appreciate your answering the questions, and you understand it's our job to ask them," the reporter said, almost apologetically as Paul was leaving.
"He clearly thinks its irrelevant," Borger told Blitzer.
"It’s clearly a question he’d rather not be asked."
Ron Paul Thought His Newsletters Were Pretty Great in 1995
December 22, 2011
Atlantic Wire - Ron Paul's position on the newsletters with racist statements that were published under his name 20 years ago has changed quite a since then -- in a 1995 interview with C-SPAN, for instance, he was pretty proud of them.
Paul had quit politics in 1985 and went back in 1996 and, as RedState's Leon H. Wolf points out, he seems to suggest that publishing those newsletters was a major part of his post-Congressional life. And he was a lot more willing to discuss the topic than now that it's being brought up in his strengthening presidential campaign.
"Along with that I also put out a political -- type of business investment newsletter, sort of covered all these areas. And it covered a lot about what was going on in Washington and financial events, 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 that. This has 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."
Dr. Paul denied suggestions that he was a racist and said he was not evoking stereotypes when he wrote the columns. He said they should be read and quoted in their entirety to avoid misrepresentation......Paul wrote in a 1992 issue of the Ron Paul Political Report: "If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet of foot they can be." ... In the interview, he did not deny he made the statement about the swiftness of black men. "If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them," Dr. Paul said...He also said the comment about black men in the nation's capital was made while writing about a 1992 study produced by the National Center on Incarceration and Alternatives, a criminal justice think tank based in Virginia.
Citing statistics from the study, Dr. Paul then concluded in his column: `Given the inef! ficiencies 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," Dr. Paul said Tuesday. "That is the assumption you can gather from" the report.
“I could never say this in the campaign, but those words weren’t really written by me. It wasn’t my language at all. Other people help me with my newsletter as I travel around. I think the one on Barbara Jordan was the saddest thing, because Barbara and I served together and actually she was a delightful lady.” Paul says that item ended up there because “we wanted to do something on affirmative action, and it ended up in the newsletter and became personalized. I never personalize anything.”His reasons for keeping this a secret are harder to understand: “They were never my words, but I had some moral responsibility for them . . . I actually really wanted to try to explain that it doesn’t come from me directly, but they [campaign aides] said that’s too confusing. ‘It appeared in your letter and your name was on that letter and therefore you have to live with it.’”
"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."
"At that time a libertarian theorist, Murray Rothbard argued that libertarians ought to engage in 'Outreach to the Rednecks' in order to insert their libertarian theories into the middle of the nation's political passions," he writes.Rothbard influenced Lew Rothwell, who many think wrote Paul's newsletters. Dougherty continues:
As crazy as it sounds, Ron Paul's newsletter writers may not have been sincerely racist at all. They actually thought appearing to be racist was a good political strategy in the 1990s. After that strategy yielded almost nothing -- it was abandoned by Paul's admirers.You can attribute their "redneck strategy" to the most malignant kind of cynicism or to a political desperation that made them insane. Neither is particularly flattering.
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