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- inactive, on 01/29/2008, -0/+5Go Grassroots GO!!!
- vissud, on 01/29/2008, -2/+5So did Ron Paul lie in 1996 when he said he did write the newsletters? How do you explain the quotes from him in the 1996 article.
- vissud, on 01/29/2008, -2/+5Once again, deafening silence from a Ron Paul supporter when I ask for an explanation of his 1996 response.
- filmmonk, on 01/29/2008, -1/+3Ron Paul never had a newspaper, he did act as publisher for a newsletter. They are both completely different formats. While it is one of my concerns, I am hoping people can tell the difference between the two, since one of them is nearly 3 times the size of the other.
- filmmonk, on 01/29/2008, -2/+4Vissud can you give a direct link to this? All I have seen are vague references to this. Would like to see the actual statement by Ron Paul, not some opinion. Also would like to know if this is about the D.C. statement, he made which was backed by statistical information.
The Devil is in the details vissud, I just hope your not holding a pitchfork right now. - filmmonk, on 01/29/2008, -0/+2Go ahead vissud you are free to think that...
If you can provide a unedited video or audio of Ron Paul answering the direct question and him saying he wrote it, I will drop Ron Paul.
You can not do this so why are you wasting your time here? - vissud, on 01/29/2008, -4/+6Yes and I sent the article for reprint as well. And why is reprinting what Ron Paul said a smear? Is he smearing himself?
- rmtatum, on 01/30/2008, -0/+1The "copy and paste" trolls.
- vissud, on 01/29/2008, -3/+4Vague references to what? I pasted the entire Dallas Morning News article from 1996. He's quoted in the article. I can send you the official article from DM if you'd like as well. He takes ownership of the newsletter in the article.
- filmmonk, on 01/29/2008, -2/+3FROM HER EMAIL
"Hello Everyone,
Thanks so much for all the emails and interest in the Ron Paul
Newspaper. We have the site up and running now and we need
your donations to make this possible.
Everything is in place for this to STILL happen, we just need
money to give legs to this monumental & highly effective idea.
------->>> www.RonPaulNewspaper.com - filmmonk, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1NO I said that is not a accurate interview unless there is some unedited recording of it! You do understand journalism has lost it's "integrity" long ago?
- filmmonk, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1Ok vissud now I know for certain you are a saboteur, I gave you a chance and you have not given any real evidence. The link you provided is completely unsubstantiated. Anybody can provide links to crap like that, and you have shown to have NO interest in finding real facts. Could you please leave?
- filmmonk, on 01/29/2008, -0/+1I don't have time to waste here anymore, good luck on your life. It seems like you have enough time to research 27 people and their entire history, so you must be living a good life.
- filmmonk, on 01/29/2008, -0/+0Your approach to this is out of character of anybody that has a REAL concern about Ron Paul, as you presented yourself before.
And yes I think you are serious if you actually believe Ron Paul supporters "DUGG" that article. - filmmonk, on 01/29/2008, -4/+4Vissud this is old news, Ron Paul himself has said that he did not write those words. And has distanced himself from this. If you have not seen it for yourself here it is.
part 1 http://youtube.com/watch?v=A6rxts0-f9w
part 2 http://youtube.com/watch?v=82CYNV0U_kg
and the director of the NAACP here vouching for Ron Paul http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvFLSwDvBUA
I sincerely hope you did not know about this before, otherwise this must be a deliberate vengeful attempt on your part. - filmmonk, on 01/29/2008, -1/+1Until you can provide the entire interview, and how each question was exactly asked, it doesn't take a Frank Lutz to figure out how to ask a misleading question. A live interview? Radio? TV? Ron has done a ton of these and yet none have surfaced with a direct unedited quote?
- filmmonk, on 01/29/2008, -2/+2This is the quote you are referring to?
"It's typical political demagoguery," he said. "If people are interested in my character . . . come and talk to my neighbors."
And when asked about black stealing he makes a obvious comment that does not associate with blacks.
"If you try to catch someone that has stolen a purse from you, there is no chance to catch them,"
I have been interviewed before and have seen how sensationalist journalist love to be. I have trouble believing you can't read between the lines and see the angle the paper is coming at. - vissud, on 01/29/2008, -1/+0So Ron Paul is so slow in the brain, he can be led by a reporter into saying he wrote the newsletters, into quoting circulation numbers, and into changing his campaign phone number to match the newsletter phone number?
- vissud, on 01/29/2008, -1/+0I know they did. You can look at the people who dugg it, and look at their history. Real Ron Paul supporters dugg it. I know this is hard for you but you have to be able to READ. R E A D.
- reed311, on 01/29/2008, -5/+4You guys might want to lay low on the newspapers/newsletters for a while. They didn't turn out so well, last time.
- filmmonk, on 01/29/2008, -5/+4vissud? Did you actually visit the site? This is a grassroots effort, your awful attempt to smear this is weak. This has nothing to do with "newsletters" it is a actual newspaper.
- vissud, on 01/29/2008, -1/+0I accept your surrender.
- vissud, on 01/29/2008, -2/+0Um, do you think i'm seriously pointing out that RonPaulTards are selling organs? Or perhaps I'm pointing out the stupidity of RonPaulTards who dugg a blip from a website purporting to sell organs for campaign contributions.
- vissud, on 01/29/2008, -3/+0Well, I hope you have audio proof of every article on Ron Paul you have ever dugg, otherwise, not only are you not very smart, but you're a hypocrite
- vissud, on 01/29/2008, -4/+0Maybe put this in the newspaper:
Ron Paul Bots Sell Organs for Campaign Cash!
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/New_Ron_Paul_fun ... - vissud, on 01/29/2008, -5/+0I think what you're really saying is, it's inaccurate until they say nice things about Ron Paul, because you can't handle your cult leader being racist.
- vissud, on 01/29/2008, -13/+6I believe Ron Paul has already had his own newspaper:
WASHINGTON - Dr. Ron Paul, a Republican congressional candidate from Texas, wrote in his political newsletter in 1992 that 95 percent of the black men in Washington, D.C., are "semi-criminal or entirely criminal."
He also wrote that black teenagers can be "unbelievably fleet of foot."
An official with the NAACP in Texas said the comments were racist and offensive.
Dr. Paul, who is running in Texas' 14th Congressional District, defended his writings in an interview Tuesday. He said they were being taken out of context.
"It's typical political demagoguery," he said. "If people are interested in my character . . . come and talk to my neighbors."
Dr. Paul, an ex-congressman and former Libertarian Party presidential candidate, defeated Rep. Greg Laughlin, R-West Columbia, in April for the Republican nomination for the U.S. House.
An obstetrician from Surfside, he faces Democratic lawyer Charles "Lefty" ! Morris of Bee Cave in the November general election. Mr. Morris, who said he was familiar with the writings in question, declined to comment about the specifics.
"Many of his views are out on the fringe," Mr. Morris said. "But voters in the 14th District have to characterize these the way they see it. His statements speak for themselves."
According to a Dallas Morning News review of documents circulating among Texas Democrats, Dr. 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."
Dr. Paul, who served in Congress in the late 1970s and early 1980s, said Tuesday that he has produced the newsletter since 1985 and distributes it to an estimated 7,000 to 8,000 subscribers. A phone call to the newsletter's toll-free number was answered by his campaign staff.
Dr. Paul also said he did not know how his newsletter came to be ! included in a directory by the Heritage Front, a neo-Nazi group based in Canada. The newsletter was listed on the Internet under the directory's heading "Racialists and Freedom Fighters."
No one answered calls to the Heritage Front, which lists only a hotline connected to a tape-recorded message in the Toronto telephone directory.
Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas NAACP, urged Dr. Paul to apologize for his comments about blacks and asked Republicans to denounce their nominee.
"We need someone who can represent all the constituents of Texas, not someone who is negative or engages in stereotypes," Mr. Bledsoe said. "Someone who holds those views signals or indicates an inability to represent all constituents without regard to race, creed or color."
About 11 percent of the population in the 14th District, stretching from near Austin to the Gulf Coast, is black.
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 r! ead and quoted in their entirety to avoid
misrepresentation.
Dr. Paul also took exception to the comments of Mr. Bledsoe, saying that the voters in the 14th District and the people who know him best would be the final judges of his character.
"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?" Dr. Paul asked.
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
Caption:
PHOTO(S): Dr. Ron Paul . . . says his comments are being taken out of context.
Copyright 1996 The Dallas Morning News Company
Record Number: DAL1568670
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