Community | December 20, 2011 | 9 comments

Ron Paul: People call me racist because my ‘policies are winning’

source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/20/ron-paul-people-call-me-racist-because-my-policies-are...

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A few years ago, Ron Paul was called an "anti-semite" by Ben Stein for opposing America's current foreign policy, of which a growing number of Americans oppose.

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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul became visibly irritated during a CNN interview on Tuesday after he was asked to explain 20-year-old racist newsletters that were written in his name, and have recently resurfaced.

“Yeah, but I didn’t write them and I disavow them,” Paul insisted.

“But you’re a presidential candidate. That’s tough,” Velshi observed. “It kind of comes back to bite you that you made money off of things that were published under your name that were hateful and racist.”

“Yeah,” Paul agreed. “But this has been addressed for 20 years and nobody accuses me of that type of belief or language. I’m a true civil libertarian, and I think people dig these up when people think that ‘Oh, his economic policies are winning. His foreign policies are winning. His monetary policies are winning.’ So, they have to dig these things up that they really can’t pin on me.”

“But I didn’t write them and those aren’t my beliefs. So, I sleep well,” he added.


“Are you comfortable in telling us who did write them?” Velshi asked.

“I really don’t know,” Paul explained. “Twenty years ago, I had six or eight people helping me with the letter, and I was practicing medicine to tell you the truth. And so, I really do not know.”

“Well, we could find out?” Velshi pressed. “Because you had six or eight people? Like, it was one of those six or eight people?”

“Well, possibly I could,” Paul admitted. “These charges are a total contradiction of everything I’ve said and everything I believe.”
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9 comments // Ron Paul: People call me racist because my ‘policies are winning’

  • dadevil
  • Milieu
    • +1
      Milieu  

    • When you do the research, he sounds as if he's stealing his lines from the Horse$#!T that came out of Clarence Thomas at Thomas' confirmation hearings.

      "But, whoever actually wrote them, the newsletters I saw all had one thing in common: They were published under a banner containing Paul’s name, and the articles (except for one special edition of a newsletter that contained the byline of another writer) seem designed to create the impression that they were written by him--and reflected his views. What they reveal are decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews, and gays. In short, they suggest that Ron Paul is not the plain-speaking antiwar activist his supporters believe they are backing--but rather a member in good standing of some of the oldest and ugliest traditions in American politics."

      http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/angry-white-man

    • 5 months ago
  • rerushg
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      rerushg  

    • Well actually, Ron, people call you racist because you're racist. It's an addiction and an affliction. Public rehab has no chance until you admit you've got a problem.

    • 5 months ago
  • floydyboy
  • Anonmaly
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      Anonmaly  

    • Velshi is a dick...

      CNN is a propaganda machine, I turned them on for a minute last night to catch Sanjay Gupta saying; "Economic policies are responsible for food shortages in N. Korea.", referring to how ignorant the average N. Korean is, as he was filling in for Anderson...

      Really DR. Gupta money rains down from the sky to water the plants? food just grows in money? Or better yet money is to blame for irresponsible land management?

      Got to give a few countries the credit for saying FUCK the NWO even if all their other insanity is just that, to bad they'll all go the way of Libya.... One of the most fair, intelligent, think outside the box leaders on the planet, who damn sure did take care of his people made out to be a dictator... And violently sodomized with a knife just before his subsequent murder because some dumb fucking militants thought they'd get a bigger slice of the pie with him gone....

      Nope the corporations will get the slices, if they can ever break through the civil war to get to the resources.... Fucking idiots....

      And dictatorships? We've outlawed medicinal plants... We've got a president flirting with "indefinite detention" of essentially anyone who disagrees with him...

      Want to talk about a "dictatorship"?.....

      And on Ron Paul, he's right on the "racism" fabrication.... CNN is a big propaganda machine for the status quo, and will do anything to ensure their elites lifestyles...

    • 5 months ago
  • MotherForTruth
  • maasanova
    • +1
      maasanova  

    • Rep. Paul, a Republican from Texas, has argued for removing U.S. soldiers from the Middle East because the American presence there is increasingly seen by many Muslims as a foreign occupation force. Responding to Rep. Paul's argument that Americans should mind their own business and not become the policeman of the world, Stein argued: “No, we're not occupiers. That's the same anti-Semitic argument we've heard over and over again. That's the same anti-Semitic argument we've heard over and over again.”

      Rep. Paul responded by saying, “That is a vicious attack,” and Stein defended his statement by saying, “Look, that is not a vicious attack.”

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOV0qCW7nBA

    • 5 months ago
  • Joeydee44
  • faye59
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      faye59  
    • Joeydee44:

      Its not the first time I've heard this, but I didn't want to spread false rumors. He smells fishy though. I wonder when racism became a mere distraction? What a callous statement.

    • 5 months ago
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