Comedy | December 21, 2011 | 53 comments

"RON PAUL IS KICKING ASS!" Cenk Uygur

source: http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8EwKLAuSyw

Anonmaly
Blow up the department of education.... It's garbage, the only good education to be had (when it can be had) is private.... Not end public schools just the dysfunctional "department" hindering them....






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8EwKLAuSyw
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53 comments // "RON PAUL IS KICKING ASS!" Cenk Uygur // Video

  • supermanrico
  • Buckeye_Bill
  • rook429
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      rook429  

    • Paul had a great racist newsletter printed in his name that raised over a million of dollars in revenue but he claims he never read.

      http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/campaign-in-100-seconds-oh-that-racism...

      http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/ron-pauls-explanation-for-racist-newsl...

      Paul has claimed that the newsletter, which compared African Americans to zoo animals, warned of a coming race war, and generally promoted racist, anti-semitic, and fringe militia views, was written by other authors and he was unaware of its content — even passages written from his perspective. He has not offered up any of the names of the six to eight writers he said were responsible for writing the incendiary material, however, and reporters are pressing him for more details.

      “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?” He told CNN’S Gloria Borger on Wednesday. “I didn’t write them, I disavow them, That’s it.” He insisted that “I never read that stuff,” before taking off his mic and storming off when Borger continued to ask him about the issue, referring to one newsletter that speculated whether Israelis carried out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (Note: it was this guy).

      But his explanation is still relatively incomplete. As USA Today’s Jackie Kucinich noted on Thursday, when Paul responded to a similar controversy over the newsletters in a 1996 interview with the Dallas Morning News, he said that he was indeed aware of some of the offending passages and even offered explanations as to the thinking behind them. For example, he said a passage suggesting that “[g]iven the inefficiencies 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,” was based on outside research.

      Video researcher Andrew Kaczynski unearthed a clip in 1995, before the newsletters had become an election issue in his district, in which Paul discussed the publication as one of his passion projects in his years out of Congress. He described it as a “political type of business, investment newsletter.”

      Ron Paul’s base is by far the most devoted of any candidate and it’s unlikely the story, which came up in the 2008 election as well, will have much impact on his core supporters. But with Paul surging in Iowa and increasingly broadening his reach within the party, it might put a ceiling on his momentum.

      In addition to the objectionable content of the newsletters, his odd explanation contrasts heavily with his hard-earned brand as an unconventional anti-politician who always tells the truth as he sees it and never waters down his views to pander to voters. It’s hard to square this with a candidate who claims that he somehow never bothered to read a newsletter published under his own name that generated as much as $1 million in revenues in just one single year. Even accepting that premise, how many politicians looking to start a publication would just happen to pick a half dozen writers with blatant white supremacist and milita leanings to run the effort?

    • 5 months ago
  • Misti
  • Buckeye_Bill
  • HurricaneDavid
  • Mark701
  • warman1138
  • Anonmaly
  • 11dim
  • Anonmaly
  • CitizenHill
  • Vierotchka
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • Mark701
  • CitizenHill
  • Vierotchka
  • Buddha2112
  • Vierotchka
  • CarlosBobthe3rd
  • Vierotchka
    • +4
      Vierotchka  
    • CarlosBobthe3rd:

      How totally antisocial of you. If you don't want to pay income tax, then don't use public transportation, don't use electricity, don't use tap water, don't send your kids to public school, never go into a library, don't use roads, etc.

      As FacePalm so eloquently wrote:

      Most of these poor souls are blind to the fact that "E Pluribus Unem" does NOT mean "every man for himself"... and their unfortunate plight... being unable to break free (sans an intervention) of the leg-iron ideal shackling them isn't any less ponderous than any cultist who would be willing to concede that the object of their devotion is nothing more than an "Elmer Gantry" or a "Lonesome Rhodes"..

      • The problem with these "Objectivists" ("libertarians”, "laissez faire capitalists”, “Austrian Schoolers”, “Chicago Schoolers”, “Friedmanites” or whatever they deem to call themselves today)... is that they hinge their personal philosophies on the rantings of a lunatic-fringe Congressman from Texas (guess WHO) and this fifth rate novelist who's putrid worldview is anathema to every concept of civil society.

      • They seem to think that civilization ends at the threshold of this "free market", which is just a another cynical euphemism for "jungle law".

      • They constantly reap the benefits provided them but refuse to be responsible enough to actually contribute to them, leeching off of the very system that affords them the opportunities to enrich themselves, while ironically accusing the least amongst us of doing the same.

      • They feel that those who might not have been as lucky as they (or as callous) should fend for themselves and be relegated to a life of illness, poverty and wretchedness simply because they are too avaricious to do their part as members of society.. to do their duties as Americans.

      • When it comes down to the brass tacks, it really is just about greed, nothing more, nothing less, and their flaccid insistence and phony attempts at loftiness.. that their 'philosophies' are a "moral" or "political" or even an "ideological" stand is merely a way for them to shrink from their own shame, that is, if they are still capable of such.

      • They are the dictionary definition of malignant narcissism, and they are only fooling themselves.

      So here is my admonition to them all...

      • Do you agree with the Koch Brothers and object to the concept of contributing to pay all of those hard workers who support us all a fair, living wage??

      • Do you feel that you shouldn't have to pay your fair share as a member of this society???

      FINE!

      • Stay off the roads that our taxes contributed to, don't use electricity you can't generate yourself, don't go to the hospital, don't call the police, don't call the fire department, don't watch television.

      • If you have kids (god forbid) don't send them to public schools (or really any schools for that matter) because they may get teachers who were educated at public and state universities.

      • Don't go to art museums, don't walk on public sidewalks, don't use telephones, don't expect potable water to come out of your tap unless you got it from your own well, don't ever seek protection in a court of law.

      • Enforce your own contracts... and while you're at it, dig your own sewers as well.

      In general, stand on your own... I don't fell people like you should benefit from anything that the rest of us helped pay for.... which reminds me...

      • Whatever you have in the bank, be sure to sign a waiver exempting you from being able to collect whatever portion of your money is insured by the FDIC.

      • Grow your own food and raise your own beef and poultry so that you don't have to depend on the USDA to insure that you won't be poisoning yourselves (or your children)...

      • Make your own medicines as well, because the USDA has to approve those, too.

      In other words, (you ‘rugged individualists’... you "Ron Paul Libertarians")... put all that money that you hoard where your mouths are and "STAND TALL"..

      ON YOUR OWN.

      I mean REALLY stand on your own... JUST as you incessantly preach everyone else do.

      Otherwise, just shut the fuck up already.

    • 5 months ago
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • Milieu
  • BCDel89
  • BCDel89
  • warman1138
  • Vierotchka
  • Mark701
  • Mark701
  • BCDel89
    • -1
      BCDel89  
    • Vierotchka:

      Oh yeah because out of all the liars and snakes in politics cough cough OBAMA. The one guy who's consistently never voted against his ideals is a liar. Do you think in toddler logic? Second of all what makes you think that the federal government is more efficient at taking care of it's people than the state government have you not seen what the federal government has done for us so far? I mean seriously have you even been paying attention to what's going on in our country?

    • 5 months ago
  • remanns
  • remanns
  • remanns
  • NickerBocker09
    • +3
      NickerBocker09  

    • I cant tell if the poster is being sarcastic about public education, but if not then that is the worst reasoning for why public education is bad. If you didnt like public school why not go to a private school or transfer to a different public school? If the reason is that you didnt have money or a car (aka money or money) then where would you go without public school??

      The only thing Ron Paul is able to do is propose radical stuff that seems good to the desperate masses but can rarely prove that any of it will actually do any good. How the hell does deregulating corporations improve the situation? How does getting rid of half the cabinet improve the situation? His response - it gets rid of bureaucracy. Guess what that does? That gets rid of millions of (unelected) civil servants who do their job unlike the elected officials who arent doing their job. That will really speed things up wont it.....

      We need to reform the various systems, not destroy them.

    • 5 months ago
  • MotherForTruth
  • rook429
    • +2
      rook429  

    • What is all this Ron Paul crap on a supposedly progressive site? Cenk does not support Ron Paul on domestic issues, Look up an incident called the Triangle Fire and realize that hard core libertarians like Ron Paul would tell you the company got a bum rap for locking the woman inside the factory (supposedly to prevent theft) and end up down dying of smoke inahalation during a fire in the factory.

    • 5 months ago
  • Buddha2112
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      Buddha2112  
    • rook429:

      That is by far the smallest straw I've seen someone reach for.

      Really? The triangle fire? The result were fire codes... Intended to protect the public welfare. The laws aren't unconstitutional so long as they're put in place by state.

      Which, if you've ever noticed, almost all building codes and zoning laws are locally dictated. Not at all against Paul's ideas. ADA is another story but I doubt with Paul's medical background he'd be ignorant of the other 1% of people handicap.

    • 5 months ago
  • unimatrix0
  • Buddha2112
    • -3
      Buddha2112  
    • unimatrix0:

      Have you ever looked at the public school system? Not just the last 10 years where it's become total hell, but the last 60 years where they've systematically fucked our youth's brains.

      I say systematically because it was planned, and executed to a profound extent.

    • 5 months ago
  • unimatrix0
  • OlBlue
  • remanns
  • Vierotchka
    • +1
      Vierotchka  
    • OlBlue:

      My husband has met him and interviewed him several times over the past 20 years, and says that he is an asshole with no substance. Any politician who is a member of the GOP is, by definition, an asshole.

    • 5 months ago
  • OlBlue
    • +1
      OlBlue  
    • Vierotchka:

      Another illusion shattered. :-) I agree that gop politicians hold assholish views and I haven't found one in 20 years that I would vote for but there are some with a few redeeming qualities, wouldn't you agree?. Can we call Paul a likable asshole?

    • 5 months ago
  • Vierotchka
  • JustZ
  • Itsbatman_Durr
    • +2
      Itsbatman_Durr  

    • also gotta comment on the first ron paul commercial.. its like a fuckin beer commercial.. and yet another reason i call him just another part of the problem

    • 5 months ago
  • Itsbatman_Durr
    • +2
      Itsbatman_Durr  

    • i love cenk, but sorry not a ron paul or any other career politicians fan. but thank you for sharing this and everything else you do to get the truth out there, you are one of the good ones here at current, anonmaly

    • 5 months ago
  • Buddha2112
  • Itsbatman_Durr
    • +1
      Itsbatman_Durr  
    • Buddha2112:

      he has carved a nice little cave out for himself within the repug machine, parades himself out every few years at election time to show the 'breadth' of the repug platforms, and then goes back to suck at the tit of corruption like the rest of them on both sides of the aisle.

    • 5 months ago
  • Anonmaly
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