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Why Is Ron Paul Paying 911 Truther Conspiracy Nut, Alex Jones?
Stop The ACLU ^
| October 27, 2007
Posted on 10/27/2007 7:12:41 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Ive sympathized for Mr. Paul on several occassions and defended his personal mental state from that of his followers. Ive stated before that he cant help how nutty his fans are, and that just because so many of them think the U.S. secretly blew up the twin towers doesnt mean that he does. Ive also stated he should visibly distance himself from these wacky beliefs. Of course he hasnt done that, leaning more in the direction of sympathetic to their cause. Now, [1] Beth has discovered a payment from Team Paul to Alex Jones, the 9/11 Truther leader, [2] for $1300 in services.
Well, now he has [3] some explaining to do.
Assuming its the same Alex Jones, which seems a safe bet, pray tell what might that payment have been for? The likeliest explanation is that its some sort of service fee, either Jones doing something on behalf of the campaign or allowing the campaign to do something using his property. Either way, Im mighty curious to know what special service might have been provided such that Pauls people couldnt have gone elsewhere and gotten the same deal from someone who isnt a degenerate conspiracy theorist.
[4] Captain Ed:
This goes much closer to the heart of Pauls direction. While anyone can contribute to a political campaign, the choice of where the money goes is directly and completely relevant to an analysis of the candidate. If Paul chooses to help fund a 9/11 Truther, voters can reasonably conclude that Paul has sympathy for the paranoid conspiracy theorists.
The Paul campaign really has to explain their support of Alex Jones, more so than they need to explain the David Black contribution. So far, they havent explained either one.
I agree. It isnt the donation or its amount that matters, but who it was given to. That is what will be hard to wiggle out of .
TOPICS: Conspiracy; Politics; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 911conspiracy; alexjones; daviddukecandidate; paul; paulestinians; paulnuts; rino; ronpaul
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To: West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative
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posted on
10/27/2007 7:39:31 PM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: SJackson; Allegra; lormand; Petronski; ejonesie22; mnehrling; drpix; Mr. Silverback
Get-a-good-seat-and-watch-the-squirrels-start-pouring-out-of-their-tree-holes PING! ;)
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posted on
10/27/2007 8:29:06 PM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!" -- Jim Robinson, 09/30/07)
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posted on
10/27/2007 10:29:12 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
To: West Coast Conservative
The Paul campaign really has to explain their support of Alex Jones, more so than they need to explain the David Black contribution. So far, they havent explained either one.
I still want to see the David Black donation returned. People keep saying RP should donate elsewhere like to a Jewish charity but that's dishonest. You either accept it or return it, not funnel it away to something else. To go Seinfeld on it, "No re-gifting".
I wonder how many people in this country are named Alex Jones? Tens of thousands, probably. Jones is a very common name and Alex has been a popular name since the Sixties at least.
Seems to me that if Ron Paul was going to pay the Alex Jones for something, it would be a lot more than a puny $1300. Jones probably rakes in more than that every day with his little Truther videos and books.
Per the usual practice, I notice the article and the posters here running with the usual unproven crapfest that characterizes their Paul-hating posts. No one has even proven that this is the Alex Jones, let alone what the payment was for.
I'm going to wait to see what the campaign says about it if they're asked.
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posted on
10/28/2007 1:24:45 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Apres moi, le deluge.)
To: Allegra
I noticed this little tidbit on the payee's page:
Allegra Print & Imaging 65,613.00
Allegra, how could you?? LOL!
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posted on
10/28/2007 1:29:38 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Apres moi, le deluge.)
To: George W. Bush
I'm not the only Allegra in the world. Or even in the U.S. Or even in my hometown of Houston.
The only way that could be me is if Hell has frozen over or pigs are flying around. Haven't seen any pigs with wings around.
So, are the Ron Paul fans all mad because the surge is working? LOL
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posted on
10/28/2007 1:35:35 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
To: Allegra
Actually, they don't seem to discuss the Iraq war all that much. When they do, it's mostly just used as a stick to beat on Bush or the supposedly antiwar Dims in Congress and such.
As for the surge working, much as with Vietnam I think we'll find that military success is easy for us given our wealth and weapons and training. What's elusive is political success.
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posted on
10/28/2007 1:59:00 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Apres moi, le deluge.)
To: George W. Bush
I wonder how many people in this country are named Alex Jones? Tens of thousands, probably. Jones is a very common name and Alex has been a popular name since the Sixties at least.
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posted on
10/28/2007 3:14:36 AM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!" -- Jim Robinson, 09/30/07)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Dude, you’re gonna go blind if you keep that up.
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posted on
10/28/2007 6:19:35 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Apres moi, le deluge.)
To: George W. Bush
Dude, youre gonna go blind if you keep that up.Better physical self-abuse than the Paulestinian brand of intellectual onanism.
"Tens of thousands of people named Alex Jones." *snarf*
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posted on
10/28/2007 6:36:12 AM PDT
by
KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!" -- Jim Robinson, 09/30/07)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
By the time you count both men and women named "Alex Jones", there probably are tens of thousands of them in the country.
My last name isn't all that common but I know of half a dozen others with the same name in my sparsely populated area of a rural state.
These common names like Smith or Brown or Jones, there's tens of millions of them.
I notice you still can't prove that this is the Alex Jones. More speculation. Find some proof.
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posted on
10/28/2007 6:43:17 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Apres moi, le deluge.)
To: Allegra
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posted on
10/28/2007 7:41:42 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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posted on
10/28/2007 3:00:10 PM PDT
by
SJackson
(every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and figtree, none to make him afraid,)
To: West Coast Conservative
Since the subject came up on a few threads, I thought I'd point out the following and flag those who I thought might care. You can verify this at the link.
On 9/22/07, the Paul campaign made a "Contribution Refund" of $1300 to the following Alex Jones of Austin:
Mr. Alex Jones
910 W Mary St
Austin, Texas 787044142
Schedule B for ALL Line #'s
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posted on
10/28/2007 7:34:13 PM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Apres moi, le deluge.)
To: West Coast Conservative
Alex Jones is a local wacko here in Austin Texas.
Austin, our little piece of Berkeley California here in Texas.
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posted on
10/29/2007 8:03:32 AM PDT
by
lormand
(Ron Paul 08' - Magnet for America's kookiest nutballs)
To: George W. Bush
"By the time you count both men and women named "Alex Jones", there probably are tens of thousands of them in the country." Yeah, I'm sure there are some male and female Barry Manilows out there too. Do you actually think RP has that much support, that tens of thousands of people named 'Alex Jones' are giving money to this wacko?
You guys are embarrassing us normal Freepers.
"More speculation. Find some proof."
Once it is proven, what will be your next pathetic excuse?
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posted on
10/29/2007 8:10:41 AM PDT
by
lormand
(Ron Paul 08' - Magnet for America's kookiest nutballs)
To: lormand; Extremely Extreme Extremist
See my #16. Looks like RP was
returning Alex Jones donation. Or at least part of it.
There's speculation about it still.
- Some people thought that this was to pay for advertising. Unlikely as that would be a check written to Jones' company.
- Some people think it might have been a return because Jones provided some in-kind service. Possibly. But again, those would be dealings with his company, not with him personally.
- I think Jones donated his $2300 and then added $1000 for the general campaign. Some candidates, Romney at least, are accepting money for the general election already and will return it if they don't get the nomination. Ron Paul's campaign made a point a while back of telling us they would not accept general election campaign funds yet. Who knows, maybe it's unconstitutional. I assume that at least some donors tried donating for the general election or the campaign wouldn't have announced they wouldn't take those donations. So anyone who did donate for the general would get a refund. In this case, Jones probably wrote a check for $3300 and they cashed it to get the $2300 they were willing to accept and they then wrote a check back to refund the $1000 to him.
Anyway, that's pretty full disclosure, no matter how many nasty remarks you like to troll through a Ron Paul thread with.
Instead of speculation and nasty remarks, you could have dug that info out just as easily as I did. I think you spend more time on those Ron Paul forums than his actual supporters do. LOL.
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posted on
10/29/2007 9:43:35 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Apres moi, le deluge.)
To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; lormand
In the nictusa database, they show 14 people responsing to a search for “Alex” and “Jones” since 1997 in all political races in the country. It seems the database only lists those contributing over $200.
This includes a number of Alexanders, an Alexis, and so forth.
Either Alex Jones isn’t that common a name or the Joneses are political cheapskates. At any rate, tends of thousands might have been overestimation. But only by three orders of magnitude! LOL.
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posted on
10/29/2007 9:49:35 AM PDT
by
George W. Bush
(Apres moi, le deluge.)
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