Paul Haunted by His Newsletter’s Disparaging Remarks About Martin Luther King

Fox News ^ | Monday, January 21, 2008 | Fox News

[lormand]

With popularity comes notoriety. That’s the lesson Ron Paul is learning as the nation observes Martin Luther King Day and the GOP presidential contender bears the burden of disparaging comments, made in a newsletter bearing his name, about the slain civil rights leader and the national holiday that honors him.

[jrooney]

There is no way Ron Paul can deny he did not know what was in the newsletters and he did not approve them when he may name Lew Rockwell, his former CHIEF OF STAFF, as writing them. Ron Paul is a disgrace and his Jim Jones followers are severely misguided.

[pkajj]

While your observations of his imperfections are valid, it’s also indisputable that flawed individuals are capable of profound accomplishments. (King David is a case in point). Such was the case with MLK. The issue of his day (overt discrimination on the basis of race) cried out for resolution, and he rose admirably to the challenge as the focal point of that struggle. America is a better place for his being in the right place at the right time in our history.

[wardaddy]

I agree with that....to me paul is kind of a kook...like Nader to the Dems

brings to mind the circular paradigm of political beliefs were left meets right at 6 and 12 o’clock

around here in nashville, paul is really big with Vandy lefties and east nashville bohemians...i guess for his pro dope and anti-war stuff

it’s funny though, they must not know some of his views..lol

[lormand]

"one of the bulwarks of the NeoCon platform is a worship of MLK..."

Thanks for reminding me of the dangers of using crack cocaine.

[bcsco]

Thanks, wardaddy, for confirming my statement in post #20: "For instance: We beat a dead horse because Paul won’t get the GOP nomination anyway. vs. Paul is out polling and out funding Thompson, Giuliani, etc."

You: "he’s a non-issue in this presidential race...a conversation piece at best and if he breaks off I think he’ll carry more left wing youngsters than anything else."

BTW, we're NOT race-baiting. We're discussing the obvious discrepancies between statements made out of both sides of RuePaul's mouth; whether through newsletter articles or statements such as the above. Such is fair game, and not race-baiting.

You want to support a candidate who has no problem accepting support and contributions from Truthers and racists, live with the consequences.

[mountainbunny]

Why ARE we honoring MLK when we now know he was a plagiarist and was repeatedly unfaithful to his wife? Is MLK the first affirmative action figure in US history?

If we dissect the private lives of our leaders and discarded them for their flaws, we would shortly have no leaders at all. Good people can do bad things and still be worthy of honor.

[Wilhelm Tell]

King’s personal flaws, while bad, are not important in the scheme of things. What is important is that, largely thanks to King, the civil rights movement was not not exploited by communists who wanted things to devolve into a black vs. white race war that would have destroyed America. Blacks (and all of us) have been short-changed by false leaders like Jessee Jackson, but that is not really Dr. King’s fault. It is a pity that M.L.K. evidently never read Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom.”

[Clara Lou]

I like the way you said that.

[Neoliberalnot]

THE SOFT-MARXISM THAT HAS PENETRATED AMERICA HAS SEEN THE ELIMINATION OF WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN’S HOLIDAYS(NOW CALLED “PRESIDENT’S DAY”). BUT, STRANGELY ONLY ONE MAN’S NAME NOW APPEARS AS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? HOW COULD THE NAMES OF THE MAN WHO LED THE CONTINENTAL ARMY AGAINST THE BRITISH AND FOUNDED OUR NATION, AND THE MAN WHO FREED THE SLAVES BE ELIMINATED FROM NATIONAL DAYS OF MEMORY? WHO DID THIS? REMEMBER PICTURES OF SADAAM’S STATUE BEING TOPPLED AFTER US TROOPS INVADED BAGDAD? WHAT IS IT THAT NATIONS’ DO WHEN ENEMY NATIONS ARE VANQUISHED? WHO INVADED OUR NATION? WHO VANQUISHED US? WHO ERECTED “STATUES” TO JUST ONE MAN? (PS, WILL THERE SOON BE A NATIONAL HOLIDAY FOR A HISPANIC WHO LED THE LETTUCE-PICKERS? TO PLACATE ILLEGAL ALIENS? JUST VOTE “D”.)
M. Savage

[bcsco]

align="center">!!STOP SHOUTING!!

[elhombrelibre]

Run Paul is being seen for the fraud he is with issues like this one where he wants to have it both ways.

[elhombrelibre]

No, he’s a lot worse than a moron. He’s a cult leader and a fraud.

[wardaddy]

You are precisely race baiting and then preeing over how noble you think you are.

I find that disgusting coming from so called conservatives.

Ron Paul is a nobody and white supremacists are maybe 1/10,000th of the “right wing” electorate.

So why are you here trying to smear Paul and his supporters by association if not to preen for your own need to be self righteous.

I see this over and over here, conservatives who use race for the same self righteousness as Dems do.

Some even work together in groups...seminar callers as Rush calls them. Provocateurs with their own identity driven objectives....they run in packs on Southern threads

The reality is King did indeed talk about a color blind society but truthfully nobody wants it. The tool of race baiting is too mighty a siren for folks to feel that thirst to feel morally superior to the man/woman sitting next to them.

The new church lady of Saturday Night Live....a smug self righteous morally superior on everything race freeper.

That on a conservative forum folks tout the completely nonconservative MLK to bash a fellow GOPer say plenty.

So what if Paul may not be crazy about King? That is hardly the stamp of a white supremacist by itself.

Do you pursue racists of color with such vigor?

[KDD]

wardaddy Conservatives have been bailing from this site since 2005. What is mostly left here are neo conservatives and self rightous fundies.

[bcsco]

You are precisely race baiting and then preeing over how noble you think you are.

I've never "preed" in my life; whatever that is. And where have I touted my nobility? Where?

I find that disgusting coming from so called conservatives.

I find vocally supporting RuePaul's obvious use of Truthers and neo-Nazis disgusting for supposed conservatives claiming to be members of the party that ended slavery.

So why are you here trying to smear Paul and his supporters by association if not to preen for your own need to be self righteous.

Paul is smearing himself. We're just bringing it to light. Your intent is to blame the messenger when it's the message coming from Paul's campaign that's damning.

Some even work together in groups...seminar callers as Rush calls them. Provocateurs with their own identity driven objectives....they run in packs on Southern threads

Wouldn't know. Never been there, don't intend to go. Looks like you enjoy those threads, though.

The reality is King did indeed talk about a color blind society but truthfully nobody wants it. The tool of race baiting is too mighty a siren for folks to feel that thirst to feel morally superior to the man/woman sitting next to them.

So, you're calling me a racist? Why don't you just come out and say it. That's mighty big talk for someone who ignores the truth about Ron Paul, his writings, and his associations with Truthers and neo-Nazis.

The new church lady of Saturday Night Live....a smug self righteous morally superior on everything race freeper.

Since I don't watch Saturday Night Live (obviously you do), I have no idea what this incoherent, fractured sentence is about.

That on a conservative forum folks tout the completely nonconservative MLK to bash a fellow GOPer say plenty.

Paul opponents have not 'touted' MLK. We've recognized his faults. If anyone has 'touted' MLK it's here on this thread: Ron Paul on MLK, Jr.’s Legacy of Freedom posted by a Paul aPaulogist.

So what if Paul may not be crazy about King? That is hardly the stamp of a white supremacist by itself.

See the link above. Your statement isn't in sync with the latest Paul talking points.

Do you pursue racists of color with such vigor?

I have no use for racism, or anti-Semitism, wherever it comes from. And that's why Ron Paul's association with such scum is anathema to me. But it's obviously OK with you.

[puroresu]

the leadership of the GOP from Bush down is about as worthless as tits on a boar.

LOL! Since liberals don't have a real God, they have to create one. Conservatives may admire Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, or any number of other great figures, but they don't demand that everyone bow and scrape to them. There's nothing on the right comparable to the iconization of flesh and blood human beings we see on the left.

Just look at the mandatory photos of Castro or Stalin in everyone's home or shop in their respective nations. Recall all the photos of Mao that were all-encompassing, and how his worshipful followers walked around carrying little red books so that they could consult it every waking moment. What Would Mao Do?

We haven't yet reached that level of totalitarian thought control, thankfully. But the deification of Martin Luther King is pretty close. Any negatives about the man are covered up, and if they slip out, they're rationalized. Remember when it came out that King plagiarized his dissertation? We were told that it was commonplace for black preachers in the South to borrow sermons from one another, so King probably didn't know that he was doing something wrong. Of course, that didn't explain why he had footnoted passages he had quoted elsewhere in his dissertation.

King was a complicated man. There was both good and bad about him, and after reading his speech on the Vietnam War I lean more toward the view that the bad predominated.

It's really a shame that the GOP has drifted so far to the left that it feels a need to idolize someone who supported the enemy in the Vietnam War.

I'm no Paul supporter. But I think we can condemn true racial hatred, such as the Stormfronters, without going to the other extreme and elevating MLK to the level of a god.

[Syncro]

Flav’s Grandpa?

Where’s his G-father clock???

[lormand]

He shouts because he is quoting Michael Weiner, alias, M Savage.

Wiener attracts other shouters.

[bcsco]

Wiener attracts other shouters.

I wouldn't know.

[rideharddiefast]

but to call a man who is trying to restore the fundamentals of what your country was built on, a moron, is just ridiculous in my opinion.

Our country was NOT built on cowardice. It was not built blaming America for all the problems in the world. It was not built upon appeasing our enemies just so they will leave us alone. It was built on something cut and run disagrees with. Standing up to our enemies and defeating them.