Took courage to say that; kudos to Paul.
Then I listen to Chris Wallace follow up and I do some thinking. For Wallace asks Paul a question, a very loaded question: "Do you think that homosexuals should be denied health insurance?" he asked.
My first response, indignantly, was "HE DIDN'T SAY THAT!" Indeed Paul's first response was, duh, "I didn't say that."
Indeed Paul said nothing even remotely like that and I fumed. Wallace was being a dopey lamestream media type, insinuating himself into the story via loaded question.
So I wondered, well what would have been the proper way to couch that question without sounding accusatory? The way Wallace phrased that question made it sound like he was just re-formulating a question Paul had asked in the past.
He, and his allegedly impartial minions in the media, COULD have said, to the effect...."Since you allege that homosexual diseases might well be a result of their lifestyle, do you also take the position that they shouldn't be able to get health insurance.?"
The above is better phrased and makes it clear that such an assertion had never been made by the questionee.
It's how they form the news, those dishonest prideless journalists. Even Chris Wallace.
In the first question a casual listener, the sort who only listen to political discourse on sleepy Sundays, Meet the Press, that kind of thing, would walk away thinking that just damn.....that Ron Paul really is a kook, asserting homosexuals shouldn't get health insurance.
No matter what the dishonest media would have you believe, the vast majority of boobaloobs out here in America don't wish any harm to our homosexual breathren, but we're not all that keen on special programs to underwrite their risky behavior or allowing them to get married.
By this nefarious campaign the dishonest media undertakes for their own glory, they make candidates, especially Republicans, look like nut cases.
Sorry to get so long for my thoughts but....see below. ;)
