Posted on 12/25/2011 8:00:22 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
Ron Paul may be flying high in the Iowa polls, but his newsletters from the early 1990s continue to haunt him.
On Wednesday, the Republican presidential candidate stormed out of an interview with CNN when chief political analyst Gloria Borger pressed him on claims that he made disparaging comments about blacks and Jews, among other incendiary remarks found in the letters.
Though the newsletters were published under several names — including “Ron Paul’s Freedom Report,” “The Ron Paul Political Report,” “The Ron Paul Survival Report” and “The Ron Paul Investment Letter”— the Texas congressman has insisted that he knew nothing about the offensive remarks made in the newsletters.
“I didn’t write them, I didn’t read them at the time, and I disavow them,” he said before unclipping his microphone.
Paul did admit to making money from the newsletters that bore his name but he suggested that he didn’t pay any attention to what was written under his name on the newsletter masthead.
“I never read that stuff. I was probably aware of it 10 years after it was written, and it’s been going on 20 years that people have pestered me about this. CNN does it every single time. When are you going to wear yourself out?” he said.
And when Borger insisted, “These things are pretty incendiary,” Paul belittled their importance, saying: “Only because of people like you.”
The articles carried no bylines but often were written in the first person in newsletters using his name.
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A Freshman Congressional Black Caucus member, who helped give us Pigford and the NDAA a "beautiful" choice for Speaker?
Just because he happens to be black?
America's first Affirmative Action Speaker, in response to the first Affirmative Action President.
Hooray! /s
In that case, he would fit right in with most of the base of the Democrat Party!
Paul is a nut, and apparently a racist. He printed the newsletters and now wants to pretend he didn’t. Sorry Dr. Ron - your racist past has caught up with you. Good for the left wing media for exposing this dangerous fraud before he gets any traction in the primaries. It would have been nice if they had exposed Obama for the fraud that he is, but then we’d have President Hillary Cankles Clinton instead.
Obama loves Israel?
That’s a foregone conclusion.
The press will chew Paul up so thoroughly, there will not be enough left to spit out.
The Marxists in the media have been completely silent on Romney and his religious beliefs concerning blacks in the Mormon church. Just wait. If Romney get the nomination there will be non-stop stories on Mormon racism until the day of the election.
The Marxist elites in the media want Romney for the candidate. They **know** he is completely beatable that is why they are now focusing in on Ron Paul and deliberately ignoring Romney and his beliefs.
Paul scares me every bit as much as does Obama. He has gone so radically far to the right, that he came back out on the Left.
...fphuuuut!, that’s crappy analysis and stupid to boot... yeah that constitutional thingy is REALLY radical, good grief
This stuff is so old. Isn’t it strange that they haven’t found anything new. If Ron Paul is such a racist, you would think they would easily find something from the last year, 5 years, 10 years...nothing. That is strange.
Wake up, we are being manipulated.
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