Ron Paul's explosive newsletters
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff
MANCHESTER -- While the main billing tonight is John McCain vs. Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton v. Barack Obama, there is an unexpected sideshow breaking open in the Ron Paul campaign.
In an article published on The New Republic website earlier today, reporter James Kirchick dug up old copies of the Texas congressman's newsletter and found them filled with attacks on Martin Luther King Jr. as "a world-class adulterer" who "seduced underage girls and boys" and "replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration"; what TNR characterizes as "kind words" for David Duke; praise for anti-government militias; and the following discussion of the 1992 Los Angeles riots "Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began. ... What if the checks had never arrived? No doubt the blacks would have fully privatized the welfare state through continued looting. But they were paid off and the violence subsided." Etc. etc. The website has links to scans of many of the excerpts.
It's not clear who wrote the newsletter articles. Most do not have bylines. In response to the New Republic article, the Paul campaign put out the following statement:
“The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed. I have never uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts.“In fact, I have always agreed with Martin Luther King, Jr. that we should only be concerned with the content of a person's character, not the color of their skin. As I stated on the floor of the U.S. House on April 20, 1999: ‘I rise in great respect for the courage and high ideals of Rosa Parks who stood steadfastly for the rights of individuals against unjust laws and oppressive governmental policies.’
“This story is old news and has been rehashed for over a decade. It's once again being resurrected for obvious political reasons on the day of the New Hampshire primary.
“When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit. Several writers contributed to the product. For over a decade, I have publicly taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name.”
Jamie Kirchick (author of the New Republic story):
"I don’t think Ron Paul is a homophobe; I’m just cynical and enjoy getting supporters of political candidates riled up. If you were a Giuliani guy I’d have called him a fascist."
http://gays-for-ron.blogspot.com/2008/01/jamie-kirchick-i-dont-think-ron-paul-is.html
Ron Paul:
“In fact, I have always agreed with Martin Luther King, Jr. that we should only be concerned with the content of a person's character, not the color of their skin."
Martin Luther King judged people by the content of their "character"?
King supported BLACK organizations and BLACK leaders. He supported the quota system, the systematic and massive discrimination against whites, based upon skin color. He was a "friend" of the apartheid state of Israel.
And what mainstream BLACK leader or BLACK group has not attended an event sponsored by the Nation of Islam, a BLACK separatist group that has prominent members who promote the extermination of whites?
ron paul is a straight up racist.
he said on meet the press that he opposed the civil rights legislation of the 1960s.
he takes money from white supremacist.
and he published a racist newsletter that he claims he did not edit or read.
with a racist record like that, only a paultard would believe the good doctor's obvious lies.
he's not a racist. that's just b.s. you need to read the fine print more. he oppossed the part of the civil rights legislation that mandated that private business owners had to serve everyone and prevented them from discriminating against anyone. note that Barry Goldwater said the same thing. This is not racist it just means that private business owners don't have to server people they don't want to.
For several YEARS the newsletter was published under his name and he did NOT read what was there???!! hahahaha! And Hitler knew nothing of Holocaust, and Mao and Stalin knew nothing of millions killed under them, hey, they didn't know ;-) ...
Give me a break, Mr. Paul, how naive do you think people are? Of course, not the "truthers" and KKK folks - these would trust anything you say for as long as they know you are a racist bigot. But how silly it is of professional journalists not to question the assumption that someone would not KNOW what's published in his newsletter!
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