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A Pac supporting Ron Paul released this stunning video in response to the hysterical charges of racism based on a 20 year old news letter:
See also, Ron Paul’s reaction to the video:
This is nothing new, of course.
- (2008) Censoring Ron Paul – Why the rEVOLution will not be televised
- (2009) Censoring Ron Paul (then and now)
Notice anyone missing? This is an unconfirmed picture that a Ron Paul supporter took of his television showing Fox News election coverage in New Hampshire.
FANTASTIC COMPARISON of media comments about Iowa Caucus in 2008 vs 2012
Iowa Governor: Ignore Ron Paul Caucus Win
CNBC coverage:
- They name the candidates at the start of the coverage, ignoring Ron Paul.
- “The guy to stop is Mitt Romney.”
- When the show the polls with Paul leading: “The leader is now Ron Paul, now he’s not much of a threat to Mitt Romney because he doesn’t have a chance to win the nomination.”
- Long discussion of Romney vs. Gingrich and Perry.
- “If Ron Paul wins, who stands, I mean, who loses, who does he take votes away from the most do you think?”
- Long explanation of why Romney is most likely to win in Iowa.
- “If Ron Paul wins Iowa, what does it mean for New Hampshire and South Carolina down the line?” “I think it all depends on who’s second and third.” Discussion of Gingrich vs. Romney. “Ron Paul is no threat to win the nomination. . . . He’s not going to break out of the libertarian box.”
- “Romney or Gingrich, who has the better chance beyond Iowa?”
- “Is he [Ron Paul] going to be Ross Perot of this race? Is he going to be the spoiler for the Republican Party?”
- “Ron Paul is going to be a long term irritant. He’s not going to be a significant threat.”
Fox News:
- “Ron Paul is an unthinkable Republican nominee. He’s the ideal Democratic version of the nominee.”
- If Ron Paul goes through the election winning 15-20% of the vote, “he would stand at the end of it the leader of a sizable faction of the Republican party that supports views that are antithetical the views of the mainstream of the Republican party.”
- Discusses 20 year old newsletters.
- “He’s not only unacceptable in the Republican party . . . He’s unacceptable in America because of what he’s written.”
- Discussion of how Iowa’s importance will suffer if Ron Paul wins.
Gingrich: I wouldn’t vote for Ron Paul
He called the candidate’s views “totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American” and that the congressman couldn’t win because “people won’t take him as a serious person.” He added that he personally wouldn’t vote for Paul, saying, “I think the choice of Ron Paul or Barack Obama would be a very bad choice for America.
Headline: ‘Ron Paul wishes Israel didn’t exist’
Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul negates Israel’s right to exist, Eric Dondero, who served as a senior aide to the 76-year-old Texas congressman for over 12 years, said on Monday.
Includes clips of Gingrich.
Why’s The Media Shafting Ron Paul, And Ignoring NDAA & SOPA Dangers?
Dick Morris, reacting to the fact that military personnel overwhelmingly support Ron Paul: “No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.” (more)
Morris: Ron Paul is ‘the most liberal, radical, left-wing person to run for president’
Reddit’s /r/conservative moderator has had enough of Ron Paul:
“So I come back from my weekend and I see this thread and I’m just plain disgusted by all of this circlejerk, fanatical, conspiratard, inter-party warfare bullshit.
You guys have zero respect for the rest of your “people.” This whole ‘if you aren’t voting RP, you’re a neo-con’ talking point is pitifully weak and over used. It wouldn’t be problem if it were here and there, but it’s damn near every thread that has some Paul cocksuckery going on. Anyone how objects gets slammed with little to no room for discussion.
So for at least until I’m bored with it, I’m going to be removing any new Paul-specific threads. You don’t like it, go to one of the many sub-reddits that are dedicated to his worship. Conservatism doesn’t revolve around Paul’s ideology, and for the people who thinks it does, I truly pity you. You should know, it’s a lot broader than that excessively narrow and hostile perspective.
Feel free to make up whatever conspiracy theories about me being paid for by the establishment, or call me a neo-con. It’s not going to hurt my feelings, nor is it going to change anything.”
Daily News: Ron Paul in racist newsletter flap
A blast from the past is blowing a big hole in Ron Paul’s campaign.
A recently surfaced video from 1995 shows the GOP presidential hopeful discussing controversial newsletters that he claimed this week he didn’t even read until about 2001.
The Texas congressman has come under fire in recent days for the newsletters, called Ron Paul’s Political Report, Ron Paul’s Freedom Report and the Ron Paul Survival Report, which went out under his name in the late 1980s and early 1990s during his time in and out of office. (Read more)
Mitt Romney surges in N.H., but No. 2 Ron Paul gets no media loveNew polling data shows Mitt Romney cruising in New Hampshire, with nearly quadruple the support of Jon Huntsman, the GOP candidate in third place. Wait, why’d you skip to the third place guy? Who’s in second? Texas Congressman Ron Paul, of course.
Even though Huntsman and Paul both gained the same amount (six percentage points) since the last Suffolk University poll in June, and Paul has 14 percent support to Huntsman’s 10 percent, Decoder isn’t seeing any media love being thrown Paul’s way this morning.
This, despite the fact that the canned, ready-to-be-quoted bit from the Suffolk press release gives equal billing to Paul’s improvement alongside Huntsman’s.
Huckabee knows well that Dr. Paul has never said that he thinks it is perfectly OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. As a matter of fact, being a true man of peace, he has many times stated that he does not want anyone to have nuclear weapons.
Al Sharpton Goes After Ron Paul WERE TALKING ABOUT RACISM & SLAVERY!!
This MSNBC coverage also discusses his supposed walk off from a CNN interview, even though it had been found that the walk off never happened. It was made to appear that way by fraudulent editing by CNN.
- “Iowa has voted for exotic candidates before.”
- “Huckabee, same thing.”
- “They’re [the media] watching a Mitt Romney New Gingerich runoff.”
- “If Ron Paul wins Iowa, we just take it out.”
The Atlantic: Ex-Aide: Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy is ‘Sheer Lunacy’
Can the MSM pull the plug on Ron Paul?
- Donald Trump tweet: A vote for Ron Paul is a totally wasted vote. If he wins Iowa — bad for Iowa’s credibility.
- Huckabee refers to “fanatical believers.”
Bachmann calls Paul foreign policies “dangerous,” rebukes his newsletter
TPM’s Josh Marshall: On Ron Paul “He’s The Candidate Who Thinks Gays Should Be Executed”
I just found a great website, RonPaulFlix.com paying special attention to bias Ron Paul coverage.
Addition: Occasionally I tune into NPR to hear the latest propaganda. I just listen to NPR’s All Things Considered describe Mitt Romney as the front runner in the race. (4:30pm Dec 20, 2011.) Ron Paul is leading in the polls! They then cut to Perry talking about how Obama should have bombed Iran, and the rise of Santorum. No mention of Paul whatsoever.
Addition: New York Times Column – Feel Free to Ignore Iowa
As part of an ongoing investigation into military mortuary services, the Air Force admits it dumped the partial cremated remains of at least 274 servicemembers in Virginia landfills.
Craig Whitlock and Mary Pat Flaherty of The Washington Post report the dumping was hidden from families who had agreed to allow the military to dispose of their loved ones remains in “a dignified and respectful manner.”
The Air Force halted the practice three years ago, just prior to the 2009 ruling by President Obama to lift the ban on news coverage of fallen troops imposed by George H.W. Bush in 1991. Until then, the mortuary activities of the military were hidden from scrutiny.
The Air Force went on to tell The Post that it cannot say how many remains went to the dump and that to find out it would have to search the records of more than 6,300 servicemembers handled by the mortuary since 2001.
(Read more)
Conservatives like to talk about the causes of Western Civilization’s downfall: feminism, loose morality, drug abuse, Christianity’s decline, reality TV. Blaming civilization’s downfall on lardy hagfish such as Andrea Dworkin is like a doctor diagnosing senility by an old person’s wrinkles. The fact that anyone listened to such a numskull is a symptom, not the cause, of a culture in decline. The cause of civilizational decline is dirt-simple: lack of contact with objective reality. The great banker-journalist (and founder of the original National Review) Walter Bagehot said it well almost 150 years ago:
History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.
Every great civilization reaches a point of prosperity where it is possible to live your entire life as a pacifist without any serious consequences. Many civilizations have come to the state of devolution represented by modern Berkeley folkways, from wife-swapping to vegetarianism. These ideas don’t come from a hardscrabble existence in contact with nature’s elemental forces; they are the inevitable consequence of being an effete urban twit removed from meaningful contact with reality. (Read more)
In Western Europe, the Icelandic parliament recently passed a measure without objections to recognise the state of Palestine. The vote passed with 38 votes in favour and 13 abstaining.
The chairman of the opposition says Icelanders do not have sufficient knowledge of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to get involved. The opposition also maintains that the dispute should be resolved through bilateral negotiations. (Read more)
The pair was crossing a street at a widely-recognized intersection when they were fatally blindsided by a vehicle traveling at a speed well in excess of the posted speed limit. Despite the fact that darkness had descended, the driver hadn’t turned on his headlights. The victims were killed instantly.
Within minutes, police swarmed the scene, and arrests were made — none of which involved the driver, Deputy John Swearengin of the Kern County Sheriff’s Office. The four people arrested were relatives of the victims, who got into what the Sheriff’s Office described as an “altercation” with California Highway Patrol officers when they attempted to identify the victims.
“I was at home on Friday night working on my car when someone came running over and told me that a deputy ran over my daughter in the street,” recalls Jimmy Clevenger, Jolley’s father. “I ran down here, I was very upset…. The next thing I know, they had me by the neck and threw me to the ground and said I resisted arrest. My daughter was dead in the street and it was their fault.”
The outraged relatives were taken to jail, and face criminal charges. Swearengin, the killer, was taken to the hospital and wasn’t compelled to undergo drug or alcohol screening (Read more)
Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him off, he said.
Janke knew the gunmen could be anywhere on the 3,000-acre spread in eastern North Dakota. Fearful of an armed standoff, he called in reinforcements from the state Highway Patrol, a regional SWAT team, a bomb squad, ambulances and deputy sheriffs from three other counties.
He also called in a Predator B drone.
As the unmanned aircraft circled 2 miles overhead the next morning, sophisticated sensors under the nose helped pinpoint the three suspects and showed they were unarmed. Police rushed in and made the first known arrests of U.S. citizens with help from a Predator, the spy drone that has helped revolutionize modern warfare.
But that was just the start. Local police say they have used two unarmed Predators based at Grand Forks Air Force Base to fly at least two dozen surveillance flights since June. The FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have used Predators for other domestic investigations, officials said.
“We don’t use [drones] on every call out,” said Bill Macki, head of the police SWAT team in Grand Forks. “If we have something in town like an apartment complex, we don’t call them.”
The drones belong to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which operates eight Predators on the country’s northern and southwestern borders to search for illegal immigrants and smugglers. The previously unreported use of its drones to assist local, state and federal law enforcement has occurred without any public acknowledgment or debate. (Read more)
The U.S. military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will.
We produce so much military equipment that inventories of military robots, M-16 assault rifles, helicopters, armored vehicles, and grenade launchers eventually start to pile up and it turns out a lot of these weapons are going straight to American police forces to be used against US citizens.
Benjamin Carlson at The Daily reports on a little known endeavor called the “1033 Program” that gave more than $500 million of military gear to U.S. police forces in 2011 alone. (Read more)
An officer tried to use a Taser, but the device failed. A second Taser also failed after the man used the light sabers to break one of the wires, Simpson said. (Read more)
Main stream writer “discovers” what libertarians have been saying all along:
The public is in a foul mood over increasing college costs and student debt burdens. Talk of a “higher education bubble” is common on the contrarian right, while the Occupy Wall Street crowd is calling for a strike in which in which ex-students refuse to pay off their loans.
This week, President Barack Obama held a summit with a dozen higher-education leaders “to discuss rising college costs and strategies to reduce these costs while improving quality.” The administration plans to introduce some policy proposals in the run-up to the presidential campaign.
Any serious policy reform has to start by considering a heretical idea: Federal subsidies intended to make college more affordable may have encouraged rapidly rising tuitions.
It’s not as crazy as it might sound.
As veteran education-policy consultant Arthur M. Hauptman notes in a recent essay: “There is a strong correlation over time between student and parent loan availability and rapidly rising tuitions. Common sense suggests that growing availability of student loans at reasonable rates has made it easier for many institutions to raise their prices, just as the mortgage interest deduction contributes to higher housing prices.” (Read more)
Perhaps the illustrious author encountered Peter Schiff’s videos, one of which I posted and summarized here.
This article probably gives too much credit to Marxists, nevertheless:
In his columns on the next conservatism, Paul Weyrich has several times referred to “cultural Marxism.” He asked me, as Free Congress Foundation’s resident historian, to write this column explaining what cultural Marxism is and where it came from. In order to understand what something is, you have to know its history.
Cultural Marxism is a branch of western Marxism, different from the Marxism-Leninism of the old Soviet Union. It is commonly known as “multiculturalism” or, less formally, Political Correctness. From its beginning, the promoters of cultural Marxism have known they could be more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their work, hence the use of terms such as “multiculturalism.”
Cultural Marxism began not in the 1960s but in 1919, immediately after World War I. Marxist theory had predicted that in the event of a big European war, the working class all over Europe would rise up to overthrow capitalism and create communism. But when war came in 1914, that did not happen. When it finally did happen in Russia in 1917, workers in other European countries did not support it. What had gone wrong?
Independently, two Marxist theorists, Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Georg Lukacs in Hungary, came to the same answer: Western culture and the Christian religion had so blinded the working class to its true, Marxist class interest that Communism was impossible in the West until both could be destroyed. In 1919, Lukacs asked, “Who will save us from Western civilization?” (Read more)
Excellent interview by Radio Free Market
He tears down the house of European regulation. Love his irreverence.
To fight stigma that settlers are ‘violent vandals,’ students from Ma’ale Adumim clean up hate slogans daubed on mosque walls in ‘price tag’ operation.
A Jerusalem mosque that was torched last week in a “price tag” operation turned into a platform for religious and secular teens who wished to demonstrate their aversion to the recent wave of attacks on Muslim holy sites. Fifteen students from the Eitan pre-military school in Ma’ale Adumim arrived at desecrated mosque Monday on a mission to clean up the hate graffiti that remained on its walls. (Read more)
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