Ron Paul Denial Watch: Only ‘Eight To Ten Sentences’ Were Offensive

The “only honest man in politics” lies his butt off
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Anyone who’s actually read the infamous Ron Paul newsletters knows how dishonest the Crazy Uncle is being here: Ron Paul Downplays Newsletters : Only ‘Eight To Ten Sentences’ Were Offensive.

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Ron Paul on Thursday downplayed the fringe aspects of his old newsletters, saying on an Iowa radio program that the most offensive passages were probably only a small portion of the overall content.

“There were many times I did not edit the entire letter and other things were put in,” he told a caller on the Jan Mickelson radio show. “I was not aware of the details until many years later. These were sentences that were put in, eight or 10 sentences. It wasn’t a reflection of my views at all. It got in the letter and I thought it was terrible.”

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1 jaunte  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:09:58pm
"It got in the letter"

Magic autonomous racism!

2 wrenchwench  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:11:23pm

Things. Got. Put. In.

3 skohayes  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:13:27pm

We had a Paulbot over at DKos this morning spouting that "only 8-10 sentences were offensive" line verbatim. The campaign must have sent out an e-mail on talking points on this one.

4 jaunte  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:14:51pm

He was 'very concerned" back then with the topics of his newsletter, but he never read the newsletter itself until recently when he heard some complaints. Riiight.

5 A Sockpuppet's Sockpuppet  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:15:28pm

re: #2 wrenchwench

Things. Got. Put. In.

Dangerous. As a friend, I will not go there.

6 Bubblehead II  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:15:47pm

"These were sentences that were put in, eight or 10 sentences. It wasn’t a reflection of my views at all. It got in the letter and I thought it was terrible.”

// Sure you did.

7 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:16:14pm

Heh. Some doofus filling in for Mark Levin on FoxRadio was pointing out how much Stormfront hearts Ron Paul.

I was a bit surprised.

8 Kragar  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:16:20pm
"It got in the letter and I thought it was terrible.”

So terrible he lied, denied and spun the issue for years.

9 jaunte  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:17:03pm

The buck stops where it feels like stopping, I'm not responsible!

10 A Sockpuppet's Sockpuppet  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:17:53pm

re: #9 jaunte

The buck stops where it feels like stopping, I'm not responsible!

Buck isn't here is he?

11 BongCrodny  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:18:46pm

Shorter Ron Paul: "Oh, you guys. You put stuff in when I wasn't looking, again!"

12 jaunte  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:18:48pm

re: #10 b_sharp

I don't know; I was thinking of what Harry Truman might have thought of Ron Paul.

13 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:19:24pm

re: #8 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

That's just it. The lying and denying. If he just disowned such beliefs he might not be in this shit storm.

14 A Sockpuppet's Sockpuppet  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:20:36pm

re: #12 jaunte

I don't know; I was thinking of what Harry Truman might have thought of Ron Paul.

He would have stopped Buck.

And laughed himself silly over Paul.

15 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:23:09pm

re: #14 b_sharp

He would have stopped Buck.

Right, and we would have heard endless bitching from you about an American POTUS overreaching into Canada.
////

16 BongCrodny  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:24:27pm

I get that some people think Obama is a disappointment.

But I swear I'd choose a disappointment a million times over before I'd ever vote for a paranoid racist lunatic.

17 engineer cat  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:24:54pm

re: #15 Slumbering Behemoth

Right, and we would have heard endless bitching from you about an American POTUS overreaching into Canada.
///

54 40 or fight!

18 freetoken  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:25:11pm

Ron Paul's bubble in the Iowa polls certainly has brought some of the spotlight onto his past.

Finally.

19 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:26:16pm

re: #18 freetoken

I truly hope this is the very end of his political career. Dead end loser, he is.

20 Lidane  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:27:02pm

re: #18 freetoken

Ron Paul's bubble in the Iowa polls certainly has brought some of the spotlight onto his past.

Finally.

Now if it could just convince the idiot Paulbots that he's not the goddamn savior of weed and capitalism and is just an old, racist crank, I'd be thrilled.

21 A Sockpuppet's Sockpuppet  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:28:51pm

re: #17 engineer dog

54 40 or fight!

You guys lost that one didn't you?

22 A Sockpuppet's Sockpuppet  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:29:34pm

re: #19 Slumbering Behemoth

I truly hope this is the very end of his political career. Dead end loser, he is.

Yoda! Where have you been buddy?

23 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:30:03pm

re: #20 Lidane

Unfortunately, "true believers" never suffer reason.

24 engineer cat  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:30:26pm

re: #21 b_sharp

You guys lost that one didn't you?

polk caved

i'm not voting for him if he runs in 1848!

25 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:31:12pm

re: #22 b_sharp

Yoda! Where have you been buddy?

Doing things for a Klondike bar that no Jedi ever should, I have.

26 A Sockpuppet's Sockpuppet  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:32:34pm

re: #24 engineer dog

polk caved

i'm not voting for him if he runs in 1848!

Smart move.

When I grow up, I'm going to become a politician and move the border to the 46th parallel.

27 aagcobb  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:33:18pm

Love seeing Mr. "tell it like it is" go into passive voice, because, of course, bad things just happen by themselves. Mr. Paul, who put the 8-10 sentences in your newsletter, and what is your relationship to them?

28 A Sockpuppet's Sockpuppet  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:33:49pm

re: #25 Slumbering Behemoth

Doing things for a Klondike bar that no Jedi ever should, I have.

Like hopping energetically up to the Yukon?

29 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:36:37pm

re: #26 b_sharp

You lose in 2076. Sorry.

30 A Sockpuppet's Sockpuppet  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:38:17pm

re: #29 Slumbering Behemoth

You lose in 2076. Sorry.

I hate it when I lose before I even start.

31 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:40:20pm

re: #28 b_sharp

Like hopping energetically up to the Yukon?

Calling it that these days, are the kids?

32 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 5:42:32pm

Right Wing Watch has been picking up on LGF's ron paul related stories, btw.

You're finally famous, Charles.
/:)

33 ElCapitanAmerica  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 6:40:14pm

8-10 sentences?

This is his most damaging admission yet, because outside the most horrible quotable sentences, you take them out, and you still have articles full of paranoia, racism and conspiracy theories.

34 jaunte  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 6:57:54pm

Et tu, Mr. Destructo?:

Game Over: Scans of Over 50 Ron Paul Newsletters

For a certain segment of the Ron Paul fanbase, no evidence of his disseminating hateful, paranoid material will ever be enough. Citing James Kirchick's piece in The New Republic wasn't sufficient, because Kirchick could have just been "making everything up." Then, when I and others posted copies of "The Ron Paul Political Report Special Issue on Race Terrorism," that too wasn't convincing.
"Proof that he said/endorsed racist things? Hardly. Doing it repeatedly in one document isn't enough to prove that he did it. Now, if there were many documents..."

Well, now there are many documents. Over fifty. Right here.

As I said in my rundown on the Paul platform over at Vice, reasonable fans of Dr. Paul now must accept that there's no way Paul could have been ignorant of the content [of] 8-12 page newsletters published under his name for over ten years. Paul supporters face three losing propositions:

• He lacks the competency to control content published under his own name for over a decade, and is thus unfit to lead a country.
• He doesn't believe these things but considers them a useful political tool to motivate racist whites, which makes him fit to be a GOP candidate, but too obvious about it to win.
• He's actually a racist, which makes him unfit to be a human being.

Further, you can't dismiss this in the name of higher political or socioeconomic aspirations. Since Paul has no chance of winning — seriously, no chance at all — his only value is as a voice, a conduit for principles.

35 jaunte  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 7:26:08pm

@BorowitzReport:

Ron Paul says he would replace paper money with "gigantic stone money" that would be harder for Congress to spend.

36 nines09  Thu, Dec 29, 2011 8:12:52pm

Yes. An oversight. Tricky thing to do ya know. Proof reading with a hood on is hard. I jest! He never wore a hood! He just talked like he was under one. I hear bolts popping from his airplane. Whoops. Was that a fan going?

37 abolitionist  Fri, Dec 30, 2011 12:22:43am

Only a few letters were wrong.
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Of course, they were newsletters.


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