Ron Paul: People call me racist because my ‘policies are winning’
CNN host Ali Velshi gave Paul a chance to respond Tuesday.
“You refer to disturbances in Washington’s Adams Morgan [neighborhood] as ‘animals taking over the D.C. Zoo,’ referring to African Americans,” Velshi noted. “You said that Martin Luther King seduced underage girls and boys. You talked about Ronald Reagan proclaiming ‘annual hate whitey day’ with Martin Luther King Day. And you advocated prohibiting AIDS patients from eating in restaurants. These things were published under your name.”
“Yeah, but I didn’t write them and I disavow them,” Paul insisted.
“But you’re a presidential candidate. That’s tough,” Velshi observed. “It kind of comes back to bite you that you made money off of things that were published under your name that were hateful and racist.”
I could accept the whole “I don’t feel that way and didn’t write it” if it wasn’t coupled with his feigned ignorance about who wrote it.