TagsTagsHere's an open thread to keep up on news from the Nevada GOP caucuses, in which Mitt Romney is expected to thoroughly trounce Newt "Poor Kids Make Great Janitors" Gingrich. Ron "I Can't Help It If White Supremacists Dig Me" Paul, for some reason, seems confident that he'll beat Gingrich for ...
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Today at the far right fever swamp known as Free Republic, somebody posted a link to our latest article about Ron Paul's connections to the white supremacist subculture, which led to an amusing and revealing sequence of comments. First, the wingnuts tried to argue that associating with neo-Nazis might not be ...
Free Republic, Ron Paul, White Supremacists, Racism, Right Wing
The "anti-fascist" wing of the "Anonymous" hacker group has broken into a website run by the white supremacist American Third Position (A3P), and released a document dump consisting of private forum messages, emails, organizational notes, and other personal information. The documents show numerous connections between Republican candidate Ron Paul and these ...
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The Washington Post has new information today on Ron Paul's racist, antisemitic newsletters; a former secretary in the company that produced the newsletters says Ron Paul was fully aware of their content: Ron Paul signed off on racist 1990s newsletters, associates say. Ron Paul, well known as a physician, congressman ...
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Here's Ron Paul in a video recently posted at YouTube by one of his fans, explaining why the South was the right side in the Civil War -- in front of a huge Confederate flag. Any more questions about Ron Paul? (h/t: Andrew Kaczynski.) Note: in the comments for the video at YouTube, ...
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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul continues to evade responsibility for the ugly, deranged newsletters he sold for many years; recently he claimed that "only 8 to 10 sentences were offensive," out of all these newsletters. This, dear readers, is what is commonly known as "an outright lie." And today The New ...
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While watching Saturday night's Republican debate, my jaw hit the floor when Ron Paul, asked a question about his now-infamous newsletters, said: "One of my heroes is Martin Luther King." My amazement stems from the fact that in December 1990, Ron Paul's official newsletter contained the following paragraphs: He was ...
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It's too close to call yet, but if Ron Paul wins tonight, Iowa evangelicals will have voted to legalize pot.
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The Iowa Caucus is now basically in a three-way tie, with Rick Santorum rising. The Republican caucus in Iowa is headed for a photo finish, with the three leading contenders all within two points of each other. Ron Paul is at 20%, Mitt Romney at 19%, and Rick Santorum at ...
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In this clip, ABC's Jake Tapper asks Ron Paul about a report that he believes in 9/11 conspiracy theories, and Dr. Paul goes ballistic. Video Ron Paul's angry denials should be weighed against his regular appearances on the Alex Jones radio show, since Jones is one of the loudest, most deranged 9/11 ...
Ron Paul, 9/11 Conspiracies, 9/11 Truthers, Alex Jones, James Jaeger
Ron Paul has been running like a scared rabbit away from his racist newsletters, because he knows that ugly, overt racism has become political poison. But there are some kinds of bigotry that still play well with the conservative base. Soon there will come a day when haters like Ron Paul ...
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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. Ron Paul on Thursday downplayed the fringe aspects of his old newsletters, saying on an Iowa radio program that the ...
Ron Paul, Racism, Antisemitism, Conspiracy Theories, Far Right, Spin, Dishonesty
Mitt Romney takes the concept of "party loyalty" to a ridiculous extreme, and ends up saying Ron Paul would be a better President than Barack Obama. What a beautiful example of absurd cognitive dissonance. Romney, of course, is being the archetypal cynical politician here; he only said this because he knows ...
Don Black, head racist of the hate site Stormfront, makes it clear that for many years Ron Paul appealed directly to the white supremacist subculture: Stormfront Founder Don Black Says White Supremacists Thought Ron Paul Was 'One of Us'. Ron Paul posing with Don & Derek Black at the 2007 ...
Ron Paul, Racism, Stormfront, White supremacism, David Duke, Don Black, Neo-Nazis, Bill White
OK now, this is just getting hilarious: Breaking: Michele Bachmann Iowa campaign co-chair endorses Ron Paul. News is breaking this evening that presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s Iowa campaign co-chairman Kent Sorenson has endorsed Ron Paul, one of her rivals in the Iowa caucus race. Sorenson, a state senator from Indianola, apparently ...
Byron York seems to believe it's news that not all of Ron Paul's supporters are Republicans, but come on; that's been incredibly obvious for years. Ron Paul lives out on the fringes where extreme right and extreme left wrap around and meet. It's incorrect to call these people "mischief voters," as ...
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James Edwards, host of Tennessee's premier white supremacist radio show, The Political Cesspool, is following LGF -- and apparently, he's not a fan. But he does confirm that Ron Paul was scheduled to appear on his overtly racist show in 2006, one week after former KKK grand wizard David Duke. Unlike ...
Andrew Kaczynski has dug up yet another buried video, a 1998 John Birch Society documentary starring none other than Ron Paul -- a classic example of far right paranoia and conspiracy theorizing, as Dr. Paul calmly explains that the United Nations is plotting to take over America, create a New ...
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On page A1 of the New York Times today: Ron Paul Disowns Extremists' Views but Doesn't Disavow the Support. (It's more accurate to say that Ron Paul currently says he disowns these views, after promulgating them for decades.) [Don] Black of Stormfront said the newsletters helped make him a Ron Paul ...
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Browsing around some conspiracy-related websites and Ron Paul-related websites ... actually, that's redundant ... I discovered my favorite Paulian comment of the day at a site called “Above Top Secret,” about our post on the Crazy Uncle's scheduled appearance on the white supremacist Political Cesspool radio show: Ron Paul Was ...
The New Republic has made available a collection of Ron Paul's ugliest newsletters, and if you haven't seen how bad this stuff is yet, you may be shocked. I think it's amazing and sad that this hasn't been a political problem for Ron Paul before now. The content of these newsletters ...
Ron Paul, Racism, White supremacism, political cesspool, David Duke, Bad Craziness
Right on cue, Ron Paul's spokesman Jesse Benton is actually going to try to deny that Ron Paul wrote the overtly racist and homophobic direct-mail advertisement revealed yesterday by Reuters. Even though his signature is on it. Ron Paul’s campaign tells TPM that the presidential candidate did not write a signed ...
Imagine my surprise that more evidence of Ron Paul's long history of racism and far right fear-mongering is now coming to light. Reuters has unearthed a blatantly racist and homophobic direct-mail advertisement for the infamous Ron Paul newsletters: In ad for newsletter, Ron Paul forecast race war. A direct-mail solicitation ...
We've been covering Ron Paul's racist past and far right connections for years at LGF; kudos to the mainstream media for finally starting to catch up: Paul's story changes on racial comments. WASHINGTON – Rep. Ron Paul has tried since 2001 to disavow racist and incendiary language published in Texas ...
As Ron Paul's popularity has risen in polls, the media are suddenly interested in his racist, antisemitic newsletters again -- and the increased focus is obviously starting to rattle him. Today in an interview with CNN's Gloria Borger, Paul flatly denied that he wrote or even read any of the ...
Ron Paul, Racism, Antisemitism, Conspiracy Theories, Far Right, Libertarian