Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Re: Ron Paul and the New York Times

Support for Israel has been another strong theme in The New Republic.
According to Martin Peretz, owner of TNR, "Support for Israel is deep
down an expression of America's best view of itself." According to
CUNY journalism professor, Eric Alterman, "Nothing has been as
consistent about the past 34 years of TNR as the magazine's devotion
to Peretz's own understanding of what is good for Israel…It is really
not too much to say that almost all of Peretz's political beliefs are
subordinate to his commitment to Israel's best interests, and these
interests as Peretz defines them almost always involve more war."

On Jan 3, 10:33 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ron Paul and the New York
> Times<http://teapartiers.blogspot.com/2012/01/ron-paul-and-new-york-times.html>
>  <http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=4330204694154064363&postID=...>
>
> A few days before today's Iowa Caucuses,  Jamie Kirchik, the author of a
> 2008 *New Republic* article exposing odious material in some 20 old year
> old newsletters that ran under Ron Paul's byline and for which he was
> publisher, expanded his critique of Ron Paul to suggest that he is not only
> someone who fraternized with bigots, but that he is indeed a kook who
> spends all of his time hanging out with various types of conspiracy
> theorists.
>
> <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZLE1BWsBQNc/TwMnAtDl4fI/AAAAAAAAA0o/hx6yKvr...>
>
> The piece, entitled "Ron Paul's World," is one of a series of hit pieces on
> Paul that have appeared on *Fox News,* the *Washington Post*, the *New York
> Time*s, and some small political magazines affiliated with establishment
> Democrats and Republicans.  (One of the funny things about the onslaught
> against Ron Paul, something that no one in the media is commenting on, is
> that it is being conducted almost entirely by paid government agents.  On
> FOX News there is a daily interview with such figures as Clinton White
> House advisor Dick Morris, Bush White House speech writer Marc Thiessen,
> and Bush appointee to the United Nations John Bolton on how Ron Paul, his
> monetary policy, or his foreign policy, is "crazy."   Kirchik, in the last
> election cycle was merely a journalist at the Democratic magazine *The New
> Republic,* but who has been for several years now an employee of a
> government agency,* Radio Free Europe *-- a government employee whose job
> is to represent America abroad is writing articles in the *New York Times* and
> the* Weekly Standard *weighing in in a Presidential race.  (Is that legal?)
>  This weekend in the *Washington Post* the aforesaid Bush speechwriter
> Michael Gerson weighed in on how Ron Paul would not effectively conduct a
> new Civil War in America, should we have one next year.)
>
>  It seems perfectly obvious that Ron Paul has always been rather
> promiscuous in being willing to talk to and be interviewed by anyone.  This
> should have been obvious to Jamie in 2011, if not in 2008, as Ron Paul was
> notoriously punked by the comedian Sascha Baron Cohen, who lured him into
> an interview in the guise of a flaming Austrian gay celebrity journalist in
> the movie *Bruno* (2009).  Since Jamie is an urban, secular gay journalist,
> who lived in DC in 2009, it seems hard to believe that he did not either
> see this movie himself or have friends who did.
>
> http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Watch-Bruno-Shock-Ron-Paul-13489.html
>
> Jamie concludes from Paul's "failure" to tell off all of these donors and
> supporters that Ron Paul is a conspiracy theorist.  I conclude that Paul,
> an open and congenial man (I have met him) has been frozen out of public
> debate by the ruling political class for so many years that he will indeed
> go on a conspiracy kook's radio show if invited as long as the kook
> supports his ideas about ending the Fed or the American empire.
>
> Will Jamie also claim that Ron Paul is a flaming gay Austrian?
>
> Jamie concludes from Paul's "failure" to tell off all of these donors and
> supporters that Ron Paul is a conspiracy theorist.  I conclude that Paul,
> an open and congenial man (I have met him) has been frozen out of public
> debate by the ruling political class for so many years that he will indeed
> go on a conspiracy kook's radio show if invited as long as the kook
> supports his ideas about ending the Fed or the American empire.
>
> Will Jamie also claim that Ron Paul is a flaming gay Austrian?
>
> Jamie concludes from Paul's "failure" to tell off all of these donors and
> supporters that Ron Paul is a conspiracy theorist.  I conclude that Paul,
> an open and congenial man (I have met him) has been frozen out of public
> debate by the ruling political class for so many years that he will indeed
> go on a conspiracy kook's radio show if invited as long as the kook
> supports his ideas about ending the Fed or the American empire.
>
> Will Jamie also claim that Ron Paul is a flaming gay Austrian?

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