On Jan 3, 2:15 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/how-ron-pauls-libertarianism-sup...
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> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:12 PM, plainolamerican <plainolameri...@gmail.com>
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> > 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."
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> > On Jan 3, 10:33 am, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Ron Paul and the New York
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> > > 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.
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> > > <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZLE1BWsBQNc/TwMnAtDl4fI/AAAAAAAAA0o/hx6yKvr..
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> > > 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.)
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> > > 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.
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> > >http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Watch-Bruno-Shock-Ron-Paul-13489.html
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> > > 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.
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> > > Will Jamie also claim that Ron Paul is a flaming gay Austrian?
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> > > 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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