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.
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 Times, 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.)
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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