Ron Paul and the New York Times

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/how-ron-pauls-libertarianism-supports-racism.html

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:12 PM, plainolamerican <plainolamerican@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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