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Another Ron Paul Slander Round Up

Ron Paul’s CNN Walkout interview conducted by reporter-wife of huge war profiteer

open quoteWell, well, it turns out hit job specialist Gloria Borger is married to Lance Morgan. Morgan is according to the web site of his employer, Powell Tate,”chief communications strategist at Powell Tate in Washington, D.C. He specializes in developing and executing communications strategies for public policy debates, crisis communications and media training.”

So who might be the clients of Powell Tate, where Borger’s husband is “chief communications strategist and crisis communications” adviser for?

Just about every part of the military industrial-complex that Ron Paul wants to shrink or shutdown.close quotewww.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/12/hot-ron-paul-walks-out-during-cnn.html

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Uncut video shows Paul did NOT ‘storm out’ of CNN interview

open quoteThe uncut version of a CNN interview between Ron Paul and Gloria Borger surfaced online Sunday, leading many Paul supporters to claim that the footage shows the presidential hopeful didn’t “storm out” of the interview, as some media outlets reported based off the edited version that aired on CNN.

In the interview, Borger pushed the Texas Republican about newsletters from the ’80s and ’90s that bear his name and contained racist and homophobic content. In the originally aired video, Paul seemed to walk out on Borger after a terse rebuttal.

But the uncut version shows that Paul and Borger were standing up for the entire interview, and that Paul actually responded to questions about the newsletter for almost three minutes before walking off, and that the interview was likely over.

Paul was clearly irritated by the line of questioning, which he says he covered at length with CNN in another interview the day before, but early reports seemed to indicate that Paul fled the interview to avoid the issue.

The full interview lasted more than eight minutes, and covered issues not aired by CNN, such as negative campaign advertisements and the payroll tax cut.

A post on a website for Paul supporters described the interview controversy as a “creative editing hit job.”close quote

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Frum goes after Paul. Typical slander from a typical war mongering, chicken hawk, neo-con.

open quoteIt’s sad and squalid that Ron Paul finished ahead of Jon Huntsman. Gov. Huntsman has the elements of a president; Ron Paul is not even a fanatic. He’s a bunco artist. May I repeat something I’ve said about him before? (The piece can be read here on CNN.com)

Ron Paul is something more (or less) than a racist crank. As Michael Brendan Dougherty aptly observed in the Atlantic last week:

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Al “Skinny” Shartpton banging the race drum

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Compilation of Black Ron Paul supporters

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Al Gore encourages voters to dismiss Ron Paul as a ‘silly’ candidate

open quoteAnalyzing the returns, Gore said, “He does not have a ceiling in fantasy land, but in the real world when people take a look at his actual positions, when Republicans take a look on at his actual positions, come on.”

Americans’ frustration with the economic and political situation in the country was, Gore said, the only reason Paul would even been considered by voters.

“That all is part of a general attitude that you know, let’s just play 52-card pick up,” he mused, “let’s just up end things and do something radically different. And I think he does culturally, psychologically tap into that.”

“At some point when people look seriously at what his positions are, I mean getting rid of the Federal Reserve,” Gore jeered. “Look, the wars are enormously unpopular, but bringing all the American troops home from no matter what the dangerous situations are? It’s so silly.”

Gore additionally claimed that Paul wasn’t being pummeled sufficiently for so-called “racist” passages in newsletters from the 1980s, which Paul claims he did not write.
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Marginalizing Ron Paul

open quoteIt is official now. The Ron Paul campaign, despite surging in the Iowa polls, is not worthy of serious consideration, according to a New York Times editorial; “Ron Paul long ago disqualified himself for the presidency by peddling claptrap proposals like abolishing the Federal Reserve, returning to the gold standard, cutting a third of the federal budget and all foreign aid and opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

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It is hypocritical that Paul is now depicted as the archenemy of non-white minorities when it was his nemesis, the Federal Reserve, that enabled the banking swindle that wiped out 53 percent of the median wealth of African-Americans and 66 percent for Latinos, according to the Pew Research Center.

The Fed sits at the center of the rot and bears the major responsibility for tolerating the runaway mortgage-backed securities scam that is at the core of our economic crisis. After the meltdown it was the Fed that led ultra-secret machinations to bail out the banks while ignoring the plight of their exploited customers.close quote (Read more)

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MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Calls Ron Paul A Fraud!

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Ron Paul Booed by Insane Debate Audience for Endorsing the Golden Rule

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CNN’s Dana Bash is Worried About Ron Paul

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Jon Stewart Exposes Ron Paul Media Bias After New Hampshire Primary

Ron Paul Censorship and Slander 2012

This is nothing new, of course.
– (2008) Censoring Ron Paul – Why the rEVOLution will not be televised
– (2009) Censoring Ron Paul (then and now)

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Notice anyone missing? This is an unconfirmed picture that a Ron Paul supporter took of his television showing Fox News election coverage in New Hampshire.
fox news image excluded Ron Paul

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FANTASTIC COMPARISON of media comments about Iowa Caucus in 2008 vs 2012

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Iowa Governor: Ignore Ron Paul Caucus Win

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CNBC coverage:
– They name the candidates at the start of the coverage, ignoring Ron Paul.
– “The guy to stop is Mitt Romney.”
– When the show the polls with Paul leading: “The leader is now Ron Paul, now he’s not much of a threat to Mitt Romney because he doesn’t have a chance to win the nomination.”
– Long discussion of Romney vs. Gingrich and Perry.
– “If Ron Paul wins, who stands, I mean, who loses, who does he take votes away from the most do you think?”
– Long explanation of why Romney is most likely to win in Iowa.
– “If Ron Paul wins Iowa, what does it mean for New Hampshire and South Carolina down the line?” “I think it all depends on who’s second and third.” Discussion of Gingrich vs. Romney. “Ron Paul is no threat to win the nomination. . . . He’s not going to break out of the libertarian box.”
– “Romney or Gingrich, who has the better chance beyond Iowa?”
– “Is he [Ron Paul] going to be Ross Perot of this race? Is he going to be the spoiler for the Republican Party?”
– “Ron Paul is going to be a long term irritant. He’s not going to be a significant threat.”

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Fox News:
– “Ron Paul is an unthinkable Republican nominee. He’s the ideal Democratic version of the nominee.”
– If Ron Paul goes through the election winning 15-20% of the vote, “he would stand at the end of it the leader of a sizable faction of the Republican party that supports views that are antithetical the views of the mainstream of the Republican party.”
– Discusses 20 year old newsletters.
– “He’s not only unacceptable in the Republican party . . . He’s unacceptable in America because of what he’s written.”
– Discussion of how Iowa’s importance will suffer if Ron Paul wins.

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Gingrich: I wouldn’t vote for Ron Paul
He called the candidate’s views “totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American” and that the congressman couldn’t win because “people won’t take him as a serious person.” He added that he personally wouldn’t vote for Paul, saying, “I think the choice of Ron Paul or Barack Obama would be a very bad choice for America.

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Headline: ‘Ron Paul wishes Israel didn’t exist’
open quoteRepublican presidential hopeful Ron Paul negates Israel’s right to exist, Eric Dondero, who served as a senior aide to the 76-year-old Texas congressman for over 12 years, said on Monday.close quote

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left-winger Cenk Uygar’s on the warmongering establishment Republicans in their war against peacemonger Ron Paul:

Includes clips of Gingrich.

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Why’s The Media Shafting Ron Paul, And Ignoring NDAA & SOPA Dangers?

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Dick Morris, reacting to the fact that military personnel overwhelmingly support Ron Paul: “No true patriot could be for Ron Paul.” (more)

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Morris: Ron Paul is ‘the most liberal, radical, left-wing person to run for president’

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Reddit’s /r/conservative moderator has had enough of Ron Paul:

“So I come back from my weekend and I see this thread and I’m just plain disgusted by all of this circlejerk, fanatical, conspiratard, inter-party warfare bullshit.

You guys have zero respect for the rest of your “people.” This whole ‘if you aren’t voting RP, you’re a neo-con’ talking point is pitifully weak and over used. It wouldn’t be problem if it were here and there, but it’s damn near every thread that has some Paul cocksuckery going on. Anyone how objects gets slammed with little to no room for discussion.

So for at least until I’m bored with it, I’m going to be removing any new Paul-specific threads. You don’t like it, go to one of the many sub-reddits that are dedicated to his worship. Conservatism doesn’t revolve around Paul’s ideology, and for the people who thinks it does, I truly pity you. You should know, it’s a lot broader than that excessively narrow and hostile perspective.

Feel free to make up whatever conspiracy theories about me being paid for by the establishment, or call me a neo-con. It’s not going to hurt my feelings, nor is it going to change anything.”

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Daily News: Ron Paul in racist newsletter flap
open quoteA blast from the past is blowing a big hole in Ron Paul’s campaign.

A recently surfaced video from 1995 shows the GOP presidential hopeful discussing controversial newsletters that he claimed this week he didn’t even read until about 2001.

The Texas congressman has come under fire in recent days for the newsletters, called Ron Paul’s Political Report, Ron Paul’s Freedom Report and the Ron Paul Survival Report, which went out under his name in the late 1980s and early 1990s during his time in and out of office.close quote (Read more)

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Mitt Romney surges in N.H., but No. 2 Ron Paul gets no media loveopen quoteNew polling data shows Mitt Romney cruising in New Hampshire, with nearly quadruple the support of Jon Huntsman, the GOP candidate in third place. Wait, why’d you skip to the third place guy? Who’s in second? Texas Congressman Ron Paul, of course.

Even though Huntsman and Paul both gained the same amount (six percentage points) since the last Suffolk University poll in June, and Paul has 14 percent support to Huntsman’s 10 percent, Decoder isn’t seeing any media love being thrown Paul’s way this morning.

This, despite the fact that the canned, ready-to-be-quoted bit from the Suffolk press release gives equal billing to Paul’s improvement alongside Huntsman’s.close quote

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Uncut Ron Paul Interview – CNN Lies and Cuts over 30 seconds of the interview to make it seem that Ron Paul was storming off, when actually the interview was OVER.

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About Ron Paul, Huckabee states today to Fox News’s Chris Wallace: “He has a core of fanatical believers, and they don’t represent mainstream Americans. It is not okay for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.”

Huckabee knows well that Dr. Paul has never said that he thinks it is perfectly OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon. As a matter of fact, being a true man of peace, he has many times stated that he does not want anyone to have nuclear weapons.

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Al Sharpton Goes After Ron Paul WERE TALKING ABOUT RACISM & SLAVERY!!

This MSNBC coverage also discusses his supposed walk off from a CNN interview, even though it had been found that the walk off never happened. It was made to appear that way by fraudulent editing by CNN.

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– “Iowa has voted for exotic candidates before.”
– “Huckabee, same thing.”
– “They’re [the media] watching a Mitt Romney New Gingerich runoff.”
– “If Ron Paul wins Iowa, we just take it out.”

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The Atlantic: Ex-Aide: Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy is ‘Sheer Lunacy’

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Can the MSM pull the plug on Ron Paul?

– Donald Trump tweet: A vote for Ron Paul is a totally wasted vote. If he wins Iowa — bad for Iowa’s credibility.
– Huckabee refers to “fanatical believers.”

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Bachmann calls Paul foreign policies “dangerous,” rebukes his newsletter

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TPM’s Josh Marshall: On Ron Paul “He’s The Candidate Who Thinks Gays Should Be Executed”

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I just found a great website, RonPaulFlix.com paying special attention to bias Ron Paul coverage.

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Addition: Occasionally I tune into NPR to hear the latest propaganda. I just listen to NPR’s All Things Considered describe Mitt Romney as the front runner in the race. (4:30pm Dec 20, 2011.) Ron Paul is leading in the polls! They then cut to Perry talking about how Obama should have bombed Iran, and the rise of Santorum. No mention of Paul whatsoever.

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Addition: New York Times Column – Feel Free to Ignore Iowa

Fox’s Chris Wallace: If Ron Paul Wins In Iowa, It Will Discredit The Iowa Caucuses

open quoteWith the Iowa caucuses right around the corner, some people are saying that the victor may actually end up being Ron Paul. Yeah, you know, the guy who’s had steady numbers in the polls this whole time despite some people seeming to want to ignore that fact. So, what does that mean if he wins? Well, according to Fox News’ Chris Wallace, it will “discredit the Iowa caucuses.”close quote (Read more)