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Title: Raw footage shows Ron Paul DIDN'T storm out of CNN interview over racist newsletters... the interview was simply done
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Published: Dec 24, 2011
Author: MEGHAN KENEALLY
Post Date: 2011-12-24 16:54:06 by jwpegler
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Reports that Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul stormed out of a CNN interview earlier this week seem to be dramatically over-exaggerated. Raw footage of the Thursday interview shows that it lasted nearly ten minutes, which is not unusually brief on the campaign trail. After discussing foreign policy, the payroll tax, negative advertisements, and super fund PACs, the interview concluded with three whole minutes of discussion on the issue of the incendiary racist and homophobic letters that were published in Mr Paul's name in the Eighties and Nineties. Initial news reports made it seem that Mr Paul recited his one line response- that he didn't write the letters, that he didn't read them until about a decade after they were published, and that he disavows them- and stormed off, tossing away his microphone and charging out. The newly-released CNN footage shows something entirely different. After fielding repeated questions about the controversial newsletters, Mr Paul began wrapping up the interview. We have to wait for the British press to give us the real news about our country...
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#1. To: jwpegler (#0)
Answering a question Paul seemed to want to avoid: A tax document from June 1993—wrapping up the year in which the Political Report had published the "welfare checks" comment on the L.A. riots—reported an annual income of $940,000 for Ron Paul & Associates, listing four employees in Texas (Paul's family and Rockwell) and seven more employees around the country. If Paul didn't know who was writing his newsletters, he knew they were a crucial source of income and a successful tool for building his fundraising base for a political comeback. http://reason.com/archives/2008/01/16/who-wrote-ron-pauls-newsletter
A tax document from June 1993—wrapping up the year in which the Political Report had published the "welfare checks" comment on the L.A. riots—reported an annual income of $940,000 for Ron Paul & Associates, listing four employees in Texas (Paul's family and Rockwell) and seven more employees around the country. If Paul didn't know who was writing his newsletters, he knew they were a crucial source of income and a successful tool for building his fundraising base for a political comeback. He stated he was running a medical practice, "I have to make a living." And $940K is NOT a lot of money- not when you have to pay Lew Rockwell (who probably didn't come cheap, as he's very good at what he does), and seven other employees, plus costs of publishing and distribution... The bottom line is really simple: you've got nothing to attack him on, so you losers are getting desperate.
In 1993 median income was a little more than $31,000. Judging by the above image, the newsletter was not a high end piece, production costs couldn't have amounted to much, and of course postage for nonprofit mailing is at reduced rates. $940K income for Ron Paul's newsletter in 1993 is, indeed, pretty darn good particularly when you take into account it was just a sideline for him. If Paul doesn't know what's going on in an organization with just eleven employees, how could he possibly handle life in the oval office? The bottom line is really simple: you've got nothing to attack him on, so you losers are getting desperate. Seems you are very sensitive to criticism of your messiah.
#5. To: lucysmom, Capitalist Eric (#4)
They worship at the altar of that elusive and never actually documented, ideological descendant of the original Biblical money changers..."The Free Market". Ron Paul represents to them the all powerful god who will magically transform the economy, with a few strokes of his pen, into the wheeling dealing ideals practiced on your average prison yard.
Hmmmmmmm. I was rich and didn't even know it.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestAfter fielding repeated questions about the controversial newsletters, Mr Paul began wrapping up the interview.
#2. To: lucysmom (#1)
Answering a question Paul seemed to want to avoid:
#4. To: Capitalist Eric (#2)
And $940K is NOT a lot of money- not when you have to pay Lew Rockwell (who probably didn't come cheap, as he's very good at what he does), and seven other employees, plus costs of publishing and distribution...
Replies to Comment # 4. Seems you are very sensitive to criticism of your messiah.
#6. To: lucysmom (#4)
In 1993 median income was a little more than $31,000.
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