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'Negligence' implies someone has committed a tort. This was not negligence. Ron Paul let some other libertarians use his name on a newsletter. They abused that privilege. They owe him an apology, but he owes us nothing. Get over it.

From article:
"The half-life of Ron Paul's racist newsletters..."

Remember, when the politically correct use the term racist, they simply mean white Gentiles who discriminate.

It is a racial slur given selectively to white Gentiles. Racist = honky.

So, the translation of the quote would be: "The half-life of Ron Paul's honky newsletters"

Meanwhile, the last chance our country has to fix it's real problems (foreign policy, moentary policy, loss of civil liberties, and fiscal policy to name just a few) is slipping down the drain. Partly because of a media that has more power than all the other special intersts combined and exercises that power to its own interest. It's not illegal and shouldn't be but it really really sucks and most Americans are too tied up in Superbowls, V8 engines, houses, Brittany Spears and whatever else to even understand.

And this is news?

Wow breaking news. I'm sure this, along with your entire career's accomplishments are going to be carved in stone when America finally wins the two (so far) endless wars its fighting. Maybe that will be the same time your currency finally starts pulling away from the Thai Baht - and Americans aren't looked upon anymore as the most ignorant people on earth. Then again this is all a game to you and its really funny ... but not for long.

America is so pathetic. The world can smell your rot - and rags like the LA Times are like swarms of flies leading one to the carcass. A high school student with an Internet connection could (and probably does) write more compelling and meaningful news than you . But its not really your fault, its the boss that hired such inept talent that's to blame.

Keep up the good work ... You keep that glossy American finish as shiny as ever.

I'm with the other guy, asleep on this story. It's border line lame at this point. He's not a racist but a hero for the Constitution. Why do you people hate the light. He is exposing the out of control bureaucracy in government and all you want to do is ridicule the man. It's the lowest form of argument. The bottom line is he said he doesn't share the beliefs of the writings... The real story is how he's being tossed aside for candidates that have inferior ideas... wwwdotknowbeforeyouvotedotcom

If this story was taken to the point it should express more important thoughts:

the irony of the "honky-racist" story is that it started a defamation campaign against a man who argues in favor of "defamation rights" in order to save the freedom of speech !

The irony is also that libertarian philosophy is the democratic ideal expressed in terms of respect for the unique individual, and here we have a political critique addressed at somebody pretending to be another (Ron Paul) as it seems.

What is it with you guys and his news letters why dont you boys check out McCain and spead your lies about him. I am so unhappy with how Ron has been screwed over by the MSM. He is so not a Racist.

why is it that i have heard that mccain has refered to a certain ethnicity as gooks and nothing is being made of it in the press. all one has to do is look at RON PAUL'S platform and read up on what he represents to know the integrity of this man. he is the best person running and the only one who deserves AMERICA'S trust. just because the establishment doesn't want what is best for the country doesn't mean that the rest of us agree with them. when the masses are ignorant we all suffer and the mainstream media is doing all it can to keep AMERICA ignorant.

Is that it? Is that all you've got on Ron Paul? That he knows someone who - using his freedom of speech - wrote some things that 16 years later seem to be non-politically correct?

NOBODY, including the author of the smear, even claims that Ron Paul has EVER said anything like that. Despite being in Congress for 20 years, there is not one incident of him saying such. Surely there would be a video, or audio recording? The President of the Austin chapter of the NAACP, whom has known Dr Paul for 20 years, says that there's not a racist bone in his body, and that this is just a political beat-up. End of story.

The worst that Ron Paul is guilty of is that he won't throw a friend whom exercised his freedom of speech under the bus for the sake of political expediency. I actually WANT a President who would take such a position!

Meanwhile, you have Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Mike Huckabee featuring on Judicial Watch's Top Ten Most Corrupt Politicians for 2007 list!! (Guiliani is there, too). And McCain? Google "Keating Five"

And Romney's so damn plastic, he'll take any position that will allow him to buy the Presidency for the sake of his own ego. Can you imagine someone so plastic resisting the NWO forces channelled through the CFR? Not likely!

Ron Paul is the one that will save this country.

Thank you!

This is just the kind of trash reporting that'll spark the Paul campaign and his supporters. I couldn't of asked for a more pathetic attempt -- and at a more apt time -- to undermine Paul and rouse his base.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Whoever wrote this drivel needs to learn about investigative journalism. Ron Paul has never been nor is a racist. His old newsletters written by guest writers were not racist, but where politically edgy commentaries taken completely out of context by "The New Republic". Read the newsletters in full for yourself. They are written in a Howard Stern/Ann Coulter style. John McCain and Hillary Clinton have said things far more racist on record. Ron Paul is not even close. This is a tempest in a teapot. Please grow up.

If there really is a definition of what a "real libertarian" is, maybe it's someone who doesn't believe that politicians are the answer to our problems.

...even if that politician is Ron Paul.

Oh boy, here come the aPaulogists, no doubt brought in by some forum to flood the comments with drivel about defending the Constitution. Heaven forbid they actually *read the article*. Nobody is claiming to know who wrote the racist articles. The fact that this objectively racist filth appeared in Paul's own newsletter so frequently for so long should give any reasonable person some pause, regardless of who the actual author was. But hey, don't let me shut you up, I actually somewhat enjoy these excuses and backpedaling. I especially like lastnymleft's implication that such dreck could have been acceptable when it was written.

If Dr. Paul can't even keep tabs on what's being written under his own name, how do you expect him to lead a nation?

keep kicking the dead horse. is this called "news". gimme a break.

From what little I've read in context, all of the racist comments are blown completely out of proportion. If you take a sentence out of the context of its paragraph or page you can take something that was meant to be shocking to create thought or illustrative of the views of someone else and turn it into something it was never meant to be. This was certainly true of the 2nd Kirchick hit piece, considering some of the things that he was referring to (but didn't go so far as to quote that time) were actually attributable to Abraham Lincoln, and were not even written in "the" newsletters but in another periodical that was advertised within the newsletters.
How do you smear someone with nearly impeccable credentials? You put him on pedestal that all the other candidates are spared from, and you twist the words of things that were in some way associated with, but not a product of the person in question. And this is precisely what has been done.

"Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran"

I wonder why foolishness like McCain's ill conceived "bomb Iran" comment and his reference to "gooks" aren't publicized. Ron Paul was nailed to the wall without even making racist statements that were attributed to him falsely. McCain is actually on tape making warmonger and racist remarks, but he gets a pass.

Thanks main stream media, you're really screwing the citizens. Free press, and this is what you do with it.

Please mention McCain's use of the word 'Gooks' and his refusal to apologize for it, not Ron Paul's racism which he didn't write.
Thanks

We will get a Business As Usual president this year because we choose to submit all lower-profile candidates (ones that the major opinion polls show to be statistically insignificant) to much, much, MUCH higher levels of scrutiny than the mainstream candidates. We will pay dearly for our stupidity.

Go Ron Paul!