As I wrote before, The New Republic recently released a new treasure trove of Ron Paul newsletters, solicitations and campaign materials -- 25 PDF files, which I put on FileDen along with the original 35-file post to create a one-stop shop for even more Paul-related PDFs.
I'm only linking to 24 of the files, as one is duplicated in the TNR report.
Here we go with the links and commentary ...
Poking crazy people with sticks.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Authorship Awkwardness Galore
Three people who worked on the Ron Paul newsletters say Paul was "deeply involved" in their creation, reports The Washington Post.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Sorry
Missed my self-imposed deadline for my take on the new treasure trove of RP newsletters from TNR. I'm shooting for this week. Only the softest of deadlines will be adhered to.
Meanwhile, if you've never seen this before, here's a great post at DailyKos about Hans-Hermann Hoppe -- who flat-out terrifies me -- and what the author calls "anarcho-fascism" (perhaps a contradiction in terms, but it gets at the spirit of Hoppe's property worship).
Meanwhile, if you've never seen this before, here's a great post at DailyKos about Hans-Hermann Hoppe -- who flat-out terrifies me -- and what the author calls "anarcho-fascism" (perhaps a contradiction in terms, but it gets at the spirit of Hoppe's property worship).
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Great New Newsletter Article at TNR
I've just finished downloading 25 new PDF files of Ron Paul newsletters and related material from a great new article at The New Republic which, as I've said before, is at the vanguard (tasteless pun not intended) of the reporting on this issue.
My first-blush take is that the big news here will be a racist rant which bears a smoking gun in the form of Ron Paul's byline. It's going to be hard to deny authorship of that one.
I'm shooting for another big post, including all the new material, by Sunday, but for now definitely check out TNR's reporting. Here's a little screenshot teaser:
My first-blush take is that the big news here will be a racist rant which bears a smoking gun in the form of Ron Paul's byline. It's going to be hard to deny authorship of that one.
I'm shooting for another big post, including all the new material, by Sunday, but for now definitely check out TNR's reporting. Here's a little screenshot teaser:
Monday, January 16, 2012
More Ron Paul Authorship Awkwardness
As related in my epic first post, Ron Paul now claims he didn't write the racist, anti-Semitic, conspiracy-mongering passages quoted from newsletters bearing his name in the title during the 80s and 90s.
That was not always the case. Below is the entire text of a 1996 Houston Chronicle article in which Paul is confronted about the newsletters and does not deny writing them.
Years later, the campaign said that to deny authorship during Paul's race against Democrat Charles "Lefty" Morris would have been "confusing." Actually, the failure to deny authorship when the newsletters first became an issue, and then the flip-flop denial along with that excuse, are hardly less confusing!
That was not always the case. Below is the entire text of a 1996 Houston Chronicle article in which Paul is confronted about the newsletters and does not deny writing them.
Years later, the campaign said that to deny authorship during Paul's race against Democrat Charles "Lefty" Morris would have been "confusing." Actually, the failure to deny authorship when the newsletters first became an issue, and then the flip-flop denial along with that excuse, are hardly less confusing!
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Ron Paul's newsletters -- everything I could find
It recently struck me that in the ongoing discussion of Ron Paul's newsletters, it's been hard to find many of them to read. Hence, this post.
I trolled the internet and found as many as I could, compiling a whopping 35 PDF files. Most are a few select pages from newsletters published between 1978 and 1996. Some are scans of the masthead showing Paul credited as editor or publisher, while others are related documents such as solicitations to subscribe (for a hefty $200 for 12 monthly editions in 1987, or nearly $380/year in 2010 dollars).
A vast trove was supplied by The New Republic, which has been out front of the newsletter reporting over the past four years. More were found at Mother Jones, and the rest were found one or two at a time from various other websites.
Paul supporters have claimed that the incendiary passages lifted from these newsletters are out of context or at least not the norm. Paul himself denies authoring or overseeing any of it. I would submit that with examples from at least two years' worth of newsletters, the reader will see that these publications were full of hatred and crazy conspiracy theories, and that Paul likely had a larger hand in their authorship than he now claims (in 1996, he sang a different tune).
Without further ado, the links and my own commentary:
I trolled the internet and found as many as I could, compiling a whopping 35 PDF files. Most are a few select pages from newsletters published between 1978 and 1996. Some are scans of the masthead showing Paul credited as editor or publisher, while others are related documents such as solicitations to subscribe (for a hefty $200 for 12 monthly editions in 1987, or nearly $380/year in 2010 dollars).
A vast trove was supplied by The New Republic, which has been out front of the newsletter reporting over the past four years. More were found at Mother Jones, and the rest were found one or two at a time from various other websites.
Paul supporters have claimed that the incendiary passages lifted from these newsletters are out of context or at least not the norm. Paul himself denies authoring or overseeing any of it. I would submit that with examples from at least two years' worth of newsletters, the reader will see that these publications were full of hatred and crazy conspiracy theories, and that Paul likely had a larger hand in their authorship than he now claims (in 1996, he sang a different tune).
Without further ado, the links and my own commentary:
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