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Paul Haunted by His Newsletter’s Disparaging Remarks About Martin Luther King
by FOXNews.com
Monday, January 21, 2008
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Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, at a presidential debate in May 2007.
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With popularity comes notoriety. That’s the lesson Ron Paul is learning as the nation observes Martin Luther King Day and the GOP presidential contender bears the burden of disparaging comments, made in a newsletter bearing his name, about the slain civil rights leader and the national holiday that honors him.
In a 1990 newsletter called the Ron Paul Political Report, which resurfaced earlier this month in The New Republic, Ron Paul — or his ghostwriters — called King an adulterer and seducer of young children, and questioned why the nation should celebrate the Civil Rights leader with the same glory as that given to its first president.
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“We are supposed to honor this ‘Christian minister’ and lying socialist satyr with a holiday that puts him on a par with George Washington?” the newsletter asked under an entry titled “‘Dr.’ King.”
Click here to read the PDF of the newsletter.
“What an infamy Ronald Reagan approved it!” another newsletter comment read. “We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”
Paul, a 10-term congressman from Texas, has denied writing the comments, which appeared in various newsletters produced since 1978, according to the New Republic.
“When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit,” Paul said in a statement issued by his campaign on Jan. 8. “Several writers contributed to the product.
“For over a decade, I have publicly taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name,” he continued.
Paul did not respond to calls for comment from FOXNews.com.
Among the comments that were included in the newsletters:
“So now even the establishment press admits that Martin Luther King plagiarized his PhD dissertation, his academic articles, his speeches, and his sermons,” the December 1990 newsletter said. “He was also a comsymp [Communist sympathizer], if not an actual party member, and the man who replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.
“King, the FBI files show, was not only a world-class adulterer, he also seduced underage girls and boys,” the entry continues. “The Rev. Ralph David Abernathy revealed before his death that King had made a pass at him many years before.”
Paul, who is a strong proponent of limited government and was the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1988, left Congress in 1984 to return to his OB-GYN practice, but he continued producing newsletters. He was re-elected to the House of Representatives in 1997.
Click here to read another Paul newsletter.
In his Jan. 8 statement, Paul denounced his comments about King as “small-minded thoughts” and said he “never uttered such words.”
“In fact, I have always agreed with Martin Luther King, Jr. that we should only be concerned with the content of a person’s character, not the color of their skin,” he said in the Jan. 8 statement. “As I stated on the floor of the U.S. House on April 20, 1999: ‘I rise in great respect for the courage and high ideals of Rosa Parks who stood steadfastly for the rights of individuals against unjust laws and oppressive governmental policies.’”
On Monday, Paul invoked King’s name to aid his fundraising campaign.
“The whole world is watching how we do tomorrow in fundraising, on a day dedicated to the memory of Martin Luther King, the great champion of non-violence at home, peace abroad and civil disobedience against tyrannical government,” Paul wrote in a message on his Web site dated Jan. 21.
Last week, the New Republic reported that Paul was ready to out former congressional chief of staff Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. as the author of the incendiary statements about King in his newsletters.
Click here to read the New Republic’s story on the authorship of the Paul newsletter.
Rockwell, the founder of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala., called The New Republic’s style “hysterical smears aimed at political enemies” on his blog at LewRockwell.com.