"Human Events" smears Dr. Paul, presents misleading information

[LibertyEagle]

There was an article in Human Events 2 days ago, by no less than the EDITOR, that completely trashed Dr. Paul's performance in the last debate. Human Events used to be known as a very traditionally conservative newspaper. Someone better than I needs to respond to this in a professional, reasoned, fact-based manner. Hopefully in a way that Dr. Paul would be proud.

This newspaper at least used to say they were for the following:

"It looks at events through eyes that favor limited constitutional government, local self-government, private enterprise and individual freedom. These were the principles that inspired the Founding Fathers. We think that today the same principles will preserve freedom America."

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21005

"Ron Paul repeated his desire to cut and run, and the other Republicans didn’t buy it."

"When asked to identify George Bush’s greatest error none of the candidates, except for Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul, were willing to attack the president. Paul renounced “pre-emptive war”, saying that we've abandoned the "just war" theory of Christianity. Paul is apparently willing to accept another terrorist strike rather than save American lives by taking out an imminent threat. Paul -- looking at the others -- condemned the idea of nuking Iran, which he said has done nothing to harm us and is no threat. The Iranian war against America, which began in 1979, can best be explained to Mr. Paul in two words: shut up."

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[Bryan]

Mr. Babbin uses the term "cut and run" when charactering Dr. Paul's position on the Iraq war, this term implies a change in judgment that is not true for Dr. Paul. Wikipedia includes the following when describing the term "Cut and run":

"The added pungency of the phrase comes from the partially obscured implication that this withdrawal is a course only undertaken by dishonorable fools whose fear and confusion has overcome their better judgment."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_and_run

Dr. Paul has maintained his judgment on the Iraq war issue from the beginning:

I rise to urge the Congress to think twice before thrusting this nation into a war without merit-one fraught with the danger of escalating into something no American will be pleased with." –September, 2002
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2002/cr090402.htm

Mr. Babbin continued to explain that "The Iranian war against America, which began in 1979" but fails to mention how the CIA engineered the coup against the elected Iranian government in 1953 which directly lead to the 1979 hostage crisis in Iran, a fact that Dr. Paul brought up in the second GOP debate. PBS reported on this as shown in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldgbOxDX6DE

 

[Douglass Bartley]

Human Events: Refuses to Even Apologize

I have written them twice with no response. See http://rxpaul.townhall.com


Human Events: Fire Your Editor
http://rxpaul.townhall.com/g/bbf25207-f651-4947-89e6-ac854610e633


Human Events Won't Recant Libel of Ron Paul
http://rxpaul.townhall.com/g/b18b69c0-3d86-49dc-aaf2-2d2ac2791730