They're back again…

[goldpants]

That is a carefully crafter smear piece that in my eyes seems very damaging especially with the uninformed. They carefully chose their words throughout the whole piece to paint exactly the picture they wanted.

Hmm, I came away with a different take. That article read weak, as there was no quotes from Ron or video of him saying such, everything was hearsay and speculation. The money "proof" was almost embarrassingly contrary to the writers and speculators claims.

 

[rp2012win]

Bad News...Ed Henry of fox news is picking this up. This story has gone national and it is spreading like wildfire on twitter. Good god leave this man alone.

Ed Henry @edhenryTV
ruh roh -- why is he still serious candidate? RT @postpolitics Ron Paul signed off on racist newsletters, sources say wapo.st/xA6wrx

 

[Teenager For Ron Paul]

So I guess they're trying to get the people who didn't watch the news over Christmas to know about this now?

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

Fucking Dumbdero.

 

[everlasticity]

It just doesn't matter. This is the worst the news media can throw at us in terms of actual dirt. The only people who take this crap seriously are the ones who don't want Paul to be president, period. No one actually thinks that Ron Paul is a racist, no one with any common sense. Those that like Ron Paul are not going to be dissuaded by one or two comments he may or may not have made. The left may take this stuff more seriously, but republicans, they just don't fall for this crap. It sucks for us, because it puts us on the defensive, so for us to even consider this article is really just a disservice to ourselves, and a waste of energy. Besides, the dirt we have on the other candidates is far more damaging to them, and yet they persist, their campaigns are not completely torpedoed. So why should we think it would be any different for us? If we just ignored these reports, they would go away, as they do time and time again. But we make the biggest deal at any mention of them, it just fuels their agenda.

 

[Schiff_FTW]

Fucking Dumbdero.

Gary Johnson is in league with Dondero. His campaign recently sent out an email linking to Dondero's "Libertarian Republican" site. Just thought people should know.

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

Gary Johnson is in league with Dondero. His campaign recently sent out an email linking to Dondero's "Libertarian Republican" site. Just thought people should know.

Serious?

 

[KingNothing]

Bwahahahaha man that corporate media propaganda machine sure knows it's stuff. Ron delivers in a debate, must knock him down a few notches with a bit of slander.

I so told you this was going to happen, and you didn't listen. (and I will keep repeating this until I probably get banned)

But no one cares about the NL's anymore. They just don't matter because the campaign handled them perfectly.

 

[ohgodno]

This will dominate the news all weekend—this article was engineered to take press away from the good performance last night - he resonated with hispanics… so they again imply he's racist.

 

[MsDoodahs]

Gary Johnson is in league with Dondero. His campaign recently sent out an email linking to Dondero's "Libertarian Republican" site. Just thought people should know.

Good to know, didn't realize Johnson was an inside the beltway fake libertarian type.

 

[rp2012win]

This will dominate the news all weekend—this article was engineered to take press away from the good performance last night - he resonated with hispanics… so they again imply he's racist.

it will go on much longer than that. Every single interview he does for the next several weeks will be newsletters. This is because the caucus states are coming up where he is a threat to do well. Another gloria borger interview should be forthcoming.

 

[Peace&Freedom]

One way for Paul to answer this question is to say, beyond stressing "I didn't write them, and I repudiate the comments," is to point out media hypocrisy. "Look, Romney was accused last fall of hiring an illegal alien. He explained the situation ONCE, end of story. Perry purchased a ranch with a racially provocative name, but when he explained himself ONCE, the media dropped the story. Gingrich's ex-wife brought up issues from 15 years ago, but when Newt denied the charges ONCE, the media basically dropped it. I've answered these newsletter questions from 20 years ago 50,000 times. What is it that you're looking for, exactly, that I didn't give you the other 50,000 times?"

 

[pinkmandy]

Last time they did this he lost Iowa to Froth and Mittens.

He lost to froth because of the fake media surge and mitty has been pushed as the "electable" candidate and Iowa was close between the three. There are threads around here somewhere showing his support growing, not diminishing, after the last newsletter smear campaign.

 

[AhuwaleKaNaneHuna]

I wish the campaign would take these attacks a little more seriously and do some major damage control. They need to gather like 100 people who have known Paul through the ages to vouch that they have never heard any such things come from him, and share stories to the contrary, like in the compassion video.

 

[ohgodno]

But no one cares about the NL's anymore. They just don't matter because the campaign handled them perfectly.

Uhhhh - Dr. Paul said he didn't write nor read them - an article comes out with "sources" to discredit that - and you say it doesn't matter. It matters big-time.

Are ya drinking some Newt moon-juice?

People care about the newsletters - it's brought up in nearly every piece of media. It's an underhanded subliminal device used to create negative sentiment in the public's mind. When reported they're called "racist newsletters" - over and over, again - whenever they're mentioned now - the publics subconscious completes that sentence - Ron Paul's newsletters = racist in the minds of the public now.

It's conditioning propaganda at its best.

This matters. Period. End-of-story.

 

[KingNothing]

Yeah, the campaign never got out in front of these. If they had told the media everything, the story would have been long gone… they control how the information comes out now.

When he does well, another story comes out. This is well-scripted thought-control.

You assume that people actually care about this stuff, though. There is no substance to the story. Everyone knows that now and voters just don't care.

 

[rp2012win]

What is it that you're looking for, exactly, that I didn't give you the other 50,000 times?"

they're not looking for answers. They just want to ask the question so that it is cemented in voters minds. So whenever they think of ron paul they think of the newsletters. This will go away after the caucus states though. They had to bring it out for the caucuses.

 

[everlasticity]

This matters. Period. End-of-story.

Assuming it matters, all we can do is cry about it. It's not like we can sue. It's a waste of energy and takes the wind out of all the good things we have been accomplishing. Unless someone can come up with a good solution to this, better to just forget about it and let Paul handle it.

 

[ohgodno]

You assume that people actually care about this stuff, though. There is no substance to the story. Everyone knows that now and voters just don't care.

It's not about CARING it's about building a perception through conditioning. The substance doesn't matter - the tepetition of terms to create a reputation in the subconscious is the end goal.

Think of this as how you memorized your multiplication tables - repetition. It's the same device used for an evil purpose.

In 2008 the media made the immediate thing that comes to the public's mind when they thought of Obama to be CHANGE. They've crafted this to make the first thing that comes to mind when they think of Paul to be RACIST.

 

[ohgodno]

^^