Weekly Standard Hit-Peice on Ron Paul: "The Company Ron Paul Keeps"

[TheBlackPeterSchiff]

Yet a subsequent report by Reason found that Ron Paul & Associates, the defunct company that published the newsletters and which counted Paul and his wife as officers, reported an income of nearly $1 million in 1993 alone. If this figure is reliable, Paul must have earned multiple millions of dollars over the two decades plus of the newsletters’ existence. It is incredible that he had less than an active interest in what was being printed as part of a subscription newsletter enterprise that earned him and his family millions of dollars. Ed Crane, the president of the Cato Institute, said Paul told him that “his best source of congressional campaign donations was the mailing list for the Spotlight, the conspiracy-mongering, anti-Semitic tabloid run by the Holocaust denier Willis Carto.”

This sordid history would not bear repeating but for the fact that the media love to portray Paul as a truth-telling, antiwar Republican standing up to the “hawkish” conservative establishment. Otherwise, the newsletters, and Paul’s continued failure to name their author, would be mentioned in every story about him, and he would be relegated to the fringe where he belongs. But Paul has escaped the sort of media scrutiny that would bury other political figures. A December 15 profile of Paul in the Washington Post, for instance, affectionately described his love of gardening and The Sound of Music and judged that “world events have conspired to make him look increasingly on point”—all without any mention of the newsletter controversy. Though present at nearly every Republican debate, he has yet to be asked about the newsletters. Had Paul’s persona and views changed significantly since 2008, this oversight might be understandable. But he continues to say and do things suggesting that, far from disowning the statements he has claimed “do not represent what I believe or have ever believed,” he still believes them.

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[paulpwns]

Weekly Standard is a war profiteering rag journal. It is funded by those in the military industrial complex. End of story.

 

[Badger Paul]

Written by same Guliani-loving POS Jamie Kirchick.

 

[angelatc]

Weekly Standard is a war profiteering rag journal. It is funded by those in the military industrial complex. End of story.

Really? Attacking the messenger is an adequate response to the allegations and implications of the article???

 

[Kords21]

Haters gonna hate

 

[angelatc]

Written by same Guliani-loving POS Jamie Kirchick.

Same guy that made a name for himself on the same topic 4 years ago.

Interesting that he says Paul is unwavering on his positions, but then can't understand why Paul isn't being asked questions that he's already answered.

 

[paulpwns]

Really? Attacking the messenger is an adequate response to the allegations and implications of the article???

Well actually yes it is, because it reveals bias. The magazine is a biased piece of trash that is influenced by war spending. Therefore the point that it makes is illegitimate. Do you think the article is true?

 

[LibertyEagle]

The Weekly Standard is a neoconservative journal. Heck, they even admit it.

Neoconservatives are not conservatives at all. They are leftist Trotskyites who saw an opportunity to takeover the conservative movement and steer it towards the warmongering that was in their agenda.

Bill Kristol's father, Irving, was one of the founding members.

http://www.amazon.com/Neo-conservatism-Autobiography-Idea-Irvin-Kristol/dp/1566632285

His son, Bill, is the Editor of the Weekly Standard.

 

[acptulsa]

A mimeographed rag that no one ever heard of outside of the Texas Fourteenth Congressional District and that no one even seems to be able to produce a hard copy of netted millions of dollars? And the Cato Institute is so reliable that we're to believe that Ed Crane isn't lying when he says that Ron Paul told him that The Spotlight was part of this mythical empire? And with all of this money behind it all, no paper trail exists?

Enough subscriptions to net millions, and no paper trail.

I think this is a more accurate way to judge the Weekly Standard--by the journalistic standards it doesn't keep.

 

[TheBlackPeterSchiff]

Well, either way, if Ron continues to gain traction (which I believe he will) his campaign better have a great comeback for this. The media is going to bang him really hard with this one.

 

[paulpwns]

The good news is that the article is POORLY written, and no one will actually read 3 pages of that crap. I didn't really see any proof of anything in that article of anything; just a ton of conjecture, and false accusations.

 

[Badger Paul]

As I said before, if you want to criticize RP for not being attentive enough to what people say and do is his name, that's fair. If you don't think it makes him a "President" that's fine too. But, if you believe what he says, and I have no reason to think he's lying (which would be a first), then he didn't write those letters and that's all that's important, because those words are not who he is. And even his Libertarian critics have said he's not the author. So there you go.

Paul Wellstone once said "Live life not separate from the words you speak." Well, that's RP in a nutshell. He doesn't micromanage. He doesn't oversee. There's a good and bad aspects to this but at least he's no hypocrite in a world filled with them. And that's the rub, because if you elect Ron Paul President you're not going to get an all-power, all-knowing President.

But that's I am voting for him. Because the Executive Branch has to reigned in order to save our Constitution.

 

[TheBlackPeterSchiff]

As I said before, if you want to criticize RP for not being attentive enough to what people say and do is his name, that's fair. If you don't think it makes him a "President" that's fine too. But, if you believe what he says, and I have no reason to think he's lying (which would be a first), then he didn't write those letters and that's all that's important, because those words are not who he is. And even his Libertarian critics have said he's not the author. So there you go.

Paul Wellstone once said "Live life not separate from the words you speak." Well, that's RP in a nutshell. He doesn't micromanage. He doesn't oversee. There's a good and bad aspects to this but at least he's no hypocrite in a world filled with them. And that's the rub, because if you elect Ron Paul President you're not going to get an all-power, all-knowing President.

But that's I am voting for him. Because the Executive Branch has to reigned in order to save our Constitution.

No doubt. Even back when I was skeptical of Ron Paul, I read some of those letters and laughed because they sound like nothing he would endorse.

But at some point he is going to have to face the music and just say he made a mistake in the people he did business with and didnt do a good job.

 

[acptulsa]

You know, a lot of stuff gets said here.

Ron Paul also doesn't make a penny off of this site. Yes, contributions to his campaign get promoted here. But he does not make a penny off of this site, and by that I mean that he does not license the use of his name to Josh or anything of that sort.

Billy Krystol's propaganda rag is trying to blur that very line. And we need to ensure they don't get away with it.

 

[fatjohn]

How do you earn millions on a newsletter that generates < 20 million over a 20 year timespan, a timespan over which you need to pay writers and printing and distribution costs. Syphoning of more than 10 percent seems really hard to do. But hey who am I.

 

[Jingles]

If Bill Kristol and the Weekly Standard are attacking us that means we are doing something right. I'd be more worried if they weren't.

 

[Occam's Banana]

The good news is that the article is POORLY written, and no one will actually read 3 pages of that crap. I didn't really see any proof of anything in that article of anything; just a ton of conjecture, and false accusations.

This ^^. I haven't read the article, but if the bit repeated here is at all representative, there's nothing in the thing that won't fall somewhere on the spectrum between innuendo & hackish opinionating.
If this is all they've got, they'll get nothing much out of it.

 

[RickyJ]

Ron Paul did not write or even know the person who did write those articles that they are desperately trying to use to paint him as a racist.

Ron Paul's record of helping those that could not afford his services as a doctor despite their ability to pay shows that he is not only not a racist, he cares about poor people of any race.

Here they are trying to paint Ron Paul as a racist with something he did not even write or endorse, while the Weekly Standard is guilty of promoting fear and hatred of Muslims throughout the USA.

Michelle Bachman says we should look at what Muslims believe and might do from their holy book the Koran, while at the same time she completely ignores what Jews believe from their holy book the Talmud. This is a double standard that is against an entire religion, while turning a blind eye to another religion that has a book just as reprehensible, if not more so than the Koran.

I know many here might not like to hear this, but to ignore the Talmud as a sacred book of Judaism while rejecting all Muslims based on the Koran, both of which are anti-Christian books that should be abhorred by all Christians, is not remotely the behaviour of a true Christian.

But like Ron Paul says, we have no business over there and should let them take care of their own problems while we take care of ours. We got plenty of problems, it is high time to start taking care of them!

 

[Kodaddy]

Anyone who is trying to use the newsletters to smear Ron Paul are conspiracy theorists.

 

[iamse7en]

That article makes me like RP even more.