Wash Post: Ron Paul did not write The Revolution: A Manifesto??????
Wash Post: RP did not write The Manifesto?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09...
Paul Is Here, and the RNC Isn't Happy
Amid Questions of His Book's Authorship, He Hosts 'Counterconvention'
By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 2, 2008; A27
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 1 -- Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has boasted that he wrote a book slamming the Iraq war and challenging the nation's economic system to continue a grass-roots movement that grew out of his quixotic campaign. The best-selling "The Revolution: A Manifesto" has become the centerpiece of a counterconvention by Paul that he has predicted will attract thousands of supporters to the Twin Cities.
But although the congressman from Texas has repeatedly called the book his own work, it was largely written by an unacknowledged ghostwriter, and it is unclear how much Paul contributed to the final product.
Late last year, Tom Woods, a longtime Paul supporter and libertarian scholar who will be speaking at the counterconvention, sent out copies of the manuscript and indicated that he had written the manifesto on Paul's behalf, according to copies of a letter from Woods and an original manuscript obtained by The Washington Post.
"Enclosed is the manuscript for a book tentatively titled The Revolution: A Manifesto, to be published under Dr. Paul's name," Woods's Dec. 26 letter says. The name of the letter's recipient was redacted. "When my agent shopped the idea around (before I'd actually written the book) back in October, a number of publishers were interested . . ." Woods also wrote that he was "happy to report that Dr. Paul is very pleased with it. He called me with a number of minor changes that I intend to incorporate into the text over the next few days."
Woods confirmed in an interview that the letter is authentic, but said it overemphasizes his role in writing the book. "This is Ron Paul's book in every way," Woods said. When asked if Paul used a ghostwriter, Jesse Benton, his spokesman, said "They are all Dr. Paul's words."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09...
This is just an attempt to turn a positive into a negative
for Ron Paul and the Revolution. RP wrote his book, but I don't doubt that he sent his writings to an editor to be ordered and edited. That is what all authors do.
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The Entire Book are Words....That Came out of Dr. Pauls Mouth..
Paul transcribed to Timothy.
Are we to say that Galatians is a forgery?
These are the Words of Dr. Paul.
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Pathetic journalism. It is
Pathetic journalism. It is an outright lie to say that the Rally for the Republic centers around Paul's book.
writer
WHO cares who wrote the book . It was sanctioned BY RON PAUL & that is a cheap shot from a writer; to divulge this fact , if it is true. LOTS of things are writen by stand-ins all the time . RON PAUL took the HEAT for the book , SO what's up?
TLF
Anyone with a clue . . .
would know this is total BS. Complete and total.
I suppose next we will be told "A Foreign Policy of Freedom" was also not RP's words but an alien life form who took over Dr. Paul's body and addressed the House.
They gotta try harder than this .... I mean come on, my 9 year old son could fabricate a better BS story.
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“Revolutions never go backward.”
Wendell Phillips
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make
violent revolution inevitable."
John F. Kennedy
This Passes for Journalism?
Attack the man, not the message?
Just goes to show that the WP/NYT ideology is so morally bankrupt, this tripe is the best they can come up with.
Where in all this is ANY attempt by RP to mislead? Both RP and TW were open and honest wrt authorship.
Just a flimsy hit piece.
hilarious
shows just how much the mccain camp is running scared over their scandal-filled weekend. word is, w/yesterday's convention festivities shortened, far more people headed over to ron paul's convention. no wonder the rnc is freaking out - this is probably the best smear to date.
yet, at the same time, the mccain folks are *reaching out* to ron paul for his *support* -- which is news to rp, btw. um, yeah.
just like the planes that he carelessly flew into the ground as a pilot, he's doing the same thing w/his sorry ass campaign.
yep, that's why they call him a maverick, folks.
what a bunch scumbags.
Nothing better to do than making fun of ron paul
Man I could write a whole book about making fun of the media.
I respect the first ammendment to the US consitution but the media needs to go. 3 Reasons:
1. They brainwash Americans into voting for socialists and facist people.
2. They report it the way they want it not the way it happened.
3. there to bi-as to be a media. Leave that to magazines such as times magazine
Sorry I had to vent
This is the best
This is the best pseudo-smear material they can come up with...? They really are shameless.
I wouldn't let my parrot
Use the washington post as a cage liner-it stinks too much.
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attempted smear, their grasping for dirt. Suprised?
"This is Ron Paul's book in every way," Woods said. When asked if Paul used a ghostwriter, Jesse Benton, his spokesman, said "They are all Dr. Paul's words."
The DP is proof that the grassroots support for Ron Paul and his peaceful message of individual liberty is large, real, and not going away!
As you read the book, if you
As you read the book, if you have listened to Ron Paul at all, you can almost hear him speaking the words, instead of you reading them. It is ridiculous to even suggest something like that. Go Ron Paul!!!
In reading I too
Projected through his words. While I read I translate the words into his vocation. We are all critical thinkers and to think that we could not spot a ghostwriter would be hebetudinous on our part.
This person knows perfectly well that many books are
written with assistance. A person with a background in English and edits for clarity and grammar; not for content.
*shrug*
A total hit job.
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WaPo is Neocon-Neolib Establishment trash
Is it any surprise WaPost have Charles Krauthammer, one of the notorious neocon columnist-cum-warhawk propagandists? Charles' filth is a regular feature in editorial page in the local town newspaper. Sickening.
Bill Kristol has the columnist gig at NYT. Karl Rove for Newsweek along with Markos, founder of DailyKos.
C-SPAN host has this sensationalist piece of trash article highlighted before and while interviewing Ron Paul this morning. They should know Washington Post, like LA Times and NYT, do not have respectable reputation. These piece of filth newspapers are the gatekeepers of the Establishment, hence shrill propaganda trying to put kibosh on Ron Paul Revolution.
They are SCARED of the revolutionary change if RP gets nominated in a great surprise upset. They are doing everything they can to stop the revolution.
Thomas Jefferson was right about the newspapers as gossipy trash that he would rather be happier without reading.
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Oh, Good
C-SPAN just mentioned this article and said nothing about the stupid attempted smear. He only asked Dr. Paul about the rally. I think this is just good publicity. I don't see that, again, this smear even touches Dr. Paul, but rather helps him.
And I question the intentions of the poster in the way he phrases his title with all the question marks. Did you read the article? If so, what are you questioning so eagerly?
WP is noecon trash
Note they didn't publish the entire letter in context. Of course, this will be the only soundbite about the Rally for the Republic on the MSM
Ok, I just read this all the way through...
...and it's a completely overblown hit piece.
ALL OF THE WORDS ARE RON PAUL's! The guy just edited it... nothing more.
EDITED
When a movie is made, the director gets all of the credit, even though the editor is the one who takes all of the pieces and puts them together so that the movie is watchable. Ron Paul was the playwright and director of his book... this guy just pieced it all together so that it was readable as a book instead of a bunch of quotes.
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Link doesn't work...
......and a big fat sooooooooooo? What was posted here says Ron Paul wrote the book in long hand on legal pads...someone else (Woods) provided editing services. The point, then??????????
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try this
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09...
About the author
"Mosk is a bitter Ron Paul hater connected to the worst elements on Capitol Hill." -Lew Rockwell
he wrote a hit piece
a few months back on Dr Paul having family members on staff...
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It's BS...
...the link leads nowhere.
Correct Link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09...