The Doctor is Calling in NH 12/14/2007
Submitted by Jane Aitken on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 18:54
This article is by Jack Kenny, a really great writer who once did a regular column for the Union Leader when it used to be a good independent newspaper under the Loebs. He is truly 'one of us'.
It is a 'who's who' mixture of people including newbies like Trevor Lyman and oldies of NH political scene such as myself. Jack was the only reporter to show up at our party back in February where I truly believe that almost 200 people helped convince Ron to give up part of his life and time to run for president, for the benefit of our country and all of us.
Write Jack a nice thank you note because this is one article I guarantee you will enjoy!
http://thenewamerican.com/node/6635
Here also is a prelude to the article:
Strange bedfellows dept.
I respect the work done for the campaign by Jane, but for all the people in the rest of the country (and the world) reading these posts, you ought to understand that "under the Loebs" (long-time editor/publisher William Loeb and his family), the Manchester Union Leader was the most bizarre daily newspaper in the USA, bar none---so full of spite, hate-mongering, journalistic and editorial smear campaigns, etc., that it would have been an offense to rubbish to use the Union Leader to wrap garbage in.
Among other epithets Loeb's paper called Barry Goldwater a "phony" and Henry Kissinger a "kike" and Martin Luther King a "pompous fraud" and Margaret Chase Smith "Moscow Maggie."
Read "Who the Hell is William Loeb" by Kevin Cash (Amoskeag Press, Manchester NH, 1975.)
I have to pity those who swallowed Loeb's poison-pen rantings and digested his whacko world-view and vicious political agenda.
That said, let's rise above our past differences and all unite to support Dr. Paul in this time of extreme peril to the republic. As they say, politics makes strange bedfellows, indeed!
Technoklutz
Don't drink the Koolaid that technoklutz drank....
You have to "pity those who swallowed Loeb's poison-pen rantings and digested his whacko world-view and vicious political agenda"?
I have to pity those who swallowed some idiot's NWO shill/neocon/liberal hit piece on the Loebs.
"Who the Hell is William Loeb" by Kevin Cash is a savage hit piece by NWO shills who hated the fact that the Loebs were INDEPENDENT THINKERS and could not be controlled or BOUGHT like the rest of the Rockefeller-controlled media and who DARED to select and endorse candidates like Pat Buchanan.
If the Loebs were alive today, they would be honest enough to be able to speak the truth, just like Ron Paul, and indeed, would be ednorsing Ron paul, not John McCain.
Whatever you read in that 'book' was just the typical smear hit piece approach to how they treat anyone who won't go along with the Rockefellers, and you fell for it.
This means you are doing the equivalent of what the media is/was doing to Ron and his supporters. Shame on you.
Don't believe this guy people.
Instead, he should instead be asking himself, who the hell is Kevin Cash?
Imagine today, the guts it would take if you owned a newspaper to:
1) Tell the truth even if it seemed like a smear
2) Endorse non-sanctioned candidates who were also telling the truth
3) Refuse to sell out to the Rockefeller controlled elitists who want to shape the news not report it, in order to run the world and keep their agenda secret.
Loeb may not have said things in a pretty way, but his information was always CORRECT and APPRECIATED. Maybe I should get Jack Kenny's take on this!
Think about my last sentence, dear lady.
I spent lots of time in New Hampshire forty years ago, in William Loeb's heyday, and I put into my commentary my own impressions and conclusions from having personally read that rag, the Union Leader, in real time. The book by Mr. Cash was written about 10 years after I had reached my own conclusions; and many people in New Hampshire whose opinion I respect had similar thoughts about Bill Loeb. Heck, he didn't even LIVE in New Hampshire, a state whose politics he tried with some success to dominate for decades.
If the Loebs were alive today, and still running the Union Leader, they'd be smearing Ron Paul for his commitment to civil liberties, opposition to executive-branch repression of civil liberties (such as his vote against "Patriot Act" and against national ID, not to mention his opposition to the federal "war on drugs.") Theirs was always the politics of reaction and privilege, not of freedom and liberty---for freedom and liberty demand courtesy, respect, and the granting to others of those rights we cherish for ourselves.
And Loeb's stock in trade was never the reasoned argument or the rational logic of debate, but rather the use of name-calling, of guilt-by-association, of vile accusations unsupported by fact, and even of anonymous (possibly forged) letters. Any New Hampshire resident of a certain age CAN REMEMBER THE SCREAMING CAPITALS AND RANTING BOLD-FACE TYPE in Mr. Loeb's front-page editorials---do you doubt now that I am personally familiar with the paper?
NEVERTHELESS, Sister Aitken, as I pointed out in the last sentence of my previous post, politics does indeed make very strange bedfellows. Let's use this occasion to prove to one another that in our support of Dr. Ron Paul, we will leave behind the political quarrels of the past; we will rise above our differences in order to rescue our Republic from the critical threats it faces from the gang of criminals now holding power. The only way for the Ron Paul campaign to beat the odds and win is if we all hang together, and let bygones be bygones.
I'm willing if you are. And I hope you won't feel the need to make personal attacks against those who may have political differences, as long as we all want Paul!
Technoklutz
Well now here is Jack's word on this.
Apparently those 'screaming headlines' you speak of were taken out of context by the author. Here is what Jack had to say about Loeb's user of verboten words -- he asked me to post it here:
Jack says: "I wrote a regular column for the Union Leader/New Hampshire Sunday News for slightly less than 15 years--from April, 1989-Jan 1, 2004, after which they chose to drop my column. (In the words of Casey Stengel, "I was no doubt discharged.") The publisher and owner at the time was Nackey Loeb, widow of Bill Loeb, who died in 1981.
I am, however, somewhat familiar with the history of the paper during the final decade of Mr. Loeb's reign and offer the following observations: There were a number of editorials and alleged news reports in the Loeb years that were foul play. One of the most infamous was the editorial attack on Gov. Walter Peterson's teenage daughter for daring to suggest that marijuana should be decriminalized.
I thought the paper's treatment of U.S. Rep. Phil Crane, R-Ill. when Carne was a candidate for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination was deserving of the condemnation it received in the New Hampshire General Court (our Legislature) when either one or both houses (my memory falters here) passed a resolution condemning the paper for publishing the vicious and unsubstantiated attacks.
But some of what the paper said has been misreported, none more so than the infamous "kike' designation for Kissinger. The use of the word was ill-advised, but the headline over the editorial, written not by Loeb but by B.J. McQuaid, had a question mark after the offending word. The editorial was aimed not at Kissinger, but at some of his critics on the left who were, as we say now, "dissing" him. McQuaid was suggesting, rightly or wrongly, that some of Kissinger's critics were motivated by anti-Semitism. It was like comedian Dick Gregory's use of the word "Nigger" as the title of his autobiography or a similar use of the term by whoever it was who wrote "The Student as Nigger," a late 1960's book complaining that students in most schools were treated like serfs or slaves.
Some resented then, and some apparently still do, some of the name-calling that Loeb used in his Page One editorials, especially when directed against the occupant of the Oval Office. I hold the office of president in "minimum high regard," but I also believe invective aimed at the occupant of that office is at least as much an American tradition as "Hail to the Chief." And I believe there was often reason enough to think of Dwight as "Dopey," Dick as "Tricky" and Jerry as a "Jerk." At least Loeb didn't beat around the bush, though if you will pardon the pun, he would probably have beat up on the Bushes if he had been alive to enjoy (make that "endure") the reins of "Poppy" and "Dubya."
Yet I think we are getting caught up in time warps, going from wildly premature debates over who should be Ron Paul's running mate, to arguing over Bill Loeb, who has been dead for 27 years already. Keep your "eyes on the prize," winning hearts and minds and votes for Ron Paul."
Thank you, Jack Kenny
So there you have it. The offending words were used to describe something someone ELSE had called the person that was the subject of the article and it was being called into question by the paper. And he called the sitting president names, names they likely deserved! Big deal.
So let's bury the hatchet, and NOT in each other's skull!
So let's bury the hatchet, and NOT in each other's skull. We have a country to save.
I was reading the Union Leader in the early to mid-1960's, before the Kissinger era. (And episodically in later years when NH relatives used papers as packing to cushion boxes of holiday treats.
So my attention to the epithet "kike" used by the Union Leader was one thing in my post which was indeed inspired by the Cash biography of Wm. Loeb.
I noticed the quotation had a question mark at the end; the citation did not give the context, and I will accept Mr. Kenny's explanation as valid. Bad taste, perhaps, but not in that instance an example of bigotry I think. And I have been guilty of bad taste, too, at times . . . years ago.
I am familiar with the two publications Mr. Kenny referred to: "Nigger" by Dick Gregory (still worth reading!) and "The Student As Nigger" (now only a historical curiosity.) Didn't know anyone else remembered either of those!
You may not get back to this thread---I hope everyone in NH is too busy!!---but let this be an example of how we can agree to disagree on many things, but all pull together for Dr. Paul.
p.s.: It was "screaming" capital letters and boldface type which editor Loeb so over-indulged in; though the headlines, too, were often inflammatory. But let's drop it. When you come to Minnesota for the convention, perhaps we may bump into each other . . . I'll hope to see your name as a delegate!
Technoklutz
My Saturday in NH...
I wake up to a phone call from Ron, who is talking about a particular issue...very effective.
I then go to my mailbox and find two large cards, one a trifold, in full color, each covering a particular issue that has been mailed to all households within the last week. Superbly done.
It's going to snow so I hurry to the store to pick up some food and put gas in the truck and while I am going between stops I hear two, TWO, Ron Paul ads on two separate radio stations that are popular in southern NH.
Hard hitting and concise. Great!
Later I come home and see a Ron Paul ad on TV...
Ron is all around us in NH, for sure!
Slogan
PAULITICS not "as usual"
A Catchy Slogan for Ron
Like "Read my lips, no new taxes" (only to find out there would be more old taxes) or "There you go again" (a Ron Reagan favorite) or "No child left behind" (what a load of crap), or "The New Deal" for example.
I don't know what kind of slogan we could use for Ron. How about something like, "Reform our government" or "No more Neo-Cons" or "No more business as usual".
I guess it could be something Ron says in his speeches like "Join the Revolution"!
I know, I suck at thinking up slogans for Paul. Anyone else have a good idea for a repetitive message for the masses?
Oh, and I saw a comment about arm-chair campaign managers. I suggest Ron's campaign manager at least consider the ideas from those of us who are trying to help.
catchy slogans
I like the ones cooked up by the Oregon people who make signs for Ron Paul. My favorite:
A free country---and your money back! Vote Ron Paul!
Technoklutz
Freedom is popular
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Freedom Is Popular!
And contagious. Let's keep spreading it! (Ron Paul style, of course!)
I second that!
Ron Paul already has a catch phrase:
Freedom is popular!
I've been writing to Iowans, and after my signature I write:
P.S. Freedom is popular!
Good piece
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Didn't know that Trevor (Lyman) was up in N'ampsha, but this guy has worked miracles in fundraising - maybe he can help wake up some of the Granite state residents that remains asleep and uncommitted.
Seems like New Hampshire needs something really amazing - but I don't know what that could be. The blimp is far away, and the money bomb II is set for Sunday. The RP campaign supporters are a very clever bunch and I am pretty sure they will hit on an idea that is captivating and effective!
OK Trevor - time for another whiz-bang miracle!
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NH has more support than you might know. :-)
Like they say in the prelude to the article, the work and support is not being as widely publicized as it should be. We have NH covered, believe me.
For example, the LP thinks we have had no phone contact. This is just not true. I got my 7th or 8th call today from the campaign. This is why their efforts on this phone bank, IMHO, are being wasted.
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For Real I worry we are spending too much time on New Hampshire.
What about all the other states? What about the big states with the most amount of delegates and votes are we hitting those as hard? Are people going to volunteer to canvas in Texas, California, New York and Florida??
Thanks
But then again, I'm a 'know-it-all' for expressing this very same opinion.
I got my 8th call from 'Ron' yesterday. NH is a relatively tiny state and we have it pretty much covered. I know I personally visited every county/GOP and then some, this summer, as well as covered fairs and festivals and old home days, mostly alone due to lack of volunteer cooperation with many necessary tasks.