Ron Paul staff reneges on column deal!!!
Posted April 7th, 2008 by crazycarman
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Can somebody please explain to me why on earth RP's staff would not want to do this deal????
These folks wrote plenty of great articles about the good Doctor in the past and it looks like they were supporting him!
They get something like 12 MILLION hits a month!!
What gives???
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No one here knows. Send him
No one here knows. Send him an e-mail and ask.
It's already been answered.
It *IS* known. I posted the reason below. I'll post it again for the illiterate or the lazy who can't scroll down:
Ron Paul's weekly column is produced as part of his work as a Congressman. He writes it and it is published by the newspapers back home in his Texas district as a way of keeping them in touch with their congressman. Because the column is produced and distributed out of his House budget, it would be illegal (and a slap in the face to his constituents back home) if he allowed it to be published exclusively in a for-profit publication.
This has already been answered by the campaign, and what I said above is a summary of the answer they gave a few weeks ago when this happened.
WND (World Nuked Daily) is a neo-con, Israel-First rag that shouted down Dr. Paul every chance they had. They were just attempting to capitalize on Dr. Paul's popularity by cooking this deal up. They will publish any conservative columnist, even if they don't agree with them, just to get the readers. They currently publish Pat Buchanan's columns, despite easily 85% of them being in opposition to WND's editorial stances.
Paul's articles have been
Paul's articles have been available for years for anyone who wants to see them. His message of limited govt and non interventionism is not best suited to limit his columns in an alleged ''exclusive" agreement with a neocon warmongering site. farrah, who endorsed Bush in 2004, (I can forgive a viote in 2000, but not in 2004) is either not smart or sincere enough to be the 'exlusive' host of Dr Paul's articles.
Lewrockwell, Infowars, and many other sites already post the articles,.
"All men in power should be distrusted.." -James Madison
What Farah said:
But there are two men left in the race that deserve further scrutiny and consideration. Neither is perfect. Neither was my first choice. But if you insist on playing the lesser of evils game, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee should be considered.
My reservations about Paul are twofold: He's wrong about the external threats we face as a nation. He believes we brought them all on ourselves. He believes they will disappear if we retreat. He's just plain wrong about that. He also has no experience in governing and leading. It's easy to sit in the House of Representatives and vote correctly, which he has done, most of the time, for many years. Turning around the federal monster single-handedly is another story.
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Unfounded, unfair, and uneducated analysis.
Blowback!
Ron is right about this. Farah can go to hell, the Zionist Pig!
Your statement regarding
Ron Pauls attidude about external threats ignores the plain truth that we can no longer afford to be the policemen of the world. What other nation in the world has one tenth the foreign bases the US has? Why and how has China become the economic juggernaut it has without the need to inhabit countries in our hemishere? The external and internal threats to our economic wellbeing are much greater than any "terrorist" group or even nation could pose. Empire building is a tried and true way to destroy a government and we are well on our way to repeating history. This once great nation has been over run and over taken by individuals who have placed their self interest above our national interest and our Government now serves them and not us. It is well past time to fall back and regroup to attempt to preserve this great experiment.
As far as turning around the monster single handedly, no one is under the impression Dr. Paul can do it alone but being able to appoint cabinet members is truly a big club. A President also appoints a few judges if I remember correctly and the right ones in the right place might set us back on the Constitutional course we have allowed our "rulers" to stray so far from.
Chessienut, your argument is
Chessienut, your argument is a very good one, one that I have made over and over with the brainwashed, usually to no good effect. Yes, it IS funny how China has become such an economic power with the need for worldwide bases, isn't it? I have argued this endlessly with people, just WHAT do we gain, as individuals or as a nation, by being the policeman of the world? Their typcial Neocon response: "Do you want China to be the one world superpower?" And I say, Let them have at it! If we aren't posing such an imminent threat to China, or Russia, by being the (bankrupt) policeman of the world, why should I or we care if China does it instead? In fact, let's ENCOURAGE them to, and take the load off of us!
It's all just so much kindergarten-level fearmongering, I can't fathom how even the dumbest and most ignorant among us can't see it.
Not to mention
if they decide to go at us where else will they be able to pawn off their poisonous inferior goods? Admittedly the Chinese have shown our Military Industrial complex just how effectivly and quickly a backward repressive nation can become the economic powerhouse it has by utilizing slave labor to initiate its plans. Makes me look at the so called FEMA camps and the 18 to 20 million illegals in this country in a whole new light.
>>Unfounded, unfair, and
>>Unfounded, unfair, and uneducated analysis.
You're right on. anyone who follows this stuff knows farrah is not a friend of freedom and probably only wanted exclusive rights to paul's columns in order to try and quash them.
WND can line the bird cage, thats about it.
"All men in power should be distrusted.." -James Madison
Illegal, that's why
Ron Paul's weekly column is produced as part of his work as a Congressman. He writes it and it is published by the newspapers back home in his Texas district as a way of keeping them in touch with their congressman. Because the column is produced and distributed out of his House budget, it would be illegal (and a slap in the face to his constituents back home) if he allowed it to be published exclusively in a for-profit publication.
This has already been answered by the campaign, and what I said above is a summary of the answer they gave a few weeks ago when this happened.
WND (World Nuked Daily) is a neo-con, Israel-First rag that shouted down Dr. Paul every chance they had. They were just attempting to capitalize on Dr. Paul's popularity by cooking this deal up. They will publish any conservative columnist, even if they don't agree with them, just to get the readers. They currently publish Pat Buchanan's columns, despite easily 85% of them being in opposition to WND's editorial stances.
Although, Buchanan endorsed
Although, Buchanan endorsed bush in 2004, so his credibility it is nearly NIL.
2004 was long, long past the point of no return for smart former boosh supporters.
"All men in power should be distrusted.." -James Madison
Ron Paul was asked on C-SPAN
if he would endorse Bush in 2004. He did not answer "no way in hell" or "not a chance!". He said he would consider it if Bush called him up and they had a chance to discuss some issues.
I do not pretend to know who Ron Paul voted for in 2004, but when asked on live nationwide TV, he did not answer the question of would he endorse Bush with an outright "no."
So lay off PJB; even RP did not take a hard anti-Bush line in that election.
Thank you for clarifying!
"Whether you think you can or think you cannot, you're absolutely right!"
Is WND bringing this up again??
This was discussed a few weeks ago in an earlier thread. If you look for it, there was a lot of good information there.
Don't be fooled...
They were not kind to Dr. Paul at all. Farah wants Israel to be the stepchild of the U.S. forever. He and Chucky Norris were pushing Huckabee the whole time. They were only somewhat kind to Dr. Paul after Huckabee dropped out. I used to love WND. Now I read it with the same disparaging eye as the MSM. I about puked when I read that Dr. Paul was going to be a contributor-even said to myself "what a sell-out." Pepsi's great when Coke is no longer popular. I believe they did want exclusive rights. Why would Dr. Paul want to give that to a staunch Huckabee supporting website? They portrayed Huck as the only pro-life candidate, and the only anti-IRS candidate, and not one mention of Ron Paul. He was considered the plague until they thought they could make some money off of him. They disgust me. I still read to see what the enemy is posting.
Thanks! I wasn't aware that...
they treated our good Doctor unfairly in the past...
Watch your enemies!
"Whether you think you can or think you cannot, you're absolutely right!"
Very well said,
I keep an eye on the enemy too.
Not sure why, but I trust the good doctors judgment
..if he decided he did not want to be affiliated with WND then I trust his judgment.
I agree with you but...
it seems (if you scroll to the bottom of that article, you'll see the link) that there WAS some kind of deal worked out , then RP's folks backed out.
"Whether you think you can or think you cannot, you're absolutely right!"
Exclusive Agreement????
Sounds like they wanted and exclusive deal that would prohibit Ron Paul from publishing in other places.
This would be a deal breaker.
If they would grant him the right to submit a weekly article, no strings attached, I am confident it would be different.
he is antiwar
WND supports war and islamophobia.
-A liberal for Ron Paul.
I guess you may be right
I just got very pissed after seeing it.... but I guess RP had to have had say in the deal....
"Whether you think you can or think you cannot, you're absolutely right!"
When this first happened
When this first happened, someone stated that it would be against either federal campaign law, or Congressional rules of play for a Congressman to exclusively give out a weekly address to one media outlet.
WND can not have exclusivity with a member of Congress.
I would think that the campaign staff either didn't realize WND was asking for exclusivity, or they didn't fully understand the ramifications of agreeing to the 'deal'.
WND surely understood those rules, as they've been around for quite some time - and we don't see any other 'exclusive' deals with other members of Congress.
WND should be a little less cry-baby-ish about it... they've had many an article favorable to RP, but just as many - if not more - that denegrated RP and Constitutional Government.
That makes sense and
it does seem pretty crybabyish... just weird for them to make the prior "announcement" is strange
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