Shocking, I know: a racist has infiltrated the Republican party and become a mildly popular* presidential candidate. What’s next? Will the friendly friends at Fox & Friends turn unfriendly? Sadly, I may be the last to know, since I cannot in good conscience turn to The Colbert Report for my daily dose of punditry, seeing as how he and Stewart are crossing the picket line and all. But on the bright side, I’m enjoying the hell out of his audio book. Which, coincidentally, reads like a page out of Ron Paul’s newsletter: “Postscript: When I say I don’t see race, what I mean is that I don’t see blacks. But I can spot a Mexican at 100 paces.”
Which brings me back to the misogynistic, homophobic, racist, xenophobic, and just general all-around bigoted nutjob that is Ron Paul. Though there’s much to discuss re: the delightfully titled Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, a point -by-point would be too tedious. And easy. I mean, yesterday some Ron Paul troll rang up my local radio station to rant about their “conspiratorial” (i.e., less than fawning) Ron Paul coverage, and even the idiot morning show host was able to smack her down with ease. Not that difficult, seeing as how she was vehemently defending** Japanese internment by the end of the call, but still. That just further illustrates my point.
No, I just want to refute one of the many excuses the Ron Paulites keep bandying about. Probably one of the dumbest ones, methinks, and one that’s went largely unchallenged in the MSM.
It should also be noted that Ron Paul likely did not write any of these articles himself, just as Steve Forbes is not the author of everything in Forbes magazine. ***
There’s one very obvious difference between the “articles” that appeared in RP’s newsletter and those in Forbes magazine: a little something called bylines. You know, the part where the author claims authorship of his or her work. It’s widely known that Steve Forbes, for example, does not write every fucking article in Forbes magazine, because Forbes’s many individual writers brazenly take credit for their work. If, on the other hand, every piece appearing in Forbes was written in the first person, as in, “I, Steve Forbes”; referred to personal aspect of Steve Forbes’s life, again in the first person; and did not give credit to the author(s), then it would be safe – nay, correct – to think that Steve Forbes personally authored them. Or, at the very least, had them ghostwritten, which implies that the thoughts contained therein are his own, even if the exact verbiage is not.
Like, duh.
And another thing: let’s just say that some douchebag (or series of douchebags) did write the articles without Ron Paul’s knowledge. Let’s say our good Congressman had nothing to do with the newsletter at all: he didn’t write the newsletter, didn’t edit it, hell, didn’t even read or know about it. And he finds out, years later (while he’s running for president!), that some jagoff wrote and published this appallingly racist drivel under his name! Behind his back! Without his consent! If I were Ron Paul, I’d be pretty fucking pissed off. I’d want to track down the loser who did it, rip him a new one, publish his name on my website so that my minions could unleash the wrath of the unhinged on his or her ass. At the very least, I’d want to clear my name. Wouldn’t you?
Paul’s spokesman says the candidate doesn’t know who wrote them. When we asked if Mr. Paul would try to find out, the spokesman said, no, what’s the point? This is 15 years old. It’s time to move on.”
Ahem.
If Paul’s not racist – heck, the “anti-racist”, as he so forcefully proclaims (most recently, in his train wreck of an “interview” on The Situation Room last night; Wolf Blitzer should be shot in the testicles for giving Paul a platform to spout his bullshit without question) – then wouldn’t he be angry enough at the racist garbage published under his name to at least make an attempt to find the bigot who did write it? Being anti-racist is more than just being pro-drugs, asshole. In fact, the two aren’t even the same. I’m sure there are plenty of Klansmen who enjoy the ganja on occasion.
All in all, I’d say that this statement
Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks.
basically puts this claim
Libertarians are incapable of being a racist
to bed. And tucks it in with soft, 600-thread count ivory sheets.
To quote Stephen Colbert, DFA,
So, maybe until that great day when all humans can’t see color, those with darker skin should take the Invisible Man’s brave example and wrap themselves in the white bandages of unity so that we all truly look the same color.
You see, White people are already wrapped in bandages: the skin God gave us to protect us from racism. People of all colors deserve no less.
Or maybe I read that in Ron Paul’s Freedom Report. I forget.
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* Among fringe separatist/survivalist reich-wing zealots and easily manipulated anti-war libs, at least.
** “WE’RE AT WAR! THE BROWN PEOPLE! THEY WANT TO DESTROY AMERICA!!!1!!!”
*** Source. One of many examples.
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Tagged: Ron Paul 2008 elections libertarian race racist Ron Paul’s Freedom report MSM mainstream media wolf blitzer CNN misogyny homophobia homophobe stephen colbert the colbert report I Am America
