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Old 12-24-2011, 05:51 PM
 
Location: MW
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So it doesn't matter that Ron helped found the company that wrote the newsletter, put his name to it, promoted it (TV and print), ran it on a day to day basis, and paid the writer(s) for nearly 20 years? Only the person who wrote the original article bears any responsibility at all for the content?

Wow, that's astonishing.
He has taken responsibility. He didn't write it, so why should he take responsibility for the views written? He HAS taken responsibility for letting them get published.
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Old 12-24-2011, 05:57 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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He didn't write it, so why should he take responsibility for the views written?
Well, he started and ran the company expressly to publish and promote those views. This wasn't some rogue writer.

I thought that would be obvious to a 6 year old.

Not many people would found and run a company, while while using their face to promote things they don't believe in for nearly 2 decades.
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Old 12-24-2011, 06:01 PM
 
Location: MW
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Well, he started and ran the company expressly to publish and promote those views. This wasn't some rogue writer.

I thought that would be obvious to a 6 year old.

Not many people would found and run a company, while while using their face to promote things they don't believe in for nearly 2 decades.
I'm done explaining these things. He said he didn't usually read them. So he didn't know what was being published, which he has taken responsibility for.
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Old 12-24-2011, 06:03 PM
 
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So it doesn't matter that Ron helped found the company that wrote the newsletter, put his name to it, promoted it (TV and print), ran it on a day to day basis, and paid the writer(s) for nearly 20 years? Only the person who wrote the original article bears any responsibility at all for the content?

Wow, that's astonishing.
He said he didn't know about it until 10 years after they were published...and he has been saying ever since then that he takes responsibility for the lack of oversight in their publishing that content. So yeah, once he was aware of the issue he addressed it...again, how do you propose he solves the problem to your satisfaction?

Additionally, did you even read the bullet points I posted earlier in this thread, they raise some pretty basic questions that make any "Ron Paul is a racist" claim pretty difficult to prove...yet no legitimate news source is even touching those items.
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Old 12-24-2011, 06:05 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck....it's a duck!
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Old 12-24-2011, 06:06 PM
 
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The Paul Campaign should just direct any journalist who asks about the racist newsletter to this:

PaulNewslettersFaq_Tunk (http://www.scribd.com/doc/76280303/PaulNewslettersFaq-Tunk - broken link)
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Old 12-24-2011, 06:07 PM
 
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If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck....it's a duck!
Exactly, and his libertarian view that says that EVERYONE regardless of race, religion, or sex has the same rights in this country should tell you that he is not a racist.
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Old 12-24-2011, 06:10 PM
 
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there is a pic of ron paul with don black (founder of stormfront) online
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Old 12-24-2011, 06:14 PM
 
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there is a pic of ron paul with don black (founder of stormfront) online
yes, and here is a picture of Richard Nixon's wife with John Wayne Gayce...let me know when they arrest her for being a homicidal murderer.

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Old 12-24-2011, 06:18 PM
 
Location: Hinckley Ohio
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I'm done explaining these things. He said he didn't usually read them. So he didn't know what was being published, which he has taken responsibility for.
Yet I cannot help but think you would be one that try to tie rev Wright's words to Obama even though Obama wasn't at many of the sermons. Paul's name wad on all the newsletters.
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