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Topic started on 6-2-2008 @ 01:03 PM by biggie smalls

Media Smeared Paul For Racism, Ignored McCain's "Gook" Comments


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A shining example of how the media engaged in a witch hunt as part a coordinated campaign to sink the presidential campaign of Congressman Ron Paul is when they attacked him for vaguely racist comments made by other people in the 80's, while completely ignoring the fact that Republican frontrunner John McCain openly said he hated "gooks" more recently.
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reply posted on 6-2-2008 @ 01:03 PM by biggie smalls
I posted a thread about McCain's "gook" comment and not many even cared.

This is the POTENTIAL President we are speaking about. I really couldn't give a # less if you were in the Vietnam war and 'hate' the Vietnamese.

This is not the kind of person we want leading our nation.

To have another hate-filled President will break the country's back (if its not already smashed in half from the past 30 years of abuse).

We CANNOT allow racists in the Oval Office, especially if we know they are and are not afraid to say so. SNIP ridiculous.

James Kirchick's New Republic hit piece, which was echoed by every sector of the establishment media for weeks on end, was a vitriolic, biased, and agenda-driven smear attack that lumped in half-truths, outright lies and guilt by association in an attempt to demonize Ron Paul as a racist.


Nice NR, "Conservative" my ass. You sold out big time.

Bear in mind that the comments Kirchick based his article on were largely drawn from newsletters put out in the 1980's of which Ron Paul had no editorial control over. Despite the fact that the comments were made by other people, Ron Paul apologized anyway and yet the feeding frenzy that ensued blatantly exposed the fact that the establishment had been chomping at the bit to seize on anything negative to attack the Congressman with.


Ron Paul apologized DESPITE not even making the comments himself. What a stand up guy.

Here's the kicker:

Meanwhile, John "Keating Five", ahem I mean John "anti-corruption" McCain, disgracefully said he hated "gooks" in public for assembled reporters to hear during his previous presidential campaign in 2000.

"I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live," McCain said on his campaign bus.

'So what? This happened eight years ago and McCain apologized for it soon after', would be the likely Neo-Con riposte.

Compare it to Ron Paul, who is still apologizing for comments made by other people 20 years ago, as establishment hacks ninny and obsess about his imaginary links to white supremacists.


Yeah, what you McCain lovers gotta say about this?

Read the article before you speak and I don't care if it comes from a conspiracy based website.

What do you think ATS is? The mainstream media .


"I AM THE MEDIA!"
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reply posted on 7-2-2008 @ 11:52 AM by biggie smalls
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It is truly scary when a Presidential candidate uses racial slurs and laughs about...Then NO ONE IN THE SNIP MEDIA SAYS ANYTHING!

What the SNIP is wrong with the world? Ron Paul apologized for something he had no control over and is given a ton of SNIP, meanwhile some other douche bag says whatever the SNIPhe wants and nothing happens?

SNIP you media. SNIP you fox news. SNIP you msnbc. SNIP you cnn. SNIP .





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reply posted on 7-2-2008 @ 01:32 PM by jtma508
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I hear you biggie. Loud and clear. Things are screwed in they seem to be hurtling toward a brick wall these days. I'm a child of the cold war. I remember the fear. It was a cakewalk with Mr. Rogers compared to these days.


reply posted on 8-2-2008 @ 02:53 AM by The Walking Fox
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Yes, just like that "free pass" they gave to her husband, amirite? Once McCain gets the nomination, the news networks will give him hours of free campaign time, and will do what they're already doing with Clintobama - her hair looks funny, her laugh sounds weird, he's a muslim, no, really, and we have no idea what he's saying (but he's so articulate!)

For the record, yes, I find McCain's comments disturbing - In fact I find him very disturbing, in total. I feel bad for Republicans for this election. You're voting between a poke in the eye or a kick in the balls. However I'm not going to buy into the idea of Ron Paul being totally clean of racism, if only because I give him enough intellectual credit that I figure he probably read the newsletter dedicated to him (since he DID write pieces for it and all...)

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reply posted on 22-2-2008 @ 03:22 PM by biggie smalls
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Actually, we do.

We are Americans and if he wants to be President of the USA we have every right to question him.

So if I was tortured by let's say...Mexicans I have every right to call the whole ethnic/racial group derogatory slurs?

No I do not.

That's called bigotry.

And we should expect more from a US President.

If he wants to be President he should have a little more class than to call his ex-captors gooks.



What ever happened to forgiveness?

If he calls himself a Christian he should be able to forgive those who 'trespassed against him.'

Wasn't there a Yeshua saying about giving your enemy the other cheek.

McCain is Bush Junior.

If you're into that sort of thing, kiss his ass all you want.



reply posted on 22-2-2008 @ 05:12 PM by Alxandro
Originally posted by biggie smalls
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Actually, we do.

We are Americans and if he wants to be President of the USA we have every right to question him.

So if I was tortured by let's say...Mexicans I have every right to call the whole ethnic/racial group derogatory slurs?

No I do not.

That's called bigotry.


Yes, it's bigotry but you would still have every right to call the Mexi's anything you want because no nobody has the right or the capability of forcing you to forgive and forget.
No one can force you or I to like another person just because it is PC.

That would be like forcing people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharption to like Whites. Not gonna happen.



And we should expect more from a US President.

If he wants to be President he should have a little more class than to call his ex-captors gooks.

What ever happened to forgiveness?

If he calls himself a Christian he should be able to forgive those who 'trespassed against him.'

Wasn't there a Yeshua saying about giving your enemy the other cheek.

McCain is Bush Junior.

If you're into that sort of thing, kiss his ass all you want.


Actually I don't like McCain but yes we should expect more from a Prez.
Likewise, we should also respect the Presidency regardless of who is in office, but we don't.


reply posted on 22-2-2008 @ 07:41 PM by biggie smalls
No, actually he voted against banning it.

He's willing to let the CIA use it.

Lieberman and McCain advocating torture?

from the source in that thread:

Sen. Joe Lieberman on Thursday defended his Senate vote against a ban on CIA waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, saying such methods could be justified, but only in rare cases to save American lives.

"We have to allow the president to allow the toughest measures to be used when there is an imminent threat to our country," Lieberman said in a conference call with reporters.

Like Lieberman, Republican presidential contender Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, voted against the measure. Lieberman has campaigned for McCain, who effectively sealed the GOP nomination last week after rival Mitt Romney dropped out of the race.



How do you explain that?

He's pro-torture.
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