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Member Section => Politics & RKBA => Topic started by: tombogan03884 on December 22, 2011, 12:25:22 PM
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http://news.yahoo.com/ron-paul-storms-off-cnn-set-questioning-over-061843698.html
Ron Paul furrowed his eyebrows before storming off completely during a CNN interview addressing allegations that he made money and won fame with the help of a sometimes racist series of newsletters back in the 1990s. Paul is the same candidate that many have said has been ignored by the media -- some would say, though, he's not -- but since he's been climbing in the polls and suddenly appears to be a real contender in the Republican primary race, the media's turned up the heat. CNN's Gloria Borger was just starting to grill Paul about the details of his involvement in the racist newsletters, when the candidate stonewalled her. "Why don't you go back and look at what I said yesterday on CNN and what I’ve said for 20-something years. 22 years ago?" Paul said right at the outset. "I didn't write them, I disavow them, that's it."
Borger, like a good journalist, pressed on for a few seconds before urging Paul to react to what people are saying about the two-decade old allegations. "These things are pretty incendiary," Borger said. "Because of people like you," Paul snapped back, just before he pulled of his microphone and headed for the door. "I appreciate your answering the questions, and you understand it's our job to ask them," the reporter said, almost apologetically as Paul was leaving.
Later, when talking about the incident on air, Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer suggested that Paul "got tired of talking about" the allegations. "He clearly thinks it's irrelevant," Borger told Blitzer. "It’s clearly a question he’d rather not be asked."
Bet he wishes he'd been ignored a little more ;D
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And I thought disavowed was the magic word with the press?
When Obama disavowed Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers, he was washed clean and anointed.
Wonder what Paul did wrong?
Maybe he didn't have a teleprompter.
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Just stupid. I mean if it were Herman Cain you could (maybe) chalk it up to newbe stupidity. But Paul? This ain't his first rodeo. Rule #1, don't throw a hissy fit on air. The correct response would simply be to say "I can't control or police the thoughts of everyone who supported me. I disavow those positions and my record speake to that. I don't think the President agrees with the remarks of all of those who supported him, and he's said so. I think that I am entitled to the same benefit". Boom, question answered (or neutralized). Next question please? That was just amateur hour.
FQ13
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You're right, FQ.
The words would have been "magic" stated like that.....and more believable than when spoken by BHO as Paul's involvement with the "bad element" was far in his past while BHO's was current events....
Much more than his association with those in his past and more than some of his "oblique" political positions, his crumbling under this pressure is most revealing and negative.
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Don't be duped by the mainstream media.
http://www.dailypaul.com/196334/cnn-released-unedited-interview-ron-paul-did-not-storm-out-it-was-a-creative-editing-hit-job
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yea, I watched most of the interview. He wasn't happy but he never "stormed" out of the meeting. He did remove his mic and stuff and left!