Another NYT blog Ron Paul hit piece
Posted on December 25th, 2007 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, Aaron Russo, Bryan Preston, Christmas, elections, fascism, Mike Huckabee, New York Times, politics, racism, Ron Paul, Tim Russerthttp://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/…
Ron Paul took a bit of heat the other day when he intimated that Mike Huckabee’s maybe-that’s-a-cross-maybe-it-isn’t Christmas ad had a whiff of fascism to it.
In his appearance on Meet the Press yesterday, Tim Russert brought up the incident, and found Paul eager on the subject. “I think this country, a movement in the last 100 years, is moving toward fascism,” the candidate explained. “Fascism today, the softer term, because people have different definition of fascism, is corporatism when the military industrial complex runs the show, when the — in the name of security pay — pass the Patriot Act … There’s one documentary that’s been put out recently that has generated a lot of interest called ‘Freedom to Fascism.’ And we’re moving in that direction. Were not moving toward Hitler-type fascism, but we’re moving toward a softer fascism.”
Bryan Preston at Hot Air remains unconvinced: “He was unprepared for that question, heard about a cross in an ad, and thought immediately of fascism. Not the Christmas season, that being this very time of year. Not church or anything like that. Fascism. That’s the mind of a bigot at work.”
I realize this is, as was the last, a blog post but it’s so very bias and obviously a hit piece. This is more the type of thing I’d expect to see in a rag mag. “[T]he mind of a bigot at work.”? Are they referring to bigotry toward Christianity? That’d be interesting given that Dr. Paul is a Baptist who has two brothers who are Lutheran ministers and who before going into medicine had considered the same profession.
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December 26th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
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December 26th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Interesting that this post above is considered one of several bashing Ron Paul given that I criticize the comments made by the NYT blog post and my site is obviously pro-Paul. And what is with the "blog of bile I love Ron Paul" thing? Where was that picked up from? The other links are straight to anti-Paul articles. Is the author attempting to poke fun at my post? What is there to even argue? How does a devout Baptist who nearly became a Lutheran minister and has two brothers who are Lutheran ministers be considered bigoted toward Christianity? Toward an ordained Southern Baptist minister?
December 26th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
A few things.
1. There is not such thing as bad publicity
2. People who are devout and have ministers in their family are very likely to become bigoted against Christianity.
December 26th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
1. That’s false. There is definitely bad publicity. Take a look at Howard Dean’s presidential run.
2. I think you are overly generalizing. I know lots and lots of people who come from devout families and the large portion of them did not turn against their families teachings. If that where a "very likely" thing than you’d not have any group of devout anything lasting more than a generation or two. And we aren’t talking about Paul becoming anything… we are talking about right now. Right now he is a devout Baptist who regularly attends church, talks about how freedom and liberty are derived from God and by all accounts is on good terms with his minister brothers. To call him bigoted toward Christianity is ridiculous.