Ron Paul Praised Anti-Semitic Magazine On Congressional Letterhead

Irregular Times ^

[mnehring]

When Ron Paul is photographed smiling with a well-known white supremacists, when Ron Paul is described as having frequent meetings with neo-Nazis, when Ron Paul refuses to return money sent to him by Aryan Nation lawyers, when Ron Paul speaks before the Robert A. Taft club – a group with ties to white supremacists, and when Ron Paul either supervised or wrote consistently racist political newsletters from which he earned financial profits, Ron Paul supporters have an quick explanation: Ron Paul didn’t actually know anything about any of these activities. They claim that, over the course of several decades, Ron Paul just kept on accidentally hiring people (people whose names he says he cannot remember) who wrote racist articles that then Ron Paul falsely claimed to be his own. They claim that it’s just an accident that Ron Paul has been keeping money sent to him by white supremacists for years. They say that neo-Nazis who say that they have seen Ron Paul at many neo-Nazi meetings over the years are just a bunch of liars.

Ron Paul supporters have no explanation for the fact that no other presidential candidates have such a long and rich history of contact with radical Nazi sympathizers.

Yesterday, The New Republic revealed a new set of documents from Ron Paul that ought to settle the matter among people of open minds. The documents are newsletters, letters, and other documents than span the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and contain support for crazy conspiracy theories such as the Trilateral Commission, extreme sexism, homophobia and radical racism. The documents gathered by The New Republic also make it clear that Ron Paul talked to people about his newsletters quite often, and that he read the newsletters, in direct contradiction to his recent assertions. It strains credulity for Ron Paul to claim that rogue individuals were inserting bigotry into Paul’s publications, under Paul’s own name, without his knowledge, for such a long period of time.

One particular document among those newly release by The New Republic caught my attention. This document is a letter written by Ron Paul, signed by Ron Paul, on Ron Paul’s official congressional letterhead. The document is no form letter. It is written in direct response to the specific points of a previous correspondence, with Ron Paul expressing personal opinions from his own experience. In the article, Ron Paul thanks a constituent, Amos R. Bruce, for sending him a copy of The American Mercury magazine.

The American Mercury is an extreme right wing publication that has for years included frequent expressions of racism, sexism, and holocaust denial. An article currently featured by The American Mercury calls the idea that six million Jews were killed by the Nazis a “Zionist Fraud”. The publisher of The American Mercury at the time of Ron Paul’s praise of the magazine was Willis Carto, a proponent of anti-Jew conspiracy theories who once declared, “If Satan himself, with all of his super-human genius and diabolical ingenuity at his command, had tried to create a permanent disintegration and force for the destruction of the nations, he could have done no better than to invent the Jews.”

Ron Paul supporters may struggle now to come up with elaborate explanations of this letter, saying that it’s just a coincidence, or that it isn’t genuine, or that Ron Paul didn’t mean to praise antisemitism, but just to praise particular ideas expressed by antisemitic publications. Even if they succeed in these particular efforts to defend Ron Paul, they have failed to grapple with the immense size and scope of the growing pile of evidence that Ron Paul has had consistent ties with racism and other forms of bigotry for almost his entire political career.

[mnehring]

I thought the American Mercury was long dead but a quick Google search found them alive and kicking and even worse than I remember. Their cover story today is about how 'non-Jewish whites are more evolved and should separate themselves'.... Wow!

[mnehring]

Ping,
Thought this old racist magazine from the 1930s was dead decade ago but it is still around and guess who is praising it.

[FormerACLUmember]

Ron Paul is a highly seductive nut.

[Proud2BeRight]

“...ought to settle the matter among people of open minds.”

That sure doesn’t include out the average Paul cultist.

[Proud2BeRight]

typo correction:
That sure doesn’t include the average Paul cultist.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks mnehring.

When Ron Paul is photographed smiling with a well-known white supremacists, when Ron Paul is described as having frequent meetings with neo-Nazis, when Ron Paul refuses to return money sent to him by Aryan Nation lawyers, when Ron Paul speaks before the Robert A. Taft club -- a group with ties to white supremacists, and when Ron Paul either supervised or wrote consistently racist political newsletters from which he earned financial profits, Ron Paul supporters have an quick explanation: Ron Paul didn't actually know anything about any of these activities.

[SunkenCiv]

/bingo

[SunkenCiv]

Except for the “highly seductive” part. :’)

[BlackElk]

AND this is in addition to some Paulistinian newsletter offering for sale the infamous and fraudulent: Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

What will Ron Paul think of next? Perhaps a specific defense of the blood libel on his Congressional letterhead?

[mnehring]

I’m trying to predict the Paultard’s excuses. It will be either:

1. The American Mercury isn’t racist, that is just PC talk by leftists.

or

2. Oh, the newsletters again, everyone knows Paul didn’t know about them and apparently his ghostwriter also had his congressional letterhead (which brings up a whole other issue).

[Marcella]

bookmark

[rmlew]

They seem to have restarted in 2010.

[running_dog_lackey]

“Ron Paul Praised Anti-Semitic Magazine On Congressional Letterhead”

Could you show us where in fact Paul has praised American Mercury? The letter (http://www.tnr.com/sites/default/files/Aug79Let.PDF) shows that Paul thanked Amos W. Bruce for sending a copy of an article, which Paul says he found interesting.
Another lie perhaps? If Paul is so bad, why do people have to lie about his positions?

[jmc813]

I’m trying to predict the Paultard’s excuses. It will be either: 1. The American Mercury isn’t racist, that is just PC talk by leftists. or 2. Oh, the newsletters again, everyone knows Paul didn’t know about them and apparently his ghostwriter also had his congressional letterhead (which brings up a whole other issue).

or 3. Nobody cares about your incessant vanities as shown by the lack of replies to your spamming on FR lately. You used to be one of the better posters around here. Damn shame.

[JimSEA]

It should be footnoted that the “American Mercury” was not anti Semetic or racist from its beginnings in the 20’s until it was bought out in 1952. Thereafter, it was despicable.

[RaceBannon]

once again, here it is, this time on his own letterhead

you are supporting a racist anti-semite for president

you have been given the proof right here in his own letterhead document

his own

[mnehring]

You are right, unfortunately they keep talking about their founding as though those who started it would somehow condone what they have become.

[jmc813]

once again, here it is, this time on his own letterhead

you are supporting a racist anti-semite for president

you have been given the proof right here in his own letterhead document

his own

Is your Shift and Period key broken? I feel like I'm reading from a third-grader.

[RaceBannon]

is your sense of reading comprehension so flawed that you are the new post nanny on everyone’s grammar?

[RaceBannon]

Hey, this little self-imposed grammar nanny named you in his home page! :)

http://www.freerepublic.com/~jmc813/