Source: The Daily Beast
Date: 23 December, 2011
It's
normal for the media to attack the popular candidate, it thrives on bashing those with a certain prominence in society. First it was Cain's sexual
harassment, then to Gingrich's affairs, and now recently are the accusations of
Ron Paul being racist. Ron Paul once was a publisher for a newspaper that contained some racist material within its contents. The author, Michael
Tomasky, thinks that Paul should own up to these racist claims and even mentions the
CNN interview that Ron Paul had with reporter Gloria Borger. CNN edited the interview,
but an UNCUT video has been released and I don't think Tomasky has seen
it, or at least it seems so in his article. Michael advises, "So here is the first thing Paul can do, which is to
provide an answer to a simple question: If he didn’t write those sentences, who
did? Why not say?" In the interview Ron Paul states that he didn't even read
most of the articles he published, he was still a practicing
doctor.
If the public buys into the Tomasky's propaganda then
Ron Paul might lose some credibility. Tomasky is incredibly biased against
Ron Paul, "This might not disqualify Paul
from serving in Congress. There are all kinds of loons there. But for president,
surely we can all agree that we can do better than this." Ron Paul is known to be a rights activist and should
be the considered the complete opposite of a racist. The UNCUT interview has
gained several views and earned a front page spot on the Youtube page, which is
how I stumbled upon the interview even before reading this article talking about
the edited interview. I don't think the racial attack is going to hurt Ron Paul
that much, in Iowa Polls he's leading the other candidates. I believe that
voters won't be phased by the media trying to hurt frontrunners in this bid for the presidency.
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