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    Ron Paul Can't Handle the Heat in 'Hell's Kitchen'

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    COMMENTARY | Ron Paul is getting just a little bit irritated about questions over the racist articles in his newsletters published in the 1990s. He unplugged his microphone and walked out of a CNN interview when pressed on the subject, according to the L.A. Times.

    When Newt Gingrich complained about negative advertising being directed against him by Mitt Romney, Romney repeated the often quoted statement by President Harry Truman about if one cannot stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Then, according to Fox News, he suggested that President Obama was going to bring forth "Hell's Kitchen," referring to a show on the Fox Network where Chef Gordon Ramsey abuses cooking competitors.

    If Ron Paul thinks that being asked about his newsletters is aggravating, he might want to think upon what Romney said. Obama and his people will drape Paul with a white sheet and make him like it in the unlikely event that he gets the Republican nomination. How Paul would react to such treatment, considering how he ran away from CNN, can only be imagined.

    Indeed, his supporters, attracted by what they think is his stout defense of the Constitution, might want to consider how Paul seems to be unable to defend something that at the very least was done in his name. His protestations that he did not write the articles in question nor knew what they were do not pass the laugh test. Either he is being duplicitous or he is confessing to incompetence on an epic scale. His fleeing the room under questioning by CNN suggests that he knows he has not come up with a plausible story that saves whatever viability he has as a presidential candidate.

    Then one can further imagine how a hypothetical President Paul might react to criticism and questioning. Will he flee a White House press conference if the questioning gets to annoying for him to handle? What will happen if the media starts writing and airing critical stories about him? Most presidents have found the media irritating, but most -- with the exception of Richard Nixon -- learned to live with it. Paul, however, evidently can't. That is another reason he should not be president.

    Source: Ron Paul gets testy, walks out over talk of racist newsletters, Kim Geiger, L.A. Times, Dec 22, 2011

    Romney: If Gingrich Can't Stand the Fire just Wait for "Obama Hell's Kitchen", Serafin Gomez, Fox News, Dec 21

     
    • Bring'EmHome  •  Sacramento, California  •  5 mths ago
      Where the Candidates stand:
      .........................Obama.....Gingrich....Romney....Perry.....Paul
      Big $ Influence.......YES........YES.........YES.......YES......NO
      Wars....................YES........YES.........YES.......YES......NO
      Bail outs...............YES........YES.........YES.......YES......NO
      Illegal aliens..........YES........YES.........YES........YES......NO
      Big government......YES........YES.........YES........YES.....NO
      War on drugs.........YES........YES.........YES.......YES.. ..NO
      Deficit spending.....YES........YES..........YES.......YES.....NO
      Foreign aid............YES........YES..........YES.......YES.....NO
      Balanced Budget....NO..........NO.............NO.........NO.....YES
      End the FED..........NO..........NO.............NO.........NO.....YES
      Follow Constitution..NO.........NO.............NO.........NO.....YES
      Truthful...................NO.........NO.............NO.........NO.....YES
      Protect Liberty........NO.........NO.............NO.........NO.....YES
      Where do you stand?
      Please copy and paste this everywhere.
      • schmoe 5 mths ago
        Where's the category titled "bat#$%$ crazy"?
      • Ryan Natschke 5 mths ago
        Yeah, and that is why he CONSTANTLY BEGS for money. Next.
    • Dave  •  Columbus, Ohio  •  5 mths ago
      Dr. Paul has a right to be irritated. Dr. Paul has answered this question multiple times over the past 20 years. He has answered the media's question concerning the remarks in the publication that had his name on it. Dr. Paul clearly has stated that he did not write the remarks and does not support the racist remarks that were written. How many times does he have to answer the same question.

      I challenge the media to find a statement that was written personally by Ron Paul or an audio file or a video file that shows Ron Paul making a racist remark. All the media is giving us is statements that were not written by Ron Paul.

      Does it make ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX or any media outlet and their employees RACIST when they allow people to post RACIST remarks on their web sites and blog sites and in their newspapers? According to the Media, the answer would be YES. "Judge not media, Lest ye be judged"

      The media doesn't live up to its own standards. These hit pieces prevent the other Republican candidates from getting their hands dirty and not attack Ron Paul directly. Newt Gingrich is most likely behind this attack. So much for your positive campaign Newt.

      The bottom line is Ron Paul is not racist.
      • C 5 mths ago
        You just may get your wish. This isn't going away anytime soon.
      • Ryan Natschke 5 mths ago
        Prove that Ron Paul is not a racist. They were HIS newsletters, they had HIS name on them, so if he did not know those racist comments were in there then he is a bigger idiot then we all know he is. What would he do as President, let someone else do his job for him, then play stupid? Well it wouldn't be playing.
      • David 5 mths ago
        Hey, Ryan, look around. No one shares your opinion. Talk about being stupid....
    • Billy  •  5 mths ago
      Ron Pauls's got the balls to walk out on idiot reporter.
      • Ryan 5 mths ago
        He doesn't have to pander to get votes. He just need to be himself. If the other candidates showed their true selves they would have no votes at all. Ron Paul 2012 and 2016!!!
    • Roger  •  Atlanta, Georgia  •  5 mths ago
      How can you get more anti racist than ending prohibition....since every drug law was written on racist presumptions....this alone says RP is not biased and wants liberty for all mankind regardless of color
    • The CIA's watching...  •  St Paul, Minnesota  •  5 mths ago
      For crying out loud google/youtube Ron Paul: I am the ANTI racist. The media is getting desperate.
    • Brandon  •  Parkersburg, West Virginia  •  5 mths ago
      Blah blah blah...the media can not tell us how to think. I changed my registration to vote for Ron Paul.
      • McP 5 mths ago
        really dumb move
      • Party agnostic 5 mths ago
        Right on Brandon.
      • Derek 5 mths ago
        Blah blah blah.... his newletters described in vivid detail how to murder black people.... blah blah blah.... his newsletters described minorities as animals and savages... blah blah blah.... yeah, I think Ron Paul fits in perfectly with the GOP.
    • lonnie  •  Richardson, Texas  •  5 mths ago
      I don't blame Dr.Paul for walking out. The powers that be, are afraid too many people are buying into his personal liberty platform. So they control the media to spin off crap like this. It's so easy to tell it's a hatchet job. It's never been brought up any other time he's ran. Simply because he's never been a strong contender.

      It's time for Americans to take back America. The politicians have no idea what "We the people " are going through. Nor do they care. Dr. Paul is the only candidate that cares more about the people of this country than filling his pockets with taxpayers money.

      RON PAUL 2012...take back OUR country
      • A Yahoo! User 5 mths ago
        actually he didn't walk out in the middle of the interview, He stayed , answered all the questions, answered the ones about the newsletters 5 times, and when no more questions about his campaign were offered, he got up to leave the interview. Watch the clip on you/tube of the entire interview. The media is lying about the interview, about Paul storming out, and about him not taking responsibilty.
    • Bay  •  5 mths ago
      Anyone with a brian that has researched Paul, knows that he stands for liberty for EVRYONE! This is an attempt from the POWERS THAT BE to stop Paul. The establishment FEARS HIM!
    • Tearless  •  Pauls Valley, Oklahoma  •  5 mths ago
      Huh? Wait a minute. That doesn't make sense. Why would a racist like Mr. Paul have a 25 year friendship with a president of the NAACP, which is someone who represents exactly what white supremacists hate the most?

      No, wait a minute. That doesn't make sense, either. I thought he was President Ahmadinejad's secret lover, and has a secret crush on the Iranians, Arabs, Serbians, & Semites (but hates Jews) - as multiple people have said.

      So, okay, let me get this straight based on what articles & comments I've seen in the past 24 hours. He's a closet racist Neo-Nazi with strong white supremacist ties that he is trying to hide, but has a 25 year friendship with a black guy that is among the heads of the NAACP that white supremacists hate the most, all while having a secret affair with Ahmadinejad, having a crush on Muslims in the Middle East when he's bored, is an avid "terrorist lover", but hates Jews, yet supports Jews when they bomb a nuclear facility in a terrorist-struck country, while everyone else condemns the Jews for doing it?

      What? Why would a Neo-Nazi, racist "terrorist lover" who hates Jews support the Jews when they bomb a country, while everyone who loves the Jews condemn them for it?

      You people write the cutest things sometimes. :-)

      However, thank you for the media attention. Us Ron Paul supporters are happy & are enjoying it.
    • Mal  •  5 mths ago
      After a while, you get tired of answering the same question over-and-over. Once or twice is fine....even three times if someone legitimately didn't hear your answer. Paul walked out because he was tired of being asked the same question over and over. I don't blame him.
    • Caellyn  •  5 mths ago
      Ron Paul is anti-racist and pro individual.

      “Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans only as members of groups and never as individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike; as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called “diversity” actually perpetuate racism. Their intense focus on race is inherently racist, because it views individuals only as members of racial groups." -- Ron Paul December 23, 2002
    • jeff  •  Willow Grove, Pennsylvania  •  5 mths ago
      I am so happy to see that there are still intelligent people out there that can tell this is just a hit piece. It's so funny how all of the sudden when Dr. Paul is leading the polls, the best these jerks can do is say he is a racist. All I can say is my vote is for liberty, freedom, peace and prosperity. My vote is for Ron Paul.
    • wtfk  •  5 mths ago
      We KNOW you have it in for Paul, Whittington, so any smears coming from you are expected.
    • Caellyn  •  5 mths ago
      No proof tying him to anything. Ron Paul has answered. Ron Paul is against racism of any kind. Research and see his own words over the decades.

      "Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism, because racism is a collectivist idea that you put people in categories. You say, well blacks belong here, and whites here, and women here and we don't see people in forms..or gays. You don't have rights because your gays, or women or minorities, you have rights because you’re an individual. So we see people strictly as individuals. We get these individuals in a natural way. So it's exactly opposite of all collectivism and it's absolutely anti-racism because we don't see it in those terms. "

      “No form of political organization, therefore, is immune to cruel abuses like the Jim Crow laws, whereby government sets out to legislate on how groups of human beings are allowed to interact with one another.

      Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level of government. It falls upon the people, in the last resort, to stand against injustice no matter where it occurs.

      In the long run, the only way racism can be overcome is through the philosophy of individualism, which I have promoted throughout my life. Our rights come to us not because we belong to some group, but our rights come to us as individuals. And it is as individuals that we should judge one another.

      Racism is a particularly odious form of collectivism whereby individuals are treated not on their merits but on the basis of group identity. Nothing in my political philosophy, which is the exact opposite of the racial totalitarianism of the twentieth century, gives aid or comfort to such thinking. To the contrary, my philosophy of individualism is the most radical intellectual challenge to racism ever posed.

      Government exacerbates racial thinking and undermines individualism because its very existence encourages people to organize along racial lines in order to lobby for benefits for their group. That lobbying, in turn, creates animosity and suspicion among all groups, each of which believes that it is getting less of its fair share than the others.

      Instead, we should quit thinking in terms of race—yes, in 2008 it is still necessary to say that we should Stop thinking in terms of race—and recognize that freedom and prosperity benefit all Americans.”
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Englewood, Colorado  •  5 mths ago
      This article is by one of Yahoo's "contributors" with a LA times liberal hit job newspaper article as his source. Well at least Yahoo finally got a photo to go along with an article....
      It's strange how hard they are trying to smear the only Candidate that will do what is right,
      cut the the insane spending immediately, quit giving the Banks free money, and ending these wars. (why LIbya? North Korea is way more dangerous but hey, not an oil region there, oh well let's do Iran next...)
      Let's show them who's boss in America, Vote Paul and if he wants to walk out of a "news conference in the future, more power to him... and to you!
      Thanks for reading, and showing your interest in our future together.
    • Puor Poood  •  Miami, Florida  •  5 mths ago
      The Plot Behind This Seemingly Typical Interview
      Gloria Borger husband is Lance Morgan. Morgan is according to the web site of his employer, Powell Tate,“chief communications strategist at Powell Tate in Washington, D.C. He specializes in developing and executing communications strategies for public policy debates, crisis communications and media training.”
      So who might be the clients of Powell Tate, where Borger’s husband is “chief communications strategist and crisis communications” adviser for?
      Just about every part of the military industrial-complex that Ron Paul wants to shrink or shutdown. According to the Powell Tate web site, they are strategic communications for among others:
      The U.S. Army
      The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services
      The U.S Agency for International Development
      The U.S. Chamber of Commerce
      and, I’m not joking, The National Pork Board.
      Bottom line Gloria Borger’s husband is as inside Washington DC as you can get.
      This was a total hit job, bringing up decades old accusations about a newsletter that everyone agrees was written by others, while Dr. Paul was practicing medicine. Further, as Justin Ramindo has clearly shown, most of the charges were made by people who couldn’t have read the newsletters in full context.
    • land-beaver  •  Albany, New York  •  5 mths ago
      The Establishment smear compaign...they hate Ron Paul...
      Wait... could Americans possibly be waking from their slumber?
      You better strike while the iron is hot and that this country hasn't seen a Presidential candidate with Dr. Paul's qualities in a long, long time, and this country is starved for that right now. The world is starved for it. If the US gets "more of the same" and more status quo from their President, she is doomed as a country. It's on its way right now and Ron Paul is the only real hope Americans have.
      He truly has been a great man his entire life from what it seems, but it's the philosophies of Ron Paul, and his honor of the Constitution that make him so incredibly crucial to us all, Democrat, Republican, Independent, etc, etc. etc.
    • Brooklyn Born  •  5 mths ago
      Barack Hussein when r u going to Veto the "NDAA" bill,government passes bill to arrest & detain American Citizens without a trial -google "NDAA" & SOPA ,SOPA is for restrictions on the internet.We need someone who cares for the people,not the coporate world.
    • JerryD  •  Richardson, Texas  •  5 mths ago
      Remember!
      "Any Government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have"....Thomas Jefferson.
    • Darrah  •  Wichita, Kansas  •  5 mths ago
      Vote Ron Paul
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