FACT CHECK: Ron Paul Personally Defended Racist Newsletters

mandym · Jan 24, 2012

Recently, Ron Paul has been subject to intense criticism over controversial newsletters written under his name in the 80s and 90s that frequently included racism, bigotry, and conspiracy theories. Over the last few days, Paul has responded that he did not write the newsletters and disavowed their contents, claiming this has been his consistent position for 20 years. Here’s what Paul told CNN on December 21:

PAUL: I never read that stuff. I never — I would never — I came — I was probably aware of it 10 years after it was written… Well, you know, we talked about [the newsletters] twice yesterday at CNN. Why don’t you go back and look at what I said yesterday on CNN, and what I’ve said for 20-some years. It was 22 years ago. I didn’t write them. I disavow them and that’s it.

Paul’s denials, however, are not supported by the public record. When the newsletters first arose as an issue in 1996, Paul didn’t deny authorship. Instead, Paul personally repeated and defended some of the most incendiary racial claims in the newsletters.

In May 1996, Paul was confronted in an interview by the Dallas Morning News about a line that appeared in a 1992 newsletter, under the headline “Terrorist Update”: “If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet of foot they can be.” His response:
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poncho · Jan 24, 2012

Let's check some facts, and not from liberal mags that'll say anything to get Obama re elected either.

FACT.

You have consistantly supported the racist policy of global intervention. I have not seen one instance where you've complained about our killing and displacing millions of brown skinned people all over the world. Nope not one.

FACT.

You have consistantly championed the policy of railroading brown skinned people that you falsely claim are all terrorists into prison with no due process.

Seems to me you have no room to call anyone a racist.

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