I don’t watch Jay Leno so I had to hear about this after the fact. Jay Leno had Congressman Ron Paul on his show last Friday night. I find it fascinating that Paul who recently told Bill O’Reilly he doesn’t like demagogues directed some demagoguery toward Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. Listen below:
I find it interesting that here we have a Republican candidate who identifies himself as a conservative using a tactic utilized by the left. Namely demonize your opponents, drop the racist/classist/bigot card instead of engaging the issue.
He said that Bachmann hates Muslims and wants to “go get them.” Leno said that that for Santorum with gay people, “it’s the end of the world for him.” Paul replied, “gays and Muslims.” Bachmann has never said she hates Muslims. Also disagreeing with gay marriage it doesn’t mean that it is “the end of the world” for that person.
Congressman Paul could have taken the high-road and talked about policy differences, but instead demeaned his opponents for some cheap laughs. Really classy.
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Get a life! Ron Paul just made an off-the-cuff remark. Later on, RP said that’s all it was, something not to be taken so seriously. Bachmann, if anybody, is the one with too big of a mouth. That’s why she has fallen in the polls, because nobody likes a lightweight intellect with a big mouth.
As a Ron Paul supporter, I agree that was pretty rude. So, as you put it, I am not going to defend the indefensible.
On another note, both Bachmann and Santorum said in the last debate that if Iran had a nuclear weapon, it would use it against Israel. Which in effect would be committing national suicide. If I am not mistaken, your view is that they would use it as a shield while spreading terror, which is also the view that Santorum seemed to have held a few debates ago. So did he change his mind?
P.S Did you ever get the message I sent you a few mouths ago on Facebook?
Yeah, I was surprised, it wasn’t like him. He looked like he was searching for words to address their difference on Iran, and came up with unfortunate ones. I don’t consider it a big deal, but it wasn’t the way he usually speaks. When asked about it apparently he said he was trying to come up with a humorous answer on a comedy show and it was ‘glib’, but I only read that in an article, I didn’t see him address it in a media clip. I think he truly doesn’t get why she sees it as she does, but he could have expressed it better.
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to the author of this poorly written excuse for an editorial , Anything and everything you just said about Ron Paul is a neoconned Zionist slant of which no one will take you seriously, any and all potential credibility you may have had as a writer fails in this page , it is bad enough that you continue to write such aggressively anti american zionist hate smut , of which no one has ever and will ever take you seriously , but you continue to carry on despite your gradual divorce from reality , your delusional denialism only serves to further weaken your already rapidly fleeting joke of a resolve . Michele bachmann is an islamophobe and her and the other neocons are as cowardly as u get, like the other neoconned zionists in america . they have failed, Israel is the enemy, not iran, get it straight . . you clearly have not the slightest clue as to what you are saying or even what planet you on, you are simply divorced from reality and as such you deserve mine, as well as , americas pity. however yet , nonetheless lack of knowledge is no excuse for ignorance and delusion which you have blatantly displayed back an forth throughout your editorial, Ron Pauls non interventionism is classic conservative at best and the american people support him as such , only the hated terrorist state of israel and its neocon zionist stooges stand against him, and considering how he wishes to cut the aid that the terrorist state of israel depends on so badly from us , its easy to see why the GOP trembles in fear of him . you can write however you want of him, as an american it is your right, but do take care to remember if you ever expect anyone to take you with the slightest sense of professional acknowledgment and respect , write the facts, not the fallacies, this editorial has shown you as clownish at best , mentally deranged at worst , only you can change your outlook ,.. if you are american , only Ron Paul can save this nation .
I just learned this today, and it’s pretty shocking. Interesting that Paul would accuse Bachmann of hating Muslims, when there are some serious charges of racism in his own background. And he stormed out of a recent CNN interview when questioned about them.
To see the article published today about that, please go to a search engine and type in:
Ron Paul Dogged by Racism Charges
This matter may be worthy of its own article on CT.
Islam is a religion. Hating Muslims is not racism but bigotry.
And oh yes, Arabs are Semites, Arab-hating is anti-Semitism.
But there are many Muslims who are not Arabs. For instance Farsi (Persians) are Indo-Europeans. Hence an anti-Iranian attitude is not anti-Semitism.
Racism is connecting hate to a specific ethnic group. Anti-Semitism qualifies as racism, whether it is directed against Jews or Arabs. But the Farsi tribes stretch from Iran through Afghanistan into Pakistan and India. So anti-Iranian viewpoints do not qualify as racism.
Just to set things straight.
As far as I can see the accusations of racism against Ron Paul are about remarks on blacks. Obviously an ethnic group in the USA.
Paul’s attitude against homosexuals seems to have been driven by the AIDS epidemic, that was an unfortunate by-product of the homosexual lifestyle (bedroom behavior / cruising) that made them extra vulnerable in transmitting diseases.
The very fact that he is a doctor and in 1988 didn’t want to shake hands as Eric Dondero claims is quite problematic, albeit I know from that time of a case of a friend who suffered Anorexia Nervosa and was refused emergency treatment by a dentist, who thought she might be a junkie and feared AIDS. Unwarranted prejudices and incomplete understanding of health issues in complementary areas, causing too much precaution among Medical Doctors alas do occur.
I would not want to provide dinner to the number of reverends around the world, who at that time made remarks on the pulpit about God’s punishment for Sodomites, because I would probably go broke.
The point is that Ron Paul was easily pranked by “Bruno” a gay creation by Sacha Baron Cohen for his comedy movie. He surely doesn’t look at ease with gays. However, he doesn’t want to prohibit them to marry, instead he wants to separate the state legal contract of marriage from the religious ceremony of marriage.
I do not think that Bachmann and Santorum hold similar views on Homosexuals.