I see Lew Rockwell a-comin’
And there’s Tucker, North and Hoppe
If you ask him ’bout Ron’s newsletters
He’ll surely blow his top
Lew dresses like he’s homeless
Says old Ed Crane
Ya know his old paleo schemes
Are causin’ Ron Paul pain

The anonymous voice of liberty has spoken. No limericks, laughter or lightweight legends in your own mind!

anonymous is serious.

You mean the people who respond to their interlocutors with name calling and badly written limericks? Yeah. Some we got some real “serious thinkers” here. Legends in their own minds, I dare say!

CNN picked the story up. Because TNR actually found copies of the newsletters.

Friends of Ron and Cato and Reason (objective ones, not idolizers) had to take the actual newsletters themselves seriously. The story in Houston 12 years ago talked about the newsletters – but didn’t print them. The stories at dailykos referred to text claimed to be from one of the newsletters, but didn’t have the newsletters themselves. It’s pretty easy for everyday libertarians to ignore stories from writers that don’t have much credibility in libertarian circles.

But show the newsletters themselves, show the content in context, and things change. Thinking people have to give that evidence credibility. So objective libertarians ask their friends at Cato (and Reason and the Ron Paul campaign) about them. Enough do so and Cato feels it necessary to publicly comment about the newsletters it was free to ignore before.

It’s about the newsletters themselves, Jeremy. Not what others say about them. Not who knew about the story when. It’s about the newsletters. Repeat that over and over until you get it.

It’s only among those who aren’t objective, who wouldn’t know “intellectual honesty” if it was in the form of a mathematical proof, that the issue is anything other than the newsletters.

But among serious thinking people, the newsletters are the issue. And what changed is that everyone and anyone who wants to can easily read the words written under Ron’s name for themselves.

But I do feel sad for people like Jeremy, who are so full of rage that they feel the need to strike out at anyone other than the people who caused the scandal in the first place. Conspiracies surround him and he feels the need for revenge. He took a course or read a book about “Social Network Theory” and so if Reason is in Washington, and Cato is in Washington, then they must be conspirators. But then, Ron Paul is in Washington, too. So he must have been in on whatever the conspiracy was, too. And the ACLU and the MSM and the GOP and the NRA….so many in Washington! And Social Network Theory shows that if they are all in Social Networks, then they were all Networking Socially, so they must have something going on. Something conspiratorial. Something to undermine Jeremy! They’re all against him.

I feel sorry for people like that.

We’re flunking our limerick classes
So slow, we’re like winter molasses
Rhymes too much amiss
For that Daily Dish
Where Sullivan reaches the masses.

“You say Stormfront endorses him too?
What’s this poor libertoonist to do?
‘though I quite like Ron Paul
I’m not happy at all
With this sickening racist doo-doo.”

“The newsletters are real, it’s quite sad,
Making Paul look increasingly bad,
But who wrote them, I wonder
Who brought Ron Paul asunder?
If not Ron, who’s the re-volting cad?”

When this question was asked, hell broke loose.
For it wasn’t too hard to deduce
That a crazy galoot
With a sham institute
Was the author, or maybe the Muse

Hell broke loose, as galoot’s friends fired back
In a very strange form of attack
“It is all fault of Reason,
And Cato! What treason!
It’s an orange cosmo beltway quite black!”

Enlightening debate then ensued
In language both proper and crude
Leading to one conclusion
For those without delusion:
The libertarian “movement” is screwed.

It should be “’since’ that’s the case”:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/5/15/124912/740

I don’t follow Kos, presumably few libertarians do. But google “Ron Paul racism” and it comes up, as I learned when a John Edwards supporter tried to tell me RP was a racist, prior to the NR article.

But in the insane world of the conspiracy theorists this is a smoking gun; it presumably proves Cato is behind Daily Kos, and probably behind John Edwards as well.

SOOOOOO WHAT? Since when does Reason magazine owe anything to Lew Rockwell or Ron Paul? I think you’re confusing a magazine with libertarian leanings with a propaganda rag that defends “its candidates” at all costs. The former is Reason, the latter is LewRockwell.com

SOOOOOO WHAT? Since when does Reason magazine owe anything to Lew Rockwell or Ron Paul? I think you’re confusing a magazine with libertarian leanings with a propaganda rag that defends “its candidates” at all costs. The former is Reason, the latter is LewRockwell.com

And ….. Hey!!! …GET AWAY FROM ME!! You Martian Lincoln Lovers are not MY FRiends…..NO!!! GET AWAY!! HELP ME, LEW ROCKWELL!!!