{"id":2292,"date":"2007-05-22T22:58:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T05:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/05\/22\/the-ron-paul-alex-jones-connection\/"},"modified":"2007-06-22T08:20:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T15:20:22","slug":"the-ron-paul-alex-jones-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/05\/22\/the-ron-paul-alex-jones-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ron Paul — Alex Jones connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having gotten himself noticed and made a name for himself as somebody other than a man to be listed quickly in a long list of “also – runs”, I notice a bit of frettering by parts of the Ron Paul congregation (and you may use every term you desire from “supporters” to “cult members”) about some of his more… esoteric choices of media and associations.<\/p>\n


\nAn example<\/a>:<\/p>\n

And not to be outdone, Ron Paul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s media coordinator was on the infamous Alex Jones show the other night. Seriously, I understand that radio shows from all viewpoints are frothing at the Ron Paul candidacy, but this is just another example \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in my opinion \u00e2\u20ac\u201c of ammunition the opposition can \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and will \u00e2\u20ac\u201c use. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like Ron Paul appearing on the David Duke show or something. <\/em><\/p>\n

I am pretty sure I’ve covered the burgeoning little controversy over here<\/a>, sometime before Ron Paul’s q-rating rose after that last debate, and the gradual dawn of the mainstream media that Ron Paul is kicking ass on the Internet. The chief point I came in in posting that blog entry still stands, which is that Ron Paul’s greetings on Alex goddamned Jones is in many ways no less odious than the conventional candidates frequent forays onto Tim goddamned Russert and the Establishment Think politics that predominate on shows such as.<\/p>\n

But my general thought with Ron Paul and the Alex Joneses of the world — or the 9\/11 Truthers of the world — or the Gold Standard advocate — or whoever — is that even if Ron Paul wanted to disassociate himself from any of this, the genie is out of the bottom and there is no sense in doing anything but steam-rolling straight ahead. Somebody has to create a coalition of Fringe Unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having gotten himself noticed and made a name for himself as somebody other than a man to be listed quickly in a long list of “also – runs”, I notice a bit of frettering by parts of the Ron Paul congregation (and you may use every term you desire from “supporters” to “cult members”) about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ron-paul","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}