{"id":2548,"date":"2007-09-03T10:07:46","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T17:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/09\/03\/always-right\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T10:07:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T17:07:46","slug":"always-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/09\/03\/always-right\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Always Right&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weekends ago, Ron Paul was on the NPR quiz-show &#8220;Wait, Wait, Don&#8217;t Tell Me&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 He was given a three question quiz about fringe presidential candidates, which included a question about the political career of one Lyndon Larouche, Jr.\u00c2\u00a0 As a whole, it was a stab in Ron Paul&#8217;s back &#8212; fringe candidate asked about fringier candidates.\u00c2\u00a0 I balk at the implication,\u00c2\u00a0 though, with ragards to Mr. Larouche &#8212; the same with the New Republic side by side profiles of Larouche as &#8220;The Crazy Who Is Not Running&#8221; with Dennis Kucinich as &#8220;The Crazy Who Is Running&#8221; &#8212; which, whatever one may say about Paul or Kucinich, they are not cult leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Paul finished off by saying that &#8220;Lyndon Larouche is always right.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 It is a joke I took as roughly equivalent to Homer Simpson&#8217;s line. \u00c2\u00a0 But apparently this was taken in Laroucheland as this weird sort of wink and nod from Paul &#8212; a semi-establishment figure sending a message to the huddled Larouchies.\u00c2\u00a0 Larouchepac issued a press statement on Ron Paul&#8217;s mention, and I passed by a Larouchie-written blog entry which considered it an act of communication.\u00c2\u00a0 It may be the case that the sentence is taken to heart as the least subtle axiom issued from out of Larouche.<br \/>\nAs though the most libertarian elected official in Congress sees eye to eye with a sick parody of a Statist.<br \/>\n<em><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana,Arial,Helvetica\">LL is\/was always right. It is an axiom, proposed by Kepler. Remember: Lyn successfully predicted the outcome of a coin flip 594,375,820,001,1593 times in a row. What more needs to be said?\u00c2\u00a0 <\/font><\/em><br \/>\nIn other news, this sad little story has been taken down:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ibykus.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/ibykus.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/slandered-by-own-father.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Depriving us all of one more insight into the mind of a LYM recruit, this one with the saddest of contexts.\u00c2\u00a0 I did not get there in time to offer up a comment.\u00c2\u00a0 Ah well.<br \/>\nAnd the latest EIR-ish pamphlet (as pertains to the standard lackadaisical non-solution to the Mortgage crisis)\u00c2\u00a0 is subtitled &#8220;The End of Our Delusion&#8221;, which&#8230; is apt.\u00c2\u00a0 Look for it when the LYMers do their &#8220;Rush&#8221; as the college terms begin&#8230; oh, wait.\u00c2\u00a0 Printing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weekends ago, Ron Paul was on the NPR quiz-show &#8220;Wait, Wait, Don&#8217;t Tell Me&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 He was given a three question quiz about fringe presidential candidates, which included a question about the political career of one Lyndon Larouche, Jr.\u00c2\u00a0 As a whole, it was a stab in Ron Paul&#8217;s back &#8212; fringe candidate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ron-paul","category-the-larouche-challenge","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","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=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}