--- In [email protected], "goldrecordings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This does not in any way strike me as a strong denial.
>
> Lew Rockwell already denied it.
>
> From the Economist.com (in part):
>
> "While his statements sometimes leave the impression that Mr Paul
> simply licensed his name to people with whom he had little contact,
> there is much evidence to the contrary. The newsletters that appeared
> under his name were published by M&M Graphics and Advertising, a
> company run by Mr Paul's longtime congressional campaign manager Mark
> Elam—which Mr Elam himself confirms. And according to numerous
> veterans of the libertarian movement, it was an open secret during the
> late-80s and early-90s who was ghostwriting the portions of Mr Paul's
> newsletters not penned by the congressman himself: Lew Rockwell,
> founder of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and members of his staff,
> among them Jeffrey Tucker, now editorial vice president of the Institute.
>
> Mr Rockwell denied authorship to Jamie Kirchick, the reporter whose
> New Republic article published earlier this week reignited controversy
> over the newsletters. But both Mr Rockwell (who attacked the New
> Republic article on his site) and Mr Tucker refused to discuss the
> matter with Democracy in America. ("Look at Mises.org," Mr Tucker told
> me, "I'm willing to take any responsibility for anything up there,
> OK?") According to Wirkman Virkkala, formerly the managing editor of
> the libertarian monthly Liberty, the racist and survivalist elements
> that appeared in the newsletter were part of a deliberate
> "paleolibertarian" strategy, "a last gasp effort to try class hatred
> after the miserable showing of Ron Paul's 1988 presidential effort."
> It is impossible now to prove individual authorship of any particular
> item in the newsletter, but it is equally impossible to believe that
> Mr Rockwell did not know of and approve what was going into the
> newsletter."
>
