Quoth Brian Holtz: >The most bizarre thing about this whole sorry episode is the > deafening silence coming from Ron Paul gadfly and disgruntled ex-aide > Eric Dondero, whose extensive archive of movement literature would > presumably have included some of these newsletters. Is he just sulking > that he got scooped by Kirchik?
Actually, Dondero comments extensively in a thread at Third Party watch, naming names on who had what role in the newsletter operation. He says that the content was written by two people: Ron Paul and Lew Rockwell. http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/01/10/ron-paul-to-address-race-issues-on-cnn/#comment-427989 The whole "I didn't know, it was a ghostwriter" schtick is falling apart big-time. Over at Hit and Run, Matt Welch documents a number of instances of Paul not just taking personal responsibility for, but defending the content of, some of the problematic excerpts: http://reason.com/blog/show/124339.html Regards, Tom Knapp
