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Paul Haunted by His Newsletter’s Disparaging Remarks About Martin Luther King

"With popularity comes notoriety. That’s the lesson Ron Paul is learning as the nation observes Martin Luther King Day and the GOP presidential contender bears the burden of disparaging comments, made in a newsletter bearing his name, about the slain civil rights leader and the national holiday that honors him.

In a 1990 newsletter called the Ron Paul Political Report, which resurfaced earlier this month in The New Republic, Ron Paul — or his ghostwriters — called King an adulterer and seducer of young children, and questioned why the nation should celebrate the Civil Rights leader with the same glory as that given to its first president.

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“We are supposed to honor this ‘Christian minister’ and lying socialist satyr with a holiday that puts him on a par with George Washington?” the newsletter asked under an entry titled “‘Dr.’ King.”

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“What an infamy Ronald Reagan approved it!” another newsletter comment read. “We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”

Paul, a 10-term congressman from Texas, has denied writing the comments, which appeared in various newsletters produced since 1978, according to the New Republic.

“When I was out of Congress and practicing medicine full-time, a newsletter was published under my name that I did not edit,” Paul said in a statement issued by his campaign on Jan. 8. “Several writers contributed to the product.

“For over a decade, I have publicly taken moral responsibility for not paying closer attention to what went out under my name,” he continued."

Personally, I feel pretty much the same way about MLK but since I'm not running for public office thats cool. I'm "allowed" to dislike someone because they acted like trash. Problem is, when you DO run for high office remarks like those found in the newsletter have a way of surfacing and biting you in the ass.

Paul learned a valuable lesson and since he isn't going to win there IS no big deal. Obo worships a "minister" with ties to Farrakhan and no one seems particularly disconcerted by all that, but Obo is half a minority and that gives HIM genuine free speech.