The Atlantic: Ron Paul is the Tea Party's Brain

[sailingaway]

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/the-tea-party-8217-s-brain/8280/1/

http://assets.theatlantic.com/static/coma/images/issues/201011/ron-paul-tea-party-wide.jpg

It's still a 'he's a kook' piece, this time with the sour grapes of 'and these are the strange circumstances making people believe him, and not us', but even so....

and yes, I know it gets the depression wrong.

[low preference guy]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=264122

[FrankRep]

The Tea Party vs. the Federal Reserve (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/4880-the-tea-party-vs-the-federal-reserve)


The New York Times is worried: Tea Party activists and the candidates they support are openly criticizing that most sacred of quasi-governmental institutions, the Federal Reserve. by Michael Tennant

[sailingaway]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=264122

sorry, I scanned but I guess didn't look far enough.

[Anti Federalist]

So far:

"Arch Libertarian" and "unhinged".

Waiting for "Quixotic" to have a TriFecta of smear.

ETA - "isolationist". That'll do.

Slimy, east coast, elite snobbery is slimy.

ETA - 2

Quixotic, on page two! Ding Ding Ding Ding...

[Number19]

I'll go against the grain and say I thought it was a very good piece of work and presented Ron's political story accurately and fairly.

[Modern_Matthew]

I'll go against the grain and say I thought it was a very good piece of work and presented Ron's political story accurately and fairly.

I actually agree. It's semi-neutral, but I do detect the usual bias.

[JoshLowry]

This guy hints that Ron Paul is a nut throughout the entire article and then uses "loony candidates" in the subscript for the video of himself talking about politics.

Not obvious at all Joshua "Senior Editor" Greene. You're a joke.

[Peace&Freedom]

What's even more annoying than semi-educated journalists calling Paul's foreign policy "isolationist" are many of the pro-war Libertarians I have to engage all the time, who also describe his views as "isolationist" despite attempts to remind them the proper term is non-interventionist. These folks hang around standard Republicans so much, they can't shake the lingo they use in mis-describing non-interventionism, even though they are supposed to know better.

[Nate]

This guy hints that Ron Paul is a nut throughout the entire article and then uses "loony candidates" in the subscript for the video of himself talking about politics.

Not obvious at all Joshua "Senior Editor" Greene. You're a joke.

Yup, all the usual BS & the all the same, tired ass fallacious arguments advanced by "mainstream economics". I could write a book on everything wrong with the moronic macroeconomic BS spouted in that article.

"Most experts think the government’s intervention was, technically speaking, successful (although probably too small). A recent study by the economists Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi concluded that it likely prevented a depression and saved 8.5 million jobs. A Congressional Budget Office study reached a similar conclusion. In other words, the intervention validated Keynes."
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!!!! This is ignorance of the highest quality.
Probably too small?!?! Validated Keynes?!?!?! Even Keynes wouldn't have advocated the ridiculous levels of "stimulus" that this moron is advocating! Did he even pay attention in that indoctrination center that he attended & called it "higher education"?
Saved 8.5 million jobs? Classic seen & unseen fallacy. Dumbass has no idea what would have happened had the retards running this criminal racket known as the Federal government, that dumbshit prays to every night for protection from the boogieman, not pushed their unprecedented "stimulus" onto this country.

At least this idiot has a rudimentary knowledge of ABCT. Other than the economic diarrhea & the constant poison pill adjectives used to paint Paul as a crazy person with "fringe" beliefs, I thought it was a halfway decent article for a statist rag like The Atlantic. At least everything was spelled correctly.