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Yvonne
12-26-2007, 09:22 PM
This is an amazing an historic event! Thanks to everyone who corrected, criticized, commented and wrote to the Times. We will never, ever tolerate the kinds of tactics they used and FAILED with:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/018030.html

Bravo!

chiplitfam
12-26-2007, 09:25 PM
December 26, 2007, 8:24 pm
Editors’ Note: The Ron Paul Vid-Lash
By Virginia Heffernan

A post in The Medium that appeared on Monday about the Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and his purported adoption by white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups contained several errors. Stormfront, which describes itself as a “white nationalist” Internet community, did not give money to Ron Paul’s presidential campaign; according to Jesse Benton, a spokesman for Paul’s campaign, it was Don Black, the founder of Stormfront, who donated $500 to Paul. The original post also repeated a string of assertions by Bill White, the commander of the American National Socialist Workers Party, including the allegation that Paul meets regularly “with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review and others” at a restaurant in Arlington, Va. Paul never attended these dinners, according to Benton, who also says that Paul has never knowingly met Bill White. Norman Singleton, a congressional aide in Paul’s office, says that he met Bill White at a dinner gathering of conservatives several years ago, after which Singleton expressed his indignation at the views espoused by White to the organizer of the dinner. The original post should not have been published with these unverified assertions and without any response from Paul.

xexkxex
12-26-2007, 09:25 PM
Nice :D

Flash
12-26-2007, 09:28 PM
We need to remember to email their sponsors whenever a website attacks Ron Paul. If their sponsors begin complaining, they'll be forced to remove it.

Dave Pedersen
12-26-2007, 09:34 PM
I bet Virginia gets a promotion. She did her bit and paid her dues now her hand out out for her doggie biscuit.

idiom
12-26-2007, 09:39 PM
Email the NYT back and thank them for having the gumption to print retractions when they are appropriate.

Bryan
12-26-2007, 09:40 PM
At the very bottom of the page: "Comments are no longer being accepted." :)

user
12-26-2007, 09:55 PM
We did win but their "retraction" is not good enough. There are more errors that they did not address.