Should Lew Rockwell tone done his rhetoric some? He seems like the libertarian version of Michael Savage except without the yelling.
Last edited by Zatch; 03-29-2011 at 08:44 PM.
Give an example.
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Stuff like this: "The Evil Paul Krugman Attacks Ron Paul"Originally Posted by FrankRep
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wenzel/wenzel58.1.html
This one is actually by Wenzel but Lew uses the same kind of language.
Last edited by Zatch; 03-29-2011 at 08:51 PM.
He is very polarizing but to my knowledge he is rarely read by anyone other than Libertarians.
Well his site via Alexa rankings is #1 in terms of Libertarian websites.
His site probably at least the size of Hotair.
Lew Rockwell isn't harming the liberty movement he's expanding it with his fine job with the website and his articles
I'm not a Rockwell fan, but he's certainly an excellent writer. I can see where he puts people off, especially if he is saying something that they disagree with, but he is a friend of Ron Paul's. That's just that.
Last edited by angelatc; 03-29-2011 at 08:53 PM.
So what he is doing/has been doing is working? Sounds like an argument to keep doing it.
Well maybe not. It's still quite large though.
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Last edited by Agorism; 03-29-2011 at 08:58 PM.
His ranking is 6667, while Hot Air is 3799. He's got a little way to go.
ETA - oops - you posted. You notice that he has more sites linking in?
Last edited by angelatc; 03-29-2011 at 08:58 PM.
Well bigger than redstate and nearly as large as national review.
Dude, Ron Paul reads Lew Rockwell everyday, first story to last. Hyperbole?
I saw Lew on Freedom Watch and almost passed out, when he said we shouldn't have re-instituted the Bush tax cuts?
Oh, I didn't even notice that! That's awesome.
Nah I think Lew Rockwell's tone is just fine, I havent seen him use any sort of really over the top words.
Last edited by Tal; 03-29-2011 at 09:08 PM.
Lew has also criticized the military....and he's Ok with not supporting the troops
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/snider1.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hornberger/hornberger64.html
I didn't see this, but usually when Lew starts on a subject this way, he follows it by saying taxes should be eliminated entirely or something along those lines. You'll have to listen for context before passing out next time.
He's great and he shouldn't change a thing.
I love reading Lew Rockwell's articles. He uses a LOT less hyperbole than other partisan writers and doesn't do the double talk that many of them also do.
"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."-Étienne de La Boétie
Lew Rockwell tells things as they are without sugar coating them which is why I like him. We need people like him who call out statists for what they really are.
I'm not a big fan. Lew does have lots to offer, but he is so angry he turns other pro liberty people off.
When Rand was running for the Senate he got very little coverage on Lewrockwell.com. I suspect father told Lew to remain silent.
I posted a more lengthy rant about this some time ago: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...brasive-figure
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Oh gawd, now Lew Rockwell has to shut up and be polite.
We're on the verge of national collapse into a NAZIesque tyranny and some people are still wringing their hands and getting the vapors over people not being polite?
FFS
Oh, and BTW, Alex Jones' "Infowars" blows all the sites noted in this thread, away.
Alexa ranking 2157
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/infowars.com
that's perfectly fine, what a wuss.
While I agree with most of what he says, it isn't hard to imagine myself repelled from libertarianism if that wasn't what I already believed. I think blogger David Kramer is even more bombastic the way he invariably invokes Godwin's Law. Of course, I am not really complaining, since its his website.
Another recent example - when Tom Woods posted a rebuttal to Mark Levin on LRC, Levin jumped at the opportunity to link his followers to LRC articles calling American soldiers murderers, calling for the abolition of drunk driving laws, and calling Reagan a tyrant. I cringed when Woods posted it on LRC because I knew it was coming. It had nothing to do with the perfectly reasonable argument that the Constitution delegated war powers to Congress rather than the executive. Yet, that's the takeaway.
Lew is in a position where he could assert influence over many who are sympathetic to our small-government ideas, but by and large, he takes the opportunity to turn his page into an echo chamber that condemns the very people who might be influenced.
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Spring, summer and fall of 2010 there was hardly a mention of Rand Paul on LewRockwell.com
That's all the explanation any clear thinking person needs.
Can you please explain that "explaination" to me?
"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."-Étienne de La Boétie
Yea, calling people evil just because they disagree with you politically is perfectly fine. /sarcasm
I read LRC on a regular basis and I'm not offended by his hyperbole. I'm just concerned it might be turning away libertarian newbs. Don't be a dick.
Last edited by Zatch; 03-29-2011 at 10:04 PM.
well, Lew isn't a conservative. You shouldn't expect nice, PC, GOP-friendly conservatism from him. IMHO, LRC is way too kind to mainstream republicans/conservatives. The best thing about LRC is that the writers there don't mince words or play games. mises.org has better analysis of the "right" (and "left") in that regard. /end rant
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