See other Activism Articles
Title: Ron Paul Appears on Daily Show: Comedy Central. 11 EST
Source:
Comedy Central/Ron Paul 2008
URL Source: http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml
Published: Jun 4, 2007
Author: who knows what evil
Post Date: 2007-06-04 21:29:40 by who knows what evil
Keywords: Paul, Stewart, President
Views: 407
Comments: 30
Just a reminder that Ron Paul will be appearing on Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' in just about 90 minutes. It will be interesting to see what kind of reaction Dr. Paul gets from the audience, as, believe it or not, many cite the Daily Show as THE source for political news and commentary. (Scary, but true.)
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: christine!!! (#0)
Here you go...even with a thunderstorm bearing down on us; I still got this 'reminder' out to you. Please ping the 'Ron Paul' list, and settle in with your favorite adult beverage for Dr. Paul's appearance on tonight's 'Daily Show'.
ping
"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." ~George Washington
Is that EST? Thanks.
nevermind it's on the link
Brian, can you make me a co-owner of Ron Paul for Prez - 2008?
Think Goldi would mind if I posted this on LP? The show's on in forty minutes...that's pretty damn close to 'Breaking News', IMHO. :-)
Watch out. Unless the controlled media reports it, to Goldi, it's not news (breaking or otherwise).
Check out my blog, America, the Bushieful.
bttt
Supporters of Bush and the Iraq war for Israel and oil are traitors to America and they hate American troops.
you little devil, you
where's the link to watch it live online? hehehe
I'm not sure there is a 'live link', but Jon Stewart interviews of this nature usually turn up on 'You Tube' within a few hours after the conclusion of the show.
Well of course and anyone else that cares to join the list. PM me because sometimes I miss the thread pings.
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
cool, thanks. I hope someone gets it out there quick. :)
going to watch it now....thanks
Quick enough?
Perfect! Thanks! I feel like I am witnessing a fairy tale here. Is it time to start thinking that he is going to become a serious contender?
This debate in New Hampshire is going to be REAL interesting...I am expecting CNN to try to put the screws to him, but most of us won't be fooled. I am beginning to believe that he could WIN the NH primary next year.
He did a good job. I doubt he will be a major candidate, though. Our system is run too much by money, not ideas. I disagree with Ron on a lot of stuff, but he's a decent person with good intentions. Unlike most of the other Republican candidates. I was a bit dismayed by his defense of the free market, while somehow saying that Enron and so on were aberrations. What's the difference? Exxonmobil is doing exactly what Enron did. Does he think a lack of govt. oversight will somehow make the Enrons and Halliburtons suddenly turn honest? Hopelessly naive. Of course, four minutes is not enough time for him to make his points, but jeez, maintaining that Microsoft is a GREAT example of a good corporation? EEEEEEK! They've been one of the most predatory companies in history. How many people have lost everything trying to compete with them, with better products at a lower price? The thing is, unregulated big business depresses true competition and innovation. Windows is the perfect example: Apple's OS was 100 times as good, but MS used its marketing clout to turn Apple into a mom and pop operation.
Good points, Mekons. You point to a Republican/Libertarian blindspot. But, I can't believe that Ron Paul does not support a genuine free market, which means no trusts/monopolies/cartels and true competition. I just think he didn't have enough time to expound such subtleties of economic theory and grabbed Microsoft out of the air as a quick illustration to make the point that big and profitable companies aren't always pernicious or socially destructive (though I would agree with you that Microsoft is certainly not wholely benign in its manner of doing business). Paul (and Libertarianism) may not be perfect, but he's as close to perfection as we've got and more perfect that we dared hope for. If the people can rise up, give him the GOP nomination and upend the neocons, it will shake the present regime to its very core. And that includes all the corporations you rightly decry that feed at the tax-funded trough of the Spook Empire.
Check out my blog, America, the Bushieful.
That was odd, but here's this. http://www.house.gov/ paul/tst/tst2005/tst060605.htm CAFTA: More Bureaucracy, Less Free Trade [by Ron Paul] June 6, 2005 The Central America Free Trade Agreement, known as CAFTA, will be the source of intense political debate in Washington this summer. The House of Representatives will vote on CAFTA ratification in June, while the Senate likely will vote in July. I oppose CAFTA for a very simple reason: it is unconstitutional. The Constitution clearly grants Congress alone the authority to regulate international trade. The plain text of Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 is incontrovertible. Neither Congress nor the President can give this authority away by treaty, any more than they can repeal the First Amendment by treaty. This fundamental point, based on the plain meaning of the Constitution, cannot be overstated. Every member of Congress who votes for CAFTA is voting to abdicate power to an international body in direct violation of the Constitution. We don’t need government agreements to have free trade. We merely need to lower or eliminate taxes on the American people, without regard to what other nations do. Remember, tariffs are simply taxes on consumers. Americans have always bought goods from abroad; the only question is how much our government taxes us for doing so. As economist Henry Hazlitt explained, tariffs simply protect politically-favored special interests at the expense of consumers, while lowering wages across the economy as a whole. Hazlitt, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Murray Rothbard, and countless other economists have demolished every fallacy concerning tariffs, proving conclusively that unilateral elimination of tariffs benefits the American people. We don’t need CAFTA or any other international agreement to reap the economic benefits promised by CAFTA supporters, we only need to change our own harmful economic and tax policies. Let the rest of the world hurt their citizens with tariffs; if we simply reduce tariffs and taxes at home, we will attract capital and see our economy flourish. It is absurd to believe that CAFTA and other trade agreements do not diminish American sovereignty. When we grant quasi-governmental international bodies the power to make decisions about American trade rules, we lose sovereignty plain and simple. I can assure you first hand that Congress has changed American tax laws for the sole reason that the World Trade Organization decided our rules unfairly impacted the European Union. Hundreds of tax bills languish in the House Ways and Means committee, while the one bill drafted strictly to satisfy the WTO was brought to the floor and passed with great urgency last year. The tax bill in question is just the tip of the iceberg. The quasi-judicial regime created under CAFTA will have the same power to coerce our cowardly legislature into changing American laws in the future. Labor and environmental rules are inherently associated with trade laws, and we can be sure that CAFTA will provide yet another avenue for globalists to impose the Kyoto Accord and similar agreements on the American people. CAFTA also imposes the International Labor Organization’s manifesto, which could have been written by Karl Marx, on American business. I encourage every conservative and libertarian who supports CAFTA to read the ILO declaration and consider whether they still believe the treaty will make America more free. CAFTA means more government! Like the UN, NAFTA, and the WTO, it represents another stone in the foundation of a global government system. Most Americans already understand they are governed by largely unaccountable forces in Washington, yet now they face having their domestic laws influenced by bureaucrats in Brussels, Zurich, or Mexico City. CAFTA and other international trade agreements do not represent free trade. Free trade occurs in the absence of government interference in the flow of goods, while CAFTA represents more government in the form of an international body. It is incompatible with our Constitution and national sovereignty, and we don’t need it to benefit from international trade.
The Peoples' President !
RON PAUL or REVOLUTION
????? What "free market"? We don't really HAVE a "free market". Let me give you a personal example. I have some dairy animals - cow(s), and goat(s). I would dearly love to be able to freely sell raw dairy products. But, I am not "big" nor do I live in an area which is populous enough to be able to expand my "operation" much more - simply because there won't be a large enough customer base. It IS legal in TX to sell raw milk; BUT only if you get "Grade A" licensed by the state specifically for the purpose of selling raw dairy products (and then your "customers" must come to you; you CANNOT have your products on the shelf of the local store) - which means regulations, fees, etc... It will be forever "cost prohibitive"; the fees alone would be more than what I could make from my dairy products. This is NOT a "free market" as the consumers in this area are not REALLY allowed a choice - because of regulations, they are FORCED to buy only commercial (read pasteurized, homogenized & fortified) diary products; and as a producer the same regulations prohibit me from being able to give them that choice. If someone in this area WANTS to buy RAW dairy products, they should be able to. I would be more than happy (and in fact would ENCOURAGE them) to let them come out and inspect my animals and facilities; and ask questions about anything which may concern them such as what the animals are fed, or the animals getting vaccinations, antibiotics, hormones etc... (They are all free-range, eating totally organic, and are 100% vaccine, antibiotic, and hormone free)... I believe that is what Ron Paul was talking about with "free markets" - removing those obstacles which currently prevent both consumers and producers from being able to take part in markets which are currently under total control of big corporations. But all that aside, there is something else about Ron Paul which puts him so far ahead of ANY other politician that it's not even a contest is the fact of his recognition of our fiat currency system, and the desperate NEED for getting us back to the gold and silver standard!!! Our current fiat system is so totally corrupt it's unbelievable! There is literally NO LIMIT to the "printing presses", which is THE reason for the shape the country is in PERIOD! Without this limitless "money" supply, Bill Gates could never have dominated the market the way he did. Banks simply could NOT so freely issue credit the way they do, people could NOT outspend their means the way they do (and that goes double as to government spending), and there would be MUCH LESS disparity between the "rich and the poor"..... Like you said "it's about the money" concerning Paul's nomination - and a change back to the gold and silver standard would allow people like Ron Paul to actually be "in the running". Make no mistake, the fiat currency is 100% responsible for the true amount of inflation we are seeing (as opposed to the "doctored" numbers the government is giving us), and we WILL eventually go into hyperinflation - just like EVERY nation on the planet in history has done under fiat currencies. THAT is when the shit will truly hit the fan...
If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man. Albert Einstein
I watched and thought Ron Paul interviewed with dignity. The one thing that sets him apart is that when asked a question, he does not fumble, stutter or go into robot-speech ; he knows the issues and he has a clear philosophy.
It's time - we have a chance to elect a statesman, for a change.
will do. thanks!
I felt compelled to change my tag ;)
It was a narrow escape. If the sheep had been created first, man would have been a plagiarism. -- Mark Twain No group of professionals meets except to conspire against the public at large. -- Mark Twain Excellent commentary and explanation of Dr.Paul's thinking - thanks.
i like. ;)
You've put your finger on one of the principal flaws of libertarianism: the turning of a blind eye to abuses by the corporate sector. Nevertheless, I would take the libertarianism of Ron Paul over the crony capitalism of the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton cabal any day. Their brand of "capitalism" belongs in Indonesia or Mexico, not in a developed and free western country.
Oh, agreed. An honest person with whom I disagree is FAR preferable to thugs like Bush/Cheney. I like Paul. So does NH. There could be a huge upset there. I grew up there and he's the kind of guy who will go over well.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#2. To: who knows what evil, Brian S, lodwick (#1)
#3. To: who knows what evil (#0)
#4. To: All (#3)
#5. To: who knows what evil, Brian S, Arator (#1)
#6. To: christine (#5)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#7. To: who knows what evil (#6)
Think Goldi would mind if I posted this on LP? The show's on in forty minutes...that's pretty damn close to 'Breaking News', IMHO. :-)
#8. To: who knows what evil, *Ron Paul for Prez - 2008* (#6)
#9. To: who knows what evil (#6)
#10. To: anyone who knows (#0)
Enemies of the Republic
#11. To: Critter (#10)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#12. To: christine (#5)
Brian, can you make me a co-owner of Ron Paul for Prez - 2008?
#13. To: who knows what evil (#11)
Enemies of the Republic
#14. To: who knows what evil (#0)
#15. To: Critter (#13)
cool, thanks. I hope someone gets it out there quick. :)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#16. To: who knows what evil (#15)
Enemies of the Republic
#17. To: Critter (#16)
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#18. To: Critter (#16)
#19. To: Mekons4 (#18)
(Edited)
#20. To: Mekons4 (#18)
I was a bit dismayed by his defense of the free market,
#21. To: who knows what evil (#15)
#22. To: Mekons4 (#18)
I was a bit dismayed by his defense of the free market,
#23. To: Mekons4 (#18)
#24. To: Critter. everyone here (#16)
Is it time to start thinking that he is going to become a serious contender?
#25. To: Brian S (#12)
#26. To: christine (#25)
#27. To: innieway (#22)
#28. To: intotheabyss (#26)
#29. To: Mekons4 (#18)
(Edited)
Does he think a lack of govt. oversight will somehow make the Enrons and Halliburtons suddenly turn honest?
#30. To: Rupert_Pupkin (#29)
Nevertheless, I would take the libertarianism of Ron Paul over the crony capitalism of the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton cabal any day.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest