Neocon Finger Prints are “All Over” Ron Paul’s Exclusion from Iowa Candidate Forum
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
As I wrote on Wednesday, the misnamed Iowans for Tax Relief and the Iowa Christian Alliance (ICA) have chosen to exclude Ron Paul from their candidates’ forum on June 30.
There is more to report.
I’ve received emails from people telling me that the folks at the ICA insist that they had nothing to do with excluding Dr. Paul, and that the blame rests with Ed Failor of Iowans for Tax Relief. (Ed’s not too popular with a lot of people these days, apparently.)
Now I have no doubt that there may be some decent people at the ICA, and that they may really believe what they are saying. But that organization cannot possibly be believed when it innocently claims it has nothing against Ron Paul.
The ICA has a page on its site that lists all the announced candidates for president. http://www.iowachristian.com/candidatewatch.htm.
Until yesterday, when I pointed it out on the LRC blog and embarrassed them a bit, there was no Ron Paul.Now look at the list again. Ever heard of Hugh Cort? John Cox? Mark Klein? The people at the ICA evidently have, since there they are on the list. But they apparently hadn’t heard of Ron Paul until just yesterday.
Actually, though, they did know who Ron Paul was. They even used to have him on their list, as http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:hViT9oX7Hu4J:www.iowachristian.com/candidatewatch.htm+http://www.iowachristian.com/candidatewatch.htm&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us shows. But then he disappeared.
They also used to have a link to Paul’s YouTube site, along with those of the other candidates, at the bottom of the page, but that’s also been suppressed. So if they thought they could claim that deleting the link to Ron Paul’s campaign site was some kind of innocent mistake, that isn’t going to work.
Heck, they even include a list of “potential” candidates. That list includes Al Sharpton.
So Al Sharpton merits inclusion, but Ron Paul does not. There is the faith of the apostles, according to the Iowa Christian Alliance.
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