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Media Distorts Facts on Paul, Huntsman and Afghan War
(The New American) -- by Alex Newman --
Activists slammed a series of media pieces that blatantly misrepresented the facts about Republican presidential contenders Rep. Ron Paul and former Utah Governor and Obama appointee Jon Huntsman (left) regarding the war in Afghanistan.
Among the culprits were the Wall Street Journal, Politico.com, The Atlantic, and Esquire magazine. The inaccuracies ranged from obvious fact errors to subtle distortions. But they didn’t go unnoticed.
In a piece for the DailyPaul.com, a website supporting the liberty-minded Republican Ron Paul, a blogger called out two of the worst offenders: Politico.com, a website that covers politics, and the men’s magazine, Esquire. The blog post highlighting the errors sparked dozens of comments from outraged and dismayed Paul supporters, who said they had dealt with years of “establishment-media” distortions and bias against the constitutionalist GOP candidate.
In the first piece, “senior political reporter” Maggie Haberman of Politico made an obviously false claim that anyone who follows American politics would instantly recognize. “The shift away from positions calling for military engagement,” she wrote, is “most clearly articulated by Jon Huntsman so far among the current candidates, with his call for a clear troop drawn-down from Afghanistan.”
In fact, Ron Paul has articulated the non-interventionist position far more clearly for years, including calls to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. “I'd bring them home as quickly as possible, and I'd get them out of Iraq as well," Paul said during a recent presidential debate. "Our national security is not enhanced by our presence over there. We have no purpose there.” Paul’s long-held positions have been consistently articulated for decades in books, speeches and even on the floor of the House of Representatives.
By contrast, “moderate” Jon Huntsman has been anything but clear regarding his position on basically everything — and especially Afghanistan and foreign intervention. "You're going to have to leave behind some presence, probably not 100,000 or 120,000 troops, but some presence," Huntsman said during an interview with CNN in mid-June. After officially announcing his candidacy earlier this week, he told reporters that he did not have “specifics” for a withdrawal plan.
The second inaccurate article cited in the blog post came from writer Chris Jones of Esquire magazine, who absurdly claimed in an “exclusive” that Huntsman “has already begun to distinguish himself in a crowded field by becoming the first to call for a rapid withdrawal of U.S troops from Afghanistan.”
Again, anybody who has followed politics at all knows Rep. Paul has been calling for a rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan since well before the 2008 presidential election. Former New Mexico Governor and fellow 2012 GOP candidate Gary Johnson has been issuing similar calls since long-before most GOP voters had even heard of Huntsman.
Furious Paul supporters flooded the two reporters and their employers with e-mails and phone calls demanding corrections. But as of June 23, none had been issued...MORE...LINK
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Liberal fascism: statist-liberal mainstream media joins War Street Journal to torpedo Ron Paul in favor of Huntsman
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