The Ron Paul Vid-Lash
By Virginia Heffernan
Editors’ Note: The post below, which appeared on The Medium on Monday, 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. That the Times got it wrong, does not change the fact that a person like Black supports RP. It also doesn't change the fact that Stormfron or VNN have donation click buttons on their sites. The fact that $500 was given by Black, not Stormfront does not preclude that many members of Stormfront and other such sites have visitors that are sure that RP is their guy or that what he esposes as his beliefs coincide with their hopes for the future.
Yet somehow this doesn't bother more than a few visitors to more progressive sites like JPP. That most here, certainly those that think RP is their candidate, do not express any concern that they are backing the same guy that folks that visit Stormfront find so appealing, is truly perplexing. I don't consider most of what I read by you guys 'way left', not at all. So how do 'moderate liberals' find themselves with the likes of supporters from the extreme right, cause that's where Stormfront and VNN are? The 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. I haven't a clue to Bill White, other than what he posted at VNN. That a far leftist, now claims to be a Nazi is weird to say the least. Is he trying to take down Ron Paul? It could be. I noted when I read VNN that he had over 1k posts. He was there for awhile to say the least. 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 post should not have been published with these unverified assertions and without any response from Paul.
I'll probably continue to annoy over Paul, perhaps moreso if I can find a candidate I support.
