that was a really good job dissecting a very flawed article but i noticed tom fell into the same trap he accused weis of falling after the 20min mark.
sorry tom but medicare,dollar for dollar is by far the most effective health program when put in contrast to the american health insurance industry and social security has done more to eleviate the poor for the elderly.
maybe that is because we all pay in to those programs.
but you cant accuse an author of an obviously flawed article for engaging in lazy tactics and then turn around and do the very same thing you were just accusing.

other than that this man nails it.

Ron Paul is a dream candidate for the corporate state. He is a true believer who need not be bought. He benefits them by bringing an air of populist morality to the more cutthroat aspects of modern capitalism. He champions trickle down theory, tax cuts for the 1% and deregulation of the financial sector despite all the troubling failures these concepts have brought about over the last few decades. Check out his platform, it's a deregulatory and tax money give away to our corporate wardens.

For all the complaints I hear from right libertarians, from what I've seen, the media has treated him well. They've given him 1) plenty of air time (far more than Hunstman who is similarly in single digits when it comes to national polling) 2) softball questions in the debates, and 3) no political pile ons of the type we've seen with Cain, Bachmann and Perry. The other candidates have also been very kind to him both publicly and in debates. He even gets polite write ups in Koch funded corporate media outlets like reason and cato. If he is such a threat to the status quo, why does he face so little adversity?

Anyway, I think the salon article is fair.

Decide for yourself: http://www.salon.com/2011/11/29/ron_pauls_phony_populism/

i reeeally should have read the article.
it is not flawed at all and makes the distinction on paul politics and how closely they mirror ayn rand and is a main reason i do not support ron paul.

i still think this man made some salient points but his bias ignores that the article is not just some hack piece.
my bad for not readin first.thanks for the link DFT.

Ron Paul has become such a sacred cow among market conservatives these days that even the mildest of criticisms are seen as a giant conspiracy, which is too bad, because criticism is a really, really, really important form of ideological peer review.

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