[NYTr] More WaPo Disinfo On Ron Paul

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

LewRockwell - Oct 14, 2007
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/016102.html

More WaPo Disinfo on Ron Paul

Posted by Daniel McAdams

Reading this weekend's Washington Post piece on Blackwater founder Erik
Prince, I came across a paragraph that perplexed me:

    "Prince was a White House intern under President George H.W. Bush.
His political donations over the past two decades total almost $263,000
to Pat Buchanan, Oliver North, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) and former
senator Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, among others."

What? Why would an individual who has profited to the tune of several
billion dollars from the drug war and the Iraq and Afghanistan war be
giving money to the most antiwar and anti-war-on-drugs Member of
Congress? Catholic guilt?

So I decided to do some looking around.

First I went to the Federal Election Commission website and checked
contributors to Dr. Paul's presidential campaign. No Erik Prince.

Then I looked at Dr. Paul's contributors to every congressional race
since 2001 (pre-Blackwater bonanza days). No Erik Prince.

Then I cross-checked all of Erik Prince's political giving, going back
to 2001 on CQ's excellent Moneyline website. Nothing.

Surely the reporter didn't make this up?

Ah, finally found it! When Ron Paul returned to Congress in 1995 Prince
gave $1,000. Then he gave another $1,000 the next year. Nothing since
then. And Prince's listed profession when he gave two grand to Ron
Paul? US Navy!

That equals less than one-one hundredth of what Prince is said to have
given to dozens of GOP recipients, yet somehow that same Washington
Post that doesn't seem to know that Ron Paul even exists saw fit to
print it without clarification or explanation, leaving the reader to
conclude that Ron Paul is just another candidate who gets money from
the military industrial complex that he (pretends) to rail about.

This is called "disinformation," and from Ron Paul to the wars they are
shilling for against Iran and Syria, the Washington Post is proving
itself a master that would have made Trotsky proud.