Dr. Paul will be interviewed on The Rachel Maddow Show tonight around 9:23 pm eastern.
Update: The interview has been canceled for this evening. Stay tuned for any news on rescheduling.
Update 2: I have just received word that Dr. Paul will be on tonight's (Tuesday's) show. We're not sure on hit time yet, but the program begins at 9 pm eastern.
Update 3: Congressman Paul is also scheduled to be on Cavuto's Fox Business show in the 6 pm eastern hour. (Thanks to Minn. Chris for the update!)
Oh great, she's a hit below the belt interviewer that generally doesn't allow for discussion against her point of view. Stay strong Dr. Paul, and make your points!
Actually, Maddow normally has fantastic interviews with Ron Paul.. She has been quoted saying she greatly admires him. Check out his past clips from her show, they are all great interviews. Rand Paul also announced his senate run on Maddow's show. I think this is going to be a great interview in response to her story on the tea party movement and sarah palin yesterday.
Why is Ron Paul going on her show? All she does is slander the Tea Party. We would be best to not give her any attention and let her show get canceled.
Her show last night talking about how the tea party turned on Ron Paul, well I have been talking to people that are in the tea party and they love Ron Paul.
They are trying to divide us, since they couldn't make Palin irrelevant they are now trying to make us do it. Don't let this state run propaganda machine called MSNBC trick us into attacking someone that could be very helpful to our cause.
If we want to have any chance of changing anything we must find some common ground among the tea party and unite. This will not become full fledged libertarian, but instead of fighting against them if we work together we can get something that is as far to the right as possible.
Lets not shoot ourselves in the foot and let politics go back to the same as usual.
The Maddow appearance was pretty good. She let RP say everything he wanted, with next to no interruption. However, RP did seem to ramble a bit, which he has a tendency to do. Overall it was good though.
Posted 02/09/10 10:47 PM Divad Fungi New Lenox, IL
I am loving this! Glad to see Ron Paul on t.v for so long and met with respect.
My family are liking it also! Thank you Ron Paul for keeping on.
Posted 02/10/10 12:24 AM Mike of mv Mission Viejo, CA
I think one of the points that needs to be addressed, and Dr. Paul hit upon it, is that the Tea Party started out as a grassroots movement to reign in government control of our lives, but has since gotten hijacked by many of the neo-cons who continue to support the interventionist foreign policy of the Republicans. This policy goes against the constitution and the vision of our founding fathers.
The main message of the tea "party", which by the way isn't supposed to be a political party, should be to limit the role of the federal government in all areas, as shown in the Constitution.
Let's stay on message here and don't let either political party, the welfare statists or the warfare statist, take over the movement.
Thank you Ron Paul for keeping us focused on the REAL revolution.
Too late for the "Tea Party". The neo-cons like Gingrich, Hannity and Steele have already co-opted the movement. Palin is the de-facto leader of the Tea Party movement? She is a warmongering neo-con. She couldn't even remember three simple things like "Energy, Tax Cuts and American Spirit" so she had to write them on her hand! She originally had budget cuts written down, but had to cross it out when someone told her that the neo-cons beleive in big govenment when they are runningthe show.
Don't be fooled by her! She is just another neo-con just like Scott Brown.
Ron Paul,
I agree with you because your actions say what you do, thank you.
We should keep our eye on the movement, yes some are quick to run right in but we know who these people are that have actions too that do not support this movement so make darn sure who is in the right place, be the one to select. Know your opponents and who your real allies are and know the process. Let’s stomp these people out by our domination of the truth.
I only know one man in Congress that stands out above the rest by his position, I take this position very personal and this person is Ron Paul.
Great assessment of the movement to-date Dr. Paul. Thanks for consistently communicating your message of sound money, a non-interventionist foreign policy, and civil liberties. Good luck in your primary March 2- a donation is on it's way. I am grateful Rachel Maddow gives you a great opportunity as well.
I thought that was a great interview! I appreciate Rachel giving him so much air time and courtesy. I think she really likes him. She is very respectful of him. Usually when I watch her I get ticked off and turn the channel. I did get upset knowing that tea-party-ers are opposing RP. Are they dense or somthing? UGH!!!! It's the neocon takeover. C4L really needs to step it up.
I think the way to get the Tea Party / Liberty movement back on track is for Ron Paul to challange Sarah Palin to a debate !! Make her earn her new found status. I don't think she would even consider it but he should make the offer during this type of interview and let the public weigh in on it.
Is it me or did Rachael sound a little "suck uppity"?
Anywho, I noticed that Ron said that progressive Democrats were having a problem with some policy which I immediately thought, why? Progressivism is what's destroying America. The progressive movement in America has been ongoing for about 100 yrs now for the sole purpose of tearing down the republic and replacing it with a socialist democracy. Do some research on the progressive movement and look for the progressives currently running things..
Posted 02/10/10 12:32 PM justinb Oklahoma City, OK
That was a different Rachel than I've ever seen. Nice change from what I usually notice from her. She sure did give Dr. Paul a lot of flexibility to talk (takes back his first comment)
I disagree with some of the harsher comments posted on Rachel. She has given Ron Paul fair interviews far more often than not, yet does pop a challenging question or two from time to time—but that doesn't mean the interview is unfair. She may genuinely be trying to see things from Ron's perspective, or she may not. We should exercise patience in dealing with people whose eyes open more slowly than others.
I definitely think she's got some things wrong, but Dr. Paul has been carrying out polite conversations with her during these interviews, and if nothing else, we should be taking notes on how to find common ground with liberals and teach them that REAL conservatives are not these evil corporatist warmongering thugs, like the neoconservatives are. I think many liberals would accept libertarian ideas if they could just see past all the false-rhetoric that claims libertarians are "right-wing extremists." They have the same problem neoconseratives do, and that is that everything they believe has been spoon-fed to them with political spin from the media.
Maddow also gives the rEVOLution credit for starting the modern day tea parties, which is something that no major news pundit will point out! I'm very pleased with her for stating that. I would even suggest sending Maddow a thank-you email for having Ron on and clarifying that bit of factual info.
JohnSalmon: One of the planks of C4L has always been noninterventionism. In that, and in our opposition to the incipient police state, we have natural allies on the Left, including Maddow, Naomi Wolf, and Glenn Greenwald. Maddow, of course, has to take off the blinders as it concerns Democratic warmongers; Wolf, I'm not sure about, but Greenwald has no such blinders.
I'm NOT moving in Maddow's direction, but if she wants to move towards my direction, she's more than welcome to unite with me on pressing issues that we can agree on. When you stop viewing issues as left-versus-right, and present them as freedom-versus-control issues (as Ron does so successfully), you may be surprised to find coalitions with people you would not have expected to agree with.
To give you an example, In Fall of 2008, Ron Paul worked with four separate third-parties (Green Party liberals, Nader independent-liberals, Libertarian Party libertarians, and Constitution Party conservatives) and they all united under a common declaration of principles and goals that they could agree upon.
You can find video footage of that press release of that declaration here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYALxUfEmfQ
The Declaration is titled "We Agree" and was posted here on the CFL website at some time. You might try a blog search.
"To all my comrades", says the mighty Neocon leaders, "first you must ignore the message, second you must ridicule the message, if this does not work next you dilute it and if the message continues to grow after those three steps you must infiltrate them and then you must change the message."
Ike Hall: I will be honest, the nonintervention is the one issue C4L and I disagree on. I agree with you on the police state, but Maddow is big government, big government always brings about a police state.
bringing in the left only alienates the right. America is a center right country the message would do much better focusing on bringing the right together, IMO the perfect candidate looks like Rand Paul and Peter Schiff.
I don't believe we should be moving toward any of these television anchors who don't have a clue on issues of liberty. We should be maintaining our principles and welcoming anyone who is willing to join us.
The non-intervention of Libertarianism is perhaps the most difficult sell job which we have because we are perceived as disinterested in national security.
The reality is that the view of libertarians is that the defense of the nation is one of the few legitimate functions of the federal government. I don't believe any of the arguments of interventionists because most of them don't believe in securing the borders. None have really focused on the fact that the terrorist attacks against the United States have come from people who are or who were already here.
Yet there is no effort to clean the terrorists out of the military ranks, no effort to interupt the activities of beltway shooters, no effort to infiltrate domestic sleeper cells, no effort to prevent terrorists from crossing any borders, no effort to prevent bombers from boarding planes destined for American cities, and no effort to prevent the culture and threats of honor killings within the United States.
It is a sorry, despicable, and shameful record and will eventuate in Americans being killed, because politicians are unable or unwilling to keep their oath of office.
In stark relief - neither party - Democrate or Republican, understand who the American people are, how they feel or what they feel. Both amuse themselves with the same old joke.
Are you ready? Okay, here it is... "What do We say to these ignorant taxpaying American citizen with 'two black-eyes?' Nothing! We've already told them twice!!".
The Campaign for Liberty is NOT a campaign for-or-against 'Tea Partys'. Its' mission is: "to promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a non-interventionist foreign policy, by means of educational and political activity."
This is a perfect time for ALL of us to reaffirm our understanding of what C4L is all about. On the top of this web-page is a Red bar. Please click 'About'. The menu shows C4L's 'Mission' and 'Statement of Principles'. The first time that I read it was in 2007. I forgot that it was there. Anyway, for all you 'old-timers' like me, there was a song-verse that was drifting in my mind as I re-read the 'Statement of Principles'... and it goes, "kiss me once and kiss me twice, and kiss me once again, it's been a long, long time..."
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Posted 02/11/10 12:11 AM Joseph Kaleb Amarillo, TX
Why is she the one MSM personality that allows him to talk rather freely?
Ron Paul won't step in and take it over. Rand Paul is still running a campaign and can't become a spokesman, and I am not seeing to much more of C4L at the parties.
Well it was fun while it lasted, guess we get to sit back and watch the economy crash. Most likely socialism will win out in the end. Had a great run America.
A lot of excellent statements but my favorite is by Clairian:
(The Campaign for Liberty is NOT a campaign for-or-against 'Tea Partys'. Its' mission is: "to promote and defend the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a non-interventionist foreign policy, by means of educational and political activity.")
Duplicated rather than interpreted, what does it mean in this form?
I view it as clear, defined, simple and achievable or I would not have signed on.
Yes there are always other Ideas and this is healthy to share but regardless there are still only these targets to meet. Collectively how can we meet them?
By educating ourselves exactly what this means as intended, the actions of creating such a product and the intelligence we all bring to infiltrate, take over, take charge with real guidance to achieve such a goal.
Is it a good goal? Do you agree or disagree, what will you do to achieve it?
Really work to duplicate this effort, know it well, and share amongst ourselves to strengthen our position, unite and do as needed to reach this plateau. Know our tools and produce the results.
Are we there yet? Just asking.
Posted 02/11/10 11:44 AM justinb Oklahoma City, OK
Kind of off topic, but for those that saw the Thomas Woods clip where he talked about the depression of the 20's with President Harding. I heard Glenn Beck talk about the same thing last night with Harding, and brought facts and figures showing that cutting spending (in half in this case), and reducing taxes (by ~60% at the time) really worked out the best. Dropping unemployment from near 12% to 1.8%, and increasing wages of the average worker by 20%, making it the shortest depression in our nations history.
We should all use that as a case or model of where this philosophy has worked, and should be tried again.
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