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Must-see morning clip – “truthers”

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:50:00 +0000

On AC360 last night, Kurt Eichenwald defended his New York Times op-ed against Ari Fleischer's "truther" attack, calling it "empty headed garbage."

Fleischer had tweeted in response to Eichenwald's op-ed, "How can the NYT ridicule birthers then make their op-ed page home to a truther??"

“Now, I am kind of angry at Ari today," Eichenwald told Anderson Cooper, "because the first thing he did was send out a tweet calling me a ’9/11 truther,’ meaning one of those people who says George Bush orchestrated 9/11. And that is the kind of garbage, the kind of empty headed garbage, that has prevented history from taking place here.”

Fleischer doubled down, saying that Eichenwald's claims are just a “cleaned-up version of trutherism.”

It only got more heated from there:

“Hostile takeover”: Ron Paul’s fans react

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:39:00 +0000

TAMPA -- Chaos and turmoil may have befallen the Ron Paul delegation -- members of which frantically scrambled about the Tampa convention floor Tuesday to exert their influence -- but much of the party establishment seemed unmoved by their plight. For example: I spotted Sen. John Thune of South Dakota striding around the exterior ring of the building, and asked if he felt the Paul People's grievances were legitimate. "Well, perhaps in their minds," the senator replied. "I think that there's a process, everyone followed it. Everyone did it according to the rules."

Virtually every Paul supporter I have encountered thus far would stridently disagree with Thune's assessment. Generally, they range from somewhere between perturbed to violently apoplectic over GOP insiders' skulduggery.