Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The Ron Paul Fox News Debacle

I just thought that I would chronicle this whole thing. In February of 2007, when I was running Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth, we approached Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) at his first campaign event in New Hampshire. I simply asked him if he supported a new investigation into 9/11, filmed his response, and put it online. Little did I know that suddenly the video would be posted EVERYWHERE on the net and shown on the O'Reilly Factor!

Original Video:



As aired on the O'Reilly Factor:



As mentioned by the New York Times:

Last winter at a meet-the-candidate house party in New Hampshire, students representing a group called Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth asked Paul whether he believed the official investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks was credible. “I never automatically trust anything the government does when they do an investigation,” Paul replied, “because too often I think there’s an area that the government covered up, whether it’s the Kennedy assassination or whatever.” The exchange was videotaped and ricocheted around the Internet for a while. But Paul’s patience with the “Truthers,” as they call themselves, does not make him one himself. “Even at the time it happened, I believe the information was fairly clear that Al Qaeda was involved,” he told me.
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