Last week, Ron Paul walked out when CNN pressed him about the apparently racist sentiments in his newsletters from the 1980s. Well, apparently someone told him that he can't run from those words anymore. He tried to explain himself on ABC's "This Week"--and in the process, may have dug himself another hole. His explanation to ABC's Jake Tapper? He didn't even know what was in those newsletters.
Paul has disavowed the newsletters, saying that he did not read or write the controversial statements.
“I don’t think anybody in the world has been perfect on management, everybody that’s ever worked for them,” Paul told me this morning on “This Week. “So, yes… it’s a flaw. But I think it’s a human flaw… I admit that I’m an imperfect person and didn’t monitor that as well.”
“I was not the editor. I was the publisher. And there were some very bad sentences put in,” Paul added. “I did not write those. I did not review them… And that is an error on my part.”
Before you say this is snark, see for yourself:
So let's see if we've got this right. He didn't take the time to review those newsletters even though his name was on them--and he wants to be president? Somehow I find it hard to believe that even his insanely Republican district would have elected him if this had been public.
1:15 PM PT: Richardak managed to track down a sample Paul newsletter. It's only eight pages long. And Paul expects us to believe he didn't have time to read it. Uh huh.