More info. It seems he also made a ton of money as well.
Guess he had that good old racism buried in the woodpile.
Storm builds over Ron Paul newsletters
WASHINGTON . Ron Paul, the fringe Republican candidate who is hoping to pull off an upset victory in Iowa, was engulfed in a political storm Friday after the emergence of newsletters in which Martin Luther King was described as a pedophile, most black men were said to be criminals, and there was speculation Israel was behind a terrorist attack on the United States.
The wild claims were made in a series of newsletters the Texas congressman began producing in the late 1980s, where he offered paid subscribers advice on how to survive "the coming race war" and protect themselves from tax collectors armed with machine guns.
Asked about the newsletters on CNN this week, Mr. Paul, 76, refused to respond to the questions and stormed out of the studio.
In later explanations, the Texas representative said he did not write the letters himself, did not read them and "disavowed" their message, but was under growing pressure to explain how he could be unaware of dozens of inflammatory messages that were produced over more than a decade.
On Friday, Newt Gingrich, a rival in the Republican race, said, "I think that Congressman Paul has to explain his own situation and how he could have had a decade of newsletters that had his name on it that he apparently wasn't aware of.
"I think that somebody should say to him 'OK, how much money did you make from the newsletters?' These things are really nasty, and he didn't know about it? Wasn't aware of it? But he's sufficiently ready to be president? It strikes me it raises some fundamental questions about him."
In one undated letter with Mr. Paul's signature, he writes, "I've been told not to talk, but these stooges don't scare me. Threats or no threats, I've laid bare the coming race war in our big cities."
Another from December 1990 describes how Rev. King "was not only a world-class adulterer, he also seduced underage girls and boys," while one written after the 1992 Los Angeles riots said order was only restored "when it came time for blacks to pick up their welfare cheques."
In 1992, another newsletter commented, "Given the inefficiencies of what [Washington] DC laughingly calls the 'criminal justice system,' I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."
A 1993 letter speculates then president Bill Clinton may have fathered illegitimate children with a black woman and refers to them as "woods colts." After a car bomb exploded in the basement of the World Trade Center in 1993, one letter suggests the attack may have been "a set-up by the Israeli Mossad".
The reports were promoted as a guide for Americans to protect their families and their property from apocalyptic visions of social breakdown and a tyrannical federal government. They were not paid for out of public funds but were often signed "Congressman Ron Paul."
Mr. Paul has not denied he made money from the publications and at least one signed letter ends with a request for the reader to send a cheque or money order over the phone by calling 1-800-RON-PAUL.
In an interview with CNN's Gloria Borger Wednesday, Mr. Paul said of the newsletter's articles, "I didn't write them. I didn't read them at the time and I disavow them."
When Ms. Borger continued to pursue the subject, Mr. Paul removed his microphone and walked out of the interview.
Drew Ivers, his Iowa campaign chairman, said, "It is ridiculous to imply that Ron Paul is a bigot, racist, or unethical." However, he added Mr. Paul does not deny or retract material he has written under his own signature, such as the letter promoting the newsletters.
When asked whether that meant Mr. Paul believed there was a government conspiracy to cover up the impact of AIDS, Mr. Ivers said, "I don't think he embraces that."
The newsletters first surfaced during Mr. Paul's unsuccessful 2008 presidential bid, but have come under fresh scrutiny as the libertarian has overtaken rivals Mr. Gingrich and Mitt Romney in the polls in the crucial early voting state of Iowa.
