DISQUS

It looks Obvious: Too intellectual for his own good

  • Tom Gellhaus · 2 years ago
    It's good to know I wasn't the only one who was uncomfortable with the interview - two of my friends got a poor impression of Ron from that, and they both think of Maher as a Libertarian (or at least sympathetic), so it wasn't helpful at all. I totally agree with your point that in such a brief time, Ron's defense of positions he takes come across as inadequate.
  • Rogel · 2 years ago
    <font/>= 'calibri'> The problem is, and I don't have a good answer how to solve it, how to deliver rather complicate issues in a five minutes interview? are we doomed for banal arguments and marketing style debates? if the answer is yes, what is it telling about us?
  • Tom Gellhaus · 2 years ago
    I think the main problem was that Dr. Paul was not asked the usual kinds of RELEVANT questions as some other candidates have been...Medical Marijuana, the GWOT, the elimination of habeus corpus (and others).
    After looking at a lot of other sites that discussed the Paul interview by Maher, it seems that all of us who love Dr. Paul think he got a lousy interview from a person who (falsely) claims to be Libertarian.
    I don't know whether it would do any good to write Bill Maher, but he obviously was NOT objective and decided to make himself look "clever" for no apparent reason. I don't understand why he could not have just been straightforward. His show is popular, and he does libertarians a great disservice by his slanted interview.
  • Rogel · 2 years ago
    I agree that the interview was not fair, and it seems like Maher tried to paint Dr. Paul as wired. But I don't think that a less intellectual politician would have fall into this trap.
    I thought that Maher is an ex-libertarian who "saw" the light and moved to the left, Am I wrong?
  • Tom Gellhaus · 2 years ago
    He may very well have moved left. I had thought that even quite recently he had given off the impression that he was a libertarian, perhaps I was mistaken.
    I hope that I can use (show to my friends) the new interview that MSNBC did with Ron Paul ("Under the Radar", their series on lesser-known candidates) to mitigate the perception of Dr. Paul as "weird". The interviewer for that seemed more objective, and not as having an agenda, and because of that, Ron seems much more sensible in that piece.
  • Rogel · 2 years ago
    Update: I found the link here