Summary: Depending on Dr. Paul's media/speaking schedule, I think I will begin posting some more of the classic Ron Paul interviews and speeches from throughout his long and distinguished career. This audio installment is from the Congressman's January 19th, 1988 appearance on Firing Line- the decades long-running talk show hosted by that (ex-CIA-agent and Skull 8 Bones, Class of 1950) legendary conservative thinker, Williams F. Buckley. At the time, Dr. Paul was in the midst of his first bid for the White House, campaigning under the banner of the Libertarian Party. This is an entirely interesting time for this interview to take place- in the final months of Reagan's Presidency, with former CIA boss George HW Bush securing the Republican nomination. Paul and Buckley do plenty of talking about the CIA, and the covert activities taken around the world in the name of US national security. It's amazing how little has changed when it comes to the media's marginalization of any candidate who is not bought and sold by the establishment. Dr. Paul provides a lot of great insight from the libertarian perspective, as the two debate about the Constitution, taxation, foreign policy and more. If you pay close attention, you'll quickly hear that the 'conservative' positions advocated by Buckley are much closer to Barack Obama than Ron Paul. In his day, Buckley paid a key role in shaping the acceptable parameters of conservative political discourse (much like Mark Levin tries to do today). The examiner in the episode was Prof. Ernest van den Haag, an early practitioner of the rhetorical style of Neoconservatism (ie. demagoguery targeting people's religious, tribal, and nationalistic instincts). Enjoy! Video compliments of YouTube User: YALUCSD (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 8 Part 4).
