Ron Paul on the Morton Downey Show
By David Gordon
August 18, 2015
I recently came across a Youtube video from 1988, in which Ron Paul appeared on the Morton Downey program. Mr. Downey ranks among the rudest and most grotesque television personalities of all time. Compared to him, Joe Pyne was mild-mannered, and Jerry Springer a paragon of good taste. Over much ranting and raving from Downey, Ron Paul eloquently calls for an end to the war on drugs, at that time a much more controversial position than it is now. At one point in the program, Downey runs up to Ron Paul and says. “If I had slime like you in the White House, I’d puke on you!” (This appears around 5:30 in the video) Ron Paul, unfazed, continues to argue for liberty.
David Gordon is Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute and Distinguished Columnist at LewRockwell.com. He is also author of Resurrecting Marx and An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and editor of numerous books including Strictly Confidential: The Private Volker Fund Memos of Murray N. Rothbard. Send him mail.
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