The Ron Paul-Bobby Fischer connection

Bobby Fischer died:

In 1999, in a series of telephone interviews he gave to a radio station in the Philippines, he rambled angrily and profanely about an international Jewish conspiracy, which he said was bent on destroying him personally and the world generally.

On Sept. 11, 2001, he told a radio talk-show host in Baguio, the Philippines, that the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were ”wonderful news,” adding he was wishing for a scenario “where the country will be taken over by the military, they’ll close down all the synagogues, arrest all the Jews and secure hundreds of thousands of Jewish ringleaders.”

Given that Ron Paul is a big anti-Semite, I naturally wondered if there was a Ron Paul-Bobby Fischer connection. Sure enough, there is. In a 1992 Ron Paul news letter (pdf) (which may or may not have been written by Ron Paul himself), the following is written about Bobby Fischer:

Fischer, who has all the makings of an American hero, is very politically incorrect on Jewish questions, for which he will never be forgiven, even though he is a Jew. Thus we are not supposed to herald him as the world's greatest chess player.

Hat tip: James Kirchick.

At the Stormfront White Nationalist Community, there is a discussion about whether Bobby Fischer was a member. “He was a strange character. Half-Jewish, but willing to tell the truth about the Jews,” says a Ron Paul supporter with the moniker “WhiteRights.”

Comments

[hugh go naught]

No offense, but considering the content of some of your posts (blacks and IQ), you should be the last person trying to smear with anti-#insert ethnic group here# association.

[Tom]

To call Ron Paul anti-semetic is a clear troll. Ever hear him talk about Mises? The JEWISH Economist?

[Rob]

I saw somewhere on the interwebs that there's this Rudy Giuliani supporter who thinks blacks have genetically lower IQs, gay sex should be outlawed, and racial separation is good.

Therefore Giuliani supports these things.

But you haven't given any reason (direct quote, vote, action) for anyone to believe Ron Paul is a racists.

As has been explained before, this 16yr old quote was written by a ghostwrite Paul fired. He has said he doesn't share or support the view of anyone White nationalist who claims to support him.

Why can't you neocons stop your dirty smears until you can find something directly from Paul's in his 35yrs of public service that comes anywhere close to your smears.

Here's a bit again on why neocons like Kirchick are smearing Ron Paul.

[Vim]

Fisher seems like a classic bipolar or schizophrenic or something along that spectrum.

I don't feel the need to judge Ron Paul out of context. However, ranting about political correctness does seem to be a trait of people with axes to grind against ethnic groups. You know what I mean HS?

[John Smith]

Half Sigma's attacks on antisemitism make perfect sense, because anti-antisemitism is usually a large force in black nationalist movements.

Basically, antisemitic people are in denial about IQ reality. They attribute Jewish success to cheating, stealing, or conspiracy, and ignore the overwhelming evidence that Jews are just genetically more intelligent.

Black apologists are in denial about IQ reality. The attribute Black failure to exploitation, racism, or conspiracy, and ignore the overwhelming evidence that Blacks are just genetically less intelligent.

So, enough with calling HS hypocritical. He tells it like it is. Market dominant minorities are going to always be hated.

[TGGP]

When did Ron Paul say anything anti-Semitic? I've heard his newsletters say bad things about Israel but Israel != jews.

I hosted Thomas Sowell's "Are Jews Generic?" on middlemen-minorities here.

Speaking of POTUS candidates that HS is obsessed over, but offering something trueful this time.

A Vegas odds maker on the Cobert Show yesterday was talking about the line on the next POTUS. Rudy's odds fell by half, from 1/6 last week to 1/12 this week.

What did Rudy do? There were no major mishaps I heard of, no revelations of his oily past or gaffes. He just put his underwhelming self in front of the voters and they naturally recoiled.

This just confirms my belief the MSM and big money are fluffing the poll data and artificially boosting their candidates (Rudy's their favorite).

Maybe this made HS cranky, so he reloaded his neocon "anti-semite" paint gun and squeezed another on off.

[nobody]

People need to stop responding to post like this. It servers absolutely no purpose. Recently, HS has started postings like this that is a bit strange, to say the least. But he is known to have faked postings to see what kind of reaction he gets from people (just checkout his fake libertarian girl postings).

Here are the possible explanation for his recent postings.

HS is merely stating his long standing beliefs about the world as he sees is.

HS is just trying to see what people's reaction to his posts.

HS has gone Bobby Fischer. The stress of going to NYUSL is too much for him.

[SFG]

Given that Ron Paul is a big anti-Semite, I naturally wondered if there was a Ron Paul-Bobby Fischer connection.
You were right in this case, but there are so many anti-semites out there...

[DML]

Bobby Fischer was a certifiable nutcase (who happened to be very good at chess), so you can't take anything he says with any level of seriousness.

You've yet to defend your Ron Paul anti-semite stance. He opposes giving billions of dollars (that we don't have ) to Israel, so that means he hates Jews? He also says we give more money to Arabs and he opposes giving money to them too. This part of his stance makes sense to me.

[~trumwill]

People need to stop responding to post like this. It servers absolutely no purpose. Recently, HS has started postings like this that is a bit strange, to say the least.

Posts like this are half of why I come to this blog. Exciting logic-leaping that alternates between making me think and making me laugh. This is pretty par-the-course for his writing. Does it seem "strange" to you because he's suddenly saying things that you disagree with?

Megan McArdle is like that for me. She is the smartest person ever until she starts writing on something that I disagree with her about, then she suddenly becomes smug, condescending, and monumentally irritating.

[dearieme]

I enjoy Freudian typos. "trueful" => ruefully truthful. I'll use that in future.

[icr]

You've yet to defend your Ron Paul anti-semite stance.

By now it should clear he has no intention of doing so. He just enjoys needling RP supporters.

[icr]

Someone should create a video with alternating clips showing Kirchick and Roy Cohn denouncing heretics and subversives. Then we could easily compare and contrast the stylistic similarities and differences between the two homo witch-hunters. Certainly a worthwhile endeavor(at least in the context of Queer Studies), even if necon/leftist neo-McCarthyism, though clearly an important phenomenon of our time, has no existence in the Semi-Official(AKA MSM) media.

[icr]

...has no existence in the Semi-Official(AKA MSM) media.

clarification: meaning they don't recognize that it exists when directed against domestic rightists

[Soob]

I wonder if "WhiteRights" heard ole Bob's hearty endorsement of the 9/11 attacks?

[Bill]

Rudy Giuliani is paid by the Islamic government of Qatar through Giuliani Partners for his ‘security work’. Rudy admits to this Client because it became public but will not release his larger Client list. He intends to keep cashing Giuliani Partners checks as the President of the United States. Nobody will know who Giuliani’s ‘partners’ are (other than the case of the Islamic Government of Qatar).

Islamic law states that Jews are to be either killed, subjugated, or converted.

Therefore, Rudy Giuliani is not only an anti-Semite, but he is an anti-Semitic profiteer.

Ron Paul makes his money delivering babies and representing his District.

[Dan Morgan]

HS,

I like your blog and read it regularly. But you are wrong in calling Ron Paul an anti-Semite without some direct quotes from him. I think you should say you shouldn't have done it and then move on.

[Goebbels]

"You were right in this case, but there are so many anti-semites out there..."

Is that you, Uncle Leo?

[Obama]

Didn't Hillary call someone a "Fucking Jew bastard?"

[eh]

Given that Ron Paul is a big anti-Semite,...

A silly smear.

No offense, but considering the content of some of your posts (blacks and IQ), you should be the last person trying to smear with anti-#insert ethnic group here# association.

More nonsense. It isn't anti- anything to discuss group differences in average IQ, and to think or postulate further on what the consequences of that might be. It's closer to the mark to say it is anti-intellectual not to do so.

[Turambar]

A very sad end for Bobby Fischer. Ah if I were President a pardon would be issued.

Why even bring up that idiot Ron Paul when what we should be commemorating the end of an era. A man who had an IQ higher than Einstein and Hawking and who actually did something with it (unlike Rosner). I hope he was happy but from the outside it didnt look like it.

Time to play over Byrne/Fischer, a "Game of the Century" from when he was 13....

[Gamma Man]

Ron Paul scares the hell out of HS. It's like Auschwitz all over! After all, Paul is a doctor, just like Mengele! Do we need further proof?

The world won't be safe until Bibi Netanyahu can run for POTUS and win. Wait! I meant Giuliani.

[worthmissing]

'To call Ron Paul anti-semetic is a clear troll. Ever hear him talk about Mises? The JEWISH Economist?'

i have seen this repeated so often, it must be the pauline variant of 'i'm not racist, some of my best friends are black!' in other words, 'one of my ideological heroes who was baptized christian and admired catholicism though was personally agnostic had jewish ancestry -- i can't hate jews!'

(i hasten to add, i don't think ron paul hates jews, but this is a counter-argument i would like to see laid to rest.)