The IPR-coined term “Snubgate” made it to the most widely read libertarian Web site in the world, LewRockwell.com, today, when Eric Garris published an entry on the LRC blog asking if the Barr campaign’s leadership is “splitting.”…
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‘Snubgate’ hits WikiNews
By Administrative Team on September 12, 2008 4:48 PM
LP interim Executive Director Robert Kraus might want to add WikiNews to his official media blacklist. The populist alternative to the corporate-controlled media has recently published a story on “Snubgate.”…
Motion to remove Barr as LP nominee has been written
By Administrative Team on September 12, 2008 4:03 PM
Despite the blackout by third-party media outlets sympathetic to and/or controlled by the Barr campaign, there is a serious effort under way to remove Bob Barr as the Libertarian Party’s presidential nominee.…
‘Realignment’ of American politics against the ‘war-party duopoly’ doesn’t include LP
By Administrative Team on September 12, 2008 1:41 AM
“No significant political movement takes place without breaking down old alliances and establishing new ones,” says Joh V. Walsh of LRC. “And so it is with the press conference sponsored today by Ron Paul at the National Press Club.…
Snubgate goes mainstream: WaPo says Barr went ‘hog wild’
By Administrative Team on September 11, 2008 8:15 PM
Acting without just authority, interim Executive Director of the Libertarian Party Robert Kraus — who replaced the disgraced and resigned Shane Cory (who now works for the Barr campaign) — issued a statement saying that libertarians should not trust blogs for their news.…
Snubgate, Day 2: A recap of IPR’s coverage of the LP’s attempt to disassociate itself from the Freedom Movement
By Administrative Team on September 11, 2008 6:43 PM
IPR is getting plenty of first-time visitors as a result of our coverage of Bob Barr’s no-show at yesterday’s Campaign for Liberty announcement and the subsequent fall-out — even as it extends into Day Two.…
David Nolan: ‘The Barr campaign is over;’ support Munger, Straus instead
By Administrative Team on September 11, 2008 6:29 PM
Libertarian Party co-founder David Nolan, who has been a reluctant but consistent Barr supporter since he won the nomination in May, says the LP’s presidential campaign is over, as of yesterday.…
The Libertarian Party speaks out against third-party unity
By Administrative Team on September 11, 2008 5:37 PM
LP spokesman Andrew Davis has this to say in opposition to Campaign for Liberty’s four-point libertarian agenda:
Perhaps it is the acrimonious environment of a two-party system, or simply a “strength in numbers” struggle that makes strange bedfellows among third-party candidates in today’s politics.Â…
Adam Kokesh relays his experience at the National Press Club
By Fred Church Ortiz on September 11, 2008 3:39 PM
Iraq War Veterans Against the War member and independent blogger Adam Kokesh has provided his own account of the events leading up to the public retraction of his endorsement of Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr:
Bob Barr just had to ruin it for everyone for his own selfish reasons.
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