Media Matters: Rand Paul Has A Friend At Time

[jct74]

so much butthurt, lol...

Rand Paul Has A Friend At Time

ERIC BOEHLERT
October 23, 2014

Republican Rand Paul certainly seems to be riding an extended wave of glowing press coverage, as reporters and commentators line up to dub the Kentucky senator a deeply fascinating man.

From Politico: "Rand Paul, The Most Interesting Man in Politics."

The Washington Post: "Rand Paul Is The Most Interesting Man In The (Political) World"

And now this week's cover story from Time: "The Most Interesting Man In Politics."

What the supportive Paul coverage lacks in originality, it makes up for in passion and admiration. We've learned Paul represents "the most interesting voice in the GOP right now." He boasts a "supple mind" and is a "preternaturally confident speaker." And from Time, Paul spoke to a recent crowd "with the enthusiasm of a graduate student in the early rapture of ideas."

There appears to be such a media rush to toast Paul as a Republican freethinker that the feel-good coverage sometimes confuses what he actually stands for. Note that Politico claimed the senator's "instinctive libertarianism, meanwhile, plays well with America's pro-pot, pro-gay marriage younger generation."

Fact: Paul opposes gay marriage.

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/10/23/rand-paul-has-a-friend-at-time/201280

 

[Spikender]

Wow, accurate topic title. That article was full of attacks not based on well-articulated facts against him.

Also the comments double the butthurts with claims that Paul and his father like smaller, more local governments because they can be more easily taken over. Are you kidding me? There harder to take over because they're easier to reign in!

Ridiculous.

 

[dannno]

Younger people ultimately don't care if you are 'anti-gay marriage' if the reason is because you want to preserve the rights of pastors to marry, or NOT marry, whoever they want as well as preserving state rights.

Younger people just hate homophobes, most people who are outspokenly anti-gay marriage like Michelle Bachman and many other Republicans come off as homophobes and Rand Paul does not and is not a homophobe.

I think younger people tend to see through that, although certainly there are many young individuals who think in too much of a black and white context to, including the author of this piece.

 

[CaptUSA]

Media matters attacking Rand Paul?

Seems like a win to me.

 

[William Tell]

Younger people ultimately don't care if you are 'anti-gay marriage' if the reason is because you want to preserve the rights of pastors to marry, or NOT marry, whoever they want as well as preserving state rights.

Younger people just hate homophobes, most people who are outspokenly anti-gay marriage like Michelle Bachman and many other Republicans come off as homophobes and Rand Paul does not and is not a homophobe.

I think younger people tend to see through that, although certainly there are many young individuals who think in too much of a black and white context to, including the author of this piece.

Not every young person is a social liberal, or a libertine.

 

[acptulsa]

Fact: Paul opposes gay marriage.

LOL

A More Relevant Fact: Rand Paul opposes government involvement in marriage a damned sight more.

A fact that might be considerably more relevant, but which obviously doesn't fit Media Matters' biased agenda nearly so well.

 

[Spikender]

A More Relevant Fact: Rand Paul opposes government involvement in marriage a damned sight more.

A fact that might be considerably more relevant, but which obviously doesn't fit Media Matters' biased agenda nearly so well.

They purposely don't articulate or finesse the issue for that very fact.

They simplify it to make it sound like any other Rethug's position on gay marriage, which it is not. Just like every attack on Rand in this article, it is done with half-truths or citing other attacks on Rand that are already debunked. They don't care, though, repeat the lie enough and all that jazz.