Worst article that attacks Rand

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Brief Review For Readers Who May Have Joined Us Late: The Blog has an ironclad rule regarding any political pronouncement by any member of the extended Paul family, especially Crazy Uncle Liberty (!) and his spalpeen, brogressive mancrush Senator Aqua Buddha. If you listen to either one of them for five minutes, you will find yourself nodding in agreement. At precisely the 5:01 mark, they will say something so fundamentally detached from both empirical reality and common sense that you will doubt your own intellectual capacity for ever having bought any of this hooey.

Turns out it applies to books, too.
The final line in Paul's book The Tea Party Goes to Washington is a fake sentiment attributed to Jefferson: The Constitution is very clear about it. The Tea Party's job is to keep making things clearer, and this is only the beginning. It is not a job that will be finished overnight or even in an election cycle. Thomas Jefferson believed that the price of liberty was eternal vigilance — and now the Tea Party must prove it. "We currently have no evidence to confirm that Thomas Jefferson ever said or wrote" this phrase, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation has said of "the price of liberty was eternal vigilance," which Paul uses twice in his book.
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Does it get worse? Of course, it does.
In the past three weeks, Paul has misattributed a quote to former President Abraham Lincoln (a quote he again repeated in a speech today) and used a fake quote from Founding Father Patrick Henry. Previously, Paul used a fake Thomas Jefferson quote in his Senate victory speech. At CPAC in 2011, Paul cited a Jefferson quote that the Thomas Jefferson Foundation says they have "no evidence" he ever said.
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I sense the fine hand of noted bullshit artist David Barton behind some of this. But also it's a nice window into the bizarre Founders Fetish on the political right. Not only do they dress up like them, they invent things for the actual Founders to say. They are human animatronic devices, and Rand Paul apparently believes they're real people.
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I am supirse that they allow a extremely cringeworthy article on a prestine magzine for males. Breaks all rules of professional writing

I also looked down and found this

[h=1]How the Terrorists Win[/h]so he hates free market and liberty. I found if he sould be living in this country
 
Wilf said:
Citing buzzfeed does not strengthen your case
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Because it's buzzfeed, all those citations to “This exact quotation has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson,”writes the Thomas Jefferson Foundation." et al. are disqualified?

I know - let's ask Rand Paul to clarify.

Paul’s campaign declined to comment, and the book publisher did not respond to request for comment.
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Oh, well.
 
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YesI'mALiberal said:
Because it's buzzfeed, all those citations to “This exact quotation has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson,”writes the Thomas Jefferson Foundation." et al. are disqualified?

Let tell a couple of things
1) The article that you cite has all the same the information that was mentioned on the article that i post
2) Heard about Roise Gray; research and find her background
3) Aren't you sure that you should be YesI'mAProgressive not YesI'mALiberal????
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YesI'mALiberal said:
Not only is it true, it's understated. Paul's books are riddled with fake founding fathers quotes:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczy...-are-full-of-fake-founding-fathers#.eax2VAPyA


Paying ghost-writers to make fools of the Pauls seems to be a Paul family tradition.
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So if Thomas Jefferson didn't write it down or it isn't in THEIR library of writings then he didn't say it or write it?

What if the Thomas Jefferson Foundation was founded and is essentially being run by the Rothschild dynasty or some offshoot?
 
Wilf said:
1) The article that you cite has all the same the information that was mentioned on the article that i post
2) Heard about Roise Gray; research and find her background
3) Aren't you sure that you should be YesI'mAProgressive not YesI'mALiberal????
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1) Yes, and much, much more. As I said, the OP article you posted understated the problem. Greatly. P.S. Why is a good ol' non-RINO conservative like yourself reading ESQUIRE anyway?

2) No, I haven't. And I have no idea what she has to do with this. Is she supposed to be some sort of founding fathers historian who's saying the Thomas Jefferson Foundation doesn't know what they're talking about? Perhaps you can spare us all some time and list the specific fake quotes you think are real and why.

3) No, I'm a Liberal. "Progressive" is a milquetoast evasion that cowardly liberals adopted in the face of constant demonization of the word "liberal" by the right-wing media since about the Reagan era. I never took on that label. And I'm quite happy to see that "liberal" is making a comeback.
 
dannno said:
So if Thomas Jefferson didn't write it down or it isn't in THEIR library of writings then he didn't say it or write it?

What if the Thomas Jefferson Foundation was founded and is essentially being run by the Rothschild dynasty or some offshoot?
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As I just said to Wilf, I would be perfectly happy to read where those quotations supposedly came from. The Rand Paul team hasn't come through, yet. They seem content to allow that embarrassing article to stay up unaddressed.
 
YesI'mALiberal said:
1) Yes, and much, much more. As I said, the OP article you posted understated the problem. Greatly. P.S. Why is a good ol' non-RINO conservative like yourself reading ESQUIRE anyway?

2) No, I haven't. And I have no idea what she has to do with this. Is she supposed to be some sort of founding fathers historian who's saying the Thomas Jefferson Foundation doesn't know what they're talking about? Perhaps you can spare us all some time and list the specific fake quotes you think are real and why.

3) No, I'm a Liberal. "Progressive" is a milquetoast evasion that cowardly liberals adopted in the face of constant demonization of the word "liberal" by the right-wing media since about the Reagan era. I never took on that label. And I'm quite happy to see that "liberal" is making a comeback.
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1) Ok. I just found it when going through Google News
2) You do recongize that Buzzfeed has an agenda against suporters of liberty when it comes to reporting its news
3) I am also a Liberal, but more in the classcial sense like Gladstone, Cleveland and Laurier
 
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