So Why Aren't Yall Talking About Rand Paul Plagarizing “Gattaca’s” Wikipedia Page

[Koolaid_Man]

I won't give pubic hair head a pass...:lmao@Tea party intellectuals running for President :lmao

Rachael is such a genius...I love her..I really do...she's the best...:lol

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here's more plagiarism from the Senator Rand :lmao and listen to Rand Paul's response to the charges

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[boutons_deux]

In a total lie, Paul says he gave full accrediation that he was talking about Gattaca, without admitting that he was outed in verbatim repeating not Gattaca, but the Wikipedia page.

btw, I've already posted all the Maddow trashing of RP in the RP for president thread.

[Koolaid_Man]

In a total lie, Paul says he gave full accrediation that he was talking about Gattaca, without admitting that he was outed in verbatim repeating not Gattaca, but the Wikipedia page.

btw, I've already posted all the Maddow trashing of RP in the RP for president thread.

^ ok I'll check it out

[SA210]

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:lmao Great thread tbh, all plagiarists should definitely be called out with as much anger Maddow has pretended to have today about it, especially when plagiarists seek Presidency...oh wait..oops..



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgfGTXaqoWQ



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fya-5-chdn0



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5tIb9-s91U




:lmao

[SA210]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_29pkAEkEI


Oh wait...there's more...:lmao



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVtg2T4XR7w



:lol Fake liberals..MSNBC and Maddow hit job non existent when it's Obama

[m>s]

i'd post some cool material in response of n!gger politicians saying and doing dumb things but oh wait, there are none :lol

[Koolaid_Man]

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:lmao Great thread tbh, all plagiarists should definitely be called out with as much anger Maddow has pretended to have today about it, especially when plagiarists seek Presidency...oh wait..oops..



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgfGTXaqoWQ



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fya-5-chdn0



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5tIb9-s91U




:lmao

the only problem with your theory is that Deval Patrick and Obama are very close friends and Patrick is on record as saying he authorized Obama to use whatever words he used since they strategize together all the time

[SA210]

the only problem with your theory is that Deval Patrick and Obama are very close friends and Patrick is on record as saying he authorized Obama to use whatever words he used since they strategize together all the time

The only problem with your parroted make belief theory is that he never credited Deval Patrick until he was called on plagiarism and of course Patrick was going to say he gave him permission :lmao It's called Public Relations.

And too bad Deval didn't give Obama permission to rob Edwards' words, after the fact :lmao

[Koolaid_Man]

The only problem with your parroted make belief theory is that he never credited Deval Patrick until he was called on plagiarism and of course Patrick was going to say he gave him permission :lmao It's called Public Relations.

And too bad Deval didn't give Obama permission to rob Edwards' words, after the fact :lmao

while I appreciate your enthusiasm....if O actually plagiarized (and to the degree that you would like) he would not have won re-election...well he did and that's that...what is clear is that Rand Paul will never sniff the white house because he's a massive plaigerer...while O may sound like a nice story Rand Paul's consistent and well documented tactics are pathetic...he's in hot water and we won't allow the Tea Party fraud to carry on with his fake intellectualism

[Koolaid_Man]

who Robs Wikipedia of all sources :lmao only a Tea Tard

[ChumpDumper]

At least plagiarize someone good.

[Clipper Nation]

Rand is a retarded neocon, what else is new? :lol

[boutons_deux]

Rand Paul, serial plagiarizer, wishes he could gun down Maddow, which of course appeals to his gun fellating base

Rand Paul wants to challenge ‘hacks’ like Maddow to a gunfight over plagiarism charge

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Sunday vowed to be more careful citing sources but insisted that a “dueling” gunfight against “hacks and haters” like MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who uncovered his plagiarism of Wikipedia, would be the ultimate solution if it were legal.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Sunday vowed to be more careful citing sources but insisted that a “dueling” gunfight against “hacks and haters” like MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who uncovered his plagiarism of Wikipedia, would be the ultimate solution if it were legal.

“I will admit, sometimes we haven’t footnoted things properly,” :lol

“But the difference is, I take it as an insult and I will not lie down and say people can call me dishonest, misleading or misrepresenting,” he added. “And like I say, if, you know, if dueling were legal in Kentucky, if they keep it up, you know, it would be a duel challenge. :lol But I can’t do that, because I can’t hold office in Kentucky then.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/03/rand-paul-wants-to-challenge-hac.ks-like-maddow-to-a-gunfight-over-plagiarism-charge/

:lol rural, ignorant KY bubba pandering.

RP got bitch slapped with the facts, so now he's the poor, sniffly, but armed! victim of hated lesbians, to whom his libertarian/live-and-let-live-"philosophy" doesn't apply.

He won't even SNIFF the Repug candidacy, nor the WH.

He can't murder Maddow "because I can’t hold office in Kentucky then". What a wonderful sense of right and wrong (and verb tense)! :lol

[ChumpDumper]

Rand Paul is treating real life like a message board.

[Koolaid_Man]

Rand Paul, serial plagiarizer, wishes he could gun down Maddow, which of course appeals to his gun fellating base

Rand Paul wants to challenge ‘hacks’ like Maddow to a gunfight over plagiarism charge

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Sunday vowed to be more careful citing sources but insisted that a “dueling” gunfight against “hacks and haters” like MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who uncovered his plagiarism of Wikipedia, would be the ultimate solution if it were legal.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Sunday vowed to be more careful citing sources but insisted that a “dueling” gunfight against “hacks and haters” like MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, who uncovered his plagiarism of Wikipedia, would be the ultimate solution if it were legal.

“I will admit, sometimes we haven’t footnoted things properly,” :lol

“But the difference is, I take it as an insult and I will not lie down and say people can call me dishonest, misleading or misrepresenting,” he added. “And like I say, if, you know, if dueling were legal in Kentucky, if they keep it up, you know, it would be a duel challenge. :lol But I can’t do that, because I can’t hold office in Kentucky then.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/03/rand-paul-wants-to-challenge-hac.ks-like-maddow-to-a-gunfight-over-plagiarism-charge/

:lol rural, ignorant KY bubba pandering.

RP got bitch slapped with the facts, so now he's the poor, sniffly, but armed! victim of hated lesbians, to whom his libertarian/let-live-live "philosophy" doesn't apply.

He won't even SNIFF the Repug candidacy, nor the WH.

He can't murder Maddow "because I can’t hold office in Kentucky then". What a wonderful sense of right and wrong! :lol


:lmao:lmao so she exposes him cheating and he now he wants to shoot her...:lmao my goodness the Tea Party loons are on another level...not that he had a chance to win the presidency but he just officially and thoroughly closed shut his chances of getting at least 5% of the electorate with that statement...

:lmao Teatards always want to settle things with violence

[ChumpDumper]

Oh man, Maddow and The Daily Show are going to have a field day with this.

Rand just doubled down on stupid.

[Koolaid_Man]

I guess he really did plagiarize the shit outta Wikipedia :lmao

[Biernutz]

The Pot calling the Kettle Black.......

http://aksarbent.blogspot.it/2013/10/plagiarism-whered-you-get-your-video.html

[ChumpDumper]

The Pot calling the Kettle Black.......

http://aksarbent.blogspot.it/2013/10/plagiarism-whered-you-get-your-video.htmllolwut

[Koolaid_Man]

The Pot calling the Kettle Black.......

http://aksarbent.blogspot.it/2013/10/plagiarism-whered-you-get-your-video.html


reaching much eh?

[cheguevara]

don't get me wrong. I don't really like Dr. Paul's son that much and I'd probably not vote for him but, I'd still take a Wikipedia plagiarizer over the current webmaster in chief :lmao

"the only thing standing between you and your cancer treatment is your browser. America, go and clear out your cookies" :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao :lmao

[cheguevara]

"my law was bulletproof, not my fault the technology to run my marketplace has not been invented yet. You didn't build that.... young people, go and build me a browser that can run my site. Hope and change..."

:lmao

[boutons_deux]

Maddow listed 2 MORE RP plagiarisms:

In Washtington Moonie Times op-ed :lol

In TESTIMONY before Congress

[xmas1997]

Maddow listed 2 MORE RP plagiarisms:

In Washtington Moonie Times op-ed :lol

In TESTIMONY before Congress

Does he really believe his spiel? Geez.

Bouton, do you live near San Antonio or Austin???
We are planing a Spurs GTG.

[Jacob1983]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWjlUj7Czlk

[boutons_deux]

what a whiny, self-entitled little bitch, not manning up to his plagiarism, blaming his staff


After Plagiarism Charges, Paul Announces Office Restructuring

said in an interview Tuesday that he was being held to an unfair standard, but that there would be an office “restructuring” to prevent future occurrences.

Sitting in a conference room in his Senate office complex, Mr. Paul, drawn and clearly shaken by the plagiarism charges, offered a mix of contrition and defiance. He said that he was not certain whether it would affect his prospects should he decide to run for president in 2016 — he said he would happily return to his Kentucky doctor’s practice — and he asserted that he was being unfairly targeted. :lol

Acknowledging that his office had “made mistakes,” :lol

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/us/politics/after-plagiarism-charges-paul-announces-office-restructuring.html?from=homepage

not his mistakes, his office's mistakes! :lol

and they were mistakes, not plagiarism. :lol

[ChumpDumper]

Mistakes were made.

Screenplays were written.

[DMX7]

Mistakes were made.

Screenplays were written.

Speeches were plagiarized.

[boutons_deux]

Rand Paul on plagiarism: promises footnotes 'if it will make people leave me the hell alone' (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/05/1253262/-Rand-Paul-aide-acknowledges-plagiarism-charges-blames-extraordinarily-stupid-staff)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/05/1253262/-Rand-Paul-aide-acknowledges-plagiarism-charges-blames-extraordinarily-stupid-staff?detail=email

What a whiny little bitch, entitled to be left the hell alone. :lol

He got the Right Stuff for the Presidency. :lol

[Winehole23]

Rand Paul should tell us who he's cribbing from straight up. People gonna be checking.

I find it hilarious that RP's habit of mechanically ripping off wikipedia entries without attribution bites him on the ass, forcing him to footnote his own press releases.

[Jacob1983]

No one gives a shit because Gattaca is a shitty guilty pleasure movie and it's all about Obama's epic fail "you can keep your plan" right now.

[boutons_deux]

No one gives a shit because Gattaca is a shitty guilty pleasure movie and it's all about Obama's epic fail "you can keep your plan" right now.

yep, but here's people give shit about a (hopeless) Presidential wannabe plagiarizing. The guy just sucks, and libertarianism and libertarians are outright frauds.

[boutons_deux]

Rand Paul to now Ctrl+C Ctrl+V Ctrl+P at dead Breitbart thing


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/fox_an_paul_rice_130605c-615x345.jpg


Until recently Kentucky Senator and brogressive dream date Rand Paul maintained a side gig at the Washington Times where he created mixtapes made up of old Lester Bangs album reviews combined with wikipedia “excerpts” and discarded Cato Institute holiday schedule memos and then, voila!: America was treated to think pieces about things like the fascist tyranny of low flow toilets. (http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2011/03/10/rand-pauls-toilet-is-all-plugged-up-with-dead-fetuses-and-poop/)

But then someone totally narc’d Rand out to the WaTimes editors by pointing out that Rand was a taker and not a maker (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/5/washington-times-ends-sen-rand-paul-column-amid-pl/) and they cut him loose, which is really weird since, c’mon, it’s the Moonie Times and they’re a bunch of freaks over there, and we can only imagine how much of a cobag you have to be in order to get fired by them, right?

But, fire him they did (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/5/washington-times-ends-sen-rand-paul-column-amid-pl/):

The Washington Times said Tuesday that it had independently reviewed Mr. Paul (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/rand-paul/)’s columns and op-eds and published a correction to his Sept. 20 column in which the senator had failed to attribute a passage that first appeared in The Week.

The newspaper and the senator mutually agreed to end his weekly column, which has appeared each Friday since the summer.

“We expect our columnists to submit original work and to properly attribute material, and we appreciate that the senator and his staff have taken responsibility for an oversight in one column,” Times Editor John Solomon (http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/john-solomon/) said.


So now Rand Paul is out of a job right before the holidays (THANKS A LOT OBAMA!) and now how will he be able to afford to buy Atlas Shrugged action figure toys as Christmas presents for his little moocher kids:Hayek., Ragnar, and Dany-Sue?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/07/rand-paul-to-now-ctrlc-ctrlp-at-dead-breitbart-thing/

:lol

All Hail The Next President Of The United States, Rand Paul! :lol

[FuzzyLumpkins]

The south korean evangelicals that used to own the washington times got bought out by an american firm. the difference in their articles these last few months has been remarkable. the new republic has gone through a similar circumstance as well.

[Jacob1983]

Aren't libertarians more accepting, open minded, and tolerant than liberals?

[boutons_deux]

Aren't libertarians more accepting, open minded, and tolerant than liberals?

sure, I remember RP being more accepting, open minded, and tolerant in that he would support the FREEDOM! of establishments to refuse entrance to n!gg@s.

[Jacob1983]

So again, aren't libertarians more accepting, open minded, and more tolerant than liberals? Aren't libertarians supportive of prostitution and recreational and medicinal drug use? I don't think liberals support prostitution or drug use. Neocons definitely don't. I want someone that isn't an Obama jizz drinker to answer my question please.

[boutons_deux]

libertarianism's huge fault is its neoliberalism for corporate, financial, environmental sectors. Since libertarianism is low/no regulation, it's pro-corporate so it absolutely sucks. All the other "libertarian" tripe about whores and drugs is trivial.

[RandomGuy]

to answer the OP:

Because it is a silly thing to ding a politician on. I dislike the guy for the genuinely stupid and dishonest things he says and does, I don't need to ding him for the kinds of things that politicians have been doing in speeches for millennia.

[Winehole23]

I don't think it's too much to ask a politician to render his own opinions in his own words. Do you RG?

[Winehole23]

And if they do borrow from someone else, attribution is courteous and proper, wouldn't you say? Does it befit a public servant to give credit where it is due, or to hog it all by omission?

I suppose the real answer is both, but you do see the distinction, don't you? Goes to personal integrity, if that is even a desideratum for politicians anymore.

[ChumpDumper]

The best part is what a bitch he is being about it.

All anyone has to say with that is "Whoops, we'll attribute in the future" -- but no, he has to challenge a tiny lesbian to a duel.

[ploto]

Several more sections of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s 2012 book Government Bullies appear to be plagiarized from articles by think tank scholars, BuzzFeed has found. As BuzzFeed previously reported, more than three pages of the book were plagiarized from The Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute, and another section of the Kentucky senator’s book was plagiarized from a Forbes article...

In this case, Paul copied nearly verbatim a section from an article by Timothy Sandefur of the Pacific Legal Foundation that ran in Regulation, the Cato Institute’s quarterly journal in January 2012. In another instance, Paul copied nearly verbatim a section from an article by Jonathan Adler that ran in the magazine in 2010. Another section copied nearly verbatim a section that ran in Environmental Protection.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/more-instances-of-plagiarism-in-rand-pauls-book-lets-duel

[Jacob1983]

I still don't get how libertarians are the same as Bible thumping neocons.

[ElNono]

I still don't get how libertarians are the same as Bible thumping neocons.

Might not be neocons, but take a fairly quick look at libertarian-leaning conservative sites like redstate.com, and the Bible thumping sticks out like a sore thumb, tbh.

Generalizing a bit, their base is largely made of socially conservative people, so it's not surprising.

[Biernutz]

Obama guilty of Plagiarizing, Hillary also

By MIKE ALLEN (http://www.politico.com/reporters/MikeAllen.html) | 2/18/08
Howard Wolfson, the Clinton campaign's communications director, accused then Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) of committing “plagiarism” in a speech in Milwaukee on Saturday night.


Wolfson made the explosive charge in an interview with Politico after suggesting as much in a conference call with reporters.
On the call, Wolfson said: “Sen. Obama is running on the strength of his rhetoric and the strength of his promises and, as we have seen in the last couple of days, he’s breaking his promises and his rhetoric isn’t his own.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8570.html

<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8570.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
http://youtu.be/8M6x1H08aFc
(http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8570.html)

[Jacob1983]

Bible thumpers don't support prostitution or recreational drug use. Just sayin'.

[ElNono]

Bible thumpers don't support prostitution or recreational drug use. Just sayin'.

That's true, but not all self-described libertarians are cut from the same cloth.... The fact is that in order for libertarians to make any noise they need the bible thumper votes.

[Jacob1983]

So libertarians are being held hostage by Bible thumpers and conservatives posing as libertarians?

[Trainwreck2100]

the entire republican party is being held captive by bible thumpers. The libs are stuck with the repubs though

[ChumpDumper]

Obama guilty of Plagiarizing, Hillary also

By MIKE ALLEN (http://www.politico.com/reporters/MikeAllen.html) | 2/18/08
Howard Wolfson, the Clinton campaign's communications director, accused then Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) of committing “plagiarism” in a speech in Milwaukee on Saturday night.


Wolfson made the explosive charge in an interview with Politico after suggesting as much in a conference call with reporters.
On the call, Wolfson said: “Sen. Obama is running on the strength of his rhetoric and the strength of his promises and, as we have seen in the last couple of days, he’s breaking his promises and his rhetoric isn’t his own.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8570.html

<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8570.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">
http://youtu.be/8M6x1H08aFc
(http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8570.html)Did Clinton or Obama talk about challenging a tiny lesbian to a duel?

The mere fact they didn't give a shit about the charges is all anyone needs to know about Randy. Dude is an idiot.

[boutons_deux]

What if Rand Paul Were a Woman?



Any female politician as sloppy with matters of fact and attribution as the Kentucky senator would be laughed out of Washington.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/2013/11/RTX14419/13815a618.jpg

http://readersupportednews.org/images/stories/alphabet/rsn-R.jpgand Paul's acolytes often claim the senator gets marginalized because of his ideas. :lol It's because he's a libertarian, they say, that he's not treated fairly by the media. It's a hard argument to make. Paul is a staple of the mainest of all mainstream media, the Sunday shows, and widely considered a top-tier presidential contender (http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/category/2016-president/) by middle-of-the-road analysts.

But let's imagine the junior senator from Kentucky were a woman. Not just any woman - let's call her Randi - but, for the sake of this argument, a beautiful woman. The "men want to sleep with her, women want to be her" echelon of physical attractiveness. Everything else is identical: self-certified eye doctor, first-term senator, and she got the job with a boost from her father.

While the Republican Party is taking a nosedive in popularity, she says: "Does anybody remember Charlie Sheen when he was kind of going crazy ... And he was going around, jumping around saying 'Winning, winning, we're winning'? Well I kind of feel like that, we are winning. And I'm not on any drugs."

People snicker about how dumb she is. Twitter erupts with sarcastic hashtags: #RandiLulz, #CandywithRandi and #RandiLogic. She's considered a ditz-the Senate's answer to Michele Bachmann. Still, Randi gets ratings!

People tune in to her media appearances just waiting for her to say something stupid. It's like NASCAR-part fandom, part hoping for a crash. It's self-perpetuating: Because she's shameless and gaffe-prone, she becomes fascinating at a Real Housewives level. Her profile grows, and soon the conventional wisdom is that she's very popular. Pundits deem her a kingmaker. "People find her very compelling," liberal talking heads concede. Conservatives say Randi is Everywoman, the voice for mothers and career women alike. "And look, we're talking about her again!" they all agree.

But Randi has a problem with the facts. They seem to elude her. She repeatedly says we have a trillion-dollar deficit when, according to the CBO, it's only $642 billion and falling sharply. Plus she mixes up deficit and debt (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/opinion/krugman-moment-of-truthiness.html?_r=0). The Beltway press diligently points this out, smirking. She's "ambitious" - a word her detractors say with a snarl. "But easy on
the eyes," her supporters counter. The debate becomes Pretty vs. Pretty Dumb.

Randi tries to position herself as above this fray. "The fact-checking is not fact-checking. These are people with a bias. It's purely an opinion. The stuff is so ludicrous I don't even read it," she says of her critics (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/can-rand-paul-learn-to-tell-the-truth/280701/).

The headline is: "Randi Admits She Doesn't Read!" The Internet breaks out in a rash of mansplaining. She's dubbed Bluegrass Barbie (http://www.redstate.com/2013/08/06/wendy-davis-is-abortion-barbie/).

Randi tries to show off her policy chops to prove she's serious. Not just about a potential presidential run, but generally "serious." She's a lawmaker-a senator! All the giggling at her flubs makes her seem "unserious." The media chides, "She wants to be taken seriously."

So she uses the filibuster. She spends 13 hours railing against the use of unmanned drones. Yes, unmanned drones. An issue that would bring the country together! Civil liberties and constitutional rights all rolled into a perfect issue. "Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?" she demands.

When the administration says no, it's hailed as a major triumph for her. But the next month on Fox News, chatting a little too comfortably with Neil Cavuto, she blunders (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/23/sen_rand_paul_im_not_against_using_drones_to_find_ criminals.html): "If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and 50 dollars in cash, I don't care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him." Oops. :lol

"Bluegrass Barbie Does a 180 on Drones!" Now she's called a Drone Bimbo. Men who otherwise think of themselves as progressive take to Twitter and spend their free time calling her a dingbat (or worse).

Then an interview with Businessweek comes out. Asked specifically to name a "nondead" ideal Federal Reserve chairman, Randi answers (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-08/rand-paul-on-republicans-voter-appeal-and-the-federal-reserve), "Friedman would probably be pretty good, too, and he's not an Austrian, but he would be better than what we have." Milton Friedman died in 2006. The next two news cycles are guffawing about Madam President's zombie cabinet: Paul of the Dead.

"Hacks and haters!" Randi replies (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/05/rand-paul-plagiarism-hacks-haters). The media hangs on her every word. They use her lack of civics knowledge as a peg to write explainers. On Syria, Randi says: "I think the failure of the Obama Administration has been we haven't engaged the Russians enough or the Chinese enough on this, and I think they were engaged." And because it's the Drone Bimbo, we'd have weeks of blog posts about Cold War proxy battlefields pointing out that Russia is not on the same side as the U.S. in Syria.

Randi inspires a genre of columns: Ms. Paul said this, what she doesn't understand is this. Late-night hosts ask people on the streets the same questions Randi got wrong and are tickled by those who get it right and forgiving of those who also get it wrong. Since everyone agrees she doesn't know what she's talking about, Randi is referred to as Senator Sex Kitten.

Next come the serious think pieces asking whether Randi Paul is smart enough to be president. "Ms. Paul has drive and voter appeal, but her weak grasp of basic economic and foreign-policy issues makes even her most ardent supporters pause," pundits write. They all entertain the idea that sexism plays a role in how the media treat her, but solemnly insist that doesn't negate her basic lack of competency when it came to policy issues.

When Randi is caught plagiarizing a couple of speeches, an op-ed, and a few pages of her book, she fires back at reporters. "If I were their journalism teacher in college, I would fail them," she says (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/journalism-professor-would-flunk-rand-paul-for-an-unambiguous-case-of-plagiarism?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29).

But her lecture on media ethics is greeted with the same seriousness as complaints from her fellow Republican Sarah Palin. Randi had no credibility to lose. She was already a national punch line. A meme. A joke. A shiny distraction. And now she's also a proven plagiarist. She's referred to as "silly." A silly airhead. There's a collective condescending chuckle at the thought of a girl like her in the Oval Office. Right?

So the question is: Why not for him?

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/what-if-rand-paul-were-a-woman/281258/

Rand Paul :lol

libertarians :lol

Kentucky :lol (exceptionally, Democrat Beshear bitch slaps all the KY-jelly-brained Repugs by implementing ACA, KYnect)

[Slutter McGee]

What if Rand Paul Were a Woman?



Any female politician as sloppy with matters of fact and attribution as the Kentucky senator would be laughed out of Washington.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/newsroom/img/posts/2013/11/RTX14419/13815a618.jpg

http://readersupportednews.org/images/stories/alphabet/rsn-R.jpgand Paul's acolytes often claim the senator gets marginalized because of his ideas. :lol It's because he's a libertarian, they say, that he's not treated fairly by the media. It's a hard argument to make. Paul is a staple of the mainest of all mainstream media, the Sunday shows, and widely considered a top-tier presidential contender (http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/category/2016-president/) by middle-of-the-road analysts.

But let's imagine the junior senator from Kentucky were a woman. Not just any woman - let's call her Randi - but, for the sake of this argument, a beautiful woman. The "men want to sleep with her, women want to be her" echelon of physical attractiveness. Everything else is identical: self-certified eye doctor, first-term senator, and she got the job with a boost from her father.

While the Republican Party is taking a nosedive in popularity, she says: "Does anybody remember Charlie Sheen when he was kind of going crazy ... And he was going around, jumping around saying 'Winning, winning, we're winning'? Well I kind of feel like that, we are winning. And I'm not on any drugs."

People snicker about how dumb she is. Twitter erupts with sarcastic hashtags: #RandiLulz, #CandywithRandi and #RandiLogic. She's considered a ditz-the Senate's answer to Michele Bachmann. Still, Randi gets ratings!

People tune in to her media appearances just waiting for her to say something stupid. It's like NASCAR-part fandom, part hoping for a crash. It's self-perpetuating: Because she's shameless and gaffe-prone, she becomes fascinating at a Real Housewives level. Her profile grows, and soon the conventional wisdom is that she's very popular. Pundits deem her a kingmaker. "People find her very compelling," liberal talking heads concede. Conservatives say Randi is Everywoman, the voice for mothers and career women alike. "And look, we're talking about her again!" they all agree.

But Randi has a problem with the facts. They seem to elude her. She repeatedly says we have a trillion-dollar deficit when, according to the CBO, it's only $642 billion and falling sharply. Plus she mixes up deficit and debt (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/opinion/krugman-moment-of-truthiness.html?_r=0). The Beltway press diligently points this out, smirking. She's "ambitious" - a word her detractors say with a snarl. "But easy on
the eyes," her supporters counter. The debate becomes Pretty vs. Pretty Dumb.

Randi tries to position herself as above this fray. "The fact-checking is not fact-checking. These are people with a bias. It's purely an opinion. The stuff is so ludicrous I don't even read it," she says of her critics (http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/can-rand-paul-learn-to-tell-the-truth/280701/).

The headline is: "Randi Admits She Doesn't Read!" The Internet breaks out in a rash of mansplaining. She's dubbed Bluegrass Barbie (http://www.redstate.com/2013/08/06/wendy-davis-is-abortion-barbie/).

Randi tries to show off her policy chops to prove she's serious. Not just about a potential presidential run, but generally "serious." She's a lawmaker-a senator! All the giggling at her flubs makes her seem "unserious." The media chides, "She wants to be taken seriously."

So she uses the filibuster. She spends 13 hours railing against the use of unmanned drones. Yes, unmanned drones. An issue that would bring the country together! Civil liberties and constitutional rights all rolled into a perfect issue. "Does the president have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?" she demands.

When the administration says no, it's hailed as a major triumph for her. But the next month on Fox News, chatting a little too comfortably with Neil Cavuto, she blunders (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/23/sen_rand_paul_im_not_against_using_drones_to_find_ criminals.html): "If someone comes out of a liquor store with a weapon and 50 dollars in cash, I don't care if a drone kills him or a policeman kills him." Oops. :lol

"Bluegrass Barbie Does a 180 on Drones!" Now she's called a Drone Bimbo. Men who otherwise think of themselves as progressive take to Twitter and spend their free time calling her a dingbat (or worse).

Then an interview with Businessweek comes out. Asked specifically to name a "nondead" ideal Federal Reserve chairman, Randi answers (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-08/rand-paul-on-republicans-voter-appeal-and-the-federal-reserve), "Friedman would probably be pretty good, too, and he's not an Austrian, but he would be better than what we have." Milton Friedman died in 2006. The next two news cycles are guffawing about Madam President's zombie cabinet: Paul of the Dead.

"Hacks and haters!" Randi replies (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/05/rand-paul-plagiarism-hacks-haters). The media hangs on her every word. They use her lack of civics knowledge as a peg to write explainers. On Syria, Randi says: "I think the failure of the Obama Administration has been we haven't engaged the Russians enough or the Chinese enough on this, and I think they were engaged." And because it's the Drone Bimbo, we'd have weeks of blog posts about Cold War proxy battlefields pointing out that Russia is not on the same side as the U.S. in Syria.

Randi inspires a genre of columns: Ms. Paul said this, what she doesn't understand is this. Late-night hosts ask people on the streets the same questions Randi got wrong and are tickled by those who get it right and forgiving of those who also get it wrong. Since everyone agrees she doesn't know what she's talking about, Randi is referred to as Senator Sex Kitten.

Next come the serious think pieces asking whether Randi Paul is smart enough to be president. "Ms. Paul has drive and voter appeal, but her weak grasp of basic economic and foreign-policy issues makes even her most ardent supporters pause," pundits write. They all entertain the idea that sexism plays a role in how the media treat her, but solemnly insist that doesn't negate her basic lack of competency when it came to policy issues.

When Randi is caught plagiarizing a couple of speeches, an op-ed, and a few pages of her book, she fires back at reporters. "If I were their journalism teacher in college, I would fail them," she says (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/journalism-professor-would-flunk-rand-paul-for-an-unambiguous-case-of-plagiarism?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29).

But her lecture on media ethics is greeted with the same seriousness as complaints from her fellow Republican Sarah Palin. Randi had no credibility to lose. She was already a national punch line. A meme. A joke. A shiny distraction. And now she's also a proven plagiarist. She's referred to as "silly." A silly airhead. There's a collective condescending chuckle at the thought of a girl like her in the Oval Office. Right?

So the question is: Why not for him?

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/11/what-if-rand-paul-were-a-woman/281258/

Rand Paul :lol

libertarians :lol

Kentucky :lol (exceptionally, Democrat Beshear bitch slaps all the KY-jelly-brained Repugs by implementing ACA, KYnect)




You are one stupid motherfucker.

Slutter McGee

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You are one stupid motherfucker.

Slutter McGee

From a stupid motherfucker like yourself, I take that as encouraging compliment, thank you.