Oh dear - what will we tell the children?:
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Rand Paul lashed out at the media Wednesday for its coverage of the plagiarism allegations that have rocked the Kentucky Republican over the last week.
A day after announcing plans to amend the approval process for speeches and op-eds under his name, Paul told National Review he was so frustrated with the negative press that he would have failed reporters if he were their journalism teacher.
"What makes me mad about the whole thing is that I believe there is a difference between errors of omission and errors of intention," Paul said in an interview with National Review's Robert Costa. "We aren’t perfect and we have made errors of omission, but we never intended to mislead anybody."
"I’m being criticized for not having proper attribution, and yet they are able to write stuff that if I were their journalism teacher in college, I would fail them," he added.
Paul initially rejected the plagiarism charges and likened them to "attacks coming from haters." He later said the claims were "insulting" and challenged his accusers to a duel if they kept up the reports.
Somebody's fee-fees got hurt it appears.
Listen dear readers - when Baby Paul was running for his current Senate seat in 2010, many of us dirty hippies, and even a few old school conservatives, were advising Kentucky voters to cautiously take a very close look at this odd fellow's background and try to justify exactly what it was about him that made him an ideal candidate to represent ALL of Kentucky voter's interests. Unfortunately those warnings went unheeded.
The fact of the matter was -- every honest assessment of Paul's background and newly found political aspirations had him pegged as just another Teabagger opportunist riding his daddy's Congressional coattails and hitching his ideological caboose to the Koch Brothers/Dick Armey Tea Party gravy train, and who's intellectual vacuity was matched only by his zombie-like devotion to the philosophical charlatanism of his hero, the objectivist farceuse - Ayn Rand.
And that is why this plagiarism business does not shock or surprise The Gadfly one damn bit. It is the hallmark sign of someone who is incapable of forming their own original thoughts and ideas. And if you take in to account Baby Paul's snippy response, after having been caught in multiple instances of lifting word-for-word material from online sources for his speeches and newspaper articles, it underscores precisely what The Gadfly and many other observers have been saying about this collective Teabagger crowd for years - in that they truly are an ignoble bunch of whiny, vainglorious assholes who wear their impudent ignorance and anti-intellectualism as hillbilly badges of honor and who truly have no interest in governing the United States of America in a sane and benevolent manner.
Their constantly shrieking voices add nothing of constructive substance to the national dialogue in their capacity as political "leaders" of this country. On the contrary - they seem entirely intent on undermining every step (oft times bloody ones) of human social progress that America has made in the past century or more and returning America back towards the late 18th century, early 19th century industrialist fiefdom that it was. And nowhere is that more evident than in Baby Paul's childish challenge to "duel" (with musket pistols no doubt) reporters who keep reporting about his breaches of intellectual ethics.
But this is the mindset of these jokers people. They are child-like, believe that societal rules don't apply to them, are defiant and proud of their ignorance, and just downright arrogant and selfishly cruel.
The only thing to keep these boors from gaining any stronger a foothold in the halls of power is to turn out at the polls and make it a mission to vote them out of office. Only when they have been rendered politically impotent as a political movement and unable to inflict further damage upon our Republic, is when this country can get on with the business of moving forward in the best interests of all of our people and restoring America's prestige and integrity the world over.
----TFG
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