GOP presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said on Friday the media just doesn’t get his sense of humor.
Paul, who took flak this week for a subdued appearance in a day-long livestream video produced by his campaign, told Fox’s “America’s Newsroom” that he was joking when he called the exercise “dumbass.”
“People tend to be a little too serious and don’t quite understand sarcasm,” Paul told host Martha MacCallum.
Paul’s “dumbass” remark, captured on camera, was a response to whether he was still in the running for the GOP presidential nomination, which he said was the most Googled question about him.
“I don’t know — wouldn’t be doing this dumbass livestreaming if I weren’t,” he said during the livestreamed video. “So yes, I still am running for President. Get over it.”
Paul looked visibly frustrated in the video and told a Washington Post reporter he didn’t know why the campaign had decided to produce it.
His somber performance prompted RedState.com editor Erick Erickson to write an op-ed calling for Paul to “take your campaign out back and shoot it.”
Paul didn’t appear much happier during Friday’s Fox News appearance, barely cracking a smile as he defended his low poll numbers to a skeptical MacCallum.
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Rand Paul, relegated to history and known only as a proprietor of dumbassery.
No you weren’t!
Are you going to be just like your Dad? Make a career running for (but will never be) President?
Calling it ‘dumbass’ was not sarcasm. Now a comment about how he is no Sean Duffy, that would be sarcasm.
Rand should never have stopped using that bong…
He wasn’t kidding. And he was right about something for once.