Rand Paul Does Damage Control By Getting A Vaccine Shot

Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) attempted to do damage control after first suggesting that vaccinations should be voluntary and then citing cases where he said children who took vaccines ended up “with profound mental disorders after vaccines.”

Paul, accompanied by New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters, went to get a vaccine shot on Tuesday, a booster shot for Hepatitis A.

Paul also released a new statement on Tuesday saying he never said that there was a direct connection between vaccines and mental disorders.

“I did not say vaccines caused disorders, just that they were temporally related —I did not allege causation,” Paul said according to NBC. “I support vaccines, I receive them myself and I had all of my children vaccinated.

Latest Livewire

Notable Replies

  1. He already has a ‘profound mental disorder’ so he’s safe…

  2. Wonder how the liberal media will misreport this?

    I dunno, try asking the NYTimes reporter you brought along to document your damage control.

  3. Get some anti-psychosis meds while you’ve got your shirt off, kiddo. Hepatitis is the least of your problems.

  4. Thank god I’m not god, cuz if I was, he’d be severely autistic by next week and I’d be laughing my everloving divine ass off about it.

  5. Can he get a vaccination for rabies? That dead squirrel stapled to his head probably has it.

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

41 more replies

Participants

Avatar for system1 Avatar for silvrfox Avatar for pluckyinky Avatar for daveminnj Avatar for druid800 Avatar for littlegirlblue Avatar for ottercliff Avatar for mmurdoch Avatar for bmcchgo Avatar for mattinpa Avatar for pickwick Avatar for leftflank Avatar for RhondaPainter Avatar for mantan Avatar for sniffit Avatar for bd2999 Avatar for fiftygigs Avatar for ewparris Avatar for DatelessNerd Avatar for beattycat Avatar for ccinri Avatar for jinmichigan Avatar for clauscph Avatar for gajake

Continue Discussion
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: