During an interview Wednesday on MSNBC, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he had no interest in talking about his position on the Civil Rights Act until the network “does 24-hour news telling the truth.”
In the interview on “The Cycle,” host Ari Melber probed Paul to discuss his apparent change of heart on the Civil Rights Act. Melber brought up the senator’s comments from 2010 in which he said he would have modified the act’s rules for private businesses. Paul responded to Melber by saying that he had always been in support of the act and that MSNBC had treated him unfairly.
“I learned my lesson: To come on MSNBC and have a philosophical discussion, the liberals will come out of the woodwork and go crazy and say you’re against the Civil Rights Act, and you’re some terrible racist. And I take great objection to that,” Paul said.
Paul went on to say he took “great offense” to people skewing his viewpoint, saying he was the biggest advocate in Congress for getting back people’s voting rights and “mak[ing] the criminal justice system fair.”
“The honest discussion of it would be that I never was opposed to the Civil Rights Act,” Paul interrupted as Melber continued to push for discussion on the senator’s past comments. “And when your network does 24-hour news telling the truth, then maybe we can get somewhere with the discussion.”
Watch the interview via MSNBC:
Did anyone else see this interview? I would be interested in your responses. Rand Paul sounded reasonable until this point of the interview. The bill he and Cory Booker are working on is a needed one, and I am all for bipartisan governing, but the Paul/Booker camaraderie seemed so phony and forced that I was turned off.
I know what I heard when he was interviewed by Rachel Maddow. There was no Gotcha. It was a straight forward interview. No matter, how he tries to deny it, no matter what type of legislation he co-sponsors with Corey Booker will change his Ayn Rand libertarian religion he has espoused. He’s Ron Paul’s son!!! Apple don’t fall far from the tree.
This begs the question. Can Rand Paul name one media outlet that he believes “does 24-hour news telling the truth”?
The answer might be enlightening. Please, Senator. We’re all seeking the truth. Can you point us to the appropriate venue?
Straight outta the Newt Gingrich playbook : “and if anybody quotes me word for word, they’re a f*@&ing liar” ! ! ! !
and it would have been great if he had been asked that question (tactfully phrased, of course) . .