{"id":4295,"date":"2010-08-11T07:46:15","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T11:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2010-08-11T07:58:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T11:58:13","slug":"a-big-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/11\/a-big-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"a big boy…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rand Paul Denies Kidnapping, Says He Can’t Remember The Rest<\/a>
Talking Points Memo<\/font><\/strong>
by Evan McMorris-Santoro
August 10, 2010<\/div>\n

Rand Paul said on Fox News today that his lawyers would be all over GQ<\/em> magazine if it wasn’t for that pesky First Amendment. But he didn’t completely deny yesterday’s crazy tale of his college years published by the magazine, which included allegations of a "prank" in which Paul and a buddy picked up a female member of the swim team, blindfolded her, and forced her to kneel in a creek and pray to the god "Aqua Buddha."<\/p>\n

"Well I’m not gonna really try and go back 27 years and remember everything I did in college," Paul told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto when asked about the Aqua Buddha thing. "But the thing is, I don’t think that, really, politicians should be asked to answer anonymous accusers from 27 years ago — but I will categorically deny that I ever kidnapped anyone or forced anyone to use drugs."<\/p>\n

Paul said that the idea that he kidnapped anyone — which was widely reported across the media yesterday – came from headline writers, not the GQ story itself. He pointed out that the woman who made the anonymous allegation to the magazine said that Paul and his friend "never hurt me," and "never did anything wrong."<\/p>\n

Then he offered his plan to limit freedom of speech and took the predictable stab at the media. "I think they deserve a lawsuit," he said of GQ<\/em>. "The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything"…<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I read the GQ story<\/strong><\/a> and many of the articles about Rand Paul’s response. Who cares about his College pranks or whether he inhaled Marijuana? I don’t. But for what it’s worth, I think he’s lying.<\/font><\/strong> He could have said, "Yeah, I did some pretty goofy things in college that I’m not particularly proud of," and moved on. Instead, he leads with his characteristic whining and sarcasm. It’s not the fact that he was a cocky frat boy in college that’s the problem. It’s that he’s still a cocky frat boy as  an adult <\/strike>  a candidate <\/strike>  a grown-up <\/strike> a big boy…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rand Paul Denies Kidnapping, Says He Can’t Remember The RestTalking Points Memoby Evan McMorris-SantoroAugust 10, 2010 Rand Paul said on Fox News today that his lawyers would be all over GQ magazine if it wasn’t for that pesky First Amendment. But he didn’t completely deny yesterday’s crazy tale of his college years published by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}