Rand Paul Feels People Were Too Hard On Him After Howard Speech
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Wednesday called the criticism he faced following an awkward speech at Howard University unfair.
Earlier this month, Paul asked the crowd at the historically black college if they knew that Republicans founded the NAACP. Audience members responded with a booming "Yes!" But Paul said Wednesday at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast that he thought the exchange was misreported. From the Huffington Post:
"That was misreported," Paul said. "I asked them, 'Do you know?' and I didn't know the answer. This is my first time to go to a historically black college."
"People say, 'Well, you should know the answer.' Well, that was part of the reason for going there, was I didn't know the answer," he said. "I said, 'Did they all know that the NAACP was founded by Republicans?' And in retrospect it sounds like it is a dumb question, but it's like, Republicans haven't been going to Howard for 20 years, so maybe by me going there I did learn something. And I did learn that everybody there knows, and I left there knowing that: Everybody there knows."
"It's unfair what the media tries to do to me on this," Paul added, according to the report. "I'm a little sensitive to some of it."
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When I first watched a clip of his speech, I was confused. Seeing it a second time, it became obvious that he himself knew that the NAACP was founded by the pubbies, but he didn't think the students at Howard would know that.
Typical patronizing remark from that dumb ass! Who could have guessed that smart, ambitious young people attending a prestigious AA college would know the history of civil rights?!?
He and Palin and Bachmann and, and...really all of the Tea Party types.
Word salad.
I can't understand them at all any more.
