# The Media Treatment of Rand Paul - Knee Jerk Reactionism by Mental Midgets **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 23, 2010, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-treatment-of-rand-paul-knee-jerk-reactionism-by-mental-midgets/540445 "2010-05-23T08:12:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-treatment-of-rand-paul-knee-jerk-reactionism-by-mental-midgets/540445/481 "2010-06-03T23:25:13Z")
I don’t know why you guys even keep trying. But here’s something to entertain you: [Rush Songs Not for Rent to Rand](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/rush-songs-not-for-rent-to-rand-paul.php?toanygodorgovernment) ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-treatment-of-rand-paul-knee-jerk-reactionism-by-mental-midgets/540445/482 "2010-06-04T00:46:18Z")
> [@jrodefeld](#): > > What questions haven’t I answered? I have diligently gone from front to back on this thread answering virtually every single post made. What is the problem? The problem is you haven’t been very diligent in your response. I know you never addressed my last post. Sure it is challenging to answer questions from fifty different posters. If you simply didn’t get to some questions people would be understanding. But as noted you seem to skip over some questions in favor of answering the easier ones. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-treatment-of-rand-paul-knee-jerk-reactionism-by-mental-midgets/540445/483 "2010-06-04T03:18:59Z")
[**You Can’t Have Your Music for Free** :](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100603/pl_ynews/ynews_pl2394) > [@](#): > > According to the Louisville Courier-Journal’s James Carroll, the Canadian rock band Rush sent Paul’s campaign a letter this week ordering the candidate to stop using its music without permission. Apparently, the GOP Senate hopeful used one of the band’s best-known hits, “Tom Sawyer,” as background music for a fund-raising video. And Rush’s “The Spirit of Radio” has also been something of an unofficial theme song for Paul’s campaign, played to jazz up supporters at campaign rallies around Kentucky ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-treatment-of-rand-paul-knee-jerk-reactionism-by-mental-midgets/540445/484 "2010-06-04T03:37:29Z")
Didn’t McCain run into that same trouble? Man, the folks who theoretically advocate private property rights sure don’t seem to respect them when they don’t want to. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-treatment-of-rand-paul-knee-jerk-reactionism-by-mental-midgets/540445/485 "2010-06-04T10:23:53Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > I don’t know why you guys even keep trying. > > But here’s something to entertain you: > > [Rush Songs Not for Rent to Rand](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/rush-songs-not-for-rent-to-rand-paul.php?toanygodorgovernment) One likes to believe in the freedom of music. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-treatment-of-rand-paul-knee-jerk-reactionism-by-mental-midgets/540445/486 "2010-06-04T11:16:43Z")
One might even say that verse defines the eventual downfall of libertarianism. “One likes to believe in the freedom of music But glittering prizes and endless compromises Shatter the illusion of integrity” Politics is the art of compromise. There is no purity and libertarians are still in the ‘rather be right than win’ mode. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-treatment-of-rand-paul-knee-jerk-reactionism-by-mental-midgets/540445/487 "2010-06-30T13:54:01Z")
[Rand Paul refuses to say how old the earth is:](http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/29/rand-paul-old-earth/) > [@](#): > > ``` > QUESTION: Was there a point in life where you became a Christian [...] and also, how old is the world? > > PAUL: I forgot to say I was only taking easy questions (crowd laughs). [...] I’m gonna have to pass on the age of the earth. I think I’m just gonna have to pass on that one. > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-treatment-of-rand-paul-knee-jerk-reactionism-by-mental-midgets/540445/488 "2010-06-30T16:27:35Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > One likes to believe in the freedom of music. And Rand Paul shatters the illusion of integrity. Yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-treatment-of-rand-paul-knee-jerk-reactionism-by-mental-midgets/540445/489 "2010-06-30T16:51:03Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > [Rand Paul refuses to say how old the earth is:](http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/29/rand-paul-old-earth/) Ixnay on the azycray estionsquay or I can’t get electedae and plementie an axtay free eocracytay. -Joe [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-treatment-of-rand-paul-knee-jerk-reactionism-by-mental-midgets/540445.md?page=24)