Washington Post Article RatingRand Paul rewrites his own history
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-70% Medium Liberal
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-48% Medium Liberal
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-46% Negative
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
67% : I would not go to that Woolworths, and I would stand up in my community and say that it is abhorrent, um, but, the hard part -- and this is the hard part about believing in freedom -- is, if you believe in the First Amendment, for example -- you have to, for example, most good defenders of the First Amendment will believe in abhorrent groups standing up and saying awful things and uh, we're here at the bastion of newspaperdom, I'm sure you believe in the First Amendment so you understand that people can say bad things.55% : And I think there was a need for federal intervention.
52% : I think that there was an overriding problem in the south so big that it did require federal intervention in the '60s and it stemmed from things that I said.
51% : But had I been there, there would have been some discussion over one of the titles of the civil rights and I think that's a valid point, and still a valid discussion, because the thing is, if we want to harbor in on private businesses and their policies, then you have to have the discussion about: do you want to abridge the First Amendment as well? ...
51% : Finally, on CNN on May 22, Paul said there was "a need for federal intervention" and declared he would have voted for the law.
44% : Dirksen figured out a way to bring along wavering Republicans, in order to break a lengthy filibuster led by Southern Democrats, by carefully tweaking a House bill to reduce federal intervention in local matters -- but not enough to force a rewriting of the whole bill in the House.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.