How Rand Paul's civil-rights views escaped media scrutiny

[FredK]

The editorial board of Louisville's Courier-Journal didn't mince words following its sit-down with Rand Paul last month. Much of what the Republican Senate candidate supports, it wrote, "is repulsive to people in the mainstream," including "an unacceptable view of civil rights."

And yet Paul's view that the federal government should not have the power to force integregation on private businesses — part of 1964's landmark Civil Rights Act — didn't get the attention of the national press until Wednesday, following interviews with NPR's Robert Siegel and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. (Watch the exchange with Maddow below. Paul subsequently changed his position Thursday, after an intense 24 hours of media fallout.)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_...93cmFuZHBhdWwz

Damn the darling tea partier already out of favor.

[chew 'n' spit]

oh how surprising.................the local wannabe media gives their opinion................damn I am stunned...............