Rand Paul completely disrespected by Don Lemon on CNN

When Rand Paul says he was willing to vote for the Reid bill, he's wrong. He is willing to vote for the Reid bill WITH a balanced budget amendment.

A balanced budget amendment isn't some tiny thing. It is a major thing. You can't pretend like it is some insignificant thing. Saying you offered to vote for the Reid bill while also asking for a balanced budget amendment to be included is like trying to prove your lack of racism by claiming you atended the MLK rally, but as a protestor.

"Before we continue, I need to ask you a question. When did you stop beating your wife?"

*wait for him to start talking, and regardless of what he tries to say, cut him off with:*

"I'm not asking for talking points, just answer the question: When did you stop beating your wife?"

"Do you understand what I'm getting at? It is impossible to properly answer the question without being able to put it into the proper context and correct the falacies and false pretexts the question contains. Whether it is obvious to you or not, you are doing the exact same thing to me right now, and by not giving me the opportunity to put your questions into the proper context and correct the falacies and false pretexts they contain, you are making it impossible for me to satisfactorily answer them. I request that you either stop asking me loaded questions or at least stop interrupting me when I try to correct them."

Does anyone have an email address we can use instead of the contact form? Based on my work in web development, I have a feeling that form doesn't go to anyone too important.

I give Rand a lot of credit for handling himself with class.

sent....and a scouring one at that. What a twit. Since his new found fame from Comedy Central he thinks he's a liberal Oreilly.

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in a few minutes.

It's almost like the show was designed to make Rand look as good as possible, by pitting him against an intellectual midget.

I think we ought to thank CNN. Or, we can pretend we are Obama loyalists who are offended that CNN represents us so poorly. That way they are getting negative feedback about Lemon from both sides.

"Dear CNN,

I just watched Don Lemon interviewing Rand Paul. Next time, please do us Democrats a favor and supply a more intelligent anchor to challenge Rand. This Mr. Lemon is a sad joke. He's so dumb, he makes our enemies look spectacular."

that the punk Lemon has also disrespected Ron Paul as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGxBofJmw-o&feature-related

The now 98 people who have commented here have emailed CNN to let them know what a piss poor showing this so-called journalist just made. What an arrogant and presumptuous jerk. He was not the least bit professional and treated Rand like a 5 year old. I was waiting on him to say, "BAD Senator Paul! You answer my question the way I want you to or you're going on time out!"

Please email CNN. I did.

I just left a scathing review of Don Lemon's interview of Senator Rand Paul. My last line was: "Mr. Lemon left a sour taste in my mouth after watching him work."

... was the leading questions. He could have just been a little more frank and said:

"How do you feel about doing what nobody in America wants you to do?"

"How did you vote against your party and isn't that stupid of you?"

"You don't care that nobody will listen to you after this, right?"

What ever happened to reporters having integrity and looking for facts rather than talking about gross general-isms and "interviews" that are plainly meant as an editorial provoked through leading biased questions? If I ever meet Don Lemon, he's going to get a scowl from me.

... to agree to RAISE the debt ceiling if the goal is to ELIMINATE the debt?? A TRUE compromise would be to LOWER the debt ceiling instead of eliminating the debt all at once! Rand has only succeeded in making his father look like an extremist. And all to get some phony promise to enact a Balanced Budget Amendment in some far off, undetermined time frame, with no agreement on how to balance it.

Mark my words, it will only be a matter of time til some interviewer will ask Ron how come his own son agreed to raise the limit. Not Rand's best moment.

Liberals watching this will think this clown showed Rand Paul up and made him and the Tea Party look like fools.

What this interviewer actually did was ignore everything Sen. Paul was saying, trying to get yes or no answers to questions that are not set up like yes or no questions that can be answered without an explanation.

Overall, Sen. Paul is being made out to look like a villain to the left. That's actually a pretty beautiful thing when you consider that 4, 8, or 12 years down the road, Sen. Paul will be making his first bid for the presidency. It will make his primary season a beautiful thing to behold as the right falls in love with him all over again.

What was that I just witnessed?

is just plain rude