Rand opposes minimum wage, says it's "un-American" to "play the blame game" against BP's oil spill disaster, tries to evade his own words defending racial segregation

Remember this one?

Rand thinks BP should be allowed to ravage the entire gulf coast and the gulf of Mexico, and if we want to blame them for their crime, we are "un-American"

This is a classic case of corporatist fake libertarianism. What kind of liberty allows a giant foreign corporation to destroy the livelihoods of millions of Americans for generations to come? (not to mention Mexicans, Cubans, Haitians, etc.)



Alaska's fisheries still haven't recovered from Exxon's Valdez spill some 20 years later.
(which was caused by unsafe cost cutting detours ordered by the Exxon Bosses, not by the "drunk captain" of popular lore. You may be surprised to know that the captain of an oil tanker does not actually steer the giant ship by himself. In fact, he doesn't touch the wheel at all, so whether or not he is drunk has nothing to do with the ship crashing. Witnesses have long ago revealed that they saw the ship regularly taking this same unsafe detour and whistleblowers from BP have revealed that this was company policy)


He says this is a "red herring" and "40 year old legislation", but these are his own statements.
Notice that he never denies his own words, but rather denies allegations that have not been made by the interviewer, yet he interrupts the interviewer who confronts him with his own words from a Rand Paul self published letter to the editor is spouting "talking points from the democrat national committee... and Rachel Maddow"

He says this is "something they insinuate that I might believe that's not true" but these are his own words! This interview proves he is dishonest because every time he is questioned on his own on the record statements he tries to change the subject but never addresses his own reprehensible statements and positions.

He thinks that forcing racists to allow black folks to eat at their lunch counters equated to the government seize the ownership of those businesses? That all desegregated businesses are "publicly owned"?!

He says "a free society" allows businesses to "discriminate based on the color of.. skin"
Talk about your "40 year old" political attitudes.