New York Congressman Peter King, who is exploring a run for the White House in 2016, has ramped up criticism of Rand Paul in comments on "The Morning Joe". According to POLITICO King has accused Rand of using fear and paranoia to appeal to his base.
“We can have honest differences about what [NSA’s] policies are, but what Rand Paul is creating is hysteria,” King said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Monday. “When Rand Paul is comparing [NSA Director] Gen. [James] Clapper to [leaker Edward] Snowden, saying Clapper belongs in jail with Snowden, talking about how all phone calls are being listened to, trying to create this paranoia among Americans that the NSA is spying on everyone, the fact is he has not been able to cite one abuse by the NSA.”
King said the Kentucky Republican “creates this illusion” of spying in an attempt to play off Americans’ fear in an “offensive” way.
“The same reason he was saying he was worried about the CIA using drones to kill Americans in Starbucks. He is playing on some sort of … fear mongering, isolationism,” King said. “Rather than using intelligent arguments, as people could well do, he is resorting to fear, he’s appealing to the lowest common denominator. And I find that very offensive.”
That would be the blowhard Peter King who used to attend IRA fundraisers in New York...quite a guy.
Posted by: Kaboom O'Reilly | January 07, 2014 at 05:36 PM