Really Joe and Chuck? You both just noticed that Rand Pauls is thin-skinned when he gets caught lying, especially with the media? OK. Neither had the gumption to call out Rand Paul's lies. But they noticed that Paul is "thin-skinned."
Neither went into the details about why Paul was reacting so badly to the media. And the reason was because he was lying his off ass, as he always does. And when Rand gets caught, he acts like a defensive child and lies some more.
Both of these Establishment dunderheads could have looked up this lovely personal flaw of Rand's with the help of Google. In fact, here are just a few of Rand Paul's greatest lies and reactions to getting called out on them:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/...
Paul's misstatements led to a testy exchange with the local press here before the Kentucky Farm Bureau's ham breakfast in August. "Is the deficit going up or down?" a reporter demanded to know, apparently testing whether Paul would fudge or correctly differentiate between the annual deficit (falling) and the cumulative national debt (rising). And the reporter almost got him. "The def—the debt," Paul corrected himself, "is still continuing to expand." As for the deficit, "we used to be alarmed when it was where it is now," he said. "So it's hard to argue that we're in a good place." Still, Paul has persisted with his misleading talking point. He mentioned borrowing "a trillion dollars a year" on NBC's Meet the Press on Oct. 6—six days after the fiscal year ended and nearly six months after the CBO report.
Another lovely paragraph from that same article:
When asked about the fodder he has provided for fact-checkers, Paul erupted with scorn. "The fact-checking is not fact-checking. These are people with a bias. It's purely an opinion. The stuff is so ludicrous I don't even read it," he said, slapping the table as he spoke. He is particularly put out by Glenn Kessler of The Washington Post, who has given him numerous "Pinocchios" this year for, among other things, tweeting that "neocons" want to keep sending aid to Egypt (several prominent neocons want to cut it off); for misleading statements about foreign aid as a proportion of the federal budget; for asking questions about the Boston bomber case that were based on misinformation; and for citing Dwight Eisenhower as an inspiration for his own skepticism about intervention and foreign aid ("Rand has it totally backwards," Kessler wrote). Kessler cited historians on Eisenhower's views, but Paul doesn't buy it. "I can't quote Eisenhower because they say I don't embrace everything about Eisenhower," he said incredulously. "I can't say I like Eisenhower. Next thing will be: I can't like Lincoln. Can I like part of Lincoln?
And remember how Rand Paul calls everyone who busts him on his lies
haters?
And those are just a few of the times that Rand has taken "great offense" when he has been called a lying sack of shit. You don't even have to say, "Senator Paul, you are lying." All you have to do is roll tape and point out one of the many lies he has told, and he will tell you that you are misquoting or being a hater.
But most of the media is slow to notice the obvious, but Joe and Chuck are not the brightest bulbs in the pack either.