Fearmonger Extraordinaire Rep. Peter King Accuses Sen. Rand Paul Of 'Fearmongering,' Says He Doesn't Deserve To Be A Senator

from the crazy-is-as-crazy-does dept

He doesn’t deserve to be in the United States Senate for spreading that type of misperception and absolute lies, to be honest with you.”

[Rand Paul is] 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.

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Today's daily dose of insanity from Rep. Peter King continues where he's left off before. Having already called Senator Rand Paul "a disgrace" for suggesting that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper ought to be prosecuted for lying to Congress, King decided to double down against Paul on Monday saying both that Paul doesn't deserve to be a Senator and accusing Paul of "fearmongering." On being a Senator, King flat out said:We'll remember that line, because we'll bring it up again in a bit.In the meantime, sometimes I wonder if King has absolutely no self-awareness at all. Because immediately after he accusesof fearmongering -- saying of Paul, "he's playing on some sort of... fearmongering" -- King immediately insists that if we did what Paul wanted (reining in the NSA), that it would allow terrorists to kill thousands of people. I'm not kidding. I'm sorry, but arguing for greater protections of privacy isn't fearmongering. Claiming that violating all our privacy to stop thousands of people from getting killed?is fearmongering.King also accused Paul of being "a part of that hate America crowd." Nice of King to stooplow that he's bordering on idiot McCarthyism. He also lies (remember that statement above?) in claiming that there is no evidence that the NSA abused its powers:Except, of course, there have been plenty of abuses . Even the NSA admits it. King is either lying or completely uninformed. Oh, and it's not like he hasn't lied in the past. Remember, he was the Rep. who flat out lied about Glenn Greenwald to say that he should be prosecuted for threatening to reveal names of CIA agents (something Greenwald has never done).So, uh, if fearmongering and lying mean you don't deserve to be in Congress, shouldn't fearmongering, lying Peter King step down? And, we didn't even need to bring up the fact that King used to support terrorists himself -- the white Irish kind , which he's apparently supportive of, rather than the brown Muslim kind that he dislikes. Oops.King is apparently preparing to run for President in 2016 on what must be the "fuck the Constitution" platform. In just the past few months, he's openly mocked both the 1st and 4th Amendments. Beyond fearmongering and lying to the public, I'd argue that both of those are pretty good reasons why someone doesn't deserve to be in Congress, let alone be elected President.

Filed Under: nsa, peter king, rand paul, surveillance