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Daily Beast editor to Rand Paul: 'F--- you'

A senior editor for The Daily Beast tweeted "fuck you" at Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday after the Kentucky Republican announced that he would be getting a measles vaccination.

"Today I am getting my booster vaccine. Wonder how the liberal media will misreport this," Paul wrote on Twitter.

"Fuck you," Justin Miller, the senior editor, wrote back.

In an email, Rand Paul spokesperson Sergio Gor said it was "completely unacceptable for a journalist to be tweeting these type of comments."

Miller, who deleted the tweet shortly after posting it, apologized for the offending remark in a statement to POLITICO late Tuesday night.

"I replied from my personal account to what I felt was spin after Senator Paul said factually incorrect things about vaccines," Miller wrote. "It would've been better to respond with facts than an obscenity, and I deleted the tweet so it wouldn't reflect on the Beast. I'm sorry for the insult."

Paul's announcement about his vaccination came after he drew criticism for linking vaccines to mental disorders.

Paul backtracked from those remarks on Tuesday evening, stressing that he supports vaccines and believes all parents should have their children vaccinated.

“I did not say vaccines caused disorders, just that they were temporally related — I did not allege causation,” he said.

Paul also told The New York Times that the “liberal media” was mid characterizing him.

“It just annoys me that I’m being characterized as someone who’s against vaccines,” he said.