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Rand Paul: "If I were a journalism teacher..."

Kentucky Senator and inventor of the ever-so-popular hairdo pubehead - Rand Paul - has decided to lash out on the members of the media whom reported two separated cases of plagiarism by the Senator. In an interview with National Review 's Robert Costa, Paul said the following: "What makes me mad about the whole thing is that I believe there is a difference between errors of omission and errors of intention. We aren't perfect and we have made errors of omission, but we never intended to mislead anybody. I'm being criticized for not having proper attribution, and yet they are able to write stuff that if I were their journalism teacher in college, I would fail them." Did Rand Plagiarism Paul really just pull out the if-I-were-their-journalism-teacher-in-college card? If Rand Paul were a journalism teacher in college, he'd say: - "Remember, class - sources are for sissies!" - "Never bastardize the word plagiarize, because to plagiarize...