Rand Paul Has a Friend at Time
For instance, note how the weekly’s 3,300-word profile ignored Paul’s chronic plagiarism, and danced around his recent foreign policy U-turn. Once a proud isolationist who berated opponents as war hawks, Paul seemed to suddenly abandon his libertarian beliefs when public concern spiked this summer over the rising threat of the Islamic State. Paul then backed swift military action.
That’s what known in politics as a flip-flop, and lots of journalists have freely applied that standard to Paul’s dramatic turn-about. But not Time, which insists Paul’s drastic policy shift simply reflects his “complexity.”