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• Tuesday, January 1, 2008 05:21 AM

  Andrew Sullivan, liar of the worst sort

  Here is the unedited Youtube of Ron Paul's remarks on evolution:

  http://youtube.com/watch?v=zz94-OrnXzE

  Here is the highly-edited version that is referenced by Andrew Sullivan's blog:

  http://reason.tv/roughcut/show/215.html

  Here is a transcript, with the deleted words bracketed and in bold:

  'Well, at first I thought it was a very inappropriate question, you know, for the presidency to be decided on a scientific matter, and I think it's a theory, a theory of evolution, and I don't accept it, you know, as a theory, but I think [it probably doesn't bother me. It's not the most important issue for me to make the difference in my life to understand the exact origin. I think] the Creator that I know created us, everyone of us, and created the universe, and the precise time and manner, I just don't think we're at the point where anybody has absolute proof on either side. [So I just don't...if that were the only issue, quite frankly, I would think it's an interesting discussion, I think it's a theological discussion, and I think it's fine, and we can have our...if that were the issue of the day, I wouldn't be running for public office.']

  About half of Paul's words were censored. Sullivan turned his message of, 'We're fighting for freedom and can't afford to be split over a debate about fossils' into something else entirely. Did Glenn not do a post on this sort of thing not long ago? Ah, I remember now; he did and a few regulars highlighted Glenn's post by savaging Paul in the way GG was writing about. I wonder if they will start loving Andrew Sullivan now.

  —bucky1 Read bucky1's other letters
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