<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the Washington Post at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/mqcxr7z">http://tinyurl.com/mqcxr7z</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="text-align: -webkit-auto; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); "><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; font-size: 1.9em; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(44, 44, 44); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; ">Rand Paul aide has history of racial comments</h1></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">An aide to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has a history of inflammatory comments about race and the Civil War.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">As first reported by the <a href="http://freebeacon.com/rebel-yell/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Washington Free Beacon</a>, a conservative online publication, Paul <a href="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/at-least-one-prominent-liberal-opposes-the-presidents-drone-strikes/Content?oid=4573911" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">new media staffer</a>Jack Hunter has for years been a provocative talk radio host who called himself the “Southern Avenger.” Before that, he was a member of the League of the South, a group that advocates Southern secession.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">“Sen. Paul holds his staff to a standard that includes treating every individual with equal protection and respect, without exception,” spokeswoman Moira Bagley said in a statement.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">It’s not clear how close Hunter is to the senator. He </span><a href="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/at-least-one-prominent-liberal-opposes-the-presidents-drone-strikes/Content?oid=4573911" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">serves</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> as Paul’s new media director. According to a recent </span><a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/july_august_2013/features/the_education_of_rand_paul045638.php?page=6" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Washington Monthly article</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">, Hunter has been advising Paul on foreign policy. In addition to his current work for the senator, Hunter helped Paul write a 2011 book, “</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Tea-Party-Goes-Washington/dp/1455503118" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">The Tea Party Goes to Washington</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">.” But on his Web site and radio show he clearly speaks for himself (as when he </span><a href="http://www.southernavenger.com/uncategorized/mark-sanford-is-better-than-99-of-congress/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">endorsed</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> Mark Sanford in the May South Carolina special election). Hunter also worked on former South Carolina senator Jim DeMint’s 2011 book, “Now or Never: Saving America From Economic Collapse.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">“My entire adult life I’ve defended the Old South and the southern cause in America’s bloodiest war. Not because I support slavery or racism but despite it,” Hunter <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7YbV8VzN6c" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">says in one 2011 video</a>.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">But in other commentary, Hunter has waded explicitly into racial politics.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-style: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">“Americans aren’t wrong to deplore the millions of Mexicans coming here now,” he</span><span style="font-style: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071104071254/http://www.southernavenger.com/82/?form_58.userid=4&form_58.replyids=397" style="font-style: inherit; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">wrote in 2007</a><span style="font-style: inherit; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">. “A non-white majority America would simply cease to be America for reasons that are as numerous as they are obvious – whether we are supposed to mention them or not.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">That same year, discussing a racial disparity in school suspensions and expulsions, he</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071103012120/http://www.southernavenger.com/82/?form_58.userid=4&form_58.replyids=426" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">wrote</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">, “there are probably more black youth who deserve to be expelled … who never receive proper punishment out of fear of accusations of ‘racism.’”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">In 2004, he</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071104084926/http://www.southernavenger.com/82/?form_58.userid=4&form_58.replyids=84" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">lamented</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">a “racial double standard” that meant that “Not only are whites not afforded the same right to celebrate their own cultural identity – but anything that is considered ‘too white’ is immediately suspect.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Another 2004 post</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071104065842/http://www.southernavenger.com/82/?form_58.userid=4&form_58.replyids=25" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">declares</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">that “not only was Abraham Lincoln the worst President, but one of the worst figures in American history” while arguing that “John Wilkes Booth’s heart was in the right place” when he assassinated the president.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Hunter told the Beacon that he has changed his views on Lincoln’s assassination, race and Hispanic immigration.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">For years, Hunter wore a Mexican wrestling mask made out of the Confederate flag. “The whole idea of the Southern Avenger was to be an anonymous superhero,” he explained</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><a href="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/jack-hunter-goes-to-washington/Content?oid=3189069" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">in a 2011 article</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> in the Charleston City Paper, where he writes a column. Hunter ditched the mask in 2007, when he moved from being a guest on a local music station to talk radio.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Hunter’s history is particularly sensitive because Paul has made an effort in recent months to reach out to black and Hispanic Americans. The senator</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/04/10/rand-paul-ive-never-wavered-in-support-for-civil-rights-act/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">spoke in April</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">at Howard University, and in his remarks he emphasized that the GOP is the party of Lincoln. (Hunter actually</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/354613970264539139" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">accompanied</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Paul to that event.) In a speech at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. in March, Paul</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-03-19/politics/37844540_1_immigration-change-illegal-immigrants-citizenship" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">endorsed a new path to legalization</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">for illegal immigrants (although he opposed the final Senate immigration compromise.)</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Before working for the senator Hunter was a supporter of Paul’s father, former congressman Ron Paul of Texas, and the</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=98676" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">official blogger</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">for his 2012 campaign. The elder Paul is no stranger to race-related controversy. He faced scrutiny over</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/ron-paul-and-the-racist-newsletters-fact-checker-biography/2011/12/21/gIQAKNiwBP_blog.html" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">newsletters put out in his name </a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">in the 1990s that made derogatory comments about black and gay people. He has also described the Civil War as a “</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbOE4Ip7In0" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">senseless</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">” way to end slavery.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">But Sen. Paul also has waded into these issues himself, with comments he made in 2010 </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/rand-pauls-rewriting-of-his-own-remarks-on-the-civil-rights-act/2013/04/10/5b8d91c4-a235-11e2-82bc-511538ae90a4_blog.html" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">questioning</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> the part of the Civil Rights Act that dealt with private businesses. He has since said that he has always supported the legislation. In 2009, a staffer for Paul’s Senate campaign</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/72823-the-ugly-paper-trail-of-rand-pauls-spokesman" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; ">resigned</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">after a racist post left on his MySpace page surfaced.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">--------------------</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; ">Jack Hunter, the "Southern Avenger"</p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><img src="cid:7FD0BC14-FD91-4CFE-9000-8A40C11BD7CE" alt="SApic.gif" id="7FD0BC14-FD91-4CFE-9000-8A40C11BD7CE" width="173" height="210"></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Jack Hunter's website: </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://www.southernavenger.com/">http://www.southernavenger.com/</a></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Tom Hansen</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 26px; vertical-align: baseline; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Moscow, Idaho</span></p></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>