I read today on Bill Koenig’s World Watch Daily, as cited by Newsmax, that there was “A contentious exchange on ABC News ‘This week With George Stephanopolous.’” Here is the original Newsmax article:

Rand Paul Insists ‘Great Deal Of Evidence’ Of Election Fraud

By Newsmax Wires    |   Sunday, 24 January 2021 10:35 AM

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Sunday declared there was a “great deal of evidence of fraud” and illegal election law changes that merit a “thorough investigation.”

In a contentious exchange on ABC News’ “This Week With George Stephanopolous,” Paul said liberal journalists are calling anybody that believes the election was stolen is a fool to bring up the subject. 

“There are two sides to every story. George, you’re forgetting who you are. You’re forgetting who you are as a journalist if you think there’s only one side,” Paul said.

“You’re inserting yourself into the story to say I’m a liar because I want to look at election fraud and I want to look at secretaries of state who illegally changed the voter laws without the permission of their state legislatures. That is incontrovertible, it happened.

“And you can’t just sweep it under the rug and say, oh, nothing to see here, and everybody is a liar and you’re a fool if you bring this up. You’re inserting yourself into the story. A journalist would hear both sides and there are two sides of a story.”

According to Paul, Stephanopolous made a mistake, warning, that by “coming from the liberal side like you, you immediately say everything’s a lie, instead of saying there’s two sides to everything… you insert yourself in the middle … [saying] the absolute fact I’m saying is a lie.”

Paul said the election case brought in Wisconsin proved his point that alleged fraud is worth investigating. A federal judge in Wisconsin dismissed a lawsuit filed by Trump challenging Joe Biden’s win there.

“In Wisconsin, tens of thousands of absentee votes had only the name on it and no address,” Paul said. “Historically those were thrown out, this time they weren’t. They made special accommodations. It’s a pandemic. They changed the law after the fact. That’s wrong, that’s unconstitutional.”

“I won’t be cowed by liberals in the media who say there’s no evidence here and you’re a liar if you talk about election fraud,” he continued. “Let’s have an open debate this is a free country.”

Paul agreed that former Attorney General William Barr said there was no evidence of fraud in the election, but called that determination “a pronouncement.”

“There’s been no examination, thorough examination of all the states to see what problems we had and see if they could fix them,” he argued.

“I voted to certify the state [Electoral College votes] because I think it would be wrong for Congress to overturn that,” he said.

“At the same time, I’m not willing to sit here and say, everybody on the Republican side is a liar and there’s no fraud,” he insisted. “|There were lots of problems and secretaries of state who illegally changed the law and that needs to be fixed and I’m going to work hard to fix it. The media today say all Republicans are liars. There are two sides to every story.”

So, it appears that Rand Paul confronted Stephanopolous rather strongly. And I agree with everything he said. Here, in review, are seven things that I took note of.

1. Paul didn’t think that Stephanopolous was a very good journalist if he believed that there was only “one side of the story.”
2. Paul said he was inserting himself into the story. That’s not what a journalist does.
3. A good journalist is supposed to report the news not tell people they are liars and fools if they don’t believe a certain way.
4. Paul said he couldn’t just sweep it [election fraud] under the rug.
5. Paul insisted that there is a great deal of evidence of election fraud.
6. Paul wants a thorough examination of all the evidence of voter fraud.
7. Paul thinks there should be an open debate about it.

Rand Paul said that in the next two years he would be investigating and trying to make some changes in the voting system. I hope he is able to make some progress with that.