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GQ hit piece about the Rand Paul kidnapping was hoax!
by Joseph Ernest August 14, 2010
Newscast Media -- GQ magazine has proven itself to be a tool for the corporate media by publishing false allegations and deceiving the public with their Rand Paul hoax story. This kind of unprofessional journalism is the reason why many readers and viewers have a distrust for the media. GQ editors published a story this week claiming that Rand Paul kidnapped a nameless woman and forced her to get high on drugs. It turns out, the whole hit piece was a hoax, and I would be surprised if GQ doesn't get sued by the Rand Paul camp.
In a feature, GQ has revealed that they were lying to their readers and the whole thing was a giant hoax. Perhaps the magazine has so much contempt for its readers it doesn't think they are capable of doing their own research.
The conservative politician was supposedly a member of a secret society called the NoZe Brotherhood while an undergraduate at Baylor University. The group participated in a variety of pranks on university administration. As a member of the group, the news source claimed, he once kidnapped a female member of the university swim team and forced her to do drugs.
In the GQ article, the nameless woman was quoted: "They told me their god was 'Aqua Buddha' and that I needed to bow down and worship him ... they blindfolded me and made me bow down to 'Aqua Buddha' in the creek. I had to say, 'I worship you Aqua Buddha, I worship you." Story continues below...
Now the nameless woman says that while the odd things did occur, she apparently was never kidnapped in the legal sense of the term.
"The whole thing has been blown out of proportion ... they didn’t force me, they didn’t make me. They were creating this drama: 'We’re messing with you," the woman told the Washington Post.
Paul's campaign spokesperson Jesse Benton wrote in an email, "It is satisfying to see the libelous and grossly irresponsible charges of kidnapping completely shot down. It remains puzzling to us why the drive-by media continues to focus on an alleged 30 year old teenage prank when our nation faces high unemployment, a thirteen trillion dollar debt and are threatened with a Cap and Trade national energy tax."
The woman says she doesn't want her name in print because she's a clinical psychologist who works with former members of the military, some of whom are Tea Partyers, and fears that complicating Paul's Senate run could put her in danger, even though she didn't hesitate to put Paul's campaign in danger. Add Comments>>
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