AP Withdraws Bogus Article Claiming Rand Paul Said Voters Want To Round Up Immigrants

Noel Sheppard
Newsbusters
February 18, 2013

The folks at the Associated Press have a lot of egg on their faces Sunday.

Politico hours ago released a Bulletin Kill from the wire service withdrawing an article published earlier in the day with the inflammatory headline “Sen. Paul: Voters Want to Round Up Immigrants”:

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WASHINGTON (AP) – The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., saying he sees some in the (sic) his party favoring a 2016 presidential candidate with an immigration policy that would “round up people … and send them back to Mexico.” That quote was in the transcript of “Fox News Sunday” that was distributed after Paul’s interview on the show. A subsequent Associated Press review of an audio recording of the show determined that the transcript had dropped the word “don’t” from that quote, and Paul actually said, “They don’t want somebody who wants to round people up, put them in camps and send them back to Mexico.”