Standing among his colleagues, all of whom were vigorously applauding the speech, Paul could be seen delivering a slow clap while looking relatively detached amid the cheers. * * *The first thing that popped into my head after reading this was the following scene from The Great Escape, particularly the part starting at 1:24, where the SS officers appeared stunned by the Camp Kommandant's half-hearted return of the Hitler salute:
Commentators pounced.
"What if I clap, but only half-heartedly?" the anonymous Hot Air writer Allahpundit imagined Paul saying, calling it proof that the libertarian senator is struggling to prove his conservative credentials.
RedState.com writer Dan McLaughlin, alias Baseball Crank, compared it to the popular GIF of Orson Welles clapping in "Citizen Kane." National Review rounded up reactions from various Twitter users.
But perhaps most agitated by the scene was Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, a vocal supporter of Israel, who took to Twitter to blast Paul and those coming to his defense.
The big difference, of course, is that Hitler was actually the leader of Germany. Netanyahu is not even an American citizen let alone an American political leader, yet conservatives nonetheless think that Rand Paul did not demonstrate sufficient allegiance toward this foreigner.
UnFuckingBelievable.
UPDATE: Jon Stewart eviscerates Netanyahu and his bullshit speech:
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