ABC’s Stephanopoulos Hits Back at Rand Paul for Suggesting He Colluded with Obama

Speaking with Laura Ingraham this afternoon, George Stephanopoulos addressed Republican Sen. Rand Paul‘s suggestion that the ABC host purposely aided the Obama White House in driving the “war on women” narrative of 2012.

In an interview with Geraldo Rivera last week, Sen. Paul asserted that Stephanopoulos’ “obscure” question about contraception during a GOP debate might hint that the newsman colluded with the Obama campaign to generate the resultant “war on women” narrative.

Stephanopoulos told Ingraham today that such accusations are factually untrue.

“[Sen. Paul] laid out all of these charges, which are completely false,” the This Week host said. “And the idea that this question came out of thin air is just wrong. It’s just factually incorrect. The reason it came up was because just the week before, Rick Santorum actually said in an interview with Jake Tapper […] that he did believe that states had a right to ban [contraception].”

He added: “It was an open question and I was just trying to see if Mitt Romney agreed or not.”

Listen below, via The Laura Ingraham Show:

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