(WHAS11) -- From a flurry of Tweets to the hustle of local and national television news crews, the curious trip of Sen. Rand Paul from Nashville to Washington on Monday sparked a media frenzy.
Upon his return to Washington, Paul spoke to a sympathetic Wolf Blitzer on CNN. Blitzer said he agreed with Paul that there ought to be a "trusted traveler" program to prevent frequent fliers such as Blitzer from being unnecessarily screened.
A report from ABC News' Jim Avila critiqued Paul's suggestion that travelers ought to get a second chance to walk through a scanner if an alarm goes off the first time:
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), the Senator's father and a presidential candidate released a fiery statement:
"The police state in this country is growing out of control. One of the ultimate embodiments of this is the TSA that gropes and grabs our children, our seniors, and our loved ones and neighbors with disabilities. The TSA does all of this while doing nothing to keep us safe."
Among hundreds of news items posted online on Monday, was a Christian Science Monitor article:
TSA could hardly have singled out a worse person for pat-down treatment than Sen. Rand Paul, up-and-coming libertarian standard-bearer and son of GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul. He's not the only one on Capitol Hill to complain about pat-downs.
