The article being discussed can be found here.
This Courier-Journal article violated the yardstick of fairness because it is implicitly biased in favor of Sen. Rand Paul. While there was no specific mention of support, it is obvious the author of the article supports him. As this is a news story, it is not supposed to be an opinion piece. However, it certainly seems like an opinion that Rand Paul is a "small-government, liberty-loving, anti-interventionist". While the small government part is almost unarguably true, the other two are opinions that really shouldn't be used to describe the subject of the article. If I had written the article, I would have used "self-declared" before listing the aforementioned traits.
It's a profile of Paul, and while it doesn't seem overtly biased to me, the first paragraph is definitely vomit-inducing.
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