A Fox Nation post absurdly accused NPR of “play[ing the] race card on Rand Paul” based on an interview in which NPR host Robert Siegel discussed with Paul his views on the Americans with Disabilities Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Here's what Fox Nation's homepage, accessed May 20, displayed:

Clicking on the graphic directed viewers to a NY Daily News article -- which made no mention of race -- and the NPR interview, a transcript of which can be found here. Here's the relevant portion of the interview:

SIEGEL: You've said that business should have the right to refuse service to anyone, and that the Americans with Disabilities Act, the ADA, was an overreach by the federal government. Would you say the same by extension of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

PAUL: What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

SIEGEL: But are you saying that had you been around at the time, you would have -- hoped that you would have marched with Martin Luther King but voted with Barry Goldwater against the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

PAUL: Well, actually, I think it's confusing on a lot of cases with what actually was in the civil rights case because, see, a lot of the things that actually were in the bill, I'm in favor of. I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism. So I think there's a lot to be desired in the civil rights. And to tell you the truth, I haven't really read all through it because it was passed 40 years ago and hadn't been a real pressing issue in the campaign, on whether we're going for the Civil Rights Act.

SIEGEL: But it's been one of the major developments in American history in the course of your life. I mean, do you think the '64 Civil Rights Act or the ADA for that matter were just overreaches and that business shouldn't be bothered by people with the basis in law to sue them for redress?

PAUL: Right. I think a lot of things could be handled locally. For example, I think that we should try to do everything we can to allow for people with disabilities and handicaps. You know, we do it in our office with wheelchair ramps and things like that. I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator. And I think when you get to the solutions like that, the more local the better, and the more common sense the decisions are, rather than having a federal government make those decisions.

Judge for yourself whether a discussion with a candidate on views he readily admits to amounts to “play[ing the] race card.”

Previously:

Do Palin and Morris endorse Rand Paul's laissez-faire attitude on racial discrimination?

Napolitano: I won't “hide my enthusiasm” about Rand Paul's primary victory; his views “make such sense”