Sharron Angle: Whackadoodlus Extremus

[marmar]

Posted by paulrosenberg at 10:31 am
August 3, 2010

Sharron Angle: Press Should “Ask the Questions We Want to Answer”
Posted by paulrosenberg on @ 10:31 am


This post first appeared on Open Left.

This is too much for even Fox News toady Carl Cameron, apparently. From TPM:

Sharron Angle has further expounded on her strategy of courting conservative media and avoiding more mainstream sources — it’s not just about money, as she’s said before, but also about only being asked the questions she wants.

“We needed to have the press be our friend,” Angle said in an interview that aired on Fox over the weekend.

“Wait a minute. Hold on a second. To be your friend?” said a disbelieving Carl Cameron. Before Angle could fully answer, he added: “That sounds naive.” Apparently this was too much for even him.

“Well, no,” said Angle. “We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported.”

Angle continued: “And when I get on a show, and I say, ‘Send money to SharronAngle.com,’ so that your listeners will know that if they want to support me they need to go to SharronAngle.com.”

Well, at least we know have a clear definition of the “liberal media”: Anyone who asks a question that a conservative doesn’t want to answer.

Watch: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/08/03/sharon-angle-press-should-ask-the-questions-we-want-to-answer/

This is really a very revealing tip-of-the-iceberg moment for understanding how conservatives completely reinterpret the entire framework of liberal democracy: Rights for me, but not for thee! And yes America is founded on the principles of liberal political theory, which is why conservatives hate America–a fact we should lear to start repeating over and over again.


http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/08/03/sharon-angle-press-should-ask-the-questions-we-want-to-answer/

[Richardo]

1. Her last sentence sounds exactly like:

"I'm Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump."

[slampoet]

8. "I'm SharronAngle.com......"

Reminds me of Basil Marceaux

http://www.youtube.com/v/1hvaeHllwtw&hl=en_US&fs=1

[global1]

2. Anybody That Votes For Sharron Angle Is Also A ........

Whackadoodlus Extremus. Also anyone the votes for Meg Whitman in California is a Whackadoodlus Extremus. Angle is just off the wall and Whitman is spending money faster than a drunken sailor in order to buy the governorship of California.

Are voters really that stupid not to see through each of these candidates?

[gratuitous]

3. Cameron couldn't believe she said it out loud

Of course Fox News is the conservative politician's friend. But just like Fight Club, you don't talk about it out loud. That's what flummoxed Carl Cameron: that Angle would speak the Truth That Dare Not Speak Its Name. It wasn't "naive" for Angle to look for friendly treatment from the press, it was naive for her to say it right out like that. Just isn't done, you know.

[spanone]

4. you know what's scary is the wackier they get the more airtime they get

fucking crazy

[CatWoman]

5. Tweety is talking about this now.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. obtuse

who are these people who want to vote for her and the loony right?

[NeedleCast]

7. Thank you Teabaggers!

Reid might have had a real fight on his hands if the Repulicants hadn't primaried a lunatic.

[tishaLA]

9. Just saw this video. She's kookoo for Cocoa Puffs

even Carl Cameron looked incredulous.