Courtesy of Yahoo News:
A Republican congressional candidate fled her interview with a major election-forecasting group after being asked why she believed global warming was a hoax and whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States, according to a new report in The Washington Post.
In the Post, David Wasserman, the House editor at the Cook Political Report, detailed his strange encounter with the "frightening" and "fact-averse" Louisiana State Rep. Lenar Whitney.
Whitney, who is running for Louisiana's open sixth district, gained some prominence in June when she released a campaign video blasting global warming as a "hoax" and the press as "lamestream media." Wasserman said he pressed Whitney on the issue of climate change only to find her unable to answer his questions.
"But it’s not unreasonable to expect candidates to explain how they arrived at their positions, and when I pressed Whitney repeatedly for the source of her claim that the earth is getting colder, she froze and was unable to cite a single scientist, journal, or news source to back up her beliefs," he wrote.
Wasserman said he attempted to "change the subject" and ask whether she believed Obama was born in the United States. Her aides then ended the interview.
"When she replied that it was a matter of some controversy, her two campaign consultants quickly whisked her out of the room, accusing me of conducting a 'Palin-style interview,'" he continued. "It was the first time in hundreds of Cook Political Report meetings that a candidate has fled the room."
Later Rep. Lenar took to Facebook to claim she was the victim of "gotcha" questions:
What The Cook Political Report printed about me is an outright lie. I left the interview with Dave Wasserman, several questions later, after he asked me if I was a "birther".
It was obvious, from the onset of the interview, that Wasserman had planned to jump me simply because I am a Conservative Woman and liberal shills like Dave Wasserman want to destroy us.
Wow, that doesn't sound paranoid at all.
By the way here is her batshit crazy Global Warming is a hoax video:
Oh yeah, she's a few Bud Lights short of a six pack.
How is asking questions you say you have answers to a "gotcha" interview.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin the Second!!! This little blond ran away when the interview got too tough! Sound familiar, Alaskans? Haha! This little blond is a 'non election' getter!
ReplyDeleteShe's a huge fail!!!!
My thoughts exactly, Anonymous 4:46!
DeleteAnother quitter!
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But...but...they were "gotcha" questions!!! (eh, Palin?)
ReplyDeleteHey, Gryphen, Nick Confessore just appeared on Chris Hayes' MSNBC program and the segment featured stories about a "consulting firm" that raises money for long-shot right wing conservative candidates. Even when these candidates bow out early or somehow don't get elected, the consulting firm goes on and on collecting money via direct mail from their gullible victims, then bills the candidates' campaign organization for their services....voila! precisely the amount of money they raised! You should watch this segment when MSNBC uploads it. It sure reminded me of SarahPAC.
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ReplyDelete"Fourth in the GOP field" but first among "climate deniers," Louisiana state Rep. Lenar Whitney succeeds in standing out among the "over 300 congressional candidates over the course of seven years" that this reviewer has sampled. Where the average candidate is "accustomed to tough questions" and typically capable of merely leaving one feeling "impressed" or merely "underwhelmed," Whitney -- a self-described "Palin of the South" who "relishes poking Democrats in the eye" -- stands apart from the candidates met in "hundreds of Cook Political Report meetings" by being not just "fact-averse" but, indeed, "the most frightening candidate I've met in seven years interviewing congressional hopefuls." The best moment was when Whitney "fled the room." Sure to be somebody's "worst nightmare."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/30/lenar-whitney-scares-people_n_5635444.html
Of course, Louisiana continues to sink because of global sea rise. And the question about President Obama should have been a slam dunk for the lady. All she had to say was that he was born in the US. That was only a "gotcha" question if she were going to lie about it. What a coward this woman is. Just like Sarah Palin.
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So I want to know: If she becomes Rep. Lenar Whitney from the Sixth District in Louisiana, daughter of below-sea-level Houma, La., will she ask for funds to raise docks, marinas as sea levels start to rise? If not Louisiana, vote her ass out.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, isn't her accent strange for a sister of the South. I think she has spent a lot of time scrubbing it.
When I saw that this idiot was from Louisiana - it all made sense!!! She will not be elected even in that state! She is too white, blond (probably a dyed one!) and too similar to Sarah Palin!
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DeleteHon,I'm afraid to tell you that here in Louisiana,we have our own special brand of crazy.
The most frightening candidate I’ve met in seven years interviewing congressional hopefuls
ReplyDeleteIt was the first time in hundreds of Cook Political Report meetings that a candidate has fled the room.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/07/30/the-most-frightening-candidate-ive-met-in-seven-years-interviewing-congressional-hopefuls/
The MOST ignorant, feckless, and dangerously theocratic candidate I've ever seen or heard of was Sharron Angle.
DeleteThe crazy was so strong in Sharron that she once voted NO to black uniforms for a football team because in her own words, "Black is the color of evil"
She's the author of the famous "2nd amendment remedies" She's also one who ran from reporters asking questions.
Speaking of truly insane right wingers:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/30/michele-bachmann-accuses-obama-of-wanting-to-experiment-on-immigrant-children/
So, according to Bachmann, it's not okay to experiment on children, but perfectly fine to turn them away where they might suffer a fate worse than death? She'd have made a perfect Nazi.
DeleteYesterday she wanted to put them all in work camps.
DeleteShe is certainly dishonest enough to be a "Palin of the South." I suspect she is also dumb enough.
ReplyDeleteAnother Sarah Palin in the making, for sure!
ReplyDelete3..2..1 hours until The Wasilla Witch unmounts her broom long enough to post a screed on her "channel" and Fbook saying how that good ole' Southern Mama Grizz got ambushed by yet another Couric wannabee Journalist crazy person.
ReplyDeleteI know nothing about Lenar Whitney, but I'll bet a 10 spot that she's an ultra right evangelical Christian that hates President Obama, loves her some Duck Dynasty pedophiles, thinks that all abortions should be illegal, and that the 1st amendment only applies to born again Christians
Watch out hon, Palin's gonna come collecting her royalty check if you keep using her act. There's only gonna be one mini-me and that spot is already taken.
ReplyDeleteYou're more Marsha Blackburn anyway, turn on that old southern charm and say y'all alot and ditch the 'gotcha'. That's one of $P's logos. Maybe if they dress you cute no one well notice just how bat shit crazy you are.
They are all a bunch of cowards. Look at Sarah. When is the last time anyone talked to her other than on Fox, that silly Mark radio show, or Breitbart? She hides in her bunkers are fires BBs at the left, the President, and even her own party. Stupid little twit. Just like these picked upon conservatives women. If they had a brain and didn't act so dumb, maybe the media wouldn't laugh at them.
ReplyDeleteIf only.
If there is one thing worse than Sarah Palin, it's a Sarah Palin wannabe. Good fuck with your career, Lenar.
ReplyDeleteMe stupid, but pretty... isn't that the only requirement to run under the Republican ticket, pretty.
ReplyDeleteIf palin is an idiot who doesn't know her ass from a hole in the ground and this was a "Palin-style interview" then what does that say about Whitney?
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was going to ask!
DeleteRun, Lenar, Run! Get you some sweet tea and retire to your fainting couch right quick! The "gotcha questions" are SOOOOOO hard to answer. Ask Dumbelle Palin, She was asked what she reads it's been eating her up alive!
ReplyDeleteSeptember 11, 2014: Bush Goes to Trial for War Crimes!
ReplyDeleteThe nefarious players in the Bush Administration, should all go according to plan, will be headed to court this September 11 in order to defend themselves in a trial over their alleged war crimes. It only seems fitting that it will begin on the 13th anniversary of the infamous day that brought America to its knees.
The day that changed the mission of the Bush Administration into a warhawk corporate slave willing to go to any extremes, including torturing hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent Muslims around the world in secret torture chambers operated by the CIA may also become known as the day the Bush began the long journey towards finally being held responsible for the unspeakable atrocities committed not only under his watch but at his behest.
http://quietmike.org/2014/07/25/bush-administration-lawsuit-hearing/
Hobby Lobby ruling backfires for the right wing:
ReplyDeleteSatanic Temple: If We Don't Get Anti-Abortion Exemption, We'll Pursue Legal Action
The Satanic Temple, which has started a campaign for a religious exemption from certain anti-abortion laws, said that while legal action isn't planned, the group may file lawsuits if doctors fail to comply with the exemption forms they drafted, a member of the group told Salon.
The group argues that "informed consent" laws, which require doctors to give women seeking an abortion state-mandated information on the procedure, violate their belief that "personal decisions should be made with reference to only the best available, scientifically valid information." The group cited the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling, which allows closely held businesses to opt out of paying for contraception if they have religious objections, to support their campaign.
The Satanic Temple has drafted letters that women can bring to doctors to demand that they be exempt from viewing the material.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/satanic-temple-anti-abortion-laws-legal-action-possible
Hannity just called Sarah Palin STUPID!
ReplyDeleteHannity: ‘Politically, It Would Be Stupid’ for GOP to Push Impeachment
Sean Hannity made it clear Wednesday night he is not on board with impeachment as a political strategy yet. Talking with Karl Rove tonight, Hannity said it would be outright “stupid” for the GOP to make impeachment an issue when it would hurt their very good chances of winning big in the midterms.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/hannity-politically-it-would-be-stupid-for-gop-to-push-impeachment/
John Boehner’s Monster: How Irrational Racist Hatred for Obama Will Destroy the GOP
ReplyDelete...Early last month, Sarah Palin’s PAC printed her op-ed on Breitbart, calling for, that’s right, impeachment of Barack Obama.
Impeachment.
And suddenly, there was John Boehner, looking all Cranky McWalnuts, Oh, heh, heh, woo boy, sorry. Why, heh heh, I have no idea, no idea, where little Sarah could have learned that word. Heh Heh.
Impeachment. Palin didn’t invent the idea – she has never had an original thought in her life. She’s just a screeching attention whore too damned stupid to realize she’s crapping all over her own party’s carefully laid plans – but then, that’s pretty much what she did to the McCain campaign, isn’t it? So nobody should be all that surprised. Palin is only saying out loud what conservatives have been saying to themselves in private all along. These people, McCain, Boehner, Ryan, et al, they’re the white parents who use those words when they think they are alone. When they think nobody is listening.
They unleashed a monster and now they have the effrontery to act surprised when it bellows out their dirty little secrets.
Boehner doesn’t expect to win this lawsuit.
That’s not what this is about.
It’s about impeachment.
It’s about getting Obama out of office in disgrace before he doesn’t destroy the country.
They’re running out of time, the economy has recovered, the stock market is at all time highs, America is moving forward again. And they simply cannot, can not, allow that to be Obama’s legacy. He must be impeached and Boehner is testing the waters.
If Republicans take the Senate this year, you watch and see if the first order of business isn’t impeachment.
Don’t you believe for one goddamned second that this isn’t about impeachment.
That’s exactly what they are up to.
Because if they don’t destroy Barack Obama before the end of his term, they will have to own their bullshit.
http://aattp.org/john-boehners-monster-how-irrational-racist-hatred-for-obama-will-destroy-the-gop/
It would be better for those interested in Jim Wright's awesome post to click on Gryphen's Stonekettle Station link in the blog roll. The whole thing is a must-read but the people who really need to hear his words are busy diddling themselves over at Faux.
Deletehttp://www.stonekettle.com/2014/07/john-boehner-monster.html
In his Post piece, Wasserman said he has personally interviewed over 300 congressional candidates and Whitney was among the least impressive. EVER.
ReplyDeletewas among??
DeleteHow bad do you have to be to be the worst??
I feel the need to point out that a qualified candidate would actually be able to answer "gotcha" questions - AND not be flustered by them. In fact, a qualified candidate would easily make the person asking "gotcha" questions look a fool on the spot.
ReplyDeleteFlashbacks!!
ReplyDeleteI'll bet she was once mayor of a small town, destroyed that......any kids with 9 month mono??