I apologize for my indefensible oversight. Here it is.
And here is how AATP reported on it:
“And Governor Scott, why the delay in coming out over a fan?” moderator Elliott Rodriguez asked.
Scott, channeling Sarah Palin, offered a garbled, word salady response that is an embarrassment to any and all speakers of the English language. “I waited to see be he till we figured out he was gonna show up. He said he was gonna come to the, uh, he sss he said he was gonna come to the debate, so why come out until he’s ready?”
Yes Scott was merely waiting backstage for Crist to get off his ass and agree to participate in the debate, which clearly he had a whole six minutes earlier.
(I guess in reptile numbers that was really only a few seconds.)
Now if you think that initial response was awkward, trust me it really never got any better no matter how many times he was asked.
CNN's the Wolf tried asking him about it:
Blitzer asked, “What was the big deal?… Why was this even an issue going into the debate?” Scott didn’t directly answer, telling Blitzer that the reason he didn’t come out is because he was told Crist wouldn’t be coming out and debate organizers did not tell him to come on stage. (It’s worth noting here that the debate had started and Crist gave answers for several minutes before Scott appeared on-stage.)
Blitzer brought up the debate agreement, which had a note from Crist that he may need a fan. Scott said he hadn’t seen that agreement, and as opposed to last night, when it sounded like he adamantly refused to come on stage if Crist had the fan, he said today, “I don’t care if he brings a microwave, if he brings a humidifier.”
A reporter later in the day tried asking him about it:
"Charlie was throwing a fit," he told reporters. "He was saying he wasn't going to show up, so we waited to see if he would show up."
Charlie was throwing a fit? Really?
Did Scott not see the footage from the debate?
Of course for the best response to Fan-gate you have to go to Stephen Colbert:
"Clearly, for Scott's campaign, last night blew," he continued. "And, if you turned the switch the other way, it sucked."
But Colbert did think the whole thing was a little unfair.
"I don't blame Crist for wanting to bring his own coolant," Colbert said. "Based on that skin tone, I'd say his core temperature's about 450 degrees. But why should Crist get to cool himself with a fan, but Scott isn't allowed to control his temperature by laying on a chilled rock?"
And just when you thought that nobody was going to do anything dumber than Sarah Palin allowing her family to start and lose a public fight in Anchorage.
I think Scott's shit hit the fan when he threw his little hissy fit. Floridians are not dumb and are not buying his lies. But I have to give the man credit where I can give none to Sarah Palin. Rick Scott is not afraid to answer reporters questions. He does not make the media submit questions in advance; he takes the questions on the fly.
ReplyDeleteSarah is absolutely terrified of answering any questions to which she is not only given the question beforehand, but the answer too.
Slight difference of opinion here - Scott's not afraid to TAKE unscripted questions, but he rarely actually answers them any better than Palin does/would.
DeleteRick Scott portion starts about 3:10 into the video (Steve Kornacki guest hosting Rachel Maddow Show)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVgd0vWekFc
Since then (last Spring) Scott has not done any better. In fact, in the two days after the debate, he re-used lame 'joke lines' such as his "Charlie should have used dry ice'.
Hey Scott, the 80s called, and they want my use of the word 'lame' back.
Thank you Caroll for trying to be fair to our governor. But he is, in his way, just as bad as Palin.
MarvinM
One other interesting video of Scott ... a 2-minute compilation of his answers while being deposed for his healthcare company's misdealings:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLCwe4TdcCs
Hey Bristol is back online... She's talking about ISIS, and there are some comments about the brawl. Someone needs to chase this little girl off the internet.
ReplyDeleteIf no one clicks on her shit, she will have no choice but to go away. Thank you not linking. Bristol does not deserve any clicks. I would just as soon shoot myself than to hear Bristol's opinion of ISIS. It's very doubtful that she even knows what ISIS stands for.
DeleteLike my late father before me, I do not suffer fools gladly.
Why would I care what a violent drunken unwed Mom who happens to be a hs dropout and not employed from the meth capital of the USA thinks? I doubt the slut could find the whole middle east on a fucking globe.
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ReplyDeleteNice way to end the week ;) jezebel.com compares Their Struggles: Bristol Palin & Malala Yousafzai's Memoirs,
http://jezebel.com/their-struggles-bristol-palin-malala-yousafzais-memo-1647761703
I think Rick Scott looks like a giant penis.
ReplyDeleteFloridian here (and I work at Broward College, the debate venue).
ReplyDeleteYeah, this was weird.
In the 2010 debate, Dem. candidate Alex Sink took a phone call during a break and Rick Scott very quickly tattled on her to the debate organizers. The call was from a staff member who oh-so-quickly apologized. I think she was paid her 30 pieces of silver to do so, but there is of course zero proof of that.
Fast forward 4 years, and mysteriously "no fans" language shows up in the debate agreement which had never been there before. Rick Scott and his people knew full well Crist would want and have his fan (and why not?).
Did Crist 'break the rules"? Perhaps, it's not exactly clear. But it's certainly clear who put the initial 'No fans" rule in there and why. So I see it more as Civil Disobedience which I thought was all Founding Father-y and stuff SP would like.
In the end, rules or not, Florida Hearts Fans.
Crist has come out of this looking better than Scott.
And rightly so, I think.
MarvinM