Sharron Angle: The Press Should be My Friend
"We needed to have the press be our friend," Angle told Carl Cameron, prompting Cameron to interject and say her comment sounds "na?ve."
"Well, no. 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," said Angle. She added that she wants to be able to tell people to send money to her website.
The comments prompted derision from both the right and the left.
National Review Online asked, "Did She Just Say That Out Loud?," while the Washington Monthly's Steve Benen wrote, " I'm trying to imagine what the response on the right would be if President Obama said he needs independent news organizations to be his 'friend.'"
Angle has undeniably come in for criticism from the national media, in part because of her near-refusal to speak to mainstream media outlets. She explained to CBN's David Brody that "I'm not going to earn anything from people who are there to badger me and use my words to batter me with. What I need is to reach out into that public who will, go to Sharron Angle.com and send that $25."
Angle is in a tough battle with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with polls showing the two running neck and neck. Reid, a relatively unpopular longtime Democratic senator seen by many in Nevada as out of touch with his constituents, has been aggressively spending to negatively frame Angle, a Tea Party-backed insurgent whose positions on a variety of issues have raised eyebrows.
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In the 50s and 60s, the Democrat party was advocating segregation and Jim Crow laws, after having lost the battle over slavery.
In 2010, the Democrat party had a klansman as its senior senator, Harry "N-gro Dialect" Reid as its majority leader and continues to advocate policies that award jobs, promotions and admissions based on race and skin color.
Forget the Birch Society in the 50s -- we're still dealing with the racist Democrat party today.
LMAO. Logic only a leftist could come up with.
The journolist scandal PROVES it! http://dailycaller.com/journolist/
From some of the posts here, MORE liberal hypocrisy.... they only want THEIR Democrat candidates to get softball questions, which is why they hate Fox...
In 2010, the Democrat party had a klansman as its senior senator, Harry "N-gro Dialect" Reid as its majority leader and continues to advocate policies that award jobs, promotions and admissions based on race and skin color.
Forget the Birch Society in the 50s -- we're still dealing with the racist Democrat party today.
TeeHee Party......lol
LOL.. that is funny Chimney_fish.. I wish I had thought of it
Sharron Angle is out-of-her-mind and I can't imagine how low an IQ you need to vote for that whackjob. That said, I am aware that many on the right are completely uneducated voters who follow in lockstep with the GOP or Tea Bag moron that fronts for them in whatever state they are in regardless of the knowledge of what has happened during GOP administrations during the past 30 years.
To think that any intelligent person would vote for Sharron Angle boggles the mind.. and I'm not just talking about Sharron's mind, which is easy to boggle.