Sharron Angle, Fox News, Question Time

04 August 2010 |permalink | email article

If you credit Sarah Palin with inventing a new form of bizarre political speak guess again. Enter the former state senator and Republican nominee for the Nevada seat of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. She’s unveiled a fresh strategy to court conservative media while bypassing more mainstream sources. It’s not about just raising money, as Angle has said, but being asked only the questions she wants.

In an interview aired over the weekend on Fox, the conservative network, the right-wing Angle purred that “we needed the press to be our friend. “ “Wait a minute. Hold on a second. To be your friend? said a disbelieving Carl Cameron. Before she could fully answer, he added: “That sounds naïve.”

“Well, no,” said Angle. “We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they can 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 they want to support me they need to go to SharronAngle.com” Reid has a narrow three point lead, but in a larger pool of registered voters he leads by a stunning 52% to 36%. 

Notebook

The much ballyhooed Republican National Committee fundraiser scheduled to take place in Los Angeles August 12-14 was scrubbed when a party official e-mailed donors last Friday that the event would be rescheduled. Asked if the event with the controversial blogger Andrew Breitbart would actually take place, a RNC spokesman cryptically replied: “We are working on a schedule and we fully plan to have another event based on existing trips to California.” …. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has a fundraiser for Republican Senate nominee Carly Fiorina. Other GOP names raising dough for the ex-Hewlett-Packard CEO are Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani and ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney….Midas Meg says if elected governor she will use the veto pen “very aggressively” to monitor the Legislature. Her strategy to woo Latinos fails to ignite, with Democrat Jerry Brown leading 42% to 18% in a Public Policy Institute of California poll. Organized labor helps Brown, launching a $2-million television buy on Thursday.

Quotable

“Rangel and Waters are exemplars of the greatest problem facing our Congress – and therefore our democracy – which is high tech gerrymandering of safe seats on both sides of the aisle. That is why they don’t give a fig leaf about the Democratic Party’s fate in the fall.” – Joe Klein, in Time, suggesting the issue confronting both members in full-fledged House ethics trials is not about race, but longevity as neither Democratic lawmaker is in electoral jeopardy.

   

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