They're outsiders, they're angry and they're winning key GOP primary elections. They're the Tea Party All-Stars like Sharron Angle, Rand Paul and Christine O'Donnell. But what they also are is terrified; scared to death of going before the national mainstream media's cameras, and hence scrutiny, as they attempt to convince voters that they have the qualifications to serve the United States Senate.
And the reason for this monumental fear of the press? It's because they're all woefully lacking knowledge of policy and the issues; cannot articulate their positions; and most of all, are radical fringe wingnuts who get into an embarrassing heap o' trouble every time they open their mouths (can you say "mice have fully functioning human brains?")
O'Donnell, the Sarah Palin protege (or should we say clone) went on Sean Hannity's Fox News program Tuesday night to defend her decision--urged by Palin--to shun the national news media's talk shows. Apparently, this self-imposed gag-order excludes friendly outlets like the "fair and balanced" Fox, where her segment with Hannity seemed more like a paid campaign commercial than a serious, legitimate interview by a respectable, objective journalist. Let's just keep it all in the family I suppose, right?
So this is what it comes down to, huh? This cabal of "grass-roots" everymen and women who shake in their bootstraps as they cower from the press and voters. Who only show their faces and espouse their substance-lacking incendiary rhetoric at small town churches and halls to adoring extremists who lob softballs and give these empty-suited frauds an opportunity to bash the opposition to rousing applause.
O'Donnell canceled all her Sunday morning interviews last weekend. So did Paul after his victory last Spring. And Angle makes like Jesse Owens and high-tails it to the exit door whenever she sees a press badge headed her way.
Just what are these Tea Baggers so afraid of, anyway? I thought they have all the answers as to fixing America's problems? You'd think they'd just jump at the chance then to share all this wisdom and insight over CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC and CBS too, right? And, aren't politicians supposed to be thick-skinned, able to be in the hot seat and explain their positions without losing their composure or cool as they discuss decisions that impact the health, welfare and national security of America? These are the same people who want us to believe they have the character, depth and gravitas to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Ahmadinejad, Qaddafi, Kim Jong Ill and Putin when they're utterly terrified of facing David Gregory, Bob Schieffer and Wolf Blitzer?
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That's not a news article; it's a post by a blogger with an agenda, spinning his face off.
Yeah, but that's back when journalists weren't wearing their partisanship on their sleeve and setting up "gotcha" moments to give an advantage to "their side." And God knows what the "JournoListers" were selectively omitting from their "coverage" so that the public was getting their slanted version of events. Candidates don't have to put up with that crap any more. And Lefties are so helpful in screeching about people like Palin so much that they drive people over to her site, out of curiosity, and lots of them end up liking her and looking at you guys like the bunch of rabid, hate-filled bashers that you are. So everything works out fine in the end.
“American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brain” cells.
Is this the standard you want to use? When can we expect to see an attack article from you on Obama omitting “by their Creator” from his speech quoting the preamble to the Constitution?
Try being a journalist instead of a lap dog for democrats.
If you want answers from the Tea Party candidates on where they stand on the *issues* that really matter to *voters*, not answers to *gotcha* questions, then just watch the replay or read the transcript on the town hall meetings.
Even better, get off your butt and actually *attend* a town hall meeting and rub shoulders with real Americans and find out what they really think instead of intentionally misrepresenting them from a "safe distance".
A question about something that the person is trying to hide because it is an obvious disqualifier for holding any public office, is not called a 'gotcha' question. It is a concern about the person that must be addressed by that person. You people have no problem calling the President of the United States of America a foriegner, you insinuate that he lies and cheats and steals your money, and you want him to answer questions that have already been answered repeatedly, with proof given about those answers, to the point that you have made yourselves ridiculous, and then you insist that your poor candidates shouldn't have to face even the barest minimum of scrutiny, then you want to whine about them being intentionally misrepresented from a distance?????????
Why? O'Donnell isn't fishing for votes nationwide. And even if she were, she wouldn't need a single liberal vote to win an election. She'd need her base and Independents. Obama needs to go on Fox to reach their audience. O'Donnell doesn't need to reach Keith Olbermann's.
And what is unfriendly about the question ,"what newspapers do you read?"