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StumblePublished Wednesday, July 28, 2010 | 3:22 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, July 28, 2010 | 3:31 p.m.
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That's what GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle told conservative talker Heidi Harris today in another withering interview, saying those death tax news conferences, which she sent out news releases on inviting the media, were not hers. And that the marauding media types charged through 11 hard-hat-wearing folks to get to her. My God, that sounds scary. (Of course, as video of the incident clearly shows, that did not happen.)
Video of event is here:
The exchange (audio at right):
Harris: Let’s talk for a second what happened in Sparks last week. You got a lot of criticism for having supposedly a press conference or you're going to speak to the press, and then you didn’t speak to the press. What exactly happened with that?
Angle: Well it wasn’t my press conference, Heidi. It was Dick Patten’s press conference. Dick Patten has been going around the United States asking Congressmen and Senators to sign his pledge to permanently repeal the death tax. And so it was really his press conference. That’s what he wanted to talk about. And before we went out to meet the press he asked me not to make it about Sharron Angle. And I said, “Alright.” Well the way not to make it about Sharron Angle is for me to make my small part of that press conference, and not let him and the small businessmen who will be put out of business and who will also have thirty three employees lose their jobs should his 82 year old father die this year after the death tax comes back in. That 55% that no one really can afford. It’s really amazing. Here we are in this situation at 14.2 percent unemployment, and Harry Reid’s talking about letting a death tax, a 55 percent tax, come back into play.
Harris: Yeah, yeah I get that part of it. But I’m still confused. He had you there. I realized it wasn’t about Sharron Angle press conference, but he had you there, at the business in Sparks, and then he alluded to the fact that you were going to take questions and then you didn’t. So he told you not to make…I’m totally confused as to why he would have you there if he did want you to take questions or get any of the attention. That’s weird.
Angle: Well, it wasn’t that he didn’t want me to have any attention. It was that he didn’t want it to be about Harry Reid’s as about me. This wasn’t the message. The message was the repeal of the death tax. I also had some place else that I had to be that morning, and I said, “Well, this is this is fine. I’ll just go on to my next appointment and you take the questions,” which is what he told the press three times that morning. That I would be leaving, that he and the small business owner would be taking questions, and that they were welcome to ask those questions. I turned to leave and the press rushed me, rushed through a line of eleven hard-hatted workers. They were so astonished to see the press running at them that they broke their line and let them come through so that’s what became the story, and Las Vegas, we did the same thing. I did take questions and yet the story was the same one that Sharron Angle left. So the poor man…I felt badly for him that the only story the press wants to print is the story that they came to the press conference with, which is Sharron Angle is running away.
Is this all part of a plot to make John Ensign look relatively truthful?
http://www.bgladd.com/SharronMangle.jpg
What a complete fool.
Quick, somebody hook her up to an EEG. It'll look like this:
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Still trying to make a big deal out of a woman walking to her car? Must be a pretty slow news day...
still trying to duck the fact that the women is a joke? Must be a pretty bad election year...
Its not Republican vs. Democrat; its State vs. Federal. Did you approve the 60-billion for Afghanistan the other day? The Fed did it without our approval. What about the teachers? What about the broke state govt.'s.? Harry Reid is guilty; stimulus to who? At least Sharron stands up against the big Federal machine.
How to run a political campaign:
Do the exact opposite of everything Crazy Angle has done.
Sadly, the only thing missing is those chickens.
http://www.bgladd.com/SharronMangleFlatl...
Would someone pls pass on this little tidbit of advice to Ms. Angle for me:
"The odds of someone watching you are directly proportional to the stupidity of your actions."
Just keep that in mind, Sharon, and things should go much better from here on out.
Jet
Funny how Sharron Angle thinks she can flatly deny she said or did something that she's on video or audio tape saying or doing! Certainly she invited the press; it's well-documented. No, the press did not rush the stage. She emitted her "information" for the press and then suddenly turned and quick-stepped away. The press simply followed trying to ask questions. Why? Because that's what usually happens -- questions. Unless you're Sharron Angle.
I was of the "ANY ONE BUT REID" school. Somehow Angle got the nod. So sad but I am not voting for an old woman to take the place of an old man, particularly replacing a freshman Senator with the Majority Leader. The Repubs missed their chance to run a young, smart guy like Danny Tarkanian as the Mass folks did with Scott Brown.
I will bite the bullet and vote Reid unless this gal has enough sense to quit the race, which she doesn't.
@Zuma...She is indeed WALKING to her car. And they don't hand out any senate seats on July 28th, do they?
darenodawg........
They won't be handing out a senate seat to
Angle, period.
Let's see the press showed up and they are not suppose to ask questions??? I wonder what the dumb as a rock republicans think the news folks jobs are. Is Wacko sharron going to start playing the game that McCain/Paulin did with staged people only allowed to be at press conferances and Pre-Aproved questions to ask? Whats up with the hard hat security people is that suppose to scare people. We the voters need the hard hats. Must be something approved by GOD ask Wacko Sharron I wonder if she talks to trees also lol.
I think I'll run against John Ensign, HEY, if CRAZY Sarron can run against Reid, I have a chance against the HYPOCRITE, who has sex with his with his neighboor's wife!!!
the 2 party system has been dead for a long time and this is a prime example why our current form of government doesnt work. when people say we dont need term limits for political offices, all we have to do is vote them out, here is why that doesnt fly.
Let me get this straight. Reid was wrong to intervene to save thousands of jobs at City Center, but Angle is right to repeal the estate tax to save 33 jobs.
Hey Angle, didn't you say your job as a US Senator wasn't about jobs????
Huh???????????????
We, as Americans, need to clean house of corrupt politicans who don't listen to us and who don't represent our interests. We need to start with Reid. He has lost his way and needs to retire and maybe get his perspective back.
I once believed in Reid, but Washington has corrupted him. We can't afford to lose more jobs to Reid's amnesty!
Don't let Reid fool you, he is Obama's henchman, not our representative!
This race is a black and white movie with lousy sound and grainy glamour shots of long-gone laughers whipping sh*t out of the bushes.
Never in my four score of watching politicos holler, orate, and hee haw have I witnessed such caricatures of candidates. Circus? no, more like Saturday morning TV!
First of all, let's get one thing clear. There is NO DEATH TAX if you simply make a will or a family trust, a relatively simple document that almost any lawyer can do for you for a nominal fee, and ZAP! You're protected!! That's it, people. Why is this question even still being bounced around? My spouse and I have significant assets and all are protected by a Revocable Family Trust that we paid about $500 to have done by a local attorney. Sheesh. Get a clue.
@PurplePower -
Thank you. The indelible willful ignorance that surrounds this non-issue is totally aggravating.
This lady must be the valedictorian of the Sarah Palin School of Excuse Making.
Dear Republican Friends,
Please admit it.
YOU MADE A HUGE MISTAKE.
Denounce this NutJob.
Repudiate her utterly kooky, nonsensical rantings
as "not representative of your true ideals, wants, and desires for the United States of America in general, and Nevada in particular."
C'mon. Do it.
You KNOW she doesnt' belong in the U.S. SENATE, for God's sake!!!
"I thought God was telling me to run... it turns out it was a wrong number. All I'm gettin' now is clicks & buzzes up here...*(slaps the sides of her head, trying to 'adjust the frequency'.)
"Repudiate her utterly kooky, nonsensical rantings"
Don't you mean "refudiate?" Remember your audience!
Harris: "... That's weird."
Nuff said.
Seriously?!?!? Has anyone from the Angle camp shown her the video?? I watched it, and watched it again, and I see no hordes of ..."media crashing through 11 hard hat workers"..., and no "hard hat workers breaking their line to let the media through".....
This womans concept of reality is so scary that I'd vote for anyone with a pulse before I would endorse her.
Sort of like Dirty Harry saying he wasn't in the room when he cut deals to send billions of tax dollars to states that voted for ObamaCare.
or the time Dirty Harry didn't know... Oh, you get it. Same BS, different hair doo
Oh my gosh, "THE LASVEGAS TOURIST" that was funny. What kind of doo doo do you do with your hair???? ): ):
Purple Power, that is exactly what I have said on another post!
Crazy Sharron is not only crazy, but stupid as well!
Sharron Angle needs to do a new press conference with lots of American flags and Bibles in the background while holding a Colt AR-15 rifle.
Fire that desert base up yo.....
The big question is this....
How can you vote someone into office who lies?
She didn't call the press conference. But she signed some dumb sign with a flourish.
They rushed her on the stage like a pack of zombies in a George Romero flick. And you look at the video and she just calmly turns and walks out, surrounded by her goons. And there weren't any hard hats standing in the way.
This woman is absolutely nuts.
The Republican Party, especially in Nevada, has taken leave of their senses. Crazy is cool is the norm for them now. They let the Tea Party and anyone else with ultra conservative hard right wing views just take over their party, shoving the moderates out. And they only want to make sure they pander to the rich and the corporations and influence people with only half a brain to vote for them.
Perhaps someday, when the Republicans purge out the mental institution part that has infested their base, maybe they'll end up having some appeal to voters.
Not now.
Because they're dead.
And their only hope is to listen to what Mr. Rush Limbaugh says and nod their heads in agreement.
And scream and whine they can't go back to the failed policies of Bush/Cheney/Rove.
My vote stays with Senator Reid. Because on the other side, Sharron Angle just wants my vote but promises to give me nothing at all in return for it. Other than she just wants to get into power and turn the Senate her playground, in turn rejecting anything the constituents in Nevada wish.
I'm a Angle supporter. I just watched the media clip of Angle not taking one question, and driving off like a nut case! Please someone tell me that there was more to it than that. Are you kidding me? She needs to correct this cut and burn attitude. I hate Harry Reids policies, but this is not how to win over voters. You are never to busy to talk to the press. She does have better ideas than Reid. She better start answering all questions, from the right or the left, we all vote!
she can run but she cannot hide forever !!!!!!!!!!
Hey, left wingers. Just above Jon Ralstons Face to Face is a pretty good look at what your heros, Reid and Obama have done for Nevada and Las Vegas. Home prices are still going staight down into the gutter. Great news! Las Vegas is 1# in forclosures. No Jobs in Nevada! I hope your real proud when you cast your vote for Reid this November. Just remember when you lose your job, and get kicked out of your house, you can stand up and say " I helped continue Obama and Reids policies by voting for the same old thing".
Let me guess. Everything that is going wrong in Nevada isn't our Governors, Senators, Mayors, or anybody elses fault. Its all George Bushes fault. Just like the dead beats in Louisianna. The hurricane, the lazier than hell people who don't try and help themselves fault, hell no, its George Bushes fault. But when you have a oil spill that takes Obama 5 or 6 weeks to respond, hell its George Bushes fault.
Yep, johnniek, because the Inspector General found that the same individuals who were supposed to regulate the oil industries were not only figuratively, but literally, in bed with them in addition to allowing them to submit forms completed in pencil which they simply inked in, and using drugs and viewing porno when they should have been doing their jobs. We should hold all presidents equally responsible for a lack of supervision during their administrations because they all work for us. Currently, I'm most disappointed about how the war in Afghanistan is being waged, and President Obama is responsible for this. I also recall a series of "secret" oil meetings been held by the VP with none of us knowing what was discussed and its impact on us and and our irreplaceable environment.
Obama / Reid mid term score card:
NO job growth after 1 trillion dollars spent by obama and GONE
1)Greatest debt load in U.S. history thanks to obama and he wants another $200 billion to spend and waste!
2)National economy shrinking
3)Stock market plunging under gloomy business conditions due to Fed taxation
4)consumer confidence at new LOW levels and continues to tumble
5)obama has failed totally to find a solution to Gulf oil catastrophe, obama shows complete helplessness
6)obama embarrassed by spy expose right under his nose, Russians angry at obama as a traitor to Russia
7)Middle East peace talks under obama have collapsed
8)democrats and obama go on their knees begging General Patraeus to bail them out
9)Public confidence in obama at all time low and falling fast. Obama is confused and helpless in office.
10) Administration involved in back room deals, payoffs, corruption, and total lack of transparency as promised.
Everything about and around obama is PHONEY and FAILING !!!
Our country is in DEEP TROUBLE under obama.
The press was there to cover a story on the death taxes not Angle, The real story should be an investigation into ethics violations by Dirty Harry. What did he say or promise to the banks to get them to loan 8.5 billion dollars for the City Center. Waters is being looked at for similar conduct. Does it not make anyone curious? It was not Sharron's party and the press did ignore the main reason for being there. Seems the press is trying to make it's own news and use it to bash Angle. Fair and balanced?