The incident in question occurred late last month when Willamette Week was interviewing Oregon GOP Senate candidates as a group to determine which Republican it would endorse in the primary. Mark Callahan, whose website states that he is "cut from the same cloth" as Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, was one of the GOP candidates present at the meeting. The following exchange occurred about an hour into the process:
"You want to talk about disrespect," Callahan said, * * * after spotting reporter Nigel Jaquiss scribbling in a notebook while another candidate, Joe Rae Perkins, gave an answer via a speakerphone. "I see what you’re writing down there. You just wrote down 'blah blah blah blah blah' for everything that Jo Rae said. Jo Rae is a respectable woman. Why are you not respecting her by writing 'blah blah blah blah blah' on your notepad?"And if that wasn't enough to put a permanent smile on my face, then the comment from one of the Willamette Week staffers that "[t]his is neither a fair or balanced meeting" completely did, especially given that they kicked Callahan out of the room immediately thereafter.
No one tried to deny that Jaquiss had in fact written "blah blah blah" in his notebook. The moderator tried to move things along by asking Callahan whether he believed climate change was a myth or reality.
"It's a myth," Callahan said.
Jaquiss then chimed in. "Where are you on the Easter Bunny?" Jaquiss asked.
This is exactly how Baggers must be treated. These radical right wingers routinely disrespect our government, the American people, and the country. They intentionally tried to destroy the U.S. economy. People like that must be ridiculed at every opportunity. The Media have failed to do this, and that is why we get shit like that recent debate on Meet The Press on whether climate change is real.
Anyway, was the Willamette Week dust-up as good as Karl Rove melting down when Fox News declared Obama the winner in 2012? No. Of course not. Nothing could ever top that.
But it was almost as good.
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On the topic of Rove, it's been fun the last week watching him try (and fail) to create a controversy around Hillary's health. Of course it all turned out to be bullsh!t. But that doesn't stop Faux News, where one of their talking heads was recently on air saying "but it would be a great point if it were true" (Colbert suggested they change their tagline to "Fair and Balanced, A Great Point If It Were True"). Poor Karl, it's so hard to stay relevant (when you're a gas bag with 19th century ideas).
I like what Bill Clinton said the other day on Rove going after Hillary's health. He said that Rove initially doubted whether Hillary had even hurt herself, thinking the whole thing was faked in order to draw attention away from #Benghazi!
Rove now takes the position that the injury not only happened, but it caused Hillary brain damage. Can't have it both ways, said Bill.
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