Louisiana Republican Flees Interview When Asked About Obama's Birthplace

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A Republican congressional candidate fled her interview with a major election-forecasting group after being asked why she believed global warming was a hoax and whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States, according to a new report in The Washington Post.

In the Post, David Wasserman, the House editor at the Cook Political Report, detailed his strange encounter with the "frightening" and "fact-averse" Louisiana State Rep. Lenar Whitney.

Whitney, who is running for Louisiana's open sixth district, gained some prominence in June when she released a campaign video blasting global warming as a "hoax" and the press as "lamestream media." Wasserman said he pressed Whitney on the issue of climate change only to find her unable to answer his questions.

"But it’s not unreasonable to expect candidates to explain how they arrived at their positions, and when I pressed Whitney repeatedly for the source of her claim that the earth is getting colder, she froze and was unable to cite a single scientist, journal, or news source to back up her beliefs," he wrote.

Wasserman said he attempted to "change the subject" and ask whether she believed Obama was born in the United States. Her aides then ended the interview.

"When she replied that it was a matter of some controversy, her two campaign consultants quickly whisked her out of the room, accusing me of conducting a 'Palin-style interview,'" he continued. "It was the first time in hundreds of Cook Political Report meetings that a candidate has fled the room."

Whitney could not immediately be reached for comment.

Update (10:10 a.m.): In a Facebook post last week, after the interview was conducted, Whitney slammed the Cook Political Report. "It was obvious, from the onset of the interview, that Wasserman had planned to jump me simply because I am a Conservative Woman and liberal shills like Dave Wasserman want to destroy us," she wrote.

Fucking clueless, typical far right teabag republican.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

"It was obvious, from the onset of the interview, that Wasserman had planned to jump me simply because I am a Conservative Woman and liberal shills like Dave Wasserman want to destroy us," she wrote.

I didn't see any Tea Party affiliation on her home page or her wiki so you're kind of reaching. Also, she's a STATE LEGISLATOR. As asshead would write...who gives fuck?

 

[knowone]

I didn't see any Tea Party affiliation on her home page or her wiki so you're kind of reaching. Also, she's a STATE LEGISLATOR. As asshead would write...who gives fuck?

Tea Party or not, it's State Legislators like her that pass Gerrymandered districts which affect US House, Senate and President.
Voter Suppression laws which affect US House, Senate and President.
Keep ACA from their state's citizens
Pass anti-abortion laws, etc.

 

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All birthers are teabaggers and holding office at the state level is often a precursor to holding higher office. Besides, explain to me how a journalist asking her legitimate questions about her beliefs is "jumping" her. She holds views she can't defend, that's her problem, not the journalists.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

She is another uninformed righty fool.
She parrots party doctrine without educating herself and forming actual opinions. Facts are just another liberal nuisance.

 

[Johan]

Isn't she the one who self-labelled her "the Palin of the South"

Well, she certainly qualifies as so : Use of the the words "lamestream medias", liberal-bashing, telling on lie after another and claiming that people who say the contrary (that is to say most people) lies, referring to God in a totally irrelevant way, just to flaunt her faith... Yep, Palin and her certainly got each one one half of the same brain.

Do you think she can see Porto Rico from the backyard of her house in Louisiana ?