Sharron Angle: Media Should Ask Only Questions I Like

That's why she often avoids reporters
By John Johnson,  Newser Staff
Posted Aug 3, 2010 2:49 PM CDT

Sharron Angle shares her view of the media.
(Mediaite)

Sharron Angle is raising eyebrows again for her public comments, this time for explaining why she often avoids the media (and the resulting public comments): “We needed to have the press be our friend," she tells Fox News. When the network's Carl Cameron tells her that sounds "naive," she counters: “Well, no. We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported.” She also quickly gets in a pitch for donations to her website, notes Mediaite, which has the video.

Candidates are always trying to manipulate press coverage, of course, but as a headline in the National Review puts it, "Did she just say that out loud?" Adds Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly: "I'll look forward to conservatives' defense of this. They're a creative bunch, and I can hardly wait to see what they come up with." (More Sharron Angle stories.)

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