Lenar Whitney a Case In Point About Being Informed

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Lenar Whitney is running for Congress in Louisiana.  She is currently a State Representative.  In an interview, the questions were meant to corner her, and she did not know how to answer them, and instead fled, which was more damaging to her image, and the image of Republicans, than she could possibly imagine.

This is a game of perception, and if you can't stand up to the attacks because you are not informed and prepared for the hard questions, then you have no business running for office.

Her response afterwards, in hindsight, was not any better.

Whitney's interviewer was a major election-forecasting group, and they asked her why she believed global warming was a hoax and whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States.

In reality, they are reasonable questions.  If you are going to believe something, and you are going to broadcast that you believe it, then it would be reasonable for you to know why you believe what you believe.  Of course, the liberal left agency questioning her probably hoped she would say something like, "Because God says so, and he was born in Kenya."  But running away was just as effective for their purposes.

Washington Post writer David Wasserman placed in his column his encounter with Whitney, calling it "frightening," and calling her "fact-averse."

The questions should have been expected, since Whitney released a campaign video last June blasting global warming as a "hoax" and the press as "lamestream media." What good is slamming something, if you can't answer questions on an issue?

"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," Wasserman 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."

Afterward, as an afterthought on Facebook, 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.

Man-Made Global Warming, or the idea that humans are causing Climate Change if you prefer, is indeed a hoax.  Of course they asked her to name a scientist, journal, or news source - just like the left in the interview Whitney was referring to that Palin had to endure asked Sarah to name a court case.  Most people don't have detailed facts stored in their brain, and the left knows it, so when you can't produce a name or specific detail, then they treat it as if, then, those details cannot possibly exist.  You know.  It's the ol', "We didn't find the WMDs, therefore they were never there" argument.

Honestly, there may not have been a face-saving way out of that interview.  The liberal left devises it that way.  However, I would have said something like, "A number of scientific reports have suggested that warming and cooling trends are primarily caused by solar flare activity, which accounts for Climate Change activity prior to humanity's age of industrial advances.  Evidence of man-made Climate Change scientists manipulating reports, mostly revealed by leaked emails, supports the idea that there may be a political agenda behind the science.  As for current influences global warming may have on the planet, a friend of mine is originally from Alaska, and he once told me about the lie regarding polar bears.  He said there are 16 major polar bear populations in Alaska, and over the last decade all but two of those groups have increased in size.  The final two have remained stable, neither growing, nor decreasing, in numbers."

As for the birther question, that one is easy.  "I don't care where he was born.  Obama was ineligible by his own admission.  The definition of Natural Born Citizen, as presented in the Constitution, and confirmed by Vatell's Law of Nations, the Happersett Case, and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1790, is that a person is a natural born citizen when both parents are citizens of the country at the time of the child's birth.  Obama could have been born on the moon, for all I care, but if Barack Obama Sr. was a citizen of the United States at the time of Barack's birth, he would be a Natural Born Citizen.  Barack has said himself, his father was from Kenya.  That fact alone made him ineligible."

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

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