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Politico and Atlanta Paper Skip Dem Screw Up in Georgia Race
NewsBusters ^ | June 7, 2017 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 06/07/2017 12:20:22 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Candidate struck dumb by opponent's question.

Would that not strike you as a dramatic moment in a political debate? You probably would agree and so do most media outlets that reported on the June 6 debate between Karen Handel and Jon Ossoff running in the June 20 special election for Georgia's 6th Congressional District. In fact, many reports headlined the moment that Ossoff was asked by Handel who he would vote for in that election. Mediaite was among the outlets that featured that debate moment by observing that Karen Handel Silences Jon Ossoff With One Simple Question During Congressional Debate:

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: debate; georgiarace; jonossoff; karenhandel
Politico and the AJC acting again as information cloaking devices.
1 posted on 06/07/2017 12:20:22 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

that’s because they consider it a brilliant answer


2 posted on 06/07/2017 12:22:42 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: PJ-Comix

Is he too good for it, or something? Strikes me as elitism.


3 posted on 06/07/2017 12:28:40 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: PJ-Comix

You can add WSB radio and TV to the list as well.


4 posted on 06/07/2017 12:46:31 PM PDT by Dacula (President and CEO at Being Awesome)
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To: PJ-Comix
Candidate struck dumb by opponent's question.

Struck dumb? He seemed pretty lucid to me. Not even flustered. So, he paused. Big whoop.

5 posted on 06/07/2017 12:48:08 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgment comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgment.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Yeah. Sorta my take on it as well...

Good question though.


6 posted on 06/07/2017 12:52:18 PM PDT by Freemeorkillme
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To: PJ-Comix

I would vote for Handel if I could... but she was not effective in the debate.

A better question would have been: “Since you don’t live in the district, who will you be voting for?


7 posted on 06/07/2017 1:00:10 PM PDT by proudpapa (Trump Pence earned it.)
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That was the PERFECT question...gotta hand it to her.


8 posted on 06/07/2017 1:47:29 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for!)
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She should have asked him to point out where his platform differs from Ronald Reagan’s.


9 posted on 06/07/2017 1:59:20 PM PDT by The Toll
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