Posted on 01/20/2010 12:43:23 PM PST by Mobile Vulgus
Meridith Viera seemed a bit annoyed that she was interviewing the newly elected Republican Scott Brown instead of Democrat Martha Coakley now that Massachusetts voters made their choice in the Tuesday special election for the open Senate seat there.
Viera did her level best to phrase the results of the election in an agenda driven way but Scott Brown wasn't taking the bait. In fact, he proved exactly why he was elected over the bumbling Coakley. He refused to accept Viera's lefty narrative and restated the day's events with his own, positive message.
Viera started out trying to get Brown to admit that the only reason he won is because Martha Coakley made so many mistakes in her campaign. This was an effort to make less of Brown's win by saying that the voters didn't really vote for him at all. Viera asked, "… do you think that your victory was a result of missteps by your opponent or did you tap into something that the Democrats didn't get about the voters?"
Brown wisely didn't accept the premise that he only won because Coakley was such a poor candidate. Brown immediately replied to Viera's cheapening of his own campaign efforts by saying, "Well, I don't really think about what she did, I just focus on what I did…"
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Me too...LOL
This is a lesson the republicans need to take from Scott Brown’s playbook. Learn how to talk to the Liberal media. Know when they are trying to downplay you or make you sound naive, and use their words against them. This is going to be a great November.
Good point.
LOL - as many times as you like.
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