Posted on 10/12/2010 9:42:26 PM PDT by kristinn
California gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown debated tonight at Dominican University in San Rafael. The moderator was Tom Brokaw who raised the 'whore' comment with Brown.
Video of the exchange at Bay Area NBC
Transription by Kristinn.
BROKAW: Mr. Brown you did attempt to reach out to the police union. The telephone message was left on. It's now a notorious part of this campaign. In which somebody in your campaign referred to Ms. Whitman as a "whore." A campaign spokesman then described that as "salty language" and apologized after a fashion. We've heard no outrage from you about the use of that kind of language which to many women is the same as calling an African-American the n-word. Have you been in charge of the investigation in your campaign to find out who is responsible for using that phrase?
BROWN: I don't agree with that comparison, number one. Number two, this is a five week old private conversation...
WHITMAN: Oooohh.
BROWN: ...picked up on a cellphone, uh, with a garbled transmission. Very hard to detect who it is. This is not, I don't want to get into the term and how it's used. But I will say the campaign apologized promptly and I affirm that apology tonight.
BROKAW: You're repeating it to Ms. Whitman?
BROWN: Yes I am. I do. I, it's unfortunate. I'm sorry it happened. I apologize.
WHITMAN: So Jerry, it's not just me, it's the people of California who deserve better than slurs and personal attacks. That's not what California is about. It is not our better selves. And I, um, think people know exact...I think every Californian, and especially women, know exactly what's going on here. And that is a deeply offensive term to women.
BROWN: Well, can I just interject? Have you chastised your chairman, Pete Wilson, who called Congress "whores" to the public sector unions?
WHITMAN: You know better than that Jerry. That's a completely different thing. The fact you are defending your campaign...
AUDIENCE: Heckles Whitman.
WHITMAN: The fact you are defending your campaign for a slur and, um, you know, a personal attack on me I think it's not befitting of California. It's not befitting of the office that you're running for.
BROWN: It's unfortunate. Private conversation. I'm not even sure it's legal because you have to get the consent of all the parties and there's lots of people talking so, I again, Ms. Whitman I'm sorry it happened. That does not represent anything other than things that happen in a campaign. But the issue there of course is pension reform and the fact that you got the endorsement of that union. I didn't because they said I'd be too tough on unions and public employee pensions and I'll take that.
WHITMAN: So that's actually...
AUDIENCE: Cheers Brown.
BROKAW: Admonishes audience to keep quiet.
Tape ends.
Whitman did bring up Rose Bird.
My post was from weeks ago.
Do you think Meg started listening? ;-)
M a y b e ... :)
“Most likely that audience was stacked purposefully with pro Brown voters. Also, why are polictical moderators always extreme left wing liberals? “
I agree. They should do one on Fox and let Hannity moderate. Better yet they should do one about Constitutional knowledge and let Levin moderate.
Jerry blows a whore, is that legal?
Probably impossible the other way around.
Interesting that you came here directly from Drudge’s report on a certain intern. I guess abused women meant something to you at the time.
It was Jerry Brown, himself, who used the W word. I’ve listened to the tape many times and it’s completely obvious. He should have begged forgiveness instead of trying to tough it out.
You don’t have to like Whitman to not use words like “stinking mouth shut.” Ugly, ugly, ugly.
The fact that a creep like Jerry Brown can get elected to any public office speaks volumes about the Once Golden State.
news flash, LA is a charter city and it’s pensions are not set by the state, the city of LA sets the pensions
Aren’t most bonuses tied to stock increases? If so, as a shareholder you would have made $$$ also.
“Most likely that audience was stacked purposefully with pro Brown voters. Also, why are polictical moderators always extreme left wing liberals?”
Does this sort of thing happen?/massive sarc
“Most likely that audience was stacked purposefully with pro Brown voters. Also, why are polictical moderators always extreme left wing liberals?”
Does this sort of thing happen?/massive sarc
“We have a terrible deficit problem in California, a very high unemployment rate and they waste time on this triviality.”
You can bet if the genders were reversed, the socialist propagandists would have run this story right up to the election booth. Are Republicans supposed to be ‘serious’ and let the RATs fight dirty? You may not like this, or either candidate, but you’ve got to prefer the R to the D here, right? Anything that promotes that, I’m fer (sic.)
“If the pension problem is so big, how can you vote for someone that cut a deal with the largest source of the problem? I agree with you it is not a good choice this election. I’m most likely going to sit this one out.”
Sometimes, you have to take steps - and work for Conservatives everywhere else. This is another test of the William Buckley rule - better the R than the D. I can’t even recall who the Conservative option was on the R side in the primary - but they lost...(where’s Ronnie when we need him??) :)
‘“Whore”. Big deal..’
Liberal hypocrisy writ large. That’s the deal.
“Every single company that’s growing grows too fast and too big, then has to spend some time shrinking and reorganizing to become efficient again.”
This is true - and I’ve seen it at my current firm. Look, if you’ve got trouble with Meg, imagine the trouble you’ll have with Gov. Brown...now it’s time for your Tea Party to hold Gov. Whitman accountable...(that would be my answer).
Life is not a snapshot - it’s a marathon - our work is NOT done on 11/3!
“Ask the people how many people she hired at EBay. Any layoffs were small compared to how many new hires occurred during her tenure.”
Oh, but that doesn’t matter, as the media’s not talking about that, and the attack ads don’t address the context./sarc
Unfortunately there are about 6-8 million voters in CA who weren't here for the last Brown fiasco.
Many of whom can't read, apparently.
Yes. It is called leading. If you don't lead, nobody will follow. Fewer and fewer citizens vote. The answer to your question should be obvious.
No outrage if a rapper calls a woman a “Hoe”. Could the black side of Obama get away with it? Hmmm....should I call her a whore or a hoe? Hoe!
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