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Union Leader Blasts Cain for Refusing to Allow Interview to Be Filmed
The Corner ^
| 11/21/2011
| Katrina Trinko
Posted on 11/21/2011 9:37:31 AM PST by TBBT
From New Hampshires Union Leader:
Cains decision was made after a video showed him fumbling an answer about Libya during a newspaper editorial board interview in Milwaukee and right before he was to do an interview with this newspaper, which we wanted C-SPAN to record and broadcast. That wasnt going to happen, a Cain campaign spokesman said, because videos are typically used for television and its a newspaper. We decided we didnt want to do the video.
Videos these days are used by everyone, even random people on the street who record candidates with their cell phones. The difference between television and newspaper interviews is not that cameras are present, but that newspaper interviews tend to be longer and more in depth. The Cain campaign knows this. It seems that Cain is fine with everyone seeing him give short, prepared answers, but not with everyone seeing him try to answer questions in which he has more than 30 or 60 seconds to respond. He would do well to rethink that decision, for it gives the impression that hes got something to hide.
The Cain campaign said last week their policy was now not to permit filming at any newspaper interviews of Herman Cain.
TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: cain; nh2012; unionleader
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To: TBBT
If it is an interview for a newspaper, why do they want/need a video tape of it? To get a video they can post on the web if he happens to misspeak or fumble an answer, that’s why.
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posted on
11/21/2011 10:07:10 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Attacking Wall Street because you're jobless is like burning down Whole Foods because you're hungry.)
To: Westbrook
To: TBBT
Try saying this real slow, say, a news paper is not a TV station, you go on TV with Letterman, for example, dang, they have TV cameras there, you go to the newspaper, they have cameras and print. Now real slow , read this, âdo you see and understand the difference in a newspaper and a TV station.â? If you do not, may be a google search would help.
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posted on
11/21/2011 10:08:08 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
To: rhombus
This is the same once conservative Union Leader that endorsed McCain in the GOP primary in 2008.
Would you rather they had endorsed Mittens instead? It is quite possible the McCain Union Leader endorsement prevented the guy from the neighboring state from winning the primary, which really would have boosted his chances for the nomination. None of the other GOP candidates came within 20 points of McCain and Romney in the New Hampshire primary (Huckabee, Giuliani, and Ron Paul were the only other candidates to even get more than 2% of the vote).
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posted on
11/21/2011 10:09:12 AM PST
by
drjimmy
To: MNJohnnie
If he's truly worried they will edit the video to make him look bad, he could video the interview with his own camera so the Cain campaign had their own record of what actually happened.
But I suspect that isn't his real concern.
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posted on
11/21/2011 10:10:59 AM PST
by
Tex-Con-Man
(T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII 2012 - "Together, I Shall Ride You To Victory")
To: Longbow1969
Everyone in the whole world knows why the Cain campaign doesn't want these newspaper interviews videoed, and it is not because they manipulate what he says. It is entirely because Cain is basically ignorant on most policy questions and doesn't want the public to see just how little he actually knows. Don't care how much or how little he knows on policy questions. I care about how much I can trust him to push the conservative agenda and not back down when the Dems shriek. I care about how much confidence I can have that he won't sell us out and be just another RINO.
Lack of knowledge can be fixed. Lack of character can't.
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posted on
11/21/2011 10:11:10 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
To: RC2
I am really, really, REALLY worried about what a union leader thinks! NOT.Uh, dude...it's a newspaper. The Manchester Union-Leader.
Just sayin'...
To: MNJohnnie
“when later today you will be running whining about “Circular firing squads” on any thread critical of Newt.”
:)))...you’re killing me!
To: righttackle44
You are correct, when you enter the enemy camp first shell the place. Rush take was, the only thing that really made the slug newt different was his taking on the media.
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posted on
11/21/2011 10:15:08 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
If it is an interview for a newspaper, why do they want/need a video tape of it?My local paper posts their own videos all the time. That's not unusual today.
To: PapaBear3625
“Lack of knowledge can be fixed. Lack of character can’t.”
No truer words have ever been spoken.
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posted on
11/21/2011 10:16:04 AM PST
by
dforest
To: PapaBear3625
Frankly, I think it speaks to his character that he entered the presidential race without informing himself better.
I guess he counted on his charm and conservatism ... and, well, it almost worked.
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posted on
11/21/2011 10:16:04 AM PST
by
altura
(Perry 2012)
To: TBBT
The Kingmakers at the Union Leader are pitching a fit...they know what is best for America...bow to your northeast overlords.
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posted on
11/21/2011 10:16:04 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: TBBT
The paper is correct on this. Cain should have allowed it to be filmed, although I suspect he himself is beginning to realize that he’s not competent to be running and he doesn’t want to reveal it even more than he has already done.
That said, Romney never lets anything be shown about him unless he’s fully in control of it and has even ducked out of a number of these “debates.” Yet no comments on that from any source...
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posted on
11/21/2011 10:18:49 AM PST
by
livius
To: TBBT
Tough crap. they’re a newspaper, not a TV show. They can use their own fishwrap to cry in if it bothers them. They must not respect their own medium.
There is a concerted game of “gotcha” going on with Cain, so why give them ammo?
To: org.whodat
Try saying this real slow, say, a news paper is not a TV station, you go on TV with Letterman, for example, dang, they have TV cameras there, you go to the newspaper, they have cameras and print. Now real slow , read this, âdo you see and understand the difference in a newspaper and a TV station.â�? If you do not, may be a google search would help.
Have you been living in a cave for the past decade? Do you think a newspaper is just a piece of fiber with ink on it that lands on your doorstep each morning? Newspapers have been posting video for years on their websites (you do know that it is still called a newspaper if you read it on the Internet, don't you?). There's no limit to the number of excuses some will come up with to deny that Cain is simply afraid that too many people will see and hear his lack of knowledge on important issues.
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posted on
11/21/2011 10:21:18 AM PST
by
drjimmy
To: drjimmy
No I am telling you that is the way to treat this rag. They are a newspaper. Now go kiss up to the new york times and the washington post . Me I will treat them as what they are, newspapers.
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posted on
11/21/2011 10:27:47 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
To: TBBT
They really need a better name for their newspaper.
The headline makes me think that Richie Trumka or Andy Stern blased Cain (which would really not be news)
To: TBBT
To: TBBT
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posted on
11/21/2011 10:55:58 AM PST
by
TBBT
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