I listened to the interview. It seems to me that he lobbed her a softball. When she failed to hit it; he put it on a tee for her. She then failed to hit it off the tee — she didn't even get close. She did this to herself.
The truly unnerving thing is that it seems no one — no one in the media, and no one in the GOP — thought to ask such simple questions before Beck. Was she vetted at all, in any way?
Yeah, we gotta be careful that way...
Medina was asked two direct questions to which she could not give a simple direct answer. Instead she decided to do the Texas Two Step and she really stepped in it.
The questions were phrased begining with:
1. Do you believe ........
2. would you disavow them or allow them to continue to advise you........
Sad, isn't it? I guess anyone can get on the republican ballot just because they want to.
I watched both debates and the questions were pathetic, never asked any serious questions of any of the candidate. Second debate was so bad, the panel doing the questioning was verbally fighting with Perry and Hutchison over percentages and statistics. Never saw such a poorly planned debate.
It was almost as if they didn't want you to know anything about any of them. Medina was never asked if she was pro life, but Hutchison was hammered on it. Medina was never asked about her close associations with Ron Paul, never asked if she was anti-war and obviously never asked her opinion of the 9-11 truthers.
It's not up to the party to "approve" the people who choose to be candidates for the party's nomination. And they're not going to make a stink about somebody who's off the reservation -- if they don't appear to be serious contenders. Which describes Medina, until just recently.
This affair is, instead, a slap in the face to the Texas MSM. It's their job to ask revealing questions.
However, to date, the Texas MSM has been happy to not only softball, but promote, Medina -- because she represented a conceivable threat to the GOP establishment candidates that they deeply detest.
The Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Houston Chronicle, the Austin American-Statesman and the San Antonio Express-News just didn't do their job. As we're accustomed to, in any case.