Message to Martha Raddatz:
To paraphrase Chris Christie: Even in New York, your cutting off Carly in mid-sentence is considered rude.
Via ABC News:
RADDATZ: I want to talk about one thing you said in the debate that’s come under a good degree of criticism, something fact checkers say was cherry picked and misleading. You said that 92 percent of the jobs lost during Barack Obama’s first term belonged to women. The fact checkers say a big problem with the 2012 — with the claim is that it was cherry picked the starting date for assessing it. And in fact that according to these government data more women actually were working at the end of Obama’s first term compared with the day he first took office.
FIORINA: Well, in this particular case the fact checkers are correct. The 92 percent, it turns out, was the first three-and-a-half years of Barack Obama’s term, and in the final six months of his term things improve.
But this is what the liberal media always does, it attacks the messenger trying to avoid the message. Here is the message, it is factually true that women have been hit very hard by progressive policies. It is factually true that the number of women living in extreme poverty is at the highest rate in recorded history. It is factually true that 16.1 percent of women live below the poverty line, the highest level in 20 years. It is factually true that 3 million women have fallen into poverty…
RADDATZ: Mrs. Fiorina, one of the things…
FIORINA: …that progressive policies have been bad for women.
RADDATZ: Mrs. Fiorina, you just said there was some improvement. You acknowledged there was some improvement, but you didn’t say that during the debate did you?
FIORINA: Martha, I’ve just acknowledged that I misspoke on that particular fact that three-and-a-half years 92 percent represented progress in three-and-a-half years and then in the last six months of Barack Obama’s first term things got better for women.
You have not acknowledged the facts that I just laid out, 3 million women are living in poverty. the number of women living in extreme poverty is the highest on record, 16.1 percent of women live in poverty, the highest level in 20 years.
RADDATZ: …speak for yourself…
FIORINA: Their own facts that..
RADDATZ: I didn’t launch into any facts, Mrs. Fiorina….
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Daily Caller: Carly Fiorina Will Face Off With The Liberal Ladies Of ‘The View’ Friday
Martha, Martha, Martha. Oh, it was Marsha on The Brady Bunch. Well, here it is Martha of The Bradlee bunch (one of her husbands was Ben Bradlee Jr.) She was also previously married to Julius Genachowski, head of FCC under Obama, and Obama attended their wedding. Her 3rd (and I believe current) husband, she met while both were at NPR. She also moderated the 2012 VP debate between Ryan and Biden, which Ryan said was okay in advance of debate. ABC moderates debate in Feb. 2016 in NH. Campaigns should disqualify Martha Martha Martha this time around.
http://observer.com/2012/10/vp-debate-moderators-husband-works-for-organizatio-romney-wants-to-defund/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2943827/posts
Delta Dawn, what’s that flower you have on?
Could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
And did I hear you say Obama was a-meeting you here today
To take you to his mansion in the sky?
Abject apologies to singer Tanya Tucker and to writers Alex Harvey and Larry Collins. Sorry – so sorry!
That’s some lame journalism, leading with a smarmy ‘something fact checkers say’ : finishing with a shrill ‘speak for yourself’. ( Ouch ) Why the stupid defense of policies that are proven destructive. Probably why the government propped up favored news agencies – keep their camp followers in comfy bubbles.
Oh, that was awkward
Call it rudeness, I choose to call it desperation. Martha certainly has a face for radio. NPR.
Yep, like a carved Halloween pumpkin left out too long in the sun.
“The press’s job is to stand in the ramparts and protect the liberty and freedom of all of us from a government and from organized governmental power. When they desert those ramparts and decide that they will now become active participants, that their job is not simply to tell you who you may vote for, and who you may not, but, worse—and this is the danger of the last two weeks—what truth that you may know, as an American, and what truth you are not allowed to know, they have, then, made themselves a fundamental threat to the democracy, and, in my opinion, made themselves the Enemy of the American people.”- Pat Caddell, Set 27, 2012.
posted 11/3 639pm Texas[Free the Press~!]Time
Raddatz has a tired, unhappy face. Like a face worn by drug abuse. Lib marks! There — I said it. And I’ll bet she’s only 40.
They better be careful about the faces they send to be rude to Carly.