Louisiana Republican Flees Interview When Asked About Obama's Birthplace

[hue]

http://www.businessinsider.com/louisiana-republican-flees-interview-when-asked-about-obamas-birthplace-2014-7

A Republican congressional candidate fled her interview with a major election-forecasting group after being asked why she believed global warming was a hoax and whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States, according to a new report in The Washington Post.

In the Post, David Wasserman, the House editor at the Cook Political Report, detailed his strange encounter with the "frightening" and "fact-averse" Louisiana State Rep. Lenar Whitney.

Whitney, who is running for Louisiana's open sixth district, gained some prominence in June when she released a campaign video blasting global warming as a "hoax" and the press as "lamestream media." Wasserman said he pressed Whitney on the issue of climate change only to find her unable to answer his questions.

"But it’s not unreasonable to expect candidates to explain how they arrived at their positions, and when I pressed Whitney repeatedly for the source of her claim that the earth is getting colder, she froze and was unable to cite a single scientist, journal, or news source to back up her beliefs," he wrote.

Wasserman said he attempted to "change the subject" and ask whether she believed Obama was born in the United States. Her aides then ended the interview.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Oh, Lenar...Lenar (WTF?) You are a Jan Brewer and Caribou Barbie amalgam.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. She is getting pilloried on her FB page for that and other stupid stuff.

What a dildette.

https://www.facebook.com/LenarWhitneyGOP

[Mike Daniels]

6. She's doubling down on the stupid as well

Posting articles from Breitbart and other RW sites as her "proof" for the global warming hoax.

I guess someone needs to tell her the old axiom about the shovel and finding yourself in trouble.

[czarjak]

3. Run away, run away...

Or take Ted Cruz' advice "Stand strong, even when you're wrong, stand strong."

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. LOL ...

Wasserman said he attempted to "change the subject" and ask whether she believed Obama was born in the United States. Her aides then ended the interview.

I'm sure Lenar was thinking, "Oh good! He's changing the subject ... Oh Crap!"

[hue]

5. Run Lenar from the light of the truth!!! Run like a roach!!!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. For Pete's sake, she's fleeing the interview! She's fleeing the interview! :) nt

[brooklynite]

8. She has 8 Republican competitors...

...plus good 'ol Edwin ("vote for the the crook; it's important&quot Edwards

However it's a solid Republican district. I think the voters will get what they deserve.

[brooklynite]

9. "The most frightening candidate I’ve met in seven years interviewing congressional hopefuls"

Washington Post:

As a House analyst for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, I’ve personally interviewed over 300 congressional candidates over the course of seven years, both to get to know them and evaluate their chances of winning. I’ve been impressed by just as many Republicans as Democrats, and underwhelmed by equal numbers, too. Most are accustomed to tough questions.

But never have I met any candidate quite as frightening or fact-averse as Louisiana state Rep. Lenar Whitney, 55, who visited my office last Wednesday. It’s tough to decide which party’s worst nightmare she would be.

Whitney, a graduate of Nicholls State University who is running for Louisiana’s open 6th District, owned a dance studio in Houma, La., for 34 years and also worked in sales for small telecommunications and oilfield equipment companies. She clearly relishes poking Democrats in the eye, cites Minnesota’s Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) as a political role model, and takes kindly to the nickname “Palin of the South.”

Whitney has only raised $123,000 to date (fourth in the GOP field), but she has sought to boost her profile and appeal to conservative donors with a slickly made YouTube video entitled “GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX” (84,000 views so far). In the video, Whitney gleefully and confidently asserts that the theory of global warming is the “greatest deception in the history of mankind” and that “any 10-year-old” can disprove it with a simple household thermometer.

[Sunlei]

10. another one with that odd neck cable-system?

The face Doctors should start to pad the neck cords with some rear-end fat? The interviewer was right, "frightening"!

That's what Republicans do when several of them want to run for the same position. They bring in some of the real whackie-weird republicans and it makes them look a lot better!

[Mz Pip]

11. Stop electing stupid people.

We don't need any more idiots in Congress.

[SmittynMo]

12. It's the SOS with the GOP

Mouth off about how good your party is, until you have to actually support your thoughts and beliefs. Typical GOP strategy. Where do they come up with these people with these twisted minds?