This is funny: earlier today, Jason R. Latham, Managing Editor of Fox 5 News in Las Vegas, blasted Fox News Channel for conducting a truly awful interview with Sharron Angle, the Nevada Republican Party's nominee for U.S. Senate. Latham said the interview, which took place on FOX & Friends, was "rife with inaccuracies, softball questions and poor research on the part of the producers and hosts."
Among the errors:
- Gretchen Carlson said Angle hadn't been in politics before. Actually, as Dave Weigel points out, Angle had more experience than any of her Republican contenders.
- Steve Doocy said Sarah Palin had endorsed Angle. Not true.
- Doocy also tried to give Angle a chance to deny she wants to eliminate Social Security, suggesting that assertions to the contrary were "misinformation" and "not true." In fact, Angle does want to eliminate Social Security; on her own website (at least as of late Monday morning) she calls for it to be "transitioned out."
Las Vegas political reporter Jon Ralston called the interview "astonishing," noting Doocy didn't follow up on Social Security, despite Angle's claim that it was "nonsense" that she wanted to eliminate it.
Reid has been taking an aggressive stance against Angle, including a new ad featuring Angle saying that "we need to phase Medicare and Social Security out."
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Here's the interview:
NV-Sen: GOP nominee Sharron Angle in her national interview debut said she's running a "national" campaign and falsely denied proposing to eliminate Social Security and Medicare.
