Today, on the Glenn Beck radio program, gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina was asked about rumors that she is a 9/11 truther. She was asked, point blank, whether or not the US Government was involved in bring down the World Trade towers. Her response is not just disheartening, it is pathetic:
She calls herself an “everyday, ordinary person…” and then gives the most political and politically correct answer the world has ever seen. She aggressively tried to defend her position, and digs the hole even deeper. Or, is it, that she shows her real character with more clarity?
I am not a truther. I have looked at their purported evidence, and I see no value in it. They have convinced me in no way, and I openly question their motives and their intentions.
Debra Medina has painted herself a Tea Party candidate. Tea Parties are about The Consitution, Capitalism, Ficsal Responsibility and Smaller Government. I accept that Medina may be for those things, I accept the fact that Truthers may be part of the Tea Party Movement, and I can not ask them to leave. However, they will never get my vote, and I will not allow candidates to publicly take the mantle of Tea Party member, and spew this nonsense.
Debra Medina made her decisions. Her candidacy may or may not be over. However, her aligning herself with the Tea Parties as a candidate is.
*****DEBRA MEDINA RESPONDS*****
Here is a link to her website, where she responds to the Glenn Beck interview.
#1 by Cathleen Rutherford on February 11, 2010 - 12:51 pm
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..I was surprised by her response…I hadn’t picked up on this with any previous readings about her.
#2 by Nick on February 12, 2010 - 12:20 pm
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She certainly screwed up on this question. But ya know, her official campaign response on the subject is sound and I’m willing to keep listening to her. Hopefully she bounces back. Clearly a rookie mistake here, but isn’t it sad how many good people do need a history lesson on 9/11? Maybe if Bush’s Administration hadn’t gone into full panic/killkillkill/expand gov’t mode while telling Americans to just “go shopping” then we’d have a more sober and calm understanding of 9/11. Instead, too many people ended up going to bad sources to find answers to their questions. All that said, Glenn Beck seemed a little too satisfied about bringing down a truly grassroots candidate. Is his popularity going to his head?
#3 by Aaron on February 12, 2010 - 5:03 pm
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“I didn’t see all of the evidence” isn’t a satisfactory comment to the question “do you believe”. It’s an evasive maneuver.
#4 by Tony Katz on February 12, 2010 - 5:46 pm
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Name : Aaron
Comment: [from blog ] : “I didn’t see all of the evidence” isn’t a satisfactory comment to the question “do you believe”. It’s an evasive maneuver.
#5 by Sam on February 18, 2010 - 10:24 am
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Seriously…? Glenn Beck proved himself to be the ultimate hypocrite, considering that both he and Sarah Palin have said the exact same thing. That they “have questions about 9/11″ there are several links to vet that out, if you’d like me to provide them.
This was a complete sideswipe due to Beck’s “relationship” with Rick Perry and the GOP. Hence the robocalls that went out almost immediately (less then a half hour) on behalf of Perry and Hutchinson denouncing Medina. Who, by the way, NEVER SAID that our government was involved with 9/11.