Sen. Scott Brown demands conditions to join Elizabeth Warren in accepting Vicki Kennedy's invitation
Source: masslive.com
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., today said he will join his Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren in accepting an invitation to debate, as proposed by Vicki Kennedy, the widow of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, as long as certain conditions are met.
More than a week ago, Kennedy invited the two Senate race rivals to go head-to-head in a debate sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Boston and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, which is currently being built.
Warren accepted on June 11 and Monday, Brown's Campaign Manager Jim Barnett, sent Kennedy a letter saying they would accept the invitation if certain conditions were agreed upon.
For starters, Kennedy has to pledge to remain neutral for remainder of the contentious Senate race for the seat held by her husband from 1962 until his death from brain cancer in 2009. While it is not entirely clear what this condition involves, an endorsement of a particular candidate would almost certainly be out of bounds.
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Read more: http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/06/sen_scott_brown_joins_elizabet.html
That's a bullshit term, to say the least.
And there's another condition which was reported on TV but not here ... that MSNBC not be allowed to broadcast the debate.
Randomthought
(835 posts)Mrs. Kennedy can endorse anyone she wants and why is he afraid to debate on television?
Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)I can understand a demand that the debate be neutral and that Mrs. Kennedy not engage in open support for one candidate or another until after the debate. But she has a first amendment right to express her views.
And as for MSNBC I would accept that term only if Fox News also was barred from broadcasting the debate.
That is, however, a ridiculous demand. First of all Mr. Brown, you are not likely to get any new votes or lose votes by appearing on MSNBC. Similarly Mrs. Warren would neither benefit nor lose by appearing on Fox News. The audiences for those two stations are fairly polarized.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)I dunno why people think a news station with "Morning Joe" on would be equivalent to the opposite of Fox News and its line up.
Such an attitude diminishes MSNBC and exalts Fox. MSNBC is not a propaganda station nor is it a mouthpiece for the Left Wing. Fox on the other hand IS clearly propaganda and is obviously a Right Wing mouthpiece.
Why do even intelligent people fall for this false equivalency lie... drummed up by Fox News and the Right Wing?
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)I hope Mrs. Kennedy will reject this.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)This photo should be blown up and put on the stage.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)well you know what they'd say. Only fellow ReThugs could get away with this stuff. I can just imagine the comments if Obama posed like this.
DJ13
(23,671 posts)left on green only
(1,484 posts)My biggest fantasy is to be a student in one of her classes.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,365 posts)newblewtoo
(667 posts)Kind of like why the tall good looking guys always get picked first at a Sadie Hawkins Dance.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and a bully just like his fellow goppers. He is not man enough to face Warren one on one with "hard" questions, plus, Brown is scared to death of Rachael Maddow. If you notice, most male goppers are bullies toward women but are afraid of them, i.e. look at MI and the word.
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)And he should. She'll rip him a new asshole and confound him with the facts, and he knows it.
She's known as a Harvard professor. He's known as a guy who drives a pick up truck. Hmmmmm, let's see, who belongs in the Senate?
In Repube circles being educated and an educator are liabilities. No wonder they're always pissed off.
left on green only
(1,484 posts)It's that he drives a pick up truck and he *flaunts* it, as if to advertise it as being one of his qualifications for office!!
no_hypocrisy
(46,104 posts)louis-t
(23,295 posts)"Here Vicki, sign this pledge...."
GOTV
(3,759 posts)... it says it prefers local media sponsors rather than partisan national cable news sponsors.
So I don't think he cares who broadcasts it. He just doesn't want it called the "MSNBC Boston debates" or anything like that.
meegbear
(25,438 posts)If Warren made that demand, you gonna tell me there'd be no backlash?
craigmatic
(4,510 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)VK should "partner" with a GOP luminary to hold the debate--that way, no one has to stay 'neutral.' Get Bill Weld, he probably thinks Scotty is a fucking idiot too.
bayareaboy
(793 posts)If I were Ms Warren I would run that silly letter in all papers in Mass.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)All I can say is, that is completely to tell VK she can't endorse anyone in the race and MSNBC can't broadcast it.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)maybe he needs his diapers changed
onehandle
(51,122 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)If not, then tell Brown, "No conditions."
Raven
(13,891 posts)V. Kennedy turned him down. Of course she did, he insulted the memory of her late husband.