Colorado Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet’s disastrous cut-and-run radio interview
Just last week, I noted Colorado Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet’s botched attempt to spoon-feed the local media.
The Bennet campaign screwed up again big time again — sending him to phone in to KHOW’s indefatigable independent watchdog Peter Boyles after months and months of avoiding the show.
Bennet assumed he’d be able to use KHOW airwaves to regurgitate his Democrat GOTV talking points.
No go.
Listen here to Bennet’s disastrous cut-and-run radio interview, which lasted a grand total of 40 seconds.
*Update: Here’s the clip*
Boyles hammers Bennet for ducking him; interrogates him over his support for failed, corruption-plagued USAO nominee Stephanie Villafuerte, and drills him over the scandalous Cory Voorhis immigration enforcement railroading before Bennet hung up.
Partial transcript:
BOYLES: This is Senator Michael Bennett. Good morning, sir.
BENNETT: Good morning, how you doing?
BOYLES: I gotta ask you, man, we have been trying to get you on this radio show since you took office. Why now?
BENNETT: Uh, uh, I don’t know, uh, (laugh), uh, I actually didn’t know that, why now, just to urge everybody to go to the polls and vote in this really important election.
BOYLES: I mean, what’s in it for you to come on this show? You would not come on the show. We’ve tried you so many times to come on this radio show. And this morning, the day before, you come on the radio show. I don’t get it.
BENNETT: Well, uh, I just thought it was important to say to your listeners that it was critical for them to get out and vote. And, uh, I apologize I haven’t been on. I’ve traveled this state 30,000 miles.
BOYLES: No, no, no. We’ve tried you in DC. We tried you in Denver. We put phone calls in to you. And your people ignored us. They won’t even call us back. And now 7:00 this morning?
BENNETT: I’m sorry about that…
BOYLES: Don’t be sorry…but why wouldn’t you come on the show?
BENNETT: ‘Kay, we’ll do it another time…Ok?
More:
Bennet also appeared on conservative talk radio station KHOW after being chastised for avoiding interviews but he cut his appearance short to only 40 seconds.
Asked why Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter decided not to run for re-election, he said it was because of his family. Bennet also mistakenly said at first that he didn’t support Ritter’s chief of staff, Stephanie Villafuerte, for U.S. Attorney.
“I didn’t vote for her, she didn’t come up for a vote,” Bennet said when asked about Villafuerte.
When host Peter Boyles said that he and Sen. Mark Udall had supported a “blue card” vote to advance her nomination, Bennet said “I don’t think I gave it… I did, I did because I thought she was qualified for the job.”
Tomorrow, Colorado voters get to hang up on Bennet and Buck Washington.
Can’t come a moment too soon.
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Latest poll has Buck up by 4.
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How far into this clip does it start?
I think we finally found someone with thinner skin than Obama.
The radio interview starts at 20:30 on the 7AM podcast. Listen to it. He sounds like someone stoned out of their pumpkin gourd. Confused, lying, oblivious to questions, Wow!
Good catch MM.
And on the topic of immigration, you would be hard pressed to find anyone WORSE in the US Senate:
NumbersUSA grade for Bennet: “F-”
You’re fired.
AmericaFirst said:
Completely agree, this guy sounds like he was either pulling an all night crying jag in the bathroom or went on a scorched earth bender.
bennet out, Buck and Tom in for CO Nov.2!
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My neighbor, who is generally a conservative thinker, told me he believed those horribly negative ads that the NEA and others are heavily pushing against Buck. Because of that, he didn’t vote for either Bennett or Buck. I asked him if he checked out the FACTS before dismissing Buck, and, of course, he handn’t….ARGHHH!!
Jeez. If you want to be a professional politician you need to learn to lie effectively and without reservation. To be fair, maybe Bennett still has a conscience and although he tried to justify himself just could not commit himself to the Big Lie. He is apparently just a weak amateur. Vlad Lenin would have been dissappointed in his performance.
That was so weird. My presumption is that Bennett had to know that the listeners to Boyles’ show would likely vote against him, but he feigns the call to be under the auspices of “getting out the vote”. He’s got a voice for TV, I’ll tell ya because he sounded like he was hammered drunk to me. Slow, monotone, uninvigorating voice.
And what’s with that publicity photo? Looks like he sucked on a lemon or he just sat on a tack.
You should see the mailer ads that an establishment Republican has been trying to smear the Conservative Republican in my districts state legislature race. The establishment Republican is claiming that the challenger allowed sexual harrasment to go unchecked at his business (Wilcox Farms in WA ST). His only proof is one woman who settled out of court with the challengers family business.
In case you are wondering, WA ST has a top two primary system in which the top two vote getters in the primary move onto the general election. The only two people in the primary were the establishment Republican and the Conservative Republican. The Conservative Republican won the Primary top spot with 58% of the vote.
Re pic: He’s either trying to do a Vulcan Mind Meld on himself or pinch off a Silent But Deadly!
Even if you give Bennet 1benefit of the doubt, he was ill-prepared and obviously frightend of the Voorhis case. Dude…
The Rogue does have a fine turn of phrase there does he not?
But that photo of Bennett there: what is the world WAS HE DOING when he got caught?
Vulcan Mind Meld? I was thinking prunes but I will defer to your superior sarcasm.
Bennet bankrupted the Denver Public Schools with a VERY RISKY bond deal:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/business/06denver.html?_r=1
All the lies and distortions by Bennet’s campaign should have brought that campaign to its knees. Instead, the Demonuts are pushing for this key senate seat to go Blue, and the liberal area of Boulder and some of Denver will probably carry Bennet through. It will be a nail-biter tomorrow night.
Question: Do you think that 4 points is enough to overcome election fraud?
Good luck, Buck!!
It depends on who counts the votes. Unfortunately.
That is exactly what I am afraid of.
The vote has to be within 1/2 of 1% for a recount.
Bottom line: If it ain’t close, they can’t cheat!
Dude sounded like he was running on empty. When you are used to lying all the time, you have to have a very good memory to keep up with those lies. For whatever reason this guy just couldn’t keep up.
I listened to part of the clip, and all I can say is–is that the way Bennet sounds all the time?
Guys~
Consider volunteering as observers. Most of the absentee and provisional ballots will be validated and certified from November 3 on. Do not rely on the county workers to do the right thing. Most of them are union members. Additionally, the SEIU and other unions will also be there as voter count observers. A small discrepancy in the signature could mean a lot, depending on whether the voter has an R or a D, or even who he voted for as his rep in congress. Remember every vote counts!
What if they invalidate most of the R votes, while validating doubtful D votes? Be there to neutralize the unions!
I always tell my grandkids (and grown-up kids) – “If you don’t lie, then you don’t have to remember what you just said. Just tell the truth.”
See how that works for the Dems this next few days.
AMF loser.
Maybe he was just tired from a lack of sleep, but he sounded like he was either drunk or high.
LOL, I remember that, the guy who replaced Howard Stern on DC101–what was his name?
Oh yeah! ‘The Greaseman’!
Otherwise referred to as: How Al Franken got to be a Senator…..
Sound good advice.
You can tell he was used to Chris Matthews/Kieth Olbermann type interviews. He just wasn’t used to someone who demanded answers to questions.
The sad part in all this is that the spread is ONLY 4 points.
What’s p with that Colorado?
Bennet sounded brain-dead in this interview. But that’s the way the “Unibrower” has always sounded in interviews: uninspired, uninterested, unqualified, and underwhelming.
I’ve already voted – go Ken Buck and Tancredo!!!
I’ll be wearing this tomorrow
and how Christine Gregoire become Gov of WA ST in 2004 (the same people who used the technique in WA ST were the ones dispatched in the Franken deal also).
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Voted for Buck, Tancredo, and Gardner last week.
I miss Peter Boyles, it was always interesting radio-I’m going to have to listen on the internets. He sure shredded Judge Reinhold.
Sounded to me like he was stoned out of his gourd. I know the sound. Used to be a hippie back in the late 60′s before I grew up.
yeah, no kidding, he sounds like that clown from North Carolina Bob Etheridge.. the “who r u…who r u” guy.
that is so true and so pathetic America has come to this type of deceitfulness by our so called leaders…I imagine it’s been going on as long as there has been a vote about anything, but how disgusting it thrives in the greatest country in the history of mankind. That is something that is a black eye on our country. Guess I can say that.
Somebody’s staff didn’t research this station or host very well…a lamb to slaughter.