Hope Ed gets frequent guest Heidi Harris to explain this one. More background here. Via Think Progress.

Didn’t have to embellish a bit. Via Greg.

One of my Twitter pals, billiegirltoo, has a post up about Sharron Angle’s latest rubber room antics:

[T]he editor of Spanish language newspaper El Tiempo says in 30 years, he’s never experienced such a shutout as his team is getting from Angle’s campaign.

“We never receive information, press releases, information on the place for talking with the community. Nothing,” said Editor in Chief Hernando Amaya.

The article ends with this:

The Angle campaign held an event on Monday. 8 News NOW and Hispanic media outlets were not invited.

Are we surprised? No, we are not. At least I’m not. Then again, nothing about Sharron Angle surprises me.

If she gets elected, if this is the direction America is going, then we have a real problem. Actually, we already do have a real problem, so let me reword that: It would be tragic. She’s disgraceful. She has no business running for office, because she’s a wackydoodle extremist who is about as unAmerican as you can get.

So here we have Angle, who runs from the press on a regular basis (literally), apparently taking her disdain for the media an ugly step further and targeting Hispanic media outlets.

Outraged yet?

Billie updated with this:

Anyone but Angle.

H/t: billiegirltoo

Our TPC pal and guest blogger here at TPC, 42bkdodgr, linked me to a piece by Jon Ralston over at The Las Vegas Sun.

You’ve heard of Everybody Hates Chris?  He’s ain’t got nothin’ on Harry:

But here’s the rub: People hate Reid. I tell my daughter never to use that verb, but it’s the only word for it. It seethes, blinds, sputters. [...]

And that’s what keeps the Reid folks up at night, knowing no matter how skillful they are — and he has the best campaign team Nevada has seen — the Reid-haters will not listen. They may be able to scare a small percentage to stay home or vote for “none of these candidates” — and that may be enough — but Team Reid can’t be sure, no matter what the next Angle revelation is.

Go read this one. This is the kind of stubborn, irrational, unreasonable, small-minded, hostile wall we’re smack up against.

Kand-o’-Goshen, there sure is a lot of seething, blind, sputtering hate being spewed these days. But to direct it at Whisperton Van Milquetoast? Why, he’s hot even Kenyan!

Total absolute whack job. Big kudos to Ralston for digging this up (audio at link), and as always to Greg.

Nevada journalist Jon Ralston unearths an interview that Sharron Angle did with Christian radio that is perhaps her most eyebrow-raising contribution to the conversation yet. In it, she says that government expansion under Obama and Dems is an effort to make government into our “God.”

In case you’re tempted to dismiss this as a figure of speech, Angle makes it clear that she’s being literal, adding that our dependence on government is “idolatry” and that this is a “violation of the First Commandment.” Here’s the key bit:

“And these programs that you mentioned — that Obama has going with Reid and Pelosi pushing them forward — are all entitlement programs built to make government our God. And that’s really what’s happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We’re supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.”

I think the hug from Dan Choi at Netroots Nation did it:

A new Rasmussen survey in Nevada shows Sen. Harry Reid (D) now ahead of challenger Sharron Angle (R) for the first time, 45% to 43%.

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PANELISTS: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Joan McCarter

If you don’t know who Joan McCarter is, please acquaint yourself with her now.  I’ve read her for a long, long time over at Daily Kos, where she’s known as mcjoan and is senior policy editor; shared radio time with her on the Angie Coiro Show on Green960;  and tweeted to her on Twitter, where she goes by @joanmccarter, appropriately enough.

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For the first time in over a month, Sharron “Obtuse” Angle decided to clue the press in to what she’s been up to… because, see, she’s a woman of the people! And who better to inform the people than the press?

And who better to duck the press than Obtuse Angle?

After more than a month dodging the press, Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle on Wednesday invited reporters to an event intended to amplify her campaign message that lower taxes and less regulation are the only ways to spur economic recovery.

It was the first time since her primary victory that she had agreed to mingle with the media. [...]

Alas, Angle’s more media-friendly moment was over almost as soon as it began.

Probably because she had nothing to say.

Probably because she knew that if she did say anything, it would be, you know, recorded somehow and released.

Probably because she knows that if what she said were to be revealed, she’d lose.

However, it has been some time since she ran off at the mouth. I’m sure she had something pithy to offer after having been away for so long. Something of worth. Something constructive before offering a gracious thank you and making an eloquent, telegenic exit:

…Angle delivered a three-minute speech on her desire to permanently repeal the estate tax. When invited by the final speaker to stay and answer a few questions, she turned on her heel and rushed out a back door with a small cadre of staff members.

Okay, let’s not be hasty. Clearly, she didn’t realize the reporters wanted more. Only a fool would ignore the media, yet again, knowing how idiotic and cowardly she’d look:

Reporters, including one who is six months pregnant, chased after her, calling out questions on unemployment benefits and other topics she has largely refused to address.

…Or she could continue to make an ass of herself.

H/t: 42bkdodgr

Today’s Quickie:

Watch out Sharron Angle:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid raised more than $2.4 million in April and June, his campaign announced Thursday.

He has 9 million dollars available to him, but wants $25 million.  Sharron Mangle has stashed about 1.8 million away.

If Harry loses this one, and at this rate he better not, I will refuse to say it was “God’s calling”. And you can take that to the bank.

That was Today’s Quickie. Was it good for you?

Sharron Angle says running against Harry Reid is her “calling”:

Many more video clips of Sharron Mangle here.The topics include responses to all those name-calling attacks, those pesky changes to her website, her main reason for giving interviews, the need to “defund” the Department of Education, her contention that “Harry Reid is the Government”, her top legislative priorities, how she turned her life over to Jesus Christ, and how she takes comfort knowing that God is in control of her future.

If She’s in control of Mangle’s future, why is Mangle out there putting all that energy into giving interviews and campaigning like the maniac she is?

No wonder she’s grifting so hard, those fancy “consultants” sure do cost a pretty penny. Honestly, only $2500 for the woman running against the Senate Majority Leader?

Sarah Palin’s political action committee contributed at least $87,500 to candidates she’s endorsed in the last few months, according to a report filed Sunday with the Federal Elections Commission. U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle was among the beneficiaries.

But SarahPAC’s financial disclosure also shows Palin spending more than $210,000 on consulting.

Candidates receiving money from Palin for the period covering April 1 to June 30 include former Gov. Terry Branstad, who won last month’s Republican gubernatorial primary in Iowa, and Joe Miller, who’s challenging Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the August GOP primary. Each received $5,000.

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Angle, who’s challenging U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada, also got $2,500. Nikki Haley, who’s running for governor in South Carolina and for whom Palin personally campaigned, got no money, according to the filings.

Palin entered the reporting period with more than $916,000 on hand. She received more than $865,800 in contributions, and ended the period with more than $1 million on hand, according to the filings.