SHOCK: Ron Johnson Set to Take Off Right-wing Media Training Wheels
On Monday, Ron Johnson, a multimillionaire Republican Candidate for the U.S. Senate, will come out of hiding and venture beyond the safe harbor of right-wing media hosts Charlie Sykes, Jerry Bader, Vicki McKenna and Fox and Friends.
Johnson has tried to sell himself as a self-proclaimed outsider, but he has no plans to create jobs or reduce the deficit, offering only empty rhetoric. Even his next-door newspaper, the Appleton Post Crescent, strongly signaled disappointment this week with Johnson's stealth campaign, condemning "multimillionaire candidates" who "can't articulate their positions” and “who won't take a stand."
And when Johnson does take a position and he is exposed for the extremist and elite views he holds, he backtracks and refuses to take responsibility for what he says.
Ron Johnson has talked a lot about deficits and debt but he has refused to offer any plans reduce the deficit. He says he knows how to create jobs but he has refused to put forward a plan to do so while at the same time he has opposed every effort to put people back to work.
On Monday, Johnson will visit Madison for a WisPolitics luncheon. So what would you ask Ron Johnson?
Post your comment below. We'll a follow up with the best questions Monday.
Posted by Sammy at 04:41PM on July 31 2010:
“Mr. Johnson, please describe exactly the first three steps you would take to (get employment back on track in Wisconsin) (reduce the deficit). Please be precise.”
If he starts to equivocate or wander back to his “message” interrupt him and say, “You’re not answering my question. I asked for specific steps. Be specific.” Don’t let him off the hook.
Too many reporters ask questions and then don’t listen to the answers and they allow the person to move to their agenda. (That’s what media training is all about. I know, because I’ve been doing it for fifteen years.)
If he states something as fact, ask him his source or how he supports that “fact.” And then check the “fact” with Internet resources before a story is written, and call him on it if he misstates. There are too many “death panels” running around after having been created by Republicans with overactive imaginations and ambitions.