CNN, Clarion-Ledger: Thad Cochran hides, does 'bait-and-switch' on national reporters

breitbart.com ^ | 5/27/14 | Matthew Boyle

[cotton1706]

SOUTHAVEN, Mississippi -- Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) pulled the old “bait-and-switch” to avoid a televised CNN interview, reporter Dana Bash says.

Bash tried to interview Cochran for CNN at a Memorial Day event in Vicksburg, MS, but Cochran dodged the interview. His staff was “going to head-scratching extremes to avoid talking,” Bash reported in a piece posted late Tuesday.

"We tried to catch Cochran after this event," Bash said, while video of Cochran standing on stage for the event played. "But when an aide came out and saw us, they did a bait-and-switch.”

"The car they told us Cochran was getting in, screeched away without him, while he snuck out another door to a different car, leaving reporters like us in the dust, unable to talk to the senator,” Bash added.

The Jackson Clarion-Ledger, which picked up the story right after CNN on Tuesday evening, noted that Cochran’s actions “make him look equally as suspicious” as how his primary challenger state Sen. Chris McDaniel has handled the response to blogger Clayton Kelly’s allegedly illicit photographing of Cochran’s wife Rose.

The Clarion-Ledger’s Sam Hall wrote that Cochran also refused to sit down with the newspaper’s editorial board for an interview.

“Cochran's staff has repeatedly refused to set a date for an editorial board meeting,” Hall wrote. “‘We're still working on a date,’ is the gist of any answer they give us. Such dodging makes us — and voters — wonder what he has to hide. Is he afraid of tough questions? Or is his staff handling him too much because they are afraid of what he might say? My guess: both!”

Cochran has similarly avoided interviews with Breitbart News — his campaign staff ignored requests — and most other media outlets, and refused to debate McDaniel ahead of the primary.

[House Atreides]

“...I’m freakin’ giving up on the Tea Party being able to find a candidate with an IQ higher than a damn can of Spam. YOU ARE PISSING ME OFF MR. McDANIEL.”
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Well, I’m fairly certain that McDaniel has an IQ a standard deviation or two above certain posters here. I’ll leave it up to you to figure out to whom I refer.

[TBP]

Write plenty of letters. Make plenty of phone calls.

[WKB]

tHAD enough ping (minus a few who refuse to let others know about things)

[Din Maker]

Then why did he not answer the question? He’s doing the same “duck and dodge” that Cochran is doing. Makes him look guilty.