NC GOP's Linda Daves - unplugged on MSNBC

Raw Story:

Linda Daves, North Carolina’s GOP chair, appeared on MSNBC Friday and, with a straight-face, insisted that the ad “is not about the national campaign,” and she blamed “the media” for “fanning the flames on this.”

...Daves insisted that the ad’s only targets were Democrats Bev Perdue and Richard Moore, who she accused of having “no message” and trying to “hook onto coattails.”

MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer quickly asked why those concerns weren’t mentioned in the advertisement that focused so heavily on Wright:

“Why are you running an ad that doesn’t talk about the issues?” she asked, at which point the video feed connecting her to Daves went black. “Apparently we lost her at a very opportune time,” Brewer said. “Right when I wanted that question answered.”

A few minutes later the video hook-up was restored and Daves had the chance to answer the question. She justified invoking Wright with the baffling argument that the Democratic gubernatorial candidates had the burden to vocally denounce the comments they had never heard from a man they never met made in a church they probably hadn’t come within a thousand miles of.

“It would seem such a simple thing to say we still endorse the senator for president, but we, like him, do not agree with [Wright’s] anti-American sentiment,” Daves said. “That just makes common sense, you know you don’t even have to go to college to figure that out.”

For the record, Daves herself did go to college.

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* The NC GOP's anti-Obama color arousal ad