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Rodney Glassman is a political robot
by DA Morales on Jun. 21, 2010, under Election 2010
Glassman cartoon by TC blogger Arnie Bermudez.
Rodney Glassman had an event at the Shanty on Sunday evening. Your Tucson citizen reporter was denied the ability to even enter the premises with a camera in the bag, and meanwhile others were able to take public pictures and video out in the open. Selective enforcement of the rules for the reasonably suspicious…
Nonetheless, your fearless reporter was able to capture audio of the event!
Glassman has clearly memorized his responses and they are almost verbatim what he answered on his Arizona Illustrated interview (see video below). I was tired of the same old McCain bashing. I wanted Glassman to answer a question straight from the heart, with corazon. This attempt failed miserably.
Listen to the following clip which is less than one minute long. After my question he said “last question” and called it a night with the daylight still shining, and I had two pages of important questions prepared for the Tucson Citizen audience to become more informed. Sadly, politics and memorized rhetoric and the inability to answer Yes or No questions with an actual Yes or No, ruled the night.
Take a listen and decide for yourself:
(AUDIO) Three Sonorans asks Glassman a Yes or No question he refuses to answer.
My claim is that Glassman, as a US Senate candidate, is now a political robot since he lacks the ability to answer simple questions anymore. The political machine has taken control of his body, and he has lost his basic humanity in search of his pursuit of political power. This is the dangerous path that previous politicians have taken before, and it is exactly the same path Glassman is headed down now, a politician who answers with vagueness instead of having the testicular fortitude to answer a question from one human being to another.
Disclosure: Three-Sonorans has volunteered as a private citizen for the Randy Parraz for US Senate campaign and also financially contributed to the Glassman campaign and signed his petition to be on the ballot before the SB1070 fiasco went down.
June 21st, 2010 on 9:31 am
This should come as a surprise to NOBODY.
Rodney’s a 6’7″ lump of mush.
June 21st, 2010 on 7:51 am
Los Tres Sonorans: Like Carolyn. I too am shocked that your cameras were barred from an ‘open’ political meeting.
As a bonafide Blogger for TC.com, therefore a member of the working press, there was no excuse for the rather heavy-handed behavior.
We are a free nation, aen’t we? And it was an open meeting, wasn’t it?
All you had to do was show your Official Tucson Titizen Blogger I.D. Card, and this misunderstanding would never have happened.
If you have not been issued your TC.com cards yet, then I’m afraid the blame for this bru-ha-ha rests squarely on the shoulders of TC.com, and it’s parent company, Gannett.
How can you write an intellegent blog without proper access to the venue?
Oh, and one last thing, mi tes amigos. If Rodney Glassman is a “political robot,” does this make Raul Gryalva, el Presidente Calderon’s lackey and running dog, or just his pet gusano?
Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba
June 21st, 2010 on 6:53 am
David, I am surprised by what you said that you were not allowed to take your camera into Drinking Liberally at The Shanty, yet others were. Who specifically did not allow you to do this, and why not? I’ve been there before and have taken photos of other speakers.
June 21st, 2010 on 7:41 am
An older gentlemen, Bill I think was his name, who is the owner I believe. He specifically asked me what I had in my bag, and I said a camera.
He said “no video or cameras allowed,” and then I said fine, I’ll leave it in my bag. Then he says “actually, I don’t even want it in the establishment!”
I have witnesses, and another TC blogger can verify this story… Arnie can also verify that other cameras were allowed, pictures were taken, and yet the rules were strictly enforced on me.
This is ironic, since I was able to film Randy Parraz’s visit to Drinking Liberally a few weeks ago and no problem… but then again, Glassman has an official PR guy and I did say I would be broadcasting live from the Shanty in advance, so I’m guessing they were prepared to enforce the “no cameras” rule specifically for myself…
but as a “reasonably suspicious” person, I’m used to the selective enforcement of the “rules” and “laws.” This is still wrong, but then how can you argue in favor of breaking rules, even if everyone else is getting away with it?
Rules are rules, and illegal is illegal… this is Arizona after all…
June 21st, 2010 on 9:40 am
Outrage or no outrage, selective enforcement of rules or not, Rodney Glassman is making his lack of depth and experience very clear.
It’s also very clear that he’s willing to pay a Whole Lot of Money to learn from the School of Hard Knocks just what will take to become a successful politician. Whether he emerges from this, his latest degree program, with any practical understanding won’t be known for a long time.