'Chicken Sue' gets grilled
KTVN in Reno filed this report on U.S. Senate hopeful Sue Lowden's sudden national fame as the "Chicken Lady from Nevada", the woman who wants to barter chickens for health care.
You'd think someone running for Senate (actually the Republican primary first, where she's seen as the front-runner) would be somewhat equipped to deal with these questions. Judging by this clip though and other recent actions, or inactions, you'd be wrong.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sue Lowden is being turned into a national punchline lately.
Brandon Rittiman takes a look at the history of statements made by Lowden that led to what some call "Chickengate."
There's even a website now with a chicken converter.
Lowdenplan.com figures you should pay a 1,000 chickens to get your appendix removed or 6,500 chickens for a hip replacement.
Lowden's campaign is basically acting as if this doesn't matter.
We're barely more than a month away from the primary.
And she hopes Republican voters don't start thinking about chickens when they see her name on the ballot.
Lowden was a single term state senator in the mid 1990's (1992-1996), and later the Chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party. Apparently she's either very rusty with this whole politics thing or she was just never very good at it.
RITTIMAN: We caught up with Sue Lowden, and asked what she thought about all the buzz.
LOWDEN: I, I, I'm not sure, uh, what to say, as far if it's been dragged out of proportion.
RITTIMAN: One political scientist told me that this is where Lowden gets into trouble. She's not clearing this up. And while the whole affair seems ridiculous to some, if a candidate can't handle a gaffe about chickens, you might not expect much support at the ballot box.
RITTIMAN (TO LOWDEN): You don't regret your statement?
LOWDEN: I, I, I talk about that, that the Reid campaign is desperate to change the subject from his very unpopular health care bill.
Lowden will probably win in November. Republicans love their skanks stupid.
At what point does the repig party decide they should vet people who chose to run on their party ticket? I would have thought that they would have learned one or two things from the Palin episode. This mindless freak only goes to show that like Palin and Bachmann the repigs are hungry for women on the ballot, no matter how unfit they are for office.
That isn't a slam on women, it's a slam on women stupid enough to support a party that would have denied them the right to vote, let alone run for office.
What? English her second language? Blown out of proportion, you simpleton. The Republikans want stupid women in their party. Ever try to wrangle a smart one?
Calling superchicken!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Let's all practice our chicken impressions.
Dumb cluck. I hope these chickens come home to roost on the headboard of her bed.
I think she might be one that roosts hanging upside-down like a bat.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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"Backwards"
Okay, hanging like a tab?
*scratches head*
I don't get it.
:)
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
will shit on her head while she's in bed.
That makes much more sense.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
I heard it suggested that people contribute to her campaign...with chickens.
Actually, she just should have laid it out. What she probably meant by "barter" was "sexy time".
Good one! LOL! Seriously, this woman is a symptom of the problems with the GOP, where the thinking seems to be that if you launch a physically attractive candidate who can speak well, you're in clover. Trouble is, just because you can speak well and look good doesn't mean you have a brain in your head. Chicken Sue, Scott Brown and Sarah Palin are all birds of a feather.
to complain that there was no option to pay in livestock or foodstuffs on her website. They still haven't replied. I wonder why they haven't... :)
with eggs. Let her sit on them for a while until they hatch, and then she can pay her campaign staff with chicks.
plucky.
Send her a Rubber Chicken!
All I need is an address - we should bury her campaign HQ with rubber chickens!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Damn I wish Colbert had started that campaign last night!
> What she probably meant by "barter" was "sexy time".
When she talked (lied) about how her single mom "bartered" with the doctor to get free service but couldn't say what she traded, all I could think of was how she was implying that poor women should schtup their doctors for basic medical care.
Her goose is cooked!
fowl, a dumb cluck. She's desperately in need of tweetment. But here basic problem is that she doesn't give a hoot about others.
Careful you might ruffle some feathers?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
I need some coffee...I'll go have some Nest-cafe.
what other ideas have the Republicans offered to solve the problem of skyrocketing health care costs?
I, I, I talk about that, that the Reid campaign is desperate to change the subject from his very unpopular health care bill.
And Sue is desperate to change the subject from the "Chicken Lady from Nevada" story.
Pigeon English, parroting the GOP platform.
Chicken Sue...Flock You.
well they blew up the chicken lady in reno last night now they blew up her campaign too.
what god wants, god gets! god help us all.
That would be inaccurate. They need to think "chicken-brained, chickenshit".
Chicken Lady At Strip Show
me-oww!
Finally a good YouTube!!...
Love the Kids In The Hall!
Hilarious!
Thank you, miss_kitty!
If they elect her, then fuck 'em, they deserve her. She comes off like someone with an IQ somewhere around room temperature.
Well hereabouts that be around 105-110.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Or shoe size.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
"Dragged out of proportion"???? The only thing that's been dragged out of proportion is the idea that this dizzy dame is a good candidate for political office of any kind -- never mind the Senate!
"Desperate to change the subject"???? If this isn't a classic example of Freudian projection, I don't know what the hell is! The stammering and the feeble attempts to avoid confronting the monumental gaffe she made shows that she's got desperation to spare.
If this woman doesn't "chicken out" and still manages to win the primary after this, I'll have to come to the inevitable conclusion that there is not one single person left in Nevada (or at least not one single Republican) with a functioning cerebral cortex.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
But she's "not Reid"! Surely they don't have to bother running someone who's not an intellectual garbage heap.
We have 1.6 acres, approximately half of it wooded. About a third is taken up by driveway, garage and house. That leaves a lot of room for chicken coops. I might even want to investigate if there's a way to do a two-story chicken coop to save space - we love the wildlife that comes to visit.
We're in our 50's so we'll almost certainly be needing to produce hundreds of chickens a year. I don't think cattle will work here - we're going to have to stick to chickens.
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The "stupidists" will love her for it , birds of the same feather flock together . A "Chicken converter " , that's good . LOL
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
Love "folksy" answers because they sound more mythical '50s Americana. God, they do not belong in this world.
I found Sue Lowdens campaign anthem;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSZSxyCtF1M
'Talk to the hand'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc31gmjG-Rg
Avian bird flu sue?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
sue lowden would prove to be Nevada's:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_u7VGiMO0U
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
She thinks Harry Reid wants to change the subject from the recent HCR bill but doesn't think one should talk about the only concrete counter proposal from a Republican. I'm only surprised she didn't expand on her marvelous idea. You've got two kidney's after all. Why not trade one for health care credits. Maybe a retina. It's not like you haven't got spare parts. Why some enterprising start-up could make a web site like e-bay where you could auction off surplus tissue for insurance credits. I'd be surprised the code isn't being written as we speak. Move over Ashley Madison. com it's Sue Lowden. com 's turn.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Even her snarkiest critics must admit her feathers have remained unruffled despite all the ridicule.
If I were her, I'd be as mad as a wet hen.
Maybe I miss them, but I never see left-wing loons, except Eric Massa. On the right there's a ton of them: Chicken Sue, Son of Hunter, etc.
Typical 'Thug.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
What not popular Health Care Bill is she talking about? Every poll says Americans want and America need health care reform.
Ms Lowden needs to read some more of those newspapers that Palin claims to read.
Tell you what Sue---our river here is infested with thousands of Asian Carp--how about if we use that as currency. Chickens---what a pain in the ass. I'll get my boat motor ready to go.
Tell me where does the GOP find these political dregs---in a mental ward?
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
only in a selfish nation is health care considered just for the few that can afford it.
any nation that makes mega profits off the sick and needy is doomed.
does anyone understand what we sow we reap?
not in america.
christians dont have a clue what it means.
capitalism will create a selfish greedy imperialistic wars for profits, mega profits off the sick and needy, profits over people,dumbed downed voters,politicans and supreme court and controlled by corp fascism nation.
americans love affair with capitalism will end but not before the middle class is gone bye bye.
of Chicken Sue on the scene, republikans have managed to create the ultimate axis of stooopidity....chicken sue, bailin' palin and crazy eyes bachman
Sue and her Husband run a Casino in Vegas.
Alert the News media and show up with some Live Chickens you want to bet in the Casino; they would look great sitting on a Crap Table.
Will a Chicken fit in a Slot Machine? Enquiring minds want to know.
Donaldd
Always knew that right-wingers want to change the salary structure of America. Never thought it would start with physicians subsisting on chickens and sheep. How will they pay back their student loans or pay for their malpractice insurance? With eggs? I'm sure that will go over well. If the right-wingers want to change salary structure, why don't they start on executive salaries or on Wall Street brokers who got us into this mess? But of course, that will never come up.
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