Talk show host mum as Buck says he doesn’t really regret anything recorded on campaign trail
Hey, we all know talk-radio host and right-wing activist Jeff Crank loves Ken Buck.
That’s why, you’d think, he would have asked a follow-up question Oct. 2, when Buck stated on KVOR’s Jeff Crank Show that he doesn’t really regret anything that’s been recorded on the campaign trail.
Crank: Have you ever said anything that you wish you hadn’t on the campaign trail that was recorded?
Buck: You know, not really.
What about all of the recorded statements Buck made during the primary that he’s now taking back (endorsing Personhood, opposing pro-choice judges and common forms of birth control, privatizing Medicare and Social Security, supporting a consumption tax, promising to carry anti-abortion legislation and to close the Dept. of Education immediately, doubting the constitutionality of Social Security).
He doesn’t really regret any of that recorded stuff?
You’d think he’d really really regret saying something that was so off-base that he had to take it back. If he doesn’t regret saying, for example, that he supports a consumption tax, then does his statment that he no longer supports it have any validity? Ditto on Personhood and all the rest of it.
Crank didn’t question Buck about any of this.
And these are not instances when recordings of Buck have been taking out of context, which Buck mentions in the transcript below. These are recorded statements of fact, in full context, that Buck is taking back.
Now, in the wake of Crank’s failure, a reporter should ask Buck this question:
“Mr. Buck, do you regret telling Jeff Crank that you don’t really regret saying anything that was recorded on the campaign trail?”
October 2, 2010
Crank: Have you ever said anything that you wish you hadn’t on the campaign trail that was recorded?
Buck: You know, not really. I’ve got to tell you, the problem with having a tracker, and I had a tracker on me for 16, 17, 18 months on the campaign trail is, what they are doing now is they are taking four or five words out of a three-paragraph answer and completely out of context. So in the sense that do I wish I wasn’t recorded, sure. But the way they are using it is really, I think, unfair and deceitful.