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If you’re still trying to understand Republican U.S. Senate candidate Darryl Glenn, consider listening to the interview of Glenn that aired on Colorado Public Radio last month. It’s one of the most illuminating interviews of Glenn so far.
Host Ryan Warner touched on a bunch of topics, first explaining that Glenn, who describes himself as an “unapologetic Christian, constitutional conservative pro-life, Second-Amendment-loving American,” is an El Paso Country Commissioner whose low-budget primary victory was fueled by a powerful speech at a Colorado Republican convention and his endorsements from Sarah Palin and Sen. Ted Cruz.
A good radio interview gives you an overall sense of the interviewee, in addition to the substance. And Warner’s interview of Glenn shows the candidate’s combativeness and confidence. So you should listen to the interview, not just read it, though you can do both here.
Warner pushes Glenn with admirable persistence on global warming, which Glenn rejects as being caused by humans. Here’s the exchange:
Warner: To get you on the record, you do not agree with the majority of scientists who say climate change has human causes. Is that correct?
Glenn: Well that’s your assumption. You’re bringing an assumption to the table and the premise to your question has me to basically adopt your position and I can’t do that without verifiable data.
Warner: Oh it’s not my position. It’s that the majority of scientists believe that climate change has a human caused component. Do you concur with them?
Glenn: Again, you are bringing facts to the particular issue that I don’t have, been presented to me. You’re saying that the majority of scientists are saying that. That’s your statement.
Warner: Right. Well, that’s a fact. Is it a fact that you agree with?
Glenn: Well that’s the fact that you’re representing and I don’t accept your premise of that question.
Warner: Do you believe that climate change has human causes?
Glenn: Well again, I would, I am a data guy, I would want to see the, a verifiable information of that.
Warner: There’s a lot out there. Have you looked at it?
Glenn: We’ve looked at a lot of things. We’ve also looked at that and we’ve also looked at the economic impact of this policy and how they are disproportionally hurting people when it comes to their livelihood. So that’s really where the focus is. We need to make sure we’re looking at policies like that that we’re looking at both sides of the equation instead of just one. And unfortunately I gotta head into another interview. But I really appreciate this opportunity. I look forward to talking to you again in the future.
Warner: Thanks for your time.
On taxes, Glenn told Warner he supports something like a flat tax.
Glenn: “And then you need to come up with a tax philosophy that’s simplified, something that’s easy for people to understand that allows people to contribute their fair share, in my opinion, probably a flat tax rate is something that we should look at.”
Glenn told Warner he does not believe that suspected terrorists on the government’s “no fly” list should be prohibited from buying guns, because the no-fly list is not accurate enough and could delay or stop innocent Americans from buying firearms.
Glenn backs Trump, yet he would not answer a series of questions from Warner about Trump policies, including whether he supports Trump’s proposal to force Mexico to build a wall on the border. And Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S.
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So….. just word salad non-answers to every question, evasions in which repetitions of his very limited collection of talking points, no more than three or four, are cobbled together, usually in exactly the same words and order, in response to absolutely everything and anything.
I don't think I've ever heard an interview with less 'there" there and that's saying a lot since evasion and repeating talking points is pretty standard operating procedure for pols. But the degree here is pretty jaw dropping. Most pols manage to sound like they are saying at least something in direct response to some questions. Glenn never does. Not in one single response.
This is the guy who so moved Colorado GOP caucus goers? Seriously? While he certainly sounds more polite, he makes Sarah Palin sound coherent and Donald Trump sound knowledgeable by comparison.
But he has a tan!
Thanks for the heads up. As is so often the case, good information is out there, but if you don't happen to catch the juicy bits at just the right time, it is easy to miss it entirely.
With the singular exception of Dan Maes, this guy Daryl Glenn has got to be the most bizarre candidate to come out of a Colorado Republican statewide primary in the past 30 years.
They’ve had a couple of other exotic candidates (John Andrews and Ken Buck, I’m looking at you two) but this dude is in a class of his own.
They would have been better off running Tim Neville.
Wow, he has a mind like a steel trap — rusted shut from disuse!