From Fox News: Paul Ryan
abruptly ended an interview with an ABC affiliate in Flint after the
reporter tried to grill the vice presidential candidate on gun violence
and tax cuts.
"Does the country have a gun problem?" WJRT's Terry Camp asked in a one-on-one interview.
"This country has a crime problem," Ryan responded. After the anchor
pressed him on whether he thinks the country has a "gun problem," the
self-described deer hunter elaborated, "If you take a look at the gun
laws we have, I don't even think President Obama is proposing more gun
laws. We have good, strong gun laws."
Camp challenged him again, and Ryan said, "We have to make sure we
enforce our laws. We have lots of laws that aren't being properly
enforced. We need to make sure we enforce these laws. But the best thing
to help prevent violent crime in the inner cities is to bring
opportunity to the inner cities." He credited the work of charities,
civic groups, and churches with helping to instill "good discipline,
good character" in civil society.
In an unlikely turn, the WJRT reporter followed up by asking, "And you can do all that by cutting taxes? With a big tax cut?"
"Those are your words, not mine," Ryan responded curtly. His press
secretary Michael Steel interrupted from off-camera, "Thank you very
much, sir."
As Ryan began taking off his mic, he commented, "That was kind of strange, you're trying to stuff words in people's mouths?"
Camp replied, "Well, I don't know if it's strange."
Ryan disagreed, "Sounds like you're trying to put answers to
questions," after which the camera lens is covered in a video that was
posted on the affiliate's website but was later removed.
Campaign spokesman Brendan Buck characterized Camp's question "weird"
and a "strange situation" in which the anchor "embarrassed" himself.
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