Paul Ryan did an interview in Michigan yesterday but it ended abruptly as the reporter got snarky at the end. The reporter asked if the US has a gun problem, and Ryan answered by saying no. When pressed, he talked about the solution to inner city violence is to encourage opportunity, discipline, and good character via the civil society.

The reporter then responded “and you can do all that by cutting taxes, with a big tax cut?” Ryan said “those are your words, not mine” and then ended the interview.

As he was pulling off his mic, Ryan told the reporter “That was kind of strange…you’re trying to stuff words in people’s mouths.”

Watch the clip below:




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Rocco11
Rocco11

The coordinated corruption in the Leftist media is amazing. Some Leftist douchebag reporter hit the great Steve Wynn with the identical question yesterday.

General Lee
General Lee

Well, let's see dumb ass, you had an ultra-liberal governor for two terms and Obama for 4 years and DETROIT is the biggest *hit hole in the country; how's that liberalism workin' for ya? Michigan is just like California; the harder they push liberalism, (and by extension, the corruption it brings) the more things turn to crap, but they don't get it. They still push for more liberal democrats. Guns aren't the problem with Detroit, the PEOPLE of Detroit are the problem. Take a look around, it's not rocket science.

TexasEnforcer
TexasEnforcer

That's why this reporter will never make it in the big time. IDIOT!

drphibes
drphibes

Hack.

That's why you're "live from Detroit."

stage9
stage9

LOL! I thought Ryan was going to swing at him! Would loved to have seen that!

A_Truism
A_Truism

Maybe knock some sense into the reporter? I can't believe the guy actually kept his smart-alec fail for the news! Hahahahaha...

notebene
notebene

Good for Paul! Another great answer is if you want more tax money, you need to have more people gainfully employed to pay taxes! The 47% playing the system need to get of their arses and get to work once it's available! Private industry jobs are the ONLY way to get people gainfully employed, not public sector jobs. Without private sector jobs, we can't afford public employees! Another liberal joke, trying to pass as a journalist sent to the woodshed...can't wait to see Ryan make Biden so mad he cries!

AlabamaPatriot2
AlabamaPatriot2

Paul should have followed up with a hard right hook to the body and a combination to the head.

Haydon Young
Haydon Young

Fck nazi paul ryan.

stage9
stage9

YOU'RE RIGHT! Paul Ryan is a NATZI! And we need'a strang him up!

"I'm putting together a special team, and I need me eight soldiers. Eight Jewish-American soldiers.

"Now, y'all might've heard rumors about the armada happening soon. Well, we'll be leaving a little earlier. We're gonna be dropped into France, dressed as civilians. And once we're in enemy territ'ry, as a bushwhackin' guerrilla army, we're gonna be doin' one thang and one thang only... killin' Natzis.

"Now, I don't know about y'all, but I sure as hell didn't come down from the... Smoky Mountains, cross five thousand miles of water, fight my way through half of Sicily and jump out of a...air-o-plane to teach the Natzis lessons in humanity. A Natzi ain't got no humanity. They're the foot soldiers of a Jew-hatin', mass murderin' maniac and they need to be dee-stroyed. That's why any and every [natzi] we find wearin' a Natzi uniform, they're gonna die.

"Now, I'm the direct descendant of the mountain man Jim Bridger. That means I got a little Injun in me. And our battle plan will be that of an Apache resistance. We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the German won't not be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the German will be sickened by us, and the German will talk about us, and the German will fear us. And when the German closes his eyes at night and he's tortured by his subconscious for the evil he has done, it will be with thoughts of us he is tortured with. Sound good?"

Conservator1
Conservator1

Thankfully Ryan and his staff ended the partisan attack guised as an interview from a local journalist who had already went far beyond the time allotment the campaign agreed to. When a journalist states after a long interview focusing on guns, "and you can do all that by cutting taxes, with a big tax cut,” it's obvious the reporter was making a political statement on behalf of Team Obama.

If this is the Ryan who shows up to thursday's debate, Biden is in trouble even with a lefty moderator like ABC's Martha Raddatz.

CalCoolidge
CalCoolidge

Did he say, "civil society/" I think Ryan has been reading and listening to Mark Levin. If he says "statist," then we can be sure.

:-)

And then the reported emphasized the Democrat talking point that Romney hasn't been "specific."

kong1967
kong1967

WTF?

Reporter: "So, your goal is to give a better education to our children?"

Obama: "Yes, Steve."

Reporter: "....and you do that by killing terrorists with drones?"

This reporter is drawing a false conclusion from unrelated topics.

aposematic
aposematic

Hmmm... Why the leftists' talking/pushing point as this headline? This headline should say: Paul Ryan's crew abruptly ends interview after reporter gets snarky. Repeating leftist crap like Ryan abruptly ending the interview is incorrect as the recording shows, yet you repeat the leftist BS in the heading. Stuff like this happens on a lot of "so called" conservative sights...someone, anyone, please explain why this happens? Can you not think for yourselves...the D's hope you can't...ha, ha, its the D's only hope... So again, why do it?

A_Truism
A_Truism

I think it's to draw the liberals in so they, in their stupidity, thinking they've discovered another liberal site, find, to their horror, comments from citizens and lovers of America who actually know truth from bullcrap, and maybe, can learn something about it. Or am I a wishful thinker? Everyday is Opposite Day for libs.

Clevername1234
Clevername1234

I'm shocked we didn't see a gun fight behind the reporter at the end of the video.

Clevername1234
Clevername1234

It sounded like someone in the background cut the interview off before Ryan took his mic off.

Rich Wojcik
Rich Wojcik

Vice Prez. RYAN - your debate moderator is being instructed by WH now. Achtung!!!

Please - hit Biden so hard, that MSM also gets some of your punches! ;)

mike3e4r7
mike3e4r7

This testosterone challenged interviewer thought he could throw Ryan a curve ball that he couldn't handle. When Ryan hit the ball hard right back at the pitcher's mound, the interviewer quickly decided the interview was over. I think Ryan's annoyance was the annoyance you have when someone starts a fight with you and gets your adreneline up and when you're all pumped up and ready to kick some ass, the wimp decides it's mike's off - time to end the interview.

A_Truism
A_Truism

What I love is that Paul Ryan eyed him straight when commenting on his last question.

Robert4Liberty
Robert4Liberty

I live where this is our local news channel. They pretty much worship at the Michael Moore alter here.

RonPaulSupporter2
RonPaulSupporter2

Figures, he's from Detroit. One of the most democrat cities in the nation along with one of the highest rates of poverty, highest rates of crime, lowest per capita income, etc. I guess you have to expect this from the liberal democrat Detroit media.

JohnBarry2012
JohnBarry2012

Ouch! When trying to stuff words in people’s mouths, the reporter quickly found out there are sharp teech at the other end. You can't treat a "congressional leader" with such a flippant hectoring remark without getting a stern rebuke. The junior reporter did much a disservice to discredit ABCNews.

Laurel
Laurel

Talk about bias! the reporter didn't even try to cloak it.

hermsmd
hermsmd

Par for the course for Flint. I am from Flint originally, and the intellectual vapidity of its news stations and papers is astounding. It's amazing how dying cities are paralleled by vacuous city government officials and media who refuse to try something different for a change. But, alas, that would defeat the purpose of the Democrat machine.

So, shout it like Terry--Guns and Tax Cuts murder people just like Mitt Romney!

On second thought, suggest that to your Democrat friends so they sound just a little more eggheaded.

Camp...you suck....bad!

tularockstar
tularockstar

What a schmuck! This reporter was definitely biased and was trying to ambush Ryan in his interview. This loser couldn't care less about the inner city and its crimes. Detroit has been a crime capital for decades, and nothing but education and job opportunities will help. I'm glad Paul Ryan gave it back to this liberal slime!

proudhispanicconservative
proudhispanicconservative

It's amazing that this liberal hack doesn't realize that he might be speaking to the next Vice president of the United States. Ryan make sure you take that anger right to the debate okay, let's make sure that we send that senior citizen Biden all the way back to his little state of Delaware.

Wolfie
Wolfie

I think we were lucky to be able to see Paul Ryan on the video with that reporters huge chip on one shoulder and huge agenda on the other!

Ryan is going to eat Biden for lunch in that upcoming debate! I'm tempted to suggest that Biden might try and pull a sick-day or something at the last minute to get out of the debate entirely. Wouldn't put it past team NObama to pull that kind of stunt knowing what Biden is capable of gaffing out.

anneinarkansas
anneinarkansas

What a jerk!

Ryan is capable of handling this type...love it, love it, love it!

NYGino
NYGino

Like it. Ryan must be a fan of Newt.

NJK
NJK

I hear the condescending tone in this so called journalists voice. He is a leftist who's wearing the journalism title. Good for Paul Ryan. Somewhere along the line, someone told these people that they're smarter and more important than they actually are.

Conservative_Hippie
Conservative_Hippie

RS, I tend to agree with RosiesSeeingRed that Ryan didn't end this interview. Can you find any source that proves conclusively that Ryan or one his surrogates ended the interview, because it seems to me that the interviewer's people were the ones that ended it "abruptly". I'm just curious what really happened.

sjmom
sjmom

Looks like the GOP is beginning to show some chutzpah in these interviews. Paul Ryan answered the question and the reporter wanted to make hay of it but Ryan is the one who ate his oats and the reporter is left with the hay.

TIMERUNNER
TIMERUNNER

The person working with the Ryan campaign who we heard in the back ground say the interview is over, was obviously not the loser Ed Rawlins who is a back stabbing (RINO) ie Perot / Bachmann campaigns.

The person we heard knew this big government leftist reporter was trying to change the subject in order to prop up the liberal agenda of Obama and the democrat party. So this was a great move by the Ryan campaign people to end the interview.

Maybe the leftest media & RINOS will now play by the rules, but i doubt it, they never do.

Tea Party Patriot

NJK
NJK

I think if they don't play by the rules, you stop doing interviews with them.

TIMERUNNER
TIMERUNNER

I wish you were right about not doing the interviews with the left. But who can say for sure maybe someone watching and listening may be turned in the right direction by what they see and hear done by the leftist media talking heads.

We see many voters switching parties as we speak. though it's to late form many to vote since some states have a 30 rule to register and vote. but maybe we have a few who will not vote for obama or any other democrat.

I'm sure it's only a dream, but possible.

we can alway's walk out.

Chester Simms
Chester Simms

A punch in this fool's face would've doubled my already great respect for Ryan.

Wolfie
Wolfie

Much as you and I might think that jerk of a "reporter" deserved it, it's just as well Ryan kept his cool. Had he punched him, we'd be seeing it in ads from here until election day with the tagline "Can we trust such a hothead to be our V.P.?" etc...

proudhispanicconservative
proudhispanicconservative

Spot on!!!!!! I am amazed as how Ryan is able to keep his cool, I promise i would not have been so nice.