{"id":1468214,"date":"2022-05-08T18:29:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T22:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468214"},"modified":"2022-05-08T18:29:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T22:29:40","slug":"you-weasel-arizona-senate-candidate-blows-up-at-reporter-over-hit-piece-claiming-hed-ban-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-weasel-arizona-senate-candidate-blows-up-at-reporter-over-hit-piece-claiming-hed-ban-birth-control\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Weasel\u2019: Arizona Senate Candidate Blows Up At Reporter Over Hit Piece Claiming He\u2019d Ban Birth Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-weasel-arizona-senate-candidate-blows-up-at-reporter-over-hit-piece-claiming-hed-ban-birth-control%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468214&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1233109577.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters unloaded on a local reporter over a hit piece claiming that he was in favor of banning the use of contraception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey @DillonReedRose\u00a0you are a hack. This piece wildly misrepresents my views, which was your goal. Time for a thread about journalistic ethics &#038; the way reporters shamelessly attack anyone to the right of AOC,\u201d Masters began.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DillonReedRose?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DillonReedRose<\/a> you are a hack. This piece wildly misrepresents my views, which was your goal. Time for a thread about journalistic ethics &#038; the way reporters shamelessly attack anyone to the right of AOC. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0712xElFDZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/0712xElFDZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blake Masters (@bgmasters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgmasters\/status\/1522957518233751552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be clear about this: you didn\u2019t ask for comment. Not really. You wrote to the wrong email address for my campaign manager despite knowing her correct email (so we wouldn\u2019t see it in time), and then published your hit piece 90 minutes later. You weasel,\u201d Masters continued, sharing a screenshot of the email requesting comment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let&#8217;s be clear about this: you didn&#8217;t ask for comment. Not really. You wrote to the wrong email address for my campaign manager despite knowing her correct email (so we wouldn\u2019t see it in time), and then published your hit piece 90 minutes later. You weasel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uOPaAvf3Q0\">pic.twitter.com\/uOPaAvf3Q0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blake Masters (@bgmasters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgmasters\/status\/1522957532859314177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHad you gone about this ethically \u2014 had you written to our real email address more than an hour before publishing \u2014 I would have said (and let\u2019s see if you update your story and quote me): I am pro-life. And of course I don\u2019t think contraceptives should be outlawed,\u201d Masters <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgmasters\/status\/1522957535195451395\">continued<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to note that his issue with\u00a0<em>Griswold<\/em> had nothing to do with allowing the use of contraception \u2014 but with the way in which the court went about ensuring that right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Griswold, the justices wholesale *made up a constitutional right* to achieve a political outcome. I am opposed to judges making law. It\u2019s the job of the legislative branch to create laws, not the courts. This is separation of powers 101,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgmasters\/status\/1522957536776704001\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Masters turned back to address the reporter again, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgmasters\/status\/1522957538647429120\">adding<\/a>, \u201cEither this \u2018reporter\u2019 does not understand how our legal system works (and so cannot separate the outcome of a case from the legal reasoning behind a decision) or he\u2019s a fake news journalist with an axe to grind. My money\u2019s on both, actually!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masters went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgmasters\/status\/1522957540056727553\">argue<\/a> that the reason for the dishonest reporting could be rooted in the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/how-each-state-differs-on-abortion-laws\/\">unlimited abortion<\/a> through all nine months of pregnancy is less popular than the left would like \u2014 and the response was a media willing to resort to \u201cbaselessly smearing Republicans, and calling it \u2018fact checking.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did this to President Trump, they did it to Justice Kavanaugh, they will do it to random cake bakers, they did it to Tucker last week, they\u2019re doing it to me as a candidate, and you\u2019re up next,\u201d Masters continued, concluding, \u201cThis is why no one trusts the media anymore. We need Republicans who won\u2019t run scared when the corrupt media establishment tries to intimidate them. That\u2019s why I\u2019m running for US Senate, because the time for kowtowing to these people is over. We will fight and we will win.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We need Republicans who won\u2019t run scared when the corrupt media establishment tries to intimidate them. That\u2019s why I\u2019m running for US Senate, because the time for kowtowing to these people is over. We will fight and we will win. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EeSpAgw2nW\">https:\/\/t.co\/EeSpAgw2nW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Blake Masters (@bgmasters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgmasters\/status\/1522957543034687489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time of publication, the article in question had not been updated to include Masters\u2019 comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters unloaded on a local reporter over a hit piece claiming that he was in favor of banning the use of contraception.\u201cHey @DillonReedRose\u00a0you are a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1482047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}