Alvin Greene Interview Video: South Carolina Senate Candidate Asks ‘Can I End This?’
The media whirlwind that South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Alvin Greene stirred up with his shocking primary victory on Tuesday may be getting to him.
Shortly after news of Greene’s felony charges become public, reporters from local station WMBF in the state showed up at Greene’s door to ask him some questions.
Greene appeared visibly uncomfortable throughout the interview, and less than a minute in asks, “can I end this?” He later seems to hit his stride, however, and he gives the reporter a little bit of information about his campaign platform, which he sums up as “jobs, education and justice.”
On Thursday, Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) accused Greene of being “someone’s plant” and encouraged the U.S. Attorney’s office to mount a probe of his candidacy.
Watch the interview:
Update:
Keith Olbermann has played several roles over his long media career, but on Thursday he may have had his closest brush with being a dentist.
Interviewing Alvin Greene was like pulling teeth.
Greene, the upset winner of South Carolina’s Democratic Senate primary, appeared on Olbermann’s ‘Countdown’ to discuss his surprising campaign. His brief answers reinforced the image that Greene is not a traditional candidate.
But is he a legitimate candidate? Asked about speculation that he may be a Republican plant, Greene insisted he has always been a Democrat and will continue to be one in the future.
The other thing that Greene made clear during the stilted and somewhat awkward interview was that he intends to see the race through, despite the wishes of his own party. Among Democrats’ concerns is a pending felony charge involving obscenity.
In his sharpest moment of the show, the newly minted politician made it clear that he feels his brief record stands on its own merits. “I had sixty percent of the vote. Sixty percent of the vote is not luck. That’s a decisive win.”
watch: Note if you listen clearly when Greene say 64 yrs old you can clearly hear someone in the background feeding him info!
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Interview with shep smith Fox News!!
I think the stinking rat here is the South Carolina Republican party. Looks like they planted candidates in three (3) other races, as well. I’m surprised they have the time what with all the adulterous trysts going on, but, perhaps, they are an energetic people despite the subtropical heat.
Shep: You know what people in your own party are saying, Mr. Greene, that people voted for you because alphabetically speaking you were first on the list and that’s why you got 58-59%.
Greene: Look, 60% is very decisive.
Shep: You know Mr. Greene, I like it, and you wouldn’t be the first politician to ever work off talking points, but as I read today through the websites of all of the things that you’ve said every single word you’ve said to me of substance today is repeated….you’re saying the same things over and over again in the same way you’ve said them before. Are they written down?
Greene: Well I get asked the same questions all the time, so I have the same answers for the same questions.
Shep: And to those who would say ‘I smell a rat’ you would say ’stop smelling’?
Greene: Yes
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Shep: You have a matter of a porn charge against you, how are you going to handle that?
Greene: I have no comment on that.
Shep: No, no, seriously sir, wait just a moment. With great respect, you are running to be a senator from the great state of South Carolina, trying to unseat an incumbent, you did so without campaigning, you have a porn charge against you, you’re not going to tell the people of your state the details of those charges?
Greene: I have no comment on that.