Sharron Angle Accuses Political Opponents Of Staging Town Hall Brawl

Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle is calling conspiracy on some unfortunate events at her town hall meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that turned the meeting into an ad hoc episode of Jerry Springer. Discussing the brawl with national radio host Jerry Doyle yesterday, Angle argued that “there were two women that were actually looking for a fight, trying to get that to be the top news story.” Wonder who sent them?

Asked for her comments on the brawl, Angle called the whole thing a Saul Alinsky tactic by her opponents (though she doesn’t cite Sen. Reid specifically), and argues that the people fighting were intending to distract media attention away from her platform views. “You don’t want the news to talk about the debate,” she explained, “… they staged a fight. It’s the way I felt that it was going and there were two women that were actually looking for a fight.”

According to CNN, the fact that Angle didn’t name Reid didn’t mean they didn’t take it to be an attack on them. In fact, the campaign has already responded:

“Beyond her extreme and dangerous agenda for Nevada, Angle has said many things that cause reasonable people to literally question her sanity and whether or not Angle knows the difference between the pathological things that escape her mouth and objective reality – and this may take the cake,” Reid’s spokesman, Kelly Steele said in a statement.

Audio of her segment with Jerry Doyle below: