Sharron Angle hires new, experienced communications director

Sharron Angle again raised eyebrows Monday in an interview on Fox News when she said she wants the press to ask the questions she wants to answer.

"We need to have the press be our friend," she said.

Surprised interviewer Carl Cameron challenged Angle, but she didn't back away: "We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so they report the news the way we want it to be reported."

She followed that with another statement - similar to what she has said in previous interviews - that she needs to be able to ask viewers to send money to her website during interviews.

The interview was followed a day later by the announcement that Angle has hired an experienced communications director, Jarrod Agen, to oversee the campaign's public and media relations activity. Agen previously served as communications director for Steve Poizner's California gubernatorial campaign and was deputy press secretary for the federal Department of Homeland Security. In addition, he was regional communications director for Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign.

One of Agen's responsibilities will be to respond to anti-Angle advertisements by Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Reid's most recent was issued Tuesday, attacking Angle for describing the

$20 billion fund BP set aside to clean up the Gulf Coast oil spill as "a slush fund" and her statements that the Energy Department should be abolished.