How can you tell gotcha journalism from tough serious questioning of a candidates?

[Moonbeam]

I watch with amusement MSNBC analysis pick apart The Donald's bleeding from wherever remark, defending the journalist saying she wasn't angry, no blood was coming from her eyes, and her question was reasonable and journalistically responsible. What kind of idiots are they? I saw gotcha journalism up the yin yang and I believe that was the blood Trump was referring to. She didn't have to appear angry for him to know her intention and he let her have it for it. He knows what fair is and the question was gotcha journalism because it had an ulterior intention. The Republican establishment doesn't want Trump in the race and the left can't get their heads around him. He is a magnificent example of how instinctive clarity always defeats liberal rationalism on issues of fear.

He will form a phalanx with Republicans behind him and cut through the Democratic ranks. I'm wondering if Sanders has the courage to express rage.

The gotcha folk are being scattered to the winds by The Master Gotcha Man. He's turned the political rules on their head, shown a light in a cockroach den.

Best of luck to the sick filthy scum he steps on and all the masks he tears off. Trump makes me happy. Sorry about that.

"You know Sean, Planned Parenthood does a lot of good things. It's just the abortion part that's bad." What kind of fucking Republican can think? I don't get it, but I love it.

 

[piasabird]

How come at a republican debate they ask all these ultra left wing liberal questions? Fox news is to blame for messing up this republican debate. They were so worried about trying to not be too conservative that they shot their own foot. I am a conservative, but I did not watch the debate. However, I did listen to the news about it. I don't watch any TV at home except what I get from the Internet. However, Fox News has always seemed to be a bunch of sick right and left coaster yuppies. They don't represent the real people.

 

[Moonbeam]

How come at a republican debate they ask all these ultra left wing liberal questions? Fox news is to blame for messing up this republican debate. They were so worried about trying to not be too conservative that they shot their own foot. I am a conservative, but I did not watch the debate. However, I did listen to the news about it. I don't watch any TV at home except what I get from the Internet. However, Fox News has always seemed to be a bunch of sick right and left coaster yuppies. They don't represent the real people.

Well, everyone is real. But otherwise I think your point is fair. Asking, however, if all pledged to support the winner was, I think, only aimed at Trump.

 

[HomerJS]

Well, everyone is real. But otherwise I think your point is fair. Asking, however, if all pledged to support the winner was, I think, only aimed at Trump.

Absolutely. It wasn't so much a gotcha because people already knew the answer. Fox wanted the visual to isolate Trump. It was a hit job to push him out of the race but it backfired.

I'm going to suggest a sort of gotcha question to CNN for next debate. All the PP genuflecting is a canard. Show of hands, "do you support a nationwide ban on fetal tissue research?"

 

[BonzaiDuck]

FOX has an agenda, no less than Murdoch or Aisles have had agendas.

It is easy and reasonable to assume that FOX wants to see a Republican win in 2016.

Start with that.

As for the questions: do you really think these questions address all the issues pertinent to the campaign? Or more succinctly -- to the country?

They will debate among themselves those issues they think will get the most nibbles from the potential electorate and viewers.

In order to see this all play out, you'll have to wait and watch both sides of the political equation make their pitches.

I've been around for nearly 7 decades. I remember a time when campaigns ended after an election, and started later before the next one.

Really. Did the campaign of 2008 or 2010 or 2012 really end? Fundamental changes in media and the opportunity to be in your own spotlight on Facebook or any other venue has changed how we behave and the psychologies that are thrown into play.