I don't see what the problem is with this interview? The interviewer obviously lacked the proper respect for Bush, she kept interrupting in the middle of his answers. I thought he gave pretty good answers too...
Spain, Romania, Georgia aren't European countries? I didn't know that. Your list also doesn't include the Ukraine who also has troops in Iraq.
Of course you would respond like that. You lack the ability to argue anything without resorting to personal attacks for no reason. Do me, and everyone on this forum, a favor and quit your trolling and just DIE. PLEASE.
Hmm...wishing me death. Nice bannable offense there.
Seriously, ntdz, stop watching FAUX and listening to Insanity.
Seriously, ntdz, stop watching FAUX and listening to Insanity.
I dont watch either. Quit drawing conclusions without knowing anything about which you speak of.
Is every reporter supposed to STFU and kiss the Propagandist's ass? She did everything proper a reporter is supposed to do. The Propagandist was rude and controlled the interviewed completely as he didn't want to answer questions.
He was finished. He was just spouting inanities and talking points. It was a typical interview. When a point is brought up a reporter will interject a question. The reporter/interviewer is the one directing the show.
He's really practiced at being a condescending prick, isn't he?
He's like a 5-year-old in these sort of interviews. You know the one, the one that doesn't kiss his ass a la the White House Press Corps.
He's like a 5-year-old in these sort of interviews. You know the one, the one that doesn't kiss his ass a la the White House Press Corps.
To his credit, he sounded like a moron all the way up to the election. But these days I think he does sound a bit more intelligent during interviews and press conferences
You apparently didn't see his press conference the other week. The scripted stuff is fine. The Q&A he's a buffoon.
I've watched the video, and I believe she was not intentionally interrupting him to show a "lack of respect". If you didn't notice, Bush does tend to take significant pauses between sentences. In most language speaking cultures, this is where you properly interject in a conversation. And also, he does avoid directly answering the question fairly often, it is the job of the interviewer to keep the interviewee on subject. Out of the two, I believe that Bush was the one who showed a lack of respect to the interviewer, by sidestepping her questions and verbally batting her questions aside.
pffff
if this is considered rude journalism then you haven't seen non-scripted interviews with European leaders by the popular European news shows.
Blair, Chiraq, Berlusconi and most other west-european leaders have to do this kind of interviews almost on a weekly basis and IMO this is good for a democracy. There is something like accountability and tough questions by journalists are just part of a good working and free press.
if this is considered rude journalism then you haven't seen non-scripted interviews with European leaders by the popular European news shows.
Blair, Chiraq, Berlusconi and most other west-european leaders have to do this kind of interviews almost on a weekly basis and IMO this is good for a democracy. There is something like accountability and tough questions by journalists are just part of a good working and free press.
You should write a jingle about banning . Then when you repeat ban so often we will all get it stuck in our head like some catchy little ditty and remember the rules .
Anyways.
An irish person complaining about terrorists?
Once again we hear from the ones who are disappointed that a debate team captain wasn't elected. Better a traitor like Kerry than someone who stumbles when he speaks.
kage69
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Once again a YABA tries to make it seem like Bush only has a mild case of stage-fright, ignoring the years of behavior we have from him that illustrates otherwise. Better someone who has had to hold a gun in combat take us to war than a spoiled brat chickenhawk.
"Tribal sovereignty means that, it's sovereign. You're a?you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities."?Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004
Bush is a mental midget putting on airs of political fluency - and failing badly. His problem is more severe than a simple muddling of words, anyone who has paid any attention to his speeches and policies would know that. If grammar were indeed his only problem, would he have proved to us he didn't know the difference between Medicare and Medicaid? Could his tenous grip on English sentence structure be blamed for his multiple, conflicting positions on stem-cell research?
He's a twit. Deal with it.
Two quick lies....I mean, misspeaks, that I picked up on IMMEDIATELY.
1. The Madrid bombing WASN'T in response to the invasion of Iraq.
2. Bush's multiple assertions that HE was the only president to call for a Palestinian state.
1. The Madrid bombing WASN'T in response to the invasion of Iraq.
2. Bush's multiple assertions that HE was the only president to call for a Palestinian state.
This interview shows how poor the US media is. Her "interruptions" are simply her way of trying to make him answer the question she asked rather than ignore it and spout his rhetoric. This is something that journalists have done since the beginning of journalism, and only recently the US media has stopped doing it by sticking to asking scripted questions and letting him (and others) just read prewritten responses and calling that an interview.
The point of a good interview is to challenge the person being interviewed to answer truthfully, not lob a softball at him and sit back and listen.
The point of a good interview is to challenge the person being interviewed to answer truthfully, not lob a softball at him and sit back and listen.
StageLeft
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Indeed. You're right on point, and it happens so infrequently (holding somebody to the fire and demanding an answer) that when I do see it I'm like "hell yeah!". They probably don't do it because they know that they won't get interviews if they're actually "hard" on their guests.
Well exactly. They are told that either the interviewer asks specific questions, or they won't get the interview. And since an interview with Bush = ratings, they agree to it.
It used to be that the media would stick together and refuse such demands, basically telling the Whitehouse (or whoever) that either there are no rules to the interview, or you aren't going to be able to get your story out at all. Once one started caving in though (which includes faux-journalists like Barbara Walters ("Tell us Mr. President, what's your favorite color?"), and rabid partisan journalists like Bill O'Reilly and the like), they all started caving in so they weren't the ones left without an interview at all.
Sad state of affairs, but reality. And all the more reason to get your news from the BBC and other sources.
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