O'Reilly Interview with the President

[lawrocket 3]

Who was least impressive? First, I was totally unimpressed with O'Reilly. He threw out some hardball questions but didn't get actual answers and didn't dig for the actualy answers. And the hardball questions were far too accusatory.

I was also totally unimpressed with the President. He didn't answer the questions but appeared to give canned press-release-type answers. I was most disturbed by the President's suggestion that scandals are happening only because Fox News is reporting them.

Regardless, I cannot see how anyone would have changed his or her mind after seeing it.

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[JerryBaumchen 1,471]

Hi rocket,

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Regardless, I cannot see how anyone would have changed his or her mind after seeing it.

And do you think anyone changes their minds based upon the horse-pucky found in SC?



JerryBaumchen

[mirage62 0]

Come now...we all know that O'Reilly is the devil.

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[GeorgiaDon 385]

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And do you think anyone changes their minds based upon the horse-pucky found in SC?

On a couple of occasions I have changed my mind about something due to a logical argument or information that people have posted here. Not everyone always posts horse-pucky, though you always have to watch where you're stepping.

Don

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[TriGirl 349]

lawrocket

Who was least impressive? First, I was totally unimpressed with O'Reilly. He threw out some hardball questions but didn't get actual answers and didn't dig for the actualy answers. And the hardball questions were far too accusatory.

I was also totally unimpressed with the President. He didn't answer the questions but appeared to give canned press-release-type answers. I was most disturbed by the President's suggestion that scandals are happening only because Fox News is reporting them.

Regardless, I cannot see how anyone would have changed his or her mind after seeing it.

When an interviewer asks loaded questions stemming from a biased or slanted premise, the only recourse is to respond, not to answer (giving an answer accepts the premise. A response turns the interview into what the subject wants to talk about).

On the one hand, it seems I've spent too many years spent in military public affairs! However, I can actually watch almost any interview and get the real story out of it, since I know what I'm looking for, how to read between the talking points, and what a good interviewer (even one with an agenda) sounds like.


(disclaimer -- I didn't see the interview, but from your description I could guess at how it went.)

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[billvon 3,132]

>Regardless, I cannot see how anyone would have changed his or her mind after seeing it.

Was it entertaining?

[lawrocket 3]

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lawrocket wrote:
Who was least impressive? First, I was totally unimpressed with O'Reilly. He threw out some hardball questions but didn't get actual answers and didn't dig for the actualy answers. And the hardball questions were far too accusatory.

I was also totally unimpressed with the President. He didn't answer the questions but appeared to give canned press-release-type answers. I was most disturbed by the President's suggestion that scandals are happening only because Fox News is reporting them.

Regardless, I cannot see how anyone would have changed his or her mind after seeing it.

When an interviewer asks loaded questions stemming from a biased or slanted premise, the only recourse is to respond, not to answer (giving an answer accepts the premise. A response turns the interview into what the subject wants to talk about).

Of course. At which point it isn't an interview and is instead a speech with someone else there. I thought the questions were good and I don't have the answer. It's masterful politics to give a ten minute interview that doesn't answer questions. Mr. President - was the ACA rollout the worst blunder of your admin? The President wouldn't answer that. Me? I was hoping the President would say something like, "yes. It wasn't even close. We are a month behind in our signups - a full month. That doesn't seem that bad to people but to me, that's unconscionable" there's taking a loaded question and totally cutting off the ammo.

But he didn't, which implicates to me that there are other worse blunders in his mind. Libya? Syria? Snowden? The IRS targeting. The surveillance of journalists. The NSA furor.

Or the ones that weren't even reported yet?

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[grimmie 186]

It wasn't much different from his interviews with GWB. Bill O' asked a few hardball questions and then dodged the follow ups the too.

Not many TV guys are very good interviewers these days. I think it is because they are so used to giving everyone their own opinions on matters, they can't stop long enough and take their slant out of the questioning and actually do an interview.

And when has any politician answered a tough question. Just watch a debate during election time.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

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Mr. President - was the ACA rollout the worst blunder of your admin? The President wouldn't answer that. Me? I was hoping the President would say something like, "yes. It wasn't even close. We are a month behind in our signups - a full month. That doesn't seem that bad to people but to me, that's unconscionable"

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But he didn't, which implicates to me that there are other worse blunders in his mind. Libya? Syria? Snowden? The IRS targeting. The surveillance of journalists. The NSA furor.

And if he does admit it, he implicates to many others that those "blunders" aren't as bad and will be villified for that.

How could the President possibly think that a blunder that delayed people in getting insurance is larger than the thousands of civilians dying in Syria.

etc. etc.