On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 1:26 PM Jon Delfin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 4:24 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [snip] >> >> That said, this wasn’t an especially good interview... it’s just that the >> people who typically interview Trump are so bad at even basic follow-up >> questions or on-the-spot fact checking that it appears to be a great >> interview. >> > > What would you have had Swan do to make it a better interview? > What Swan did well was prepare questions and lead Trump into his usual lies, blustering, and non-answers. But that’s not difficult to do; asking Trump anything will almost guarantee a Trumpian non-answer. What needs to happen (and what I’d like to happen at the debates) is to keep pressing Trump not on his dumbass statements, and not even about the habitual lying, but about his actions and the actions taken by this administration. He’s enacted the most discriminatory policies in my lifetime. He’s plunged the nation deeper into debt (prior to Covid) faster than any point in my lifetime. He’s destroyed foreign policy... it genuinely does not exist. Long serving ranking members of government and the military have quit/resigned out of embarrassment at even being associated with Trump’s actions... that doesn’t get talked about enough. Instead of focusing on what he has said or proving (once again) how genuinely stupid Trump is, get into the substance. But if a reporter wanted to focus on Trump’s words, he has led verbal attacks on groups and individuals (the media being an obvious example) which directly led to murders of innocent people... that’s worthy of more than an hour of intense interrogation. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABCcf4cup4YABAyeGGw1MjFJDr5OhYFkp7c4-e8UU7Smgoa%3Dmg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABCcf4cup4YABAyeGGw1MjFJDr5OhYFkp7c4-e8UU7Smgoa%3Dmg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKgmY4AKFXfNrkrkOUm%3D6%3D8j205h1hOAz_9%3D3aN7PbpUMb3oHA%40mail.gmail.com.
