Tucker Bounds got served

[HashiriyaS14]

Anyone see this?

Read the article and then watch the Youtube vid. I admit that Campbell was a little too aggressive, but she had to make the guy answer the question when he was repeatedly dodging it.

How is this going to work when Palin has to defend herself? Alaska press have noted that she doesn't respond very well to being forced off-message in interviews and debates, but that's precisely what the national media is going to do. She should be less afraid of Joe Biden than she should be of the media.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.c...9.php

[96Qowner]

Professional interviewers know that some questions aren't going to be answered directly. The best ones ask the question, follow up, express their dismay that it wasn't answered, and move on.

Brown has personal issues that apparently keep her from doing her job professionally.

Any interviewer can make any interviewee look foolish. That's not an interview. That's not an achievement. That's smarmy.

[AZhitman]

Read this week's Time magazine...

McCain has mastered the art of STFU (something BO could use a lesson in)... sometimes, not responding or not elaborating is the BEST thing you can do.

It's really an impressive display of Verbal Judo (a book you MUST read).

[HashiriyaS14]

Professional interviewers know that some questions aren't going to be answered directly.

And professional politicians and advisers know that anytime they can't answer a question directly, it's going to look bad.

Stonewalling NEVER looks good. It NEVER looks good to appear unable or unwilling to go "off-message".

YES, Campbell was badgering Bounds a little bit, but he brought it on himself. Sooner or latter, the GOP is going to have to formulate an answer to that question.

The proper answer would be:

"No, Palin may not have foreign policy experience, but she has sound judgment and a clear vision of America's role in the world."

Unfortunately, the GOP doesn't seem to want to say that, even though that would be a perfectly acceptable answer, as Clinton or GWB didn't have any foreign policy experience either.

I'm not sure why they want to assert that she has foreign policy experience when she quite clearly does not.

[audtatious]

It only looks bad from the Republican side. When Obama and company does it you all gush on your shoes.

[HashiriyaS14]

It only looks bad from the Republican side. When Obama and company does it you all gush on your shoes.

No, it looks stupid when Democrats do it too.

Depending on the commentator though, sometimes Dems get a bit of a break from the media. If it's Anderson Cooper, he'll give them a break. Obviously, Bill O'Reilly won't (nor should he, IMO).

Did anyone see that Obama will be on O'Reilly's show on Thursday? Let's see if he dodges in the same way. I'm hoping he doesn't, obviously, but it's not like I regard it as an impossibility.

All I can say is, if he emerges unscathed from an O'Reilly interview, the skeptics will have to quiet down *just* a little, lol.

[szh]

The proper answer would be:

"No, Palin may not have foreign policy experience, but she has sound judgment and a clear vision of America's role in the world."

Yeah, but you know what the reporters will do? Trim it to the sound bite: McCain aide says "Palin may not have foreign policy experience" and maybe even use it for the headline of the write-up.

Z

[AZhitman]

This is true.

And I concur with Hash... I can't wait to see what happens with BO interviewing BO.

[HashiriyaS14]

Yeah, but you know what the reporters will do? Trim it to the sound bite: McCain aide says "Palin may not have foreign policy experience" and maybe even use it for the headline of the write-up.

True, there is that risk, but you could always find another way to phrase it. I stole that exact wording from the Washington Journal.

The point is that I'm not sure why they're trying so hard on this one. There are better ways to play it, IMO.

It just seems like poor strategy. They're appealing to the people at the base by compromising those independents who will be turned off by candidates afraid to go off-message. It's a shxtty trade-off.

[96Qowner]

Two things:

1.) Last night, I saw FOX's Megyn Kelly do exactly the same thing to the publisher of US Weekly for their cover on Sarah Palin, so it's not just Campbell Brown that can have problems with her professionalism.

2.) LOL, I think Palin's speech blew Campbell Brown away! She was moved, you could tell. I watched the faces of the women commentators on all the channels,after that speech. I was impressed. THEY were impressed.