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Post by EasyEd on Mar 8, 2010 13:39:49 GMT -5
Anybody see Chris Wallace interview Mitt Romney yesterday? Chris dissected and destroyed Romney on the subject of health care by showing the great similarity between the system instituted during Romney's term as MA governor and Obamacare. Romney pointed out a few dissimilarities but Chris kept pushing to show the similarities that were there. Romney did not address Chris' questions very well.
And, ladies and gentlemen, this was on Fox News where a Republican was laid bare. Chris kept asking followup questions rather than accepting what Romney was offering: the type of questioning that needs to take place with all candidates for high public office.
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Post by TC on Mar 8, 2010 13:49:33 GMT -5
Too bad Sarah Palin will never subject herself to that.
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Post by Boz on Mar 8, 2010 13:52:00 GMT -5
Chris Wallace did interview Sarah Palin on FNS a few weeks ago.
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Post by TC on Mar 8, 2010 13:56:23 GMT -5
Chris Wallace did interview Sarah Palin on FNS a few weeks ago. And asked her directed policy questions about her record in Alaska? Or did he hope that she'd sit in his lap? |
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Post by Boz on Mar 8, 2010 13:59:17 GMT -5
I didn't see the interview. Just passing along that it did, in fact, take place.
If you want to watch it, you can report back to everyone.
Alternatively, you could NOT watch it, but still form conclusions about it. ;D
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Post by TC on Mar 8, 2010 14:02:18 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 8, 2010 14:03:30 GMT -5
On YouTube
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Post by Boz on Mar 8, 2010 14:04:53 GMT -5
You are a very fast reader. Kudos.
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Post by EasyEd on Mar 8, 2010 16:24:26 GMT -5
Did anyone ever question Obama as thoroughly as Chris Wallace did with Romney?
And why did some of you change the subject to Sarah Palin rather than Obama?
Just askin'.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Mar 8, 2010 17:02:51 GMT -5
I can think of no tougher question than to look the President in the eye and inquire seriously as to whether he is a citizen of the United States, especially in light of the 19th century history of the citizenship issue.
I am having trouble buying the empty suit line of attack when it seems like some have seen enough substance to believe Obama is the fruit of a Bolshevik conspiracy (see thread on HCR for 40+ pages of similar attacks) seeking to expropriate the healthcare of the people who "really earned it." It is a nuanced approach, no doubt, but perhaps a little too much spin on the ball...
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Post by TC on Mar 8, 2010 17:13:11 GMT -5
Did anyone ever question Obama as thoroughly as Chris Wallace did with Romney? And why did some of you change the subject to Sarah Palin rather than Obama? Just askin'. Obama went on O'Reilly. Someone let me know when Mittens or Sarah goes on Maddow so I can set my DVR. And I brought up Palin because you're excited that Wallace pummeled his opponent. If Wallace treated Princess Snowflakes the same way, you'd be howling. |
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Post by The Stig on Mar 8, 2010 17:46:29 GMT -5
Fox News ripped somebody a new one for being too liberal. Why is this noteworthy?
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Post by EasyEd on Mar 8, 2010 19:28:59 GMT -5
For the record I thought it was noteworthy that Chris Wallace peppered one of the primary prospects for the Republican nomination in 2012 because Fox News is regarded as a Republican mouthpiece. I would think it was also noteworthy if Chris peppered Sarah Palin, another primary Republican prospect. I also think it's noteworthy that neither candidate nor President Obama has ever been questioned in this manner by any news organization. That's why it's noteworthy.
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Post by strummer8526 on Mar 8, 2010 20:23:45 GMT -5
For the record I thought it was noteworthy that Chris Wallace peppered one of the primary prospects for the Republican nomination in 2012 because Fox News is regarded as a Republican mouthpiece. I would think it was also noteworthy if Chris peppered Sarah Palin, another primary Republican prospect. I also think it's noteworthy that neither candidate nor President Obama has ever been questioned in this manner by any news organization. That's why it's noteworthy. Obama did go on O'Reilly, so the case that Obama would never subject himself to such questioning is ridiculous. As for this interview, it's like Chris Matthews throwing hard questions at a blue dog Democrat. Maybe it's never happened, but it wouldn't shock me if it did. The interviewee is an outlier in his party, so the extreme wing of his party will be harsh to him. I've never considered FoxNews the mouthpiece of the Republican party. It's the mouthpiece of the segment of the Republican party that I hate and that has unfortunately taken over the party. Interviews like these make me more likely to support Romney. |
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Mar 8, 2010 20:46:26 GMT -5
Obama has also been interviewed by Major Garrett.
Where I get lost here is that I am not sure what we're really looking for is a tough interview, but, rather one in which Obama has a Sarah Palin moment - quotable at length in a SNL skit. That's not on the interviewers - most, including the McCain-Palin campaign manager viewed Couric as fair - it is on the interviewee. Since Obama emerged as a national figure six years ago, he has done any number of interviews, to the degree that some viewed him as a "celebrity," and that moment has not occurred. That's why Obama is President, and Sarah Palin is writing books.
I think the argument may also assume that Obama has something that a good questioner would simply "get him" on to the point of an epic collapse. I am not sure what that is considering the degree that the media has already questioned him about Rezko, Rev. Wright, Professor Ayers, et al. McCain attacked Obama at length during the sit-down debate on Ayers and Rezko IIRC, and it simply did not stick (much like the Halliburton issue never stuck credibly when Cheney was attacked on it). HRC was all over Obama on the same issues during the primary debates.
That Romney had some difficulty is no surprise - he was deemed less qualified to be VP than Sarah Palin.
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Post by Boz on Mar 8, 2010 21:06:02 GMT -5
I don't know about less qualified. That seems a stretch. Do you have that from a campaign source?
McCain and Romney plain don't like each other very much. Think that may have had something to do with it.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Mar 8, 2010 21:10:36 GMT -5
My assumption was that they chose the person most qualified to be VP, but perhaps that was erroneous and reflects a poor decision. I also know from the Halperin book/hit piece that Romney did not make the final 3 or so (Lieberman, Ridge, and Palin), which may say something too. McCain wanted to pick Lieberman but couldn't sell it to the extreme wing of the party.
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Post by The Stig on Mar 8, 2010 22:14:31 GMT -5
For the record I thought it was noteworthy that Chris Wallace peppered one of the primary prospects for the Republican nomination in 2012 because Fox News is regarded as a Republican mouthpiece. I would think it was also noteworthy if Chris peppered Sarah Palin, another primary Republican prospect. I also think it's noteworthy that neither candidate nor President Obama has ever been questioned in this manner by any news organization. That's why it's noteworthy. It would be noteworthy if they hammered a GOP bigwig for their GOP-approved conservative positions. But Wallace was going after Romney for his position on health care reform, which is moderate, and therefore unacceptably liberal for the GOP. The dirty little secret on Romney is that he's not a social conservative at all. His fiscal conservative credentials are impeccable, but as governor of Massachusetts he supported their health care reform, did not seriously oppose the legalization of gay marriage, supported embryonic stem cell research, and stood by his campaign promise to not interfere with abortion rights in Massachusetts. That was a big reason behind some of his outrageously hawkish statements during the campaign - he needed to cover up his total lack of social conservative credentials. Fox is calling him out on it now. |
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Post by EasyEd on Mar 9, 2010 14:41:30 GMT -5
The fact that Obama went on O'Reilly and was interviewed by Major Garrett is immaterial. Obama has never faced a grilling where the questioner hammered away with followup questions like Chris Wallace did with Romney. Chris, himself, did not do that when he interviewed Sarah Palin. He was soft on her. Obama has gotten the same soft treatment from all the media who have interviewed him. They ask him a question and he answers but never faces followup questions making it necessary he really defend him positions. I don't even think he has had a real press questioning since he became President, relying on staged events or events where he carefully selected questioners. I don't know why he resists this sort of questioning since he seems very good in that arena.
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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Mar 17, 2010 18:21:27 GMT -5
Well, it looks like President Obama submitted himself for interrogation by a Fox News journalist (I use that term liberally here) who repeatedly interrupted the President for some lecture about process. Had the President interrupted the journalist, he would be called arrogant.
If this is what we're looking for in this thread, it is truly embarrassing.
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