When I saw that interview when you posted it the other day, I wondered what happened after it, now I see poor George felt it was unfair to ask him obvious questions. Lodging a complaint and canceling interviews seems like the right adult thing to do.
yeah. it scares me to no end that a man like that, who makes decisions that affect generations, cant answer questions with even a hint of critique without making this about his own ego and flailing widely around to protect it. it scares me to no end that his first reaction was to get defensive. that tells me that he has no deep knowledge, understanding or sympathy for the world around him. scary.
Indeed. I don't know what will happen if that man gets reelected, I mean that would of course mean 4 more years of disaster but also that more than 50% of Americans still trust him. And so far nearly 50% still trust him. I don't know what is more scary.
::nods:: especially the baby boomers gets riled up when the subject of bush is brought up. i think it's cause somehow, along the way, critizing bush and his "war on terrorism" have become synonomous with being unpatriotic...
he's not george bush jr, he's just george dubbleyew bush.... says motherluxJuly 4 2004, 11:30:11 UTC
It's interesting to have watched F911 in the wake of listening to his mother's memoirs on my drive back to Utah... different perspectives clashing, but there is no love like that of a mother. Maybe GW has a face only a mother could love? I think the man is a pussy.
I know it's not the popular thing to defend Bush in light of all the seething propaganda going around, but I read the transcipt of that interview and the interviewer was certainly being combative.
to be merely unpopular when defending bush in the midst of the seething propaganda might not be so bad. i remember a time when attacking bush in the midst of the seething propaganda rendered one unpatriotic.
regarding the interviewer; could be a cultural thing, to europeans, journalists are expected to ask pertinent questions regardless of who is being interviewed. what's the use of interviews if he is answering a list of scripted questions? if he couldnt answer her questions then he couldnt possibly have looked at the big picture and it's consequences, as required by a world leader making irrevocable global decisions.
to be merely unpopular when defending bush in the midst of the seething propaganda might not be so bad. i remember a time when attacking bush in the midst of the seething propaganda rendered one unpatriotic.
While true, this statement isn't relevant to the argument.
regarding the interviewer; could be a cultural thing, to europeans, journalists are expected to ask pertinent questions regardless of who is being interviewed. what's the use of interviews if he is answering a list of scripted questions? if he couldnt answer her questions then he couldnt possibly have looked at the big picture and it's consequences, as required by a world leader making irrevocable global decisions.I'm not referring specifically to the questions, but the fact that the interviewer would pose a question and then quickly cut off the subject from responding. This is a tactic on the interviewer's part designed to slant the interview to the interviewer's point of view. Had it been me being interviewed, I would've walked out, or worse. I will say that I've
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if you get a chance to see it, i would like to hear your opinion. i know there's different tactics interviewers can use, but i honestly just see a interviewer who starts out asking her questions and is initially trying to wait for the answer while he goes on rambling sidetracks without really saying anything. halfway into the interview, she begin to realize he is not adressing her question, she then tries to cut him off to ask the question again but to no avail. i also didnt really see her as a particular aggressive interviewer, not with european standards anyhow. by the end of it, she looked mostly resigned...
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it scares me to no end that a man like that, who makes decisions that affect generations, cant answer questions with even a hint of critique without making this about his own ego and flailing widely around to protect it. it scares me to no end that his first reaction was to get defensive.
that tells me that he has no deep knowledge, understanding or sympathy for the world around him.
scary.
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especially the baby boomers gets riled up when the subject of bush is brought up. i think it's cause somehow, along the way, critizing bush and his "war on terrorism" have become synonomous with being unpatriotic...
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Maybe just a turd :)
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regarding the interviewer;
could be a cultural thing, to europeans, journalists are expected to ask pertinent questions regardless of who is being interviewed. what's the use of interviews if he is answering a list of scripted questions?
if he couldnt answer her questions then he couldnt possibly have looked at the big picture and it's consequences, as required by a world leader making irrevocable global decisions.
(you can see the inteview here http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0624/primetime/primetime56_1c.smil )
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While true, this statement isn't relevant to the argument.
regarding the interviewer;
could be a cultural thing, to europeans, journalists are expected to ask pertinent questions regardless of who is being interviewed. what's the use of interviews if he is answering a list of scripted questions?
if he couldnt answer her questions then he couldnt possibly have looked at the big picture and it's consequences, as required by a world leader making irrevocable global decisions.I'm not referring specifically to the questions, but the fact that the interviewer would pose a question and then quickly cut off the subject from responding. This is a tactic on the interviewer's part designed to slant the interview to the interviewer's point of view. Had it been me being interviewed, I would've walked out, or worse. I will say that I've ( ... )
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i also didnt really see her as a particular aggressive interviewer, not with european standards anyhow. by the end of it, she looked mostly resigned...
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