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Lamentably, a lot of the dialog precipitates out of media content (I refer you to comments HF made some moments ago). Or worse, Blaze-like sources. It would be nice if the media was powerless to foment and nurture division, but we have a ways to go yet.

To make it worse, they probably get these ideas off X.

Can you admit that Trump doesn't have interviews (live or otherwise) that the questions are not agreed upon prior to the interview. Even if he agrees to a tough question, you know damn well you do not get an answer or anything resembling an answer.

Trump will do an interview with just about anyone. Even very hostile outlets. Pretty sure the NABJ didn't give him the questions. And sure, you can say it was a train wreck, but he did it.
 
Lamentably, a lot of the dialog precipitates out of media content (I refer you to comments HF made some moments ago). Or worse, Blaze-like sources. It would be nice if the media was powerless to foment and nurture division, but we have a ways to go yet.
Yes, and they can't take the foot off of the gas. They're hitting the campaign trail hard, as is Trump but at his age he's showing a lot of cracks both in how often he's making appearances and his mental ability to speak coherently, the media's finally paying attention now.
 
To make it worse, they probably get these ideas off X.



Trump will do an interview with just about anyone. Even very hostile outlets. Pretty sure the NABJ didn't give him the questions. And sure, you can say it was a train wreck, but he did it.

He answers like a demented lunatic and you learn nothing other than “look at how great I am, perfect really, and look how awful everyone else is.”

But give him some points, he showed up. How about showing up and not being a demented lunatic? What points do you get for that?
 
To make it worse, they probably get these ideas off X.



Trump will do an interview with just about anyone. Even very hostile outlets. Pretty sure the NABJ didn't give him the questions. And sure, you can say it was a train wreck, but he did it.
I was wrong. I meant he didn't/doesn't want to be fact-checked with interviews.

I was going to ask a followup question, but I know everything I need to know from you.
 
I was wrong. I meant he didn't/doesn't want to be fact-checked with interviews.
Exactly. He'll gladly take any chance he gets to suck the oxygen out of the room and answer every question with his own self-serving talking points. At this point people are just numb to it, shit even Fox News cuts him off on a regular basis.

People will expect substantive and comprehensive answers from Kamala, it will be a different set of double standards entirely.
 
She doesn't owe the media a thing. If she shows up, she shows up. If she doesn't, she doesn't. I don't know if that helps her, hurts her or doesn't really matter. I'm sure she has people who do know.

What I do know is the other side has been on this since almost day 1. Personally, I'm kind of glad that she's not letting them dictate how she runs her campaign. They've setup the hoops she needs to jump through and she said no thanks and now it's driving them crazy. So if she decides not to ever do an interview, I'm just fine with that.
 
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Yes, and they can't take the foot off of the gas. They're hitting the campaign trail hard, as is Trump but at his age he's showing a lot of cracks both in how often he's making appearances and his mental ability to speak coherently, the media's finally paying attention now.
Trump looks awful. His age is definitely showing.

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Trump looks awful. His age is definitely showing.

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I think his age and obvious cognitive decline are of concern. The Right has their head buried in the sand.

Is that what we heard over and over and over? From Fox, From our MAGA friends, and even on this board from a Trump cheerleader. Why can't they look in the mirror on this one?
 
Audience of Boston Firefighters' Union erupts in boos

JD Vance is shitting the bed every day he’s on the campaign trail. This guy is definitely going to shoulder a lot of the blame if Trump loses. I wonder what it’s like to get announced as a running mate and then have the campaign immediately start tanking.
 
No she doesn’t.

But if the voters can’t learn who she is through that process, will they be inclined to vote for her? Or will they wonder what she is hiding?

It’s a risk, but it’s one it seems she is willing to take.

Trump has been given 5,000 interviews and somehow manages to say less than saying nothing at all.

In another day or two, we can discuss why her interview was a failure or success, and it won’t even mean anything.

Unless these folks start showing up to hostile territory frequently for questioning, it’s all sort of routine questioning or softballs with little pushback. Harris can’t have her feet put to the fire like Trump because she’s not insane. She won’t have to defend a laundry list of insane things she’s said or done. Of the things she will - her record as a prosecutor, Trump and his threat to democracy - the answers will be routine and predictable and everyone will glean from it what they will.

And then we can move on to debating whether the interview should have been on CNN or Fox, or whether it was useful or not.

But let’s face it, if what people said mattered, and if republicans cared about how people answer interviews, we have no Trump or MTG or Boebert. If Harris not talking to the press is a liability, Trump opening his mouth at all, for any reason, is a much bigger one.
 
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