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Obama to reporter: 'Let me finish my answers' next time

TacticalEvilDan said:
I've got Katie Couric on my nuts. It doubles as a display of admiration and a permanent deposit in the spank bank.
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I call dibs on Anderson Cooper.

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LOOK AT IT.
 
Erod said:
Obnoxious as hell.

That's why when New Yorkers move to Texas, they're so caught off-guard by everyone saying "hello" and waving to them when they're driving down the street. Most think we're making fun of them, when that's just what we do.

The guys I do business with in New York or just grade-A pompous assholes. And they don't even know it. It's like they're on an internet forum 24 hours a day, but in public. LOL
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Same here! Who the hell would walk by somebody on the street and not say hey? Well at least in your neighborhood. I don't ask them a lot of very nosy questions, I just say good morning.

I did have a friend from NYC, He wanted very badly to be a cop but he told them yes, he had smoked marijuana before. So he had to wait until his prison sentence would have been over.

He went back to NYC and I really hope he became a cop because he would have made a great cop. He was Irish and everything.
 
TacticalEvilDan said:
Please quote me where I said it was okay for Rather to do what he did. You can't, but I'd like to see you go through the mental contortions necessary to twist my words in that direction.
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You totally justified it by saying Bush was rude too. I shouldn't be surprised, it's just another blame Bush moment.



Don't pretend to be interested in actual adult discussion any more. It's just laughable.
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That's funny coming from the guy who's playing grabass with Hatuey. :lol:



Yeah, because the whole premise was absurd for reasons that were explored in detail in that thread.
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And yet, Biden's spokesperson admitted it and apologized for it. Bet you felt really stupid when that happened, huh?
 
X Factor said:
You totally justified it by saying Bush was rude too.
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In other words, you can't quote where I said it was okay for Rather to do what he did, since saying that two people were in the wrong is not anything like saying it was okay for one of them to be in the wrong. Thanks for clearing that up.

X Factor said:
I shouldn't be surprised, it's just another blame Bush moment.
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That clip is about 13 years too old for that joke.

X Factor said:
That's funny coming from the guy who's playing grabass with Hatuey. :lol:
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Just keeping the discussion at the level to which you brought it with your flagrant misrepresentations of what I said. :D
 
that reporter was an ass. lucky for him there wasn't any spare cupboards around.
 
TacticalEvilDan said:
In other words, you can't quote where I said it was okay for Rather to do what he did, since saying that two people were in the wrong is not anything like saying it was okay for one of them to be in the wrong. Thanks for clearing that up.



That clip is about 13 years too old for that joke.
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Naw, to many folks blaming a Bush (any Bush) is always appropriate.



Just keeping the discussion at the level to which you brought it with your flagrant misrepresentations of what I said. :D
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Ok, tell me why Bush being rude (if he was) is relevant at all to the question I asked.

BTW I think it's funny which part of my post you failed to respond to.
 
Moderator's Warning:
Knock off the namecalling and trolling guys.
 
just saw the whole interview (thanks for the link, gps)
Raw video: News 8's one-on-one with President Obama | wfaa.com | Features


gotta say that Obama was in the wrong
watched the entire (9 minute) session with a note pad to record every instance in which Obama was interrupted by the interviewer
once
at -1:15
and it was one of those points where the interviewer might normally conclude that the speaker had finished responding, but it was actually a pause
there was an earlier instance where the president interrupted the interviewer

my conclusion is Obama chastized the reporter without legitimate basis


the reporter should not have characterized that as the president chaffing at someone who pressed hard questions. he should have called the president out as unfairly criticizing him for interruptions which did not occur. but then, if i am the public target of a presidential admonishment, i am probably going to take a strong, defensive verbal stand, as the interviewer did


in short, this was an Obama **** up
the reporter deserves an apology ... a public one
 
I have to disagree with your opinion of the reporter's one interruption.

Nevertheless, shame on the President for interrupting and then having the gall to try to school someone else on manners.
 
GPS_Flex said:
Did you ask yourself this question with the same insight you show here before expressing an opinion? I'll look back at the comments and see if you expressed an opinion one way or the other so you can't hide from it.

I'll get you a link to the uncut, entire interview (was about 8 minutes long) in a few.
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By all means, provide such a link (I think someone did). I expressed an opinion based on the claim in the opening post. I also noted the interviewer editorialized. The full clip doesn't change that opinion.
 
Here is my thing, if I were president and a guy ask me a retarded question like "Why do you think you are so unpopular in Texas?" or whatever it was, I'm going to not give a **** what else the guy says. That would be like a reporter asking Bush "Why do you think your not that popular with gay people?" It's a stupid question. If any one of you were the president you might be lucky enough not to say worse than what Obama had said, especially at least he said "next time" as if to imply he was actually going to let the guy get an interview again someday.
 
big picture---the president doesn't have any answers

sorry

if he did, harry would put em on the floor

leadership, anyone?
 
Watson should have asked Obama how is it he could claim his mother was on food stamps when he was a kid, when food stamps didn't exist until 1978. Not to mention, Obama lived with his grandmother, who was VP of the Bank of Hawaii at the time, and he was attending a high-brow prep school.
 
liblady said:
no, it's not rude. every pol does it, every one.
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If everyone pisses and ****s on your front lawn does that mean it is no longer rude since everyone does it? It is still rude just like when politicians give evasive answers when a reporter asks them a simple question.
 
I would have had more respect for Obama's sentiments if he'd spoken up as it was happening. That's what a strong man would have done. "Wait a moment, I'm not finished," *flashes toothy grin*

I've found that President Obama uses press time "up" by giving lengthy, off-point answers to questions. I don't fault the interviewer for doing his job. I would fault him if he sat there and let Obama pontificate his brains out and run out the clock.
 
what was the slasher's ANSWER to s&p's warning about our credit rating?

no big deal?

is such an oblivious, outta touch retort due to his being interrupted?

or is the slasher the last occupant of his own little world?

leadership, anyone?
 
Why shouldn't the President criticize an interviewer? It's about time he did so. It's peanuts compared to what I saw Boehner do the other day when he asked a reporter why he always so loud. At least Obama did it off camera.
 
I was on vacation this past week so I didn't keep up on newspapers but when did reporters get put on pedestal? I thought it was consensus that reporters are all biased and put their slant to the news.

I guess with the recent air traffice controllers gaffs that the news reporters got to move up couple notches of respect.
 
tjinta ibis said:
Why shouldn't the President criticize an interviewer? It's about time he did so. It's peanuts compared to what I saw Boehner do the other day when he asked a reporter why he always so loud. At least Obama did it off camera.
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Absolutely.

An interview, these days, is a chance to play a 'gotcha' game - where the 'reporter' asks off the wall questions and inserts opinions in order to stir the entire discussion up into a debate.

An Interview, however, is not a debate - it is not suppose ot be that way. It is a series of carefully thought out questions and someone giving a considerate and thorough response.

If you're interrupting the point that someone is *trying* to make in response ot your question then you're NOT conducting an interview - you're investigating - and it's horridly rude and, tehse days, that's about all that we ever get.

I hate 24/7 media these days and how they bow to the sponsors - cut people short to go to break - cut people short to ask other questions - cut people short to argue. I want everyone to be civil, ask and wait patiently while they receive an answer and if the answer goes on for a while then *politely feed in an interruption of some type.* I WANT to be able ot hear their response - whatever it is - without them being holed up against a bunch of other bull****.

Especially whne it comes to the president - I think he deserves a little respect and is far more impotant than Mcdonald's big-mac commercials.
 
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