Comments on: “Gotcha Journalism” Or A Double Standard?

[pastdue1]

The McCain campaign expects the public to be as forgiving of Palin''s lack of knowledge as we are of a mentally challenged child. They expect the media and the public to hold her to a far lower standard and, in fact, she has been. But, we hope the honeymoon is over and she will be expected to answer the same criticism as all the other candidates. Just because she is intellectually challenged she is still aspiring to one of the highest jobs in the country. The public has the right to expect the same level of questioning that all other applicants are exposed to.

[mandalay-bay]

Under demand of McCain campaign all questions will be submitted 48 hours in advance


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Posted by jsilver2th at 11:45 AM : Sep 30, 2008

LOL

[jsilver2th]

Under demand of McCain campaign all questions will be submitted 48 hours in advance

[aceshigh333-2009]

Well we know who Scott Conroy is voting for, big suprise. What is not mentioned here is the differance in the media coverage. The U.S. media is so slanted, so obvious.

[misha128-2009]

Sarah Palin kicked Katie Couric''''s butt.
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Posted by OneAmerican6 at 10:51 AM

Maybe if she was being interviewed as a beauty pageant winner, even some conservative pundits question her ability to be president.

Since when is allowing the person interviewed to control the subject of an interview by asking then to expand on their own statement a gotcha question?

[usadude2]

A point of clarification for those who wonder about why people are up in arms over this particular Palin statement, its not because it shows inexperience or that she shares an opinion with Obama, its that her opinion is actually quite different from what the McCain campaign has put forward up until now.

The real issue is not Palin. Its McCain.

We just went through eight years of a presidency where we the American people were lied to on a near daily basis. The Maverick McCain, seems to have learned something in those years. He seems to have learned how to lie himself. Over the last few weeks he has distorted Obama''s record and his own in attempt to make political gains. I ask you my fellow Americans, do we want four more years of lies?

[usadude2]

A point of clarification for those who wonder about why people are up in arms over this particular Palin statement, its not because it shows inexperience or that she shares an opinion with Obama, its that her opinion is actually quite different from what the McCain campaign has put forward up until now.

The real issue is not Palin. Its McCain.

We just went through eight years of a presidency where we the American people were lied to on a near daily basis. The Maverick McCain, seems to have learned something in those years. He seems to have learned how to lie himself. Over the last few weeks he has distorted Obama''s record and his own in attempt to make political gains. I ask you my fellow Americans, do we want four more years of lies?

[misha128-2009]

Posted by shespar at 10:13 AM

Senator McCain is the presidential candidate associated with Governor Palin nit Senator Obama. You should be researching Senator McCain''s quirky opinion on Gov. Palin''s gaffe.

[briannorwood]

Can''t wait for Thursday''s debate. Should be quite a spectacle.

If it weren''t that she is running for the second highest office in the land, it would be funny. Instead, it is just plain pathetic!

[shespar-2009]

Yah and isnt it a pity that those miss speaks are the total focus of the news. You dont hear about the stuff she gets right.. and if Obama gets something wrong, he gets an auto pass because his prompter broke.. lol

[dsjudge54]

Anybody can mis-speak at sometime; the issue here is a candidate who can NOT seem to get a coherent thought with substance out of her mouth at pretty much ANY time. Subject, verb, object. One sentence I idea. Logical building of more complex concepts with a series of related sentences. This process is to help voters anticipate how a candidate will argue the American position and policies with others who are much LESS forgiving than any of these questioners.

[craigh9]

Just 2 more days of Palin. After she completely butchers the VP debate on Thursday she will have some major personal issue that will leave her no choice but to resign from the campaign.

[shespar-2009]

oh oh .. I found another one.. sorry for the second post:)

Again from the debate
Obama: "And if John wants to disagree with this, he can let me know, that, if the United States has Al Qaida, bin Laden, top-level
lieutenants in our sights, and Pakistan is unable or unwilling to act, then we should take them out.

Now, I think that''s the right strategy; I think that''s the right
policy."


So someone please tell me the difference between what the presidential candidate said and the vice presidential candidate said..

[shespar-2009]

Palin%u2019s assertion that the U.S. should %u201Cabsolutely%u201D launch cross-border attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan in the event that it becomes necessary to %u201Cstop the terrorists from coming any further in%u201D

In the debate didn''t Obama say pretty much the same thing? Yet Im not seeing huge stories about his lack of world issue knowlege.... And I QUOTE directly from the debate transcript:
"And we cannot separate Afghanistan from Iraq, because what our commanders have said is we don''t have the troops right now to deal with Afghanistan.

So I would send two to three additional brigades to Afghanistan..."
Then a few disjointed thoughts later he says..."Number three, we''ve got to deal with Pakistan"

That is not taken out of context.. I hardly see where the two differ. Both are talking about military, and a specific country. Neither has much experience with this sort of thing and both are craming to learn it quickly, I guess the big difference is that one of them will hold the lesser office of vice-president. Hmmm reminds me of an old Who song.. Meet the new boss..

[misha128-2009]

Gotcha Question --

Could you explain the reasoning behind your statement that --

Allowing the interviewee the choice of subject in an interview is a gotcha question -- please someone has to challenge this absurd assertion.

[misha128-2009]

Posted by ucntfoolme at 02:43 AM

Al Maliki, the leader of Iraq, said Bush negotiated the extension for Political Reasons in the US. It appears the Republicans will subject the troops to danger in order to win an election.

[antoniof123]

I can see the Republicans are in denial they believe that they can continue the way they are going and we will not remember what they did.

Guess again the blood bath is coming in Novemeber for you and you will feel it with full force.

[mikeant50]

Haven''t you learned that you can hold a decent conversation with a Conservative? They don''t believe in the facts and if you make a valid point, they revert to name calling and false accusations, better known as lies. If that doesn''t work, then they question your patriotism and if that doesn''t work, they blame all the ills of the country on minorities and the poor. They have spent 8 years supporting Bush and Cheney and now they won''t even mention their names, but they gladly take their fundraising money.

[n0rm1-2009]

"The Democrats have had control for 2 years"
The Democrats cannot pass a bill unless the Republicans agree not to filibuster and the President does not veto. It takes 60 votes to stop a filibuster and 67 to overcome a veto. Ex: The last 8 Democratic attempts to continue the production tax credits for renewable energy have failed because they did not have 60 votes. (The president also threatened to veto). Learn how Govt. works (or doesn''t).

[hokuto1]

Palin/McCain slogan: "Country First! (Western can come later)"