Posted on 05/29/2015 5:17:24 AM PDT by IChing
I work with engineers (I are one). Quite a few are remarkably inarticulate. They stutter. They stammer. They struggle to provide answers. It might be more acceptable to me if they were all brilliant Einsteins making an effort to explain themselves to a mere mortal. But that is usually not the case. Usually, these are just run-of-the-mill guys who cannot express themselves with any skill.
For me, it's painful to talk to these guys. Conversation are long, slow, and repetitious. BUT I do not interrupt them, because that just makes it worse. It flusters them, makes them defensive and disagreeable. So I wait. I listen. I allow them to say what they want to say in their own way and in their own time. It makes my skin crawl, but I do this every single day. It's the only way I have found to manage these people effectively. I listen more than I talk.
The reporter/politician relationship is substantially different. But when I see someone get cut-off after saying just a half dozen words, it really makes me think that the Questioner is just working an agenda and not being fair. It bothers me. Especially of the Answerer is not an articulate person -- the interruptions are baldly counter-productive. Clearly, the conversation is going to go downhill really fast. Is that the goal of an interview?
Bingo, you just don’t ever try to hold a black female democrat in an official position accountable, it’s utterly taboo, and the reporter will probably be Breitbarted by sundown
“About that Baltimore mayor thing —
1) I bet the mayor would have been totally unable to give a good answer.
2) I bet the mayor has put in place really bad policies.
3) The reporter is an utter jerk.
The reporter allowed the mayor to say about 5 words — then he interrupted her with a different, but related question. Then he allowed her to say about three words, and then he interrupted her again.
Sorry. I know the reporter is right and I know the mayor is the problem. But the reporter is a jerk.”
You sir...are what Marx and Lenin used to refer to...one of the “useful fools”...
We finally found a reporter with the gonads to act like a reporter. You may be to young to remember Sam Donaldson. I can still hear and see him interrupting President Reagan with his famous...”Hold on their Mr. President”....
I suggest that you take a page from Leland’s (the Fox reporter) book and grow a pair.
Notice how he was chastised by another reporter, lol, you just don’t do what he did, it’s rayciss and misogyniss and hate-speech!
Dude. Wake up. Did you miss the previous incident featuring this mayor, this reporter, and Al Sharpton?
Did you miss the last few decades of lying Leftists controlling the script? smh
The only one we saw who deserves better is that mother who went and physically forced her son to leave the chaos. Astounding that she knew that leaving those kids off at a HS bus stop there was an astoundingly bad idea when city, school, and community leaders were clueless.
Are any of them speaking out for the police, in the safety of their homes? Are any of them starting recall petitions to get rid of the mayor and city prosecutor? Are any of them speaking out in favor of the police?
I'm sorry for the destroyed lives. But there's a lot of reaping and sowing going on there.
I’d love love to see who takes responseibility when they are all victims!
“Then airdrop mre’s .”
Why?
Rawlings-Blake is totally out of her depth. I’m not sure what her proper depth is, maybe a kindergarten class.
Two hundred years....
Asking if arrests are down fifty percent certainly merited a straightforward YES or NO.
Good one
There are already somewhere on the order of thirty thousand abandoned row houses in Baltimore. I don't see how they ever regain value. For families, there's nowhere for the children to play and who would send their kids to a city public school?
Watching the video (having only heard the audio before), she looked totally lost that any question was posed.
If it comes to that, politicians will not be spared.
I are one too. And that's why they're engineers.
That’s what she meant by “we usually conduct very orderly press conferences” - meaning, no one ever questions her over her policies, etc.
It’s unfortunate that anyone on FR would think someone like her is “lost” in such a situation. I’d think that Freepers would already understand the professional Left and their tactics.
Exactly, they lob softball questions, and they obsequiously accept any and all b.s. “answers”
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