You are so right! I watched the interview/interrogation. She stayed calm, smiled and batted every aggressive comment away with facts.
I had not noticed the pairing of conservative with liberal before. Makes no sense for C-SPAN to do that. We see enough of that on TV and C-SPAN was a safety zone...maybe not anymore.
I would really like to know if the interviewers are usually hostile to the author, like this interviewer is. This Erik Wimple is antagonistic.
C-Span is not a safety zone. It is run by the cable companies of America. I think CNN when I watch C-span. It does show Washington House and Senate meetings, but it’s commentary shows are very biased in favor of Dems.
It’s not hard and fast, but it seems to me that about half the time a conservative is on, he/she is paired with some lib who spends much of the time debating rather than exploring and discussing the author’s work. I can’t remember ever seeing a leftwing author being put in a similar spot by a conservative interviewer - of course, I don’t usually watch liberal authors, so maybe it’s just my imagination.....