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To: Plutarch

I remember a day when reporters jobs were to ask questions and report on the answers — but not debate with public officials over their answers.


5 posted on 01/17/2008 12:37:43 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of all the politics in politics.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

You mean the Clinton days?

Oh wait... you said “ask questions.”

Never mind.


24 posted on 01/17/2008 12:46:02 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: ElkGroveDan

“I remember a day when reporters jobs were to ask questions and report on the answers — but not debate with public officials over their answers.”

So when a candidate makes an assertion that the press thinks is untrue, their just suppose to keep their mouth shut? That’s sick!


26 posted on 01/17/2008 12:46:38 PM PST by babygene (Never look into the laser with your last good eye...)
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To: ElkGroveDan
I remember a day when reporters jobs were to ask questions and report on the answers — but not debate with public officials over their answers.

Let me guess -- is Oprah your favorite hard-hitting news show?

39 posted on 01/17/2008 12:51:47 PM PST by JohnnyZ ("Make all the promises you have to" -- Mitt Romney)
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To: ElkGroveDan
I remember a day when reporters jobs were to ask questions and report on the answers — but not debate with public officials over their answers.

Those aren't reporters, they are stenographers.
88 posted on 01/17/2008 2:02:42 PM PST by drjimmy
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To: ElkGroveDan

“I remember a day when reporters jobs were to ask questions and report on the answers — but not debate with public officials over their answers.”

This twerp is angling for David Gregory’s job as most infantile White House presser, I guess. What a child!


96 posted on 01/17/2008 2:11:51 PM PST by WOSG (Proamnesty-antiBushtaxcuts-proCO2caps-CFR-RINO John McCain delenda est!)
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