Russert is POUNDING Frist. Does Russert not understand what a blind trust is?
Now it's Terri Shiavo's turn at bat for Timmy.
I wish someone would POUND Russert on his own journalism ethics. (His non-disclosed part...by him...in Wilson/Plame/Libby while questioning others and his cutesy non-disclosure of college sophomore son's job w/Carville.)
Russert is a good interviewer. His bias shows in that he is a prosecutor with Republicans but a defense attorney with Democrats.
Yes, he did, didn't he. Very hostile and adversarial. Totally unlike how he treats dims or his pets, like McLame.
Does Russert not understand what a blind trust is?
I believe that he knows perfectly well what a blind trust is, but that he also knows that most people (in his audience particularly) don't. So he was exploiting the ignorance of others by framing the questions they way he did.
Where Frist completely fell down was that he almost never challenged Timmy's phrasing of the question. Even on this question he failed badly that way. He did finally lay out that, legally, a "blind trust" doesn't mean he doesn't know what stocks might be in the trust, just that he doesn't now how many of any given stock he has. However, Frist didn't make that correction until he'd already stumbled badly and left the impression that Timmy had caught him on something.
Terrible display of bias by Timmy.
Terrible performance by Dr. Frist.