I probably would have reacted like Julie did, but you're right, while it was a bit cathartic, it probably didn't change any minds....or hearts. I honestly don't know why they don't sometimes just cut the mikes of people who just continue to talk over the interviewer, however.
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I just re-read the interview, and hopefully other journalists will learn from it. That tit-for-tat "you're going to hell" "No, God hates YOU" just doesn't work on people like the Phelps. I really look forward to the day when someone interviews them who is prepared to hit them where they live, which of course, is moneyland.
I agree about cutting the mike off. I have heard people do that many times, Larry King for example. Given how angry Banderas got, I don't think she has the ability to cut interviewees off.
Julie Banderas ROCKED!!! I have to say that while a nice civil exchange of ideas is wonderful in principle, try doing that in the zoo with the apes. That is the position they put our (apparently) Christian sister in and she ROCKED. Jesus was rather dramatic when he overturned the tables money changers, and I and sure that many thought that unseemly. However, you have to pick the right tool for a job and that Phelps human did not understand any other form of communication. The mistake was to have her on at all.
Go Julie - FOX folks you better have her back on this one!