Posted on 05/31/2016 10:53:51 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Usually when reporters ask about the gorilla in the room, it's not an actual gorilla.
Not so Tuesday, when between reporter queries about his potential running mate and his policies on veterans' health care, Donald Trump fielded a question from Yahoo News reporter Hunter Walker asking the presumptive Republican nominee on his thoughts regarding the Cincinnati Zoo's decision to shoot and kill a rare gorilla after a 4-year-old boy fell into his enclosure.
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But on Twitter, where media wars are often begun and settled, Walker's fellow scribes saw fit to pillory him for the question.
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It really was a stupid question for a presidential candidate.
Trump actually had a very thoughtful and accurate response. So he wins.
I thought President Trump’s answer was a good one, what would YOU have done, since YOU weren’t there, media twit????
I look forward to the day when Trump will tell the stupid questions asked by stupid “reporters” that they are just that.. stupid/dumb/ridiculous... and not answer.. stop the stupidity before it gets out of hand.. going from one dumb question to another dumb question.. like they don’t have any intellect in their heads.
ISIS is chopping off heads, our economy is in the toilet, and the media is asking Trump about a GORILLA..someone should ask Hillary Clinton about the gorilla and her response will be “Which one, the one Im married to or the one in the zoo”
“Trump actually had a very thoughtful and accurate response. So he wins.”
Yes, he almost never fails to respond with thoughtful answers, no matter how stupid or inappropriate the question is.
The reporter was just chumming for a long response which could then be excerpted for race baiting quotes. Don’t be fooled.
Once the kid was in the Gorilla pen in the grips of the gorilla, what else could you do? You had to save the child.
Remember the woman that was blinded and had her face chewed off by a chimpanzee? This was a gorilla, larger and more powerful.
But it should never have gotten to that point. The parents should have watched their kid and the zoo should not have exhibits that kids can get into.
The other reporters are just jealous that he got to ask before they did......................
The proper response is to ignore the question.
They tried to frame it as a racism issue.
Which, it wasn’t. Kid in a pen with a silverback, you kill the gorilla. Simple as that.
My Father would have done the same with the bull if something like that happened.
Hunter Walker if a fine idiot reporter.
Cincinnati Gorillas would make a good name for a sports team.
People would have to be mature and openminded enough to stop thinking any reference to gorillas or apes must be a racist reference to black people. Sometimes, a Monkey is just a Monkey.
The media is out to get Trump, but not hillary. Did the bastards ask hillary?
I remember a few years ago, a girl climbed into the Minnesota’s Zoo’s meerkat cage and got bit.
They had to kill all the meerkats to test for rabies, because the parents didn’t want the girl to get the rabies shots.
I hesitate to allow my mind to contemplate the train of thought that would take one from "a gorilla got shot" to "incident of racism."
SMH.
Obama feels it necessary to inject himself in many stupid issues - everything from College Basketball playoff formats, to local "disturbing the peace" police calls. So I suppose the idiot millennial news outlets (Yahoo chief among them) think its a perfectly normal thing.
Race issue? The kid was black as are the parents. Dad is the dad of the year with his criminal background.
It was an attempted “gotcha”, that’s my guess. They will ask HRC the same question and she will unveil her massive government program to save gorillas, provide nannies to keep track of kids at the zoo, and attacking zoos for imprisoning innocent animals.
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