It used to be that a reporter would ask a question and jot down the answer or use a tape recorder.
Now we have "journalists" who keep asking the same question, trying to goad the subject into mes-speaking or giving the answer the "journalist" was looking for in the first place.
As you said, 'agent provocateur'.
21 posted on 01/16/2017 3:50:12 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts
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