An entirely different set of rules apply when a liberal is interviewing a conservative. The primary purpose is to make the conservative look bad, and they will ambush or selectively edit as necessary.
An interview may take several hours and only a few carefully selected minutes will be aired. Anything that contradicts the media’s narrative that the conservative is an evil idiot will end up on the cutting room floor. Through the magic of selective editing, “Are you a crook? Absolutely not.” Becomes “Are you a crook? Absolutely.”
Whenever a conservative is being interviewed, they should make it a hard and fast condition of granting the interview that they receive a real time copy of the live video/audio feed and can use any of it that they want after any portion of the interview is first aired.
A friend had written a letter to the editor of the local paper outlining the reasons why a person should carry a gun. I read his letter and what the newspaper published under his name. They were diametrically different and made him seem totally crazy. I had access to the editor, so I asked him why they’d made the changes. He said, “Oh, my God! He sounded totally sane. How would people know how crazy he was from just that one article?” (I think my jaw dropped open.) Later when I was helping a Republican candidate, they asked me for a couple of letters to the newspaper. I told them what had happened to my friend, and they decided to leave the paper out of their campaign.