Posted on 06/04/2014 1:15:48 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Finally, a reporter asks House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) some tough questions. Unfortunately, this reporter is a teenager from the YouTube "TeenTake" and not someone from the Capitol Hill press corps.
When Andrew Demeter asked Pelosi, “Why do you support the NSA’s illegal and ubiquitous data collection?” she had a bit of a "deer in the headlights" look on her face.
“Well I, I do not, I have questions about the metadata collection that they were, uh, collecting,” Pelosi stammered in response.
Demeter, unlike his professional counterparts in the mainstream media, actually challenged Pelosi with a follow-up: "You did vote for a bill to continue funding for the NSA, though.” Pelosi responded, “Yeah, of course.” Demeter pressed the issue calling NSA data gathering a "clear violation of the Fourth Amendment.”
Pelosi continued to stammer, hem and haw her way through an um-laden response before finally landing on some familiar turf: She blamed the Bush Administration.
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No fan of Pelosi here but — the question is argumentative.
Notice how QUICKLY she responds in the negative!
No thinking... no contemplation... no clarification.
“NO” comes right out almost before the questions are completed.
Big tell there.
I agree. I despise the NSA spying and Nancy Pelosi, but the question/approach was not intelligent or well-thought out.
Not impressed.
praise to Mr. Demeter.
it’s great to see a reporter who knows the truth. he personifies the vast gulf between trustworthy journalism and what we obviously have today.
TEEN reporters do a better job than the MSM and the worst grilling Obama ever got was by a COMEDIAN.
Pelosi is a creation of Unions, yet on her $25 million Napa winery there is not a SINGLE union employee.
And she is the biggest shareholder of Napa’s swankiest spa resort, Auberge de Soleil (burger and fries $19.50) and there also there is not a SINGLE union employee on the 119 person staff.
She had a bit of a “deer in the headlights” look on her face.
So what else is new, that is her permanent expression.
If this were a court of law I'd agree with you.
It’s a challenge to give a coherent answer when you are both illiterate and wrong.
...We are going to make a record of everything you do,
but we are not going to review at it unless we think you are “up to something”...
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If a major motel chain said they were going to install video cameras in every room
to record your activities, but they “promised” they would not look at or review
any of them unless they thought something “nefarious” was going on, would that be OK?
I have a question.
Why do people here delight in criticizing people wh oput these guys to the test?
It is so disgusting that it rivals the news I’m getting all day about the president releasing terrorists.
Can it stop so that the conservatives can get into power and fix things, or prevent more from happening?
This NSA deal is horrible. Nancy Pelosi is horrible.
I mean can it just stop? this is a kid. And it’s not a court of law.
And republicans even conservatives are not perfect.
UGH!
All of us who are/were Airline pilots know the feeling. Flight data and voice recorders were supposed to be used only for accident investigation. Now they are used to sell newspapers and TV ad time while additionally destroying the character of pilots.
“Go where the stink is” —that is the JOB of the press and these kids are doing a better job here than almost all of the MSM.
Argumentative…?
GOOD.
Who says they’re in a court of law? How bizarre.
RELIEVED to see bright, non-tatooed kids with their noses out of a phone and thinking of The Framers.
Black suit kid, gets it.
The girls look bored like: "OMG, there he goes again"
Yes! and the kid should have been respectful of his elders. Any question regarding a ‘sensitive’ issue should be done with the most respect and discretion possible so as to not cause confusion or embarassment to the official. After all that is the most important issue when trying to get information from democratic leaders. Extreme sarcasm
The kid asked an important and pointed question and deserved an honest answer, especiially when she lied with her first answer.
So let’s disect the proper phrasing and tenor as we parse what the kid said and not the information supplied by Pelosi.
God, no wonder we continue to loose elections.
huh? If regular reporters did their job, they’d be asking the tough questions like this and putting the govt. to task instead of throwing softball questions like what color underwear are you wearing, or what is your favorite food. I’m pleased to see there is normal, intelligent youth out there pursuing real journalism.
how was the questions not intelligent? He hammered her with follow up questions which is 180 degrees different from the dufus debate moderators from both the 2008 and 2012 presidential debates.
Argumentative refers to the form of the question — not the subject matter.
My question, posed before reading any of the comments after your #2, referred to giving conservatives, especially kids, a break a big fat break, especially when they are not at fault.
my question stands. I don’t see how the question was being argumentative unless there is a different meaning of the word argumentative.
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