Posted on 09/07/2015 5:37:33 AM PDT by jimbo123
The late, great writer and reporter Michael Kelly was a guest on my radio show almost weekly from its debut in July of 2000 through his death outside of Baghdad in April 2003. So was Christopher Hitchens—more than 70 times in fact—until his death in late 2011. Kelly always emphasized that journalism was a “craft,” not a profession and Hitchens that it was very much a moral crusade. I think it is both, and more. It is part of a functioning, free democratic Republic, and its practitioners must not be intimidated.
The very best journalists—those who go to the front lines of combat like Kelly and Hitchens, John Fisher Burns, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Dexter Filkins, Robert Kaplan, David Kirkpatrick, Thomas Ricks and scores of others routinely ask tough questions of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines they cover, from the privates to the generals. These journalists set a standard for desk jockeys like me who cover politics and public policy but who have never been remotely in harm’s way. I think we who work from the comfort of studios owe it to the public generally, and specifically to men and women deployed at the tips of various spears around the world, to ask would-be presidents how they will conduct themselves as Commander-in-Chief.
In the weeks since the first GOP presidential debate I have conducted 30 interviews with would-be nominees. Some have been prickly. (John Kasich as my home state governor seems particularly entitled to mock me and my questions, which is fine by me. He is a Steelers fan after all.) In my view all 30 have been fair. Some disagree about my Thursday interview with Donald Trump, the fourth I conducted with him in the past month. Other earlier interviews from the spring have also caused other candidates
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What a bunch of blather. He admitted to working around his questions to Christie so as not to put him on the spot, but he didn’t repeat his questions to Trump, because they were clearly gotcha questions of a different variety than any he has put to the other candidates and has put up here in his lame defense of his foul behavior—which Trump rightly called him on.
Oh, and by the way, it is repugnant of him to evoke a dead journalist who covered war zones, somehow suggesting that his questions were of equal quality and type to those of the deceased in a very different environment and of a very different nature.
Oh, that was great—laughing almost too hard to type!
Isn’t he the same tool who had essence of Mitt dripping from his chin during the entire 2012 campaign? He is little more than a shill for the establishment.
No I can’t but I’m not trying to bluff my way into the white house. It might work with the stupid but intelligent people knew that the guys named were already dead.
It isn’t going to get any easier.
I think he’s closer in looks to scumbag Phil Donahue.
Roughly 2,900 FPS. At least that’s what my chronograph says.
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My wife says he is the Bad Grandpa.
I finally figured out that she was talking about the Johnny Knoxville character, Old Irving Zisman.
As apt of a comparison as any, I suppose.
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You realize that he wasn’t just asking for the names, right? That he was asking about Trump’s opinion on the Iran deal, and its impact on the Quads force (Iran’s main terror group). Hardly ridiculous.
This fourth rate whining mediot pundiot had to go to Politico, a George $oreA$$ funded left wing prop agit posing as a news organization.
The second set of questions Kelly asked was a personal attack on Trump and had no business even being posed period. In fact it was a distraction and a disservice to the viewer.
Trun about is fair play
In a public setting on air or in response to one of his stump-the-dummy questions, ask Hugh who the president of the Society of Professional Journalists is? Then follow it up with a specific question regarding the Journalism Code of Ethics, the Society maintains.
He should know that right? If he doesn’t, he can’t possible be a real journalist. Right Trump haters?
https://www.spj.org/spjboard.asp
http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
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If you are a long time Hewitt listener you must know he has been on board The Cheap Labor Express for years. He is an amnesty shill.
Trump didn't respond correctly. Sarah Palin has the right answer to all of that. We don't need a trivia wizard for President. Trump can talk about the big terrorist problem and big any kind of problem.
He can say as CEO he will get advice from people paid to keep track or the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas and Abu Sayyaff, the IRA, Sendero Luminoso, the KKK and any other group that ever wanted to profit from others' misery.
My guess is Trump will disappoint his supporters with or without Hewitt's help. Rather than feeling the need to defend himself, Hewitt should concentrate of pointing to the elephants in the room when questioning the people he really does support such as Jeb Bush, John Kasich and that ilk.
The main reason Trump is so politically popular is because people like me are sick to the core of that ilk.
A long time Hewitt listen—just the resource we need. What is the most difficult question Hewitt has ever asked 1, a leading Dem candidate, and 2, a favored GOPe candidate (for example, Romney).
Perhaps you can help with a question I asked up thread. Namely, is Hawaii in Asia or not? (I called it a gotcha question, but maybe that’s an exaggeration.)
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