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Hugh Hewitt: 'There Are No Gotcha Questions'
Newsmax ^ | 9/7/2015 | Joe Schaeffer

Posted on 09/07/2015 2:30:12 PM PDT by GilGil

Talk radio host Hugh Hewitt has said in the wake of last week's controversial foreign policy interview with Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump that "I deplore 'gotcha questions,'" yet he's repeatedly defended asking them in the past and even says on his website that there's no such thing as a "gotcha question."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cnn; debates; demagogicparty; election; election2016; hewitt; hughhewitt; joeschaeffer; memebuilding; newyork; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; president; trump
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To: RoosterRedux
Hugh Hewitt underestimated Trump.

Trump is actually very sharp, himself also a TV personality smelled right away they're irrelevant question, what's the point of even asking, hello...

61 posted on 09/07/2015 3:28:44 PM PDT by hamboy
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To: entropy12

Yes! All they need to know is the name of the new sheriff.


62 posted on 09/07/2015 3:30:16 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: RoosterRedux

Yours is easily the best theory on this thread.


63 posted on 09/07/2015 3:32:57 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: GilGil

If I were Trump, or anyone else, and received a “gotcha” question, I would leave the debate. I would warn them ahead of time of the plan, but I would follow through.

I would then proceed to take every question from the debate and respond to it, then pay to air it.


64 posted on 09/07/2015 3:34:14 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: proust

Who is 7th in line of succession? What is the 27th line of the Constitution? Who is third in command of ISIS?

***********************************************************************

Question to Hillary:

What’s your favorite color?


65 posted on 09/07/2015 3:35:03 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: GilGil
Laura Ingram ripped Bush Bot Lib Gope Hughy to shreds on her show .
She basically outed Hughy as a Jebbie hit man.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/laura-ingraham-hugh-hewitt-donald-trump

Sorry about the source but the DC Rhino media only cheers when their chief threat to power is ambushed .

66 posted on 09/07/2015 3:39:43 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: Jeff Chandler

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3333656/posts?page=117#117


67 posted on 09/07/2015 3:41:52 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: ncalburt
Laura Ingram ripped Bush Bot Lib Gope Hughy to shreds on her show .

George Will is still showing the marks Laura applied after she touched him up on immigration on Fox News.

68 posted on 09/07/2015 3:42:15 PM PDT by AU72
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To: GilGil
Hugh Hewitt: 'There Are No Gotcha Questions'

No, only mendacious radio hosts.

69 posted on 09/07/2015 3:43:57 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Let him who pays no taxes, also not vote!)
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To: GilGil

Huge will continue to be a GOPee hitman.


70 posted on 09/07/2015 3:45:49 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
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To: Graybeard58

And: Who does your hair? It always looks perfect, yet so loose and vibrant!

If I was Trump I’d answer: no, I don’t know the guy, but my thug bankers know his thug bankers and there may not be anything left of this guy by the time the primaries roll around. Next?


71 posted on 09/07/2015 3:46:40 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Vic S

I was thinking the same thing. Give Carley the “gotcha Questions” to knock Trump down a notch.


72 posted on 09/07/2015 3:49:21 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: proust

I think that is poor general advice. Having all sorts of facts in mind make daily work in the field more efficient and increases the probabality of innovation through integration.


73 posted on 09/07/2015 3:50:46 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
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To: gaijin

Is Hillsdale bad?


74 posted on 09/07/2015 3:52:23 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current devices...one uses Brit spel now.)
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To: proust
Who is 7th in line of succession? What is the 27th line of the Constitution? Who is third in command of ISIS?

And who's on first?

75 posted on 09/07/2015 3:58:01 PM PDT by Mark17 (Heaven, where the only thing there that's been made by man are the scars in the hands of Jesus)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Newt Gingrich in Sunday’s “Face the Nation” really nailed down the “Gotcha Question” controversy:

“The truth is, no national leader knows anything about the head of Quds force; so they say they may have memorized the name; they don’t know what school he went to, they don’t know what faction he belongs to; they don’t know whether or not he was in Moscow recently. I mean, this is not presidential stuff. He’s going to hire a Secretary of State, he’s going to hire a national security adviser; he’s going to have a chairman of the Joint Chiefs; he’s going to have a Secretary of Defense. The real question is: so what would you do about them.”

“First of all, we have no idea what the effect of Trump will be over six months or a year and how dramatically the messages will change. He’s now met with the head of the Mexican Chamber of Commerce; he’s about to meet with their board… I think he’s modulating; I think he is learning. The one thing I’ve always found to be true with Trump is: I think he learns faster than any other political figure I’ve known except Bill Clinton. And I think it’s a big mistake to assume that the Donald Trump who you saw yesterday is the Donald Trump you’re going to see a month from now.”


76 posted on 09/07/2015 4:09:51 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: gaijin

UGH!
Looks like an old yellow toothed hoss!


77 posted on 09/07/2015 4:19:22 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: AAABEST

you’re absolutely FOS.


78 posted on 09/07/2015 4:46:21 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Step away from the Koolade.)
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To: AAABEST

Four Arabs that have been in John McCain kitchen?


79 posted on 09/07/2015 4:51:21 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: GilGil
Hewitt's fatal error is that he was trained as a lawyer, and often forgets that cheap shyster tricks are not generally appreciated outside the courtroom.
80 posted on 09/07/2015 5:07:56 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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