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So when Connie started going in a direction that was deemed off-limits beforehand, why didn't they get up and walk out? Why did they stay and continue to answer questions for THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES?

There's more going on here than this blurb is letting on.

Are you polite with telemarketers or do you just slam down the phone as soon as they start their pitch (no "goodbye", or "no thanks")?

Add to that equation there is a "celebrity" "journalist" present. Some people are starstruck, honored, and still believe that these teleprompter readers are smart people looking out for Americans. They may have even signed a release before the interview and believe that they are bound to the commitment to be there.

Third component: There is a camera present. Anything that they say or do will be captured (even if they think that the camera is off). Don't want to be made to look like a crook or a man who has lost his senses do you?

The nightly news accounts of a story only marginally come close to ever reporting what happened. These are the same people who interview a family after a tornado has levelled a family's house can only think to ask, "You've lost everything now. How do you feel?"