I thought the Leslie Stahl interview with Trump was brilliant.

[kentuck]

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She was prepared.

When she asked a question, she was ready to continue her questioning after his usual response and diversion. He was not accustomed to anyone questioning him in such a manner, was my impression.

When she asked why he "loved" a tyrant like Kim Jong Un, he went into his usual spiel about how they got along, blah, blah, blah... She continued to ask, "But, you said you 'loved' him". Every time, he was not prepared when she pursued the subject matter.

When she asked about Christine Blasey Ford, he tried to spin the Kavanaugh hearing as some great victory for himself and the Republicans. She continued to pursue the matter, "Did you not believe her", she asked? She reminded him of how he 'mocked' her and how all his audience laughed with him.

His bullshit was weak. When reporters do not accept his weak responses and continue to press him on issues, he falls apart.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. I agree, and have said so. Interviewing is hard work, especially with a gish galloping conman...

The interviewer can't be baited into arguing with the subject, and has to be careful not to piss off the subject and let the whole thing go down the drain. An interview is not a debate. Stahl has been doing this for a long time and knows the drill.

BTW, NPR's Terri Gross is one of the best at that. She usually does pop entertainment stuff, but occasionally politics and heavier material. She manages, very quietly, to get into her subjects' skin and get secrets out, always respecting the subject, even when she doesn't agree. I remember her Bill O'Reilly interview where he saw what was happening and stormed out.

[Locrian]

6. yes - you can't "win" and interview

the best way is to do what Terri does and/or act as a "mirror" to expose the idiot

[phylny]

2. Here's the fun part:

My husband was at the gym yesterday and two Trump-loving idiots were talking about how great Trump did on 60 minutes.

[ginnyinWI]

15. well that's a given.

They are always going to do that. Fortunately a shrinking minority. I mean, he's not making any new "fans". Independents are peeling off!

[oasis]

3. Stahl did well. It's never easy interviewing the World's Greatest Liar. nt

[7962]

4. Its what you have to do with politicians like him. Stay on the original question.

he doesnt like it when you dont follow his attempt to steer you away to another topic

[DrDan]

5. he really hates being challenged by a woman

two quotes that I think had his staff cringing . . . .

"I'm president and you're not"

and

"We won - so nothing else matters" - (paraphrased)

I agree - she did a good job with him - covered a lot of ground.

[forgotmylogin]

10. And he really hates follow-up questions.

He's used to dismissing the servants and not being challenged.

[kentuck]

13. Yep!

[DrDan]

24. you are so right - particularly when the follow-up challenges his original reply

[rickford66]

7. He pulled a "people are saying"

She asked "What people"

Trump mumbles nonsense.

[kentuck]

9. She was locked and loaded...

...waiting for that response from Trump.

[3Hotdogs]

29. That was good.

"People say..." is one of his pet set-ups.

[Demonaut]

8. I didn't see the whole interview but what I saw matched your description

[sagesnow]

11. Stahl was gaslit by the Gaslighter in Chief

She stood up pretty well to his gas-lighting, but he still gets to say what he wanted to and he believes he won bigly. The Trumpanzees think he won. You cannot give a narcissist a forum and not look weak to them. Professionals tell partners in of a narcissist to cut ties and go No Contact.

If you can't go No Contact with the Narc, you can act like a "Grey Rock" and be noncommittal and unresponsive when in the Narc's presence. I think Melania has perfected this technique.

The third option is to become a crazy narcissist yourself and try to out gaslight them.
http://queenbeeing.com/want-revenge-10-easy-steps-torture-narcissist/

How is America going to recover from this self absorbed egotist?

[Hortensis]

12. Agree it did a good job and that the 11M who watched

were well served by having him display himself and his intentions to a series of intelligent and timely questions.

For myself, I hope a lot of decent people out there did not miss or misunderstand his intentions regarding jailing and separating far larger numbers of families in future.

[kentuck]

14. That was a jaw-dropper!

He still supports separating the families.

[Hortensis]

20. Not just supports, either. They're jailing and interning

people all the time and are constantly building new detention camps. A stretch of highway in southwest Texas is called "detention alley" because of all the facilities being constructed along it.

Even more sinister, they have plans, though have gone silent about it, for camps that could eventually hold over 200,000 on a Navy base in Texas.

That "Cheech and Chong today" segment they did probably was not incidentally included given a the couple of Cheech's movies I remember which both involved American citizens being maliciously deported to Mexico and trying to get back. Happened then and happening now, along with all the rest.

[CharleyDog]

26. Millions of dollars are now redirected toward incarcerating desperate people

seeking shelter,

Is that why we have no aid to the victims suffering from Hurricane Michael? No food. No water. No FEMA.

Our country cannot help its citizens because...the pathetic weak cheater can't be bothered.

[Hortensis]

28. Our treasury is deliberately being committed elsewhere

and emptied of money that might be used for these purposes. Our nation is fabulously wealthy.

Speaking of, in addition to all the other tax thefts, our annual payment on our $1.6 TRILLION transfer of our tax dollars to the wealthy is coming due at the beginning of 2019.

[ginnyinWI]

16. most of the time he speaks unchallenged.

He is allowed to maintain his version of reality--in rallies, Twitter, and calling Fox & Friends. Yes he will continue to b.s. his way through these things, but it lets people contrast his version of reality with the one the rest of us live in.

[bucolic_frolic]

17. All well and good, but in the clips played on the local CBS radio

station, all one heard is " ... well, I AM the President." Sort of a stimulation to the base.

[pazzyanne]

18. Anyone who has to say "I AM the President" has already lost the ball game.

People with true power do not have to make announcements as to that fact. tRump is a loser - bigly.

[tclambert]

31. That's so Joffrey of him.

(For those not obsessed with Game of Thrones, Joffrey was a cruel idiot king who kept reminding people "I am the King" whenever he wanted to do something horrible and stupid. His Uncle Tyrion said, "Any man who must say "I am the king" is no true king." )

[Cha]

35. Fraud also said.. "I am not a baby 3 times".. the m$m should play that..

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[sagesnow]

19. Trumpanzees think he was the Brilliant Winner.

His gaslighting answers to Stahl was classic narcissistic trumpery. Fellow narcissists and deplorables think he told the honest truth and shut up Stahl. People see what they want to see.

[Wounded Bear]

21. It's like the debates with Clinton, though...

his minions will proclaim "victory" and continue on track. Hopefully, millions of people saw that with open eyes and minds.

Trump was definitely Trump in that interview. Most of us think that is a bad thing.

[kentuck]

22. They are always looking for validation.

They know nothing until they are told.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

23. Got nada, but the usual blah blah blah from the odious know nothing. Can someone explain how, why

...this fucking moron [now, don't criticize me, just quoting Tillerson btw what's happened to him? Did he sign a non discloure required by his best pal, putin who once gave him best friend of Russia plaque because the guy just seem to have vanished --anyone check on him lately...you just never know] is president of the United States? Without stealing the election, dumping ballots somewhere, hiding voting machines in some abandon warehouse near the docks; paying off some clerk in red states or some the clerk (Brian Kemp) in Georgia who is purging or wanting purge newly registered voters (mostly Black voters) some 53,000 voters... and, get this he's running for governor against Stacy Abrams who is Black and is overseeing his own election...how is this right? Not required to take leave, resign ?

In 2017 more than 668,000 voter registrations were canceled in Georgia in 2017 by yup you got it Kemp! Republiklans up to their same ole chicanery.....in my opinion--the only way trump won is that he lied, cheated stole, colluded, conspired wth Russians to break into the DNC; attack our election process and literally steal votes..that's the only reason he could have possibly won...later in a dream I had about same ....some 50 years from now when we baby boomers are all dust, a trove of rusted voting machines will be found in abandon warehouse in Maine, ITscientists were able to break the computer code ...and found the 77,000 votes that Clinton needed to win Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan electoral votes to win the presidency ...back at home my great, great grandson reads the breaking news ...look here the old gizzard was right ..it's right here in his journal...a question he posed to the wise democratic underground members.look, the entry is dated October 16, 2017..."Can someone explain to me why this fucking moron is president ..." he, my great great grandson asked his great grandma, your dad swore ? Nunca Never, not even the night that his beloved Hillary lost the presidential election in 2016, although I remember that he wept, she said! The entry went on ..unless he lied cheated, stole votes; had the Russians breakin the dnc and attack the 2016...stealing 77,000 that went to Hillary Clinton....and we thought old gramps was just plain loco rambling on on...even at his death bed as they prayed the rosario over him...he said look in abandon warehouse near docks because no way could this fucking moron was our president were his last words..he died at 106..a loyal DEMOCRAT to his dying days.....we went to composanto, cemetery that goes back to 1600swhwn esponolesspanish arrived, a placecwwre a) his familia is buried ...and replaced his tomb stone to read..."He was right the f#!@g moron stole the elections, only way he could be potus! Of corse since it was a cemetery they couldn't use the epithet ...anyway




https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://amp.timeinc.net/time/5421332/georgia-brian-kemp-secretary-of-state-53000-voters-governor&ved=2ahUKEwjLsLDSl4veAhXLHDQIHdbUB1YQFjAAegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw3caQ8EFN2wqOuLqVxiZHut&cf=1

snip

Georgia cancels fewer voter registrations after surge last year
By Mark Niesse - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
STEVE SCHAEFER
Volunteer Cylinda Parga, left, helps high school student Joshua McBrewer fill out his voter registration application before the start of the Town Hall For Our Lives in April in Atlanta. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC
Updated: 3:27 p.m. Thursday, October 11, 2018 | Posted: 1:57 p.m. Tuesday, September 25, 2018

After more than 668,000 voter registrations were canceled in Georgia in 2017, election officials are removing far fewer people from voting rolls this election year.
Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who oversees elections, is no longer purging names from the state’s list of 6.8 million eligible voters as he runs for governor against Democrat Stacey Abrams.

[louis-t]

25. Was it Leslie Stahl who interviewed Cheney?

And got him to admit he was still involved with his old company that was given a no-bid contract and that he had 444,000 stock options that increased in value during the Iraq War? He said he would donate any money he makes on the deal to "charity".

[NastyRiffraff]

27. This is the reason why he normally goes on Fox for an interview

Real journalists won't let him get away with his bullshit. Leslie is one of the best.

[RainCaster]

30. I thought she was lame

She had plenty of editing time. Why didn't she mention the truth for each and every one of his lies? She normalized his bullshit.

[lindysalsagal]

34. That's the liar's strategy: Bury you in so much puke you can't defend yourself.

He shovels it too fast and deep.

[SeattleVet]

36. That's what is called the 'Gish Gallop'...

After Duane Gish, the hardcore creationist that use to 'debate' scientists by spewing an impossible amount of BS to debunk in the time given.

Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, dubbed this approach the Gish gallop, describing it as "where the creationist is allowed to run on for 45 minutes or an hour, spewing forth torrents of error that the evolutionist hasn't a prayer of refuting in the format of a debate".

KellyAnne ConJob is also a Grandmaster of this technique, spewing massive amounts of 'alternative facts' in her given airtime. If she is lucky whomever is fact-checking or giving the reality position will only be able to refute a very small sampling of the crap that was just spewed forth.

[RainCaster]

37. Easily countered in the editing and post production

Some good post graphics with a BS-meter in flames and a voice over of the truth. But that would take cajones.

[Pepsidog]

32. She was miles ahead of him the idiot

[lindysalsagal]

33. She wasn't prepared for the shock of what a sociopath can say to your face.

But I don't fault her for that.

She looked like she wanted for all the world to get up and run away from him as fast as she could.

Just sitting in the chair should win her points....