 Two Unfair Questions (Which Admiral Stockdale asked himself in his 1992 debate) "Who am I?" "Why am I here?" ("youtube" link) |
Posted on 01/27/2016 2:17:04 PM PST by don-o
LOL! And an honest and accurate answer might prevent such horrors in the future.
I understand, don-o....
It should not be called a debate, IMO...Probably should be called Candidate Group Discussion or something...Even at that, I think the same questions should be asked of each individual candidate and should be relevant to the issue, which is the presidency.
I don’t know if I would say unfair questions as much as I would say irrelevant or inane questions. The questions should be about issues that the president elect would face such as foreign policy, economic policy, etc.
However, an example of an unfair question would be ones about abortions or homosexual perversity asked six different ways to a GOP candidate while a Democrat gets a total pass on these topics.
Absolutely true! But not everyone plays the game and you have to deal with that. How you deal with it is a reflection of mental, emotional and spiritual maturity and others will overlay their concepts of fair judgment on that. Fairly or not.
You have to evaluate your own reactions to “unfair” circumstances by what you want out of yourself. Is “winning” the situation going to serve you best or are there other standards you want to apply to yourself?
Again, totally singling out Trump for a gotcha moment, right at the outset of the debate, both questions. No one can tell me that was not intended to knock Trump off his horse.
Not sure that is unfair. Same question asked to everyone. I do see how it might be seen as agenda driven, though. Is an agenda driven question unfair? Does it depend on the agenda? Thanks for posting.
“Kelly’s question to Cruz about God in the first debate. It was unfair and mocked God.”
I remember that well, and she, and, I believe, Chris Wallace, laughed at the question when Megan Kelly asked Senator Cruz ‘if GOD had ever talked to him’, then they laughed. However, I did love the answer that Senator Cruz gave, “HE talks to me every day as I read my BIBLE.” Megan Kelly was out to get Donald Trump that first debate, I remember listening to some radio talk shows and the host had let it be known that it was common knowledge around the news wire as to who would get Trump with a “gotcha question”.
I have no respect for Megan Kelly and have not watched her show since. As I wrote to Fox News Network, that Megan Kelly would be right as home over at MSNBC. Of course, I never got a response.
I love it!!! I might try to ruminate a bit on your thoughts before responding, but the reply is much appreciated.
One of the reasons Megyn’s question about womyn was unfair is that she took two things that Trump said to two individuals in two very different circumstances and lumped them together under the idea “you hate women”, and then cited the Democrat tagline, “war on women.” She took a Marxist/collectivist stance that generalized outward to “all” from “two.”
So, in a court of law, the opposing council would have said, “Objection! Counsel is testifying!”
IMO, when Kelly continued on with an argument with Trump after his flippant answer about Rosie to her opening irrelevant question was over the top...Instead of “moderating the discussion, she became an interrogator with her grilling of Trump..She evidently did not understand the purpose of a moderator or just decided to forgo any pretense of that assignment...
IMO, she was extremely shameful....
If and when Trump is the nominee, we’ll see just how many answered that question truthfully, won’t we????
Many questions are stupid. Many are irrelevant. Many make presumptions of the questioner which the candidate may or may not accept.
The test is not whether the candidate can answer the stupid question. The test is whether the candidate can control the situation ... or does he let the situation control him?
Which type of person do you want as president?
Thanks! Glad you don’t feel that my line of thought is knocking your thread off track. I saw your initial question as an invitation for more generalized views on ‘fairness’ with an understood subtext of the Trump-Kelly issue.
As the discussion has progressed I see a more specific question becoming relevant. Are questions about character fair in a political debate? If so what questions about character would be fair or unfair?
Yes.
But, again I’d say that if she likewise asked and pursued questions of a similar character to all the candidates it would be ‘fair’ to the candidates.
But it would cheat the viewers intellectually.
I may mis-recall, but it seems personal ‘interview’ questions were asked more of the ‘outsiders’ Carson, Cruz nd Trump- and policy questions were mostly asked of the establishment candidates- at that first debate.
Yes! Bring a Cruz supporter a moment that sticks in my minds was when he recited a litany of the stupid questions that had been asked every other candidate.
Here's an idea of some basic unfairness I might have heard.
Asks Candidate A: "Mr. A, Mr, B has called Mr C's policy on Iran dangerous and unworkable. Do you agree?"
I don't have any examples, but I would not be surprised if Trump had been on the dirty end of that stick.
I believe you are correct...
The initial question to Trump was so personal though, that it couldn’t be asked to the other candidates...She specifically tried to quote words from him.
The whole premise of most of these debates cheat the viewers intellectually...
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Two Unfair Questions (Which Admiral Stockdale asked himself in his 1992 debate) "Who am I?" "Why am I here?" ("youtube" link) |
If we're going to talk about fairness that really gets down to the nut of it. Are any of these so-called debates by any of the MSM networks fair to the voters? After all they are the consumers here not the candidates.
No...None of them are...The only fair, honest debate I’ve ever seen was the Kennedy/Nixon debate...
I don’t know how old you are, but I can remember it...*LOL*
I was born in ‘55 so I may have to address you as sir! lol
It’s a nonspecific situtational question without truth or even any facts and specifics offered. It is designed to lay a false accusation or smear in the lap of one you despise and disrespect. It is very difficult to handle gracefully and the questioner knows this. It’s malicious.
Kelly asked Trump something like: you have a history of mistreating women. How are women supposed to vote for you? And she did have hate in her eyes when asking it.
How is Trump to address an unstated bad “history” where women should not vote for him? So he handled it like a champ and referred to his public battle with Rosie O’Donnell who everyone loves to hate. Kelly was check mated.
But that is how the journalist’s unprofessional and “unfair” questioning works.
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