“...David Gregory attempted to do the same thing to Michele Bachmann this past Sunday, questioning her about her views on homosexuality ...”
Have you forgotten Gregory successfully torpedoed the election of Ken Buck in Colorado by baiting him with that line of questioning? There is no reason for the conservatives to allow themselves to be accosted by these mainstream political hacks that call themselves “journalists” in this way. They don’t do it to the members of their own party.
“Of course, in both cases, the interviewers brought up the topic in an effort to paint Michele and Christine as extremists,...” ...Piers relentlessly pursued his question regarding Christine’s homosexual views,”
I think it runs deeper than just an effort to paint them as extremists. These media filth also want to go where they can to make their female guests feel uncomfortable, discussing the very controversial matter of sexual behavior, to trip them up and just make them want to quit. It is an extremely deceitful and subtle form of political attack by these leftists.
I think there are far more people out there who don’t want to have to listen to discussion of homosexual issues at dinner on CNN, and the situation that Piers Morgan was trying to set up WAS enough for someone to react by getting up and walking off.
If we're going to espouse socially conservative views publicly, i.e. in books and speeches, we'd better figure a way to answer questions about them in interviews, unless the groundwork beforehand has been laid out and there is an agreement to exclude such questions. Otherwise, in the court of Public opinion, walking off causes us to lose not GAIN points.