Posted on 09/06/2015 6:42:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Sarah Palin appeared on CNN this morning and defended Donald Trump after his less-than-stellar interview with Hugh Hewitt.
Trump’s foreign policy-focused interview was pretty widely panned for The Donald’s loose grasp on the issues. On State of the Union this morning, Tapper asked Palin if she thought Trump got “gotcha” questions.
Palin said, “I’d rather have a president who is tough and puts America first than can win a game of Trivial Pursuit.”
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HH: Joined now by Donald Trump. Donald Trump, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show, it’s always a pleasure to talk to you.
DT: Thank you, Hugh.
HH: I would thought that today, this is our sixth interview, I’d turn to some of the commander-in-chief questions. Are you ready for that?
DT: Okay, fine.
HH: Are you familiar with General Soleimani?
DT: Yes, but go ahead, give me a little, go ahead, tell me.
HH: He runs the Quds Forces.
DT: Yes, okay, right.
HH: Do you expect his behavior…
DT: The Kurds, by the way, have been horribly mistreated by …
HH: No, not the Kurds, the Quds Forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Forces.
DT: Yes, yes.
HH: …is the bad guys.
DT: Right.
HH: Do you expect his behavior to change as a result…
DT: Oh, I thought you said Kurds, Kurds.
HH: No, Quds.
DT: Oh, I’m sorry, I thought you said Kurds, because I think the Kurds have been poorly treated by us, Hugh. Go ahead.
HH: Agreed. So Soleimani runs the Quds Forces. Do you expect his behavior is going to change as a result of this deal with Iran?
There was nothing sophomoric and meaningless about that line of questioning. Hewitt mentioned Quds and General Sulemani, asked Trump if he knew who they were, Trump said yes, and then Hewitt continued on with his question--a substantive and timely question about the effect of the Iran deal on Suleimani and Quds.
Trump, unprompted, then interjected with a comment about how the Kurds have been treated (revealing Trump's apparent confusion between the Quds Forces and the Kurds, and his apparent ignorance of General Sulemani). He wasn't being quizzed, there was no "gotcha" question. Hewitt wasn't asking if he knew who Suleimani was for the sake of asking -- it was a leadup to a line of questioning about Suleimani and the impact of the terrible Iran deal. He showed his ignorance on his own, without prompting.
But he wasn't doing it to make some point about Trump's knowledge. Look at my last post--Hewitt was asking about Suleimani and Quds because he had substantive questions about the impact of the Iran deal on Suleimani and Quds (the Iran deal, by the way, grants Suleimani amnesty on his past crimes). Hewitt wasn't trying to trip up Trump--he was asking him a timely, substantive question about the Iran deal, a major issue that has been in the news (and which Trump has been criticizing for some time). The only "gotcha" came when Trump interjected to confuse Quds with Kurds.
Moronic response number how many is it now?
Nobody knows anything about the Quds.
Nobody!
Here you are back to talking about the Quds.
Is English even your fifth language?
Who has read the Iran deal? Most of our elected officials haven’t read it.
Trump knows that the Iran deal is a bad deal. Oh yeah, there is that...
Insulting response number how many is it now?
It's too nice out today to deal with some online idiot calling me a moron and telling me that it doesn't matter if a Presidential candidate knows about Iran's terrorist agency.
Have a nice day.
According to OBASTARD he knows it all.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3333656/posts?page=100#100
The online idiot ate your lunch.
Al Quds may be a group we need to keep an eye on, but I’ve proven to you how insignificantly they’ve been covered, and you are too proud to own up to it.
2.45% of the terrorist references for the most well known groups, and you still don’t realize that’s basically equivalent of 2.5 people out of one hundred ever hearing about the Quds.
Even people who follow Middle East events rather closely haven’t had them on their radar.
What this reveals is that a few people who dislike Trump are willing to go to any lengths to besmirch him.
Not buying what you’re selling. Period.
I must be reading the wrong conservative web sites. I see the Quds mentioned often. Not as often as ISIS. But more often than the terrorists in Chechnya who barely managed 15 minutes of infamy.
Correction:
I posted a response on the forum and was so unfamiliar with al Quds, that I referred to them as Cuds. I ran a search for articles about the Quds on FR, but I did so using the wrong name.
I made a point based on that, and the point needs to be corrected. Al Quds does show up, whereas Cuds does not. I apologize for the error. Here is a corrected replacement for the earlier post.
FR does not list how many articles found. Please note the size of the bar on the right. A smaller bar means more articles.
Now on to compare the two examples.
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I’ve been here nearly every day for seventeen years. If I’ve seen the name al Quds here more than 20 times I’d be surprised.
Here’s an FR search on al Quds.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alquds/index?tab=articles
Here’s one on al Qaeda
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alqaeda/index?tab=articles
I put the names in and this is what FR responded with.
If I were to list terrorist groups in the Middle East, that list would not include al Quds.
al Qaeda
the Muslim Brotherhood
Hezbollah
Hamas
al Fatah
Al Quds? LOL
Your comments are laughable.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3333656/posts?page=100#100
I think I’m safe in saying that this group has not been on the radar. If they had been, we should be able to see it in the Google search engine.
You are bad at logic.
The fact that 2.5% of google searches for terrorist groups (or, rather, 2.5% of searches for one of an arbitrarily-selected set of terrorist groups) were for Quds does not mean that only 2.5% of people have ever heard of them.
And, regardless of what percentage of the general population has heard of Quds, someone who is running for President should have a handle on the major terrorist players/groups.
Quite right. I did put that out there to put the numbers in perspective and you’re indeed fortunate that I did it that way.
The reality is that we’d be lucky to find 2.5 out of ten or even one hundred thousand people who had heard of al Quds.
Hewitt is a moron and those who defend him are even less capable people.
They at least have a chance to look up how many times a group has been addressed on the internet.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3333656/posts?page=100#100
But I repeat myself.
Lord.
How similar are those names.
"Gotchya" my ass.
Here's the Google number for objects related to that name.
210,000,000 ISIS
Here's the figure for al Quds.
2,670,000 al Quds
Really? It’s ok for someone who wants to be President to confuse Kurds and Quds because the names sound alike? Even when Hewitt, in the same breath, mentioned Suleinami, the head of Quds and Iran’s leading terrorist (who, by the way was granted amnesty in the Iran deal)?
C’mon. There are certain things a Presidential candidate just needs to know. This isn’t gotcha.
| 65.91% | 210,000,000 | ISIS | ||
| 9.79% | 31,200,000 | al Qaeda | ||
| 8.85% | 28,200,000 | Hamas | ||
| 7.38% | 23,500,000 | PLO | ||
| 3.83% | 12,200,000 | Hezbollah | ||
| 2.88% | 09,170,000 | the Muslim Brotherhood | ||
| 0.83% | 02,660,000 | al Quds | ||
| 0.54% | 01,710,000 | al Fatah | ||
| 318,640,000 | total objects | |||
| 65.91% | 210,000,000 | ISIS | ||
| 9.79% | 31,200,000 | al Qaeda | ||
| 8.85% | 28,200,000 | Hamas | ||
| 7.38% | 23,500,000 | PLO | ||
| 3.83% | 12,200,000 | Hezbollah | ||
| 2.88% | 09,170,000 | the Muslim Brotherhood | ||
| 0.83% | 02,660,000 | al Quds | ||
| 0.54% | 01,710,000 | al Fatah | ||
| 318,640,000 | total objects | |||
“Perhaps al Quds has been the subject of less focus than it deserves, but we’re asking a candiate to name the leader and address a group that pulls in less than 1% on the Google radar for this liste of terrorist groups?”
Sure, Quds itself has gotten far less media attention than it deserves (though their puppet groups like Hezbollah certainly have).
But one thing worth noting is that, as I posted above (I posted the exchange between Hewitt and Trump), Hewitt didn’t ask Trump to name Suleimani, Hewitt named him himself. Reading the exchange, it really does not look like it was some attempt at a gotcha to catch Trump not knowing who so-and-so is (like that interview of Bush during the 2000 election). I think Hewitt was genuinely asking Trump for his thoughts on the impact of the Iran deal on Quds and Suleimani—an issue that is a major, major problem in the Iran deal (albeit one of many major problems with the deal). It only became a “gotcha” when Trump interjected his own confusion.
Really?
Someone stupid like Cruz votes FOR the Corker amendment to make 0bama’s agreement with Iran happen at all, and you think Trump is a terrible choice?
You can only blame Republicans in office who voted to help 0bama do this. You can’t even blame Jeb. Just people like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.
Leave Trump out of your disdain. Cruz KNOWS what’s going on and VOTED FOR IT. It passed the Senate 99-1.
“Remember, under the terms Corker agreed to with the Democrats, it would take 67 votes in the Senate to block the deal, not 67 votes to approve it, as the Constitution requires under the Treaty Clause.”
How do you like that GOP Establishment Cruz and Rubio with your bile?
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