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Elisabeth Bumiller’s Loaded Question
Baseball Crank thinks Jeff Gannon ought to check this out. Here is Elisabeth Bumiller, of the NYT, asking a question of the president:
Elisabeth.
Q Paul Wolfowitz, who was the — a chief architect of one of the most unpopular wars in our history —
THE PRESIDENT: (Laughter.) That’s an interesting start. (Laughter.)
Q — is your choice to be the President of the World Bank. What kind of signal does that send to the rest of the world?
The bias of the questioner was so obvious the press corps laughed… where’s Gannon when you need him?
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The point about Gannon wasn’t the question - he was a paid hack backed, ultimately, by Bush’s own party. His loaded question was just the final mail in his coffin - a somewhat-contrived excuse to take him down.
But yes, I caught her question live, and it was stupid. As loaded questions go, it wasn’t even a good one.
Journalism is in such a decline these days, be it liberal, be it conservative.
Comment by Mark — March 18, 2005 @ 1:47 pm