Was Leslie "Scott Fosters" Stahl being unfair to Trump?

Oh, goodness, I hope you're not too upset.

Trump doesn't like his bull**** called out. If reporters are more pointed than they were four years ago, well, it's about goddamned time.

 

yea. not upset. thanks for the concern.

i hate the dude and voted against him a few days ago. doesn't preclude me from seeing his point. interviewer is supposed to ask clear cut questions that are of concern to a regular citizen and call out misrepresented facts. instead, the interviewer made an unsubstantiated claim. - i only watched the part of interview that I referred to.

 

He said the economy was the best ever. She said, "you know that's not true, right?".

What's wrong with that?

He should have been prepared to provide a factual basis to any of his answers. When he is at his rallies, he continually spews BS without any facts. He absolutely hates it when asked to prove it.

 

Dude everybody is unfair to the big baby b****

 

I will and the polls.

He has been doing this since 2016, can they be any more energized?

 

So you were serious.

how is "you know that's not true, right" combative?

Have you ever seen a 60 minutes interview before?

 

Facts tend to be unfair to autocrats and dictators, so autocrats and dictators tend to hate people who report facts. Gee, imagine that!

 

Trump is a petulant toddler - nothing new.

 

I actually stated that I don't watch 60 minutes - it has been a one page thread, so it would be cool if you took note of that.

If one person says something and the other person says "that's not true and you know it" without justifying said disagreement, it's either combative or childish in my book. She basically called him a liar there.

@bobrek Trump did go on to substantiate his claim about economy. I have mentioned it.

I sense some emotion in the responses, so I will have to just "agree to disagree" for now

 

“You know that’s not true”. The 12-6 curveball of interviewing. If he wasn’t so pathetic and dangerous, it might be funny.

 

He was lying and it's about time somebody calls him on it.

 

They didn't really need to edit that though..... I am sure interviews of President Trump have been edited before to be unflattering, but in this case.... it stands on it's own. He screwed up, and he released it early and made a spectacle of it to control the narrative roughly a week before the election.

Trump is frustrating, he had the re-election on a silver plate, all he had to do was stop some of the insults and be more honest and careful....... and he just couldn't help himself..... he had the charisma and some ideas (appealing to black men) that were brilliant, but he just lacked self control.

 

Many people are saying that asking Trump to substantiate his lying answers is totally unfair.

 

It's mean when a smart person picks on a dumb person. Unfair!

 

Yes he can't control being a narcissistic lying bully of an *******

 

It's not even the right question. Stahl owes her viewers, not her interview subjects. If there is something unfair about a question, it'd be because she isn't treating us right -- by obscuring or distorting the truth we hear, for example -- not because she isn't treating Trump right.

But Trump is always gaslighting. And one typical gaslighting move is to assert dominance by setting oneself as the arbiter of good work. He wanted to suggest Stahl was doing her work badly because it didn't meet his standard. But he doesn't get to say if her work is good or bad.

He did this same thing in the debate with Welker. He gave her a qualified compliment on how she was running the debate "so far." And some media noted it like it was a good thing that he was gracious enough to compliment her work. But, it's not a good thing. Again, Welker doesn't work for him, and his evaluation of her work is irrelevant and inappropriate. He did it because he wanted to assert his dominance over the moderator.

 

You know his claim isn't true though, right?

 

Trump could tweet "he took a really big dump" and he will get 100K likes. Trump does have several million followers so a 100K isn't really that much when you have that many followers.

60 Minutes has a long history of combative questions. Mike Wallace would make people break down. And yes the media has asked Biden about Hunter Biden including last night in the debate. From the clip i've seen of the Biden interview is that Leslie Stahl does ask him a question he's been avoiding and does a poor job on about stacking the court.

 

Trump has always been full of crap. The difference is the reporters today don’t treat him like the lying BS’er that he is.