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[Forty Watt]

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[boodog]

The interview was about 20 minutes long.  Obama was interrupted, but I am left to wonder; like most politicians, I do believe that the President would have gone on for 20 minutes on the first question alone.   There should not have been those interruptions, but how long does it take to answer a "yes" or "no" question?

While I am most definitely not an advocate for FOX, the questions asked did seem reasonable, as I did not see any type of "gotcha" questions for the President to answer.  

The questions did seem reasonable, but they were not simply 'yes' or 'no' questions. If you request an interview with the President, it is assumed that you will be wanting to hear what he has to say- he wasn't given much of a chance to answer before he was interrupted with another question.
I also thought it was unprofessional to say at the end 'I apologize for interrupting you, I tried to get the most for our buck here'.  I think it showed.

[Forty Watt]

A little OT, but am I the only person who looks at the Recent posts on the left there and reads

Obama gives interview to ...
        boodog

Or to whoever happened to post last. 

[pj]

aahh it hurt, but I diid listen/watch the interview and...

basically if you fall for FOX fallicies you enjoyed the interview. If you are a liberal the interuptions were nasty. If you are an independant you got very little new information.
But it was an opportunity to see our President continue his "out-reach" program to the more civic-minded challenged persons that watch FOX.

(Now that makes about as much sense as the interview didi!) 

[Writing from Alaska]

Quick question here......did the "gotcha journalism" phraseology originate from the 2008 campaign?

I think 'gotcha journalism' came into being with 'you betcha' also, too.

[daMamma]

Quick question here......did the "gotcha journalism" phraseology originate from the 2008 campaign?

I think 'gotcha journalism' came into being with 'you betcha' also, too.

Terribly inconsiderate of those pesky liberal media types to ask her what she reads.   

[Jaime from Wasilla]

Quick question here......did the "gotcha journalism" phraseology originate from the 2008 campaign?

According to Wikipedia : Gotcha Journalism

The phrase gotcha journalism is reported to have been come from a headline in the British tabloid newspaper The Sun in 1982, when it printed a massive headline reading "GOTCHA" in reference to an incident in the Falklands War (this headline was, in fact, gloating over a successful British attack and was not what later came to be called "gotcha journalism").

An early citation indicated that "gotcha journalism" was used by Stuart K. Spencer in the Los Angeles Times in 1987. [1]
The full story is given in the book Stick It Up Your Punter[2] by Chris Horrie[3]. The headline was also used in a 1994 movie about the newspaper business, The Paper, which was based in part on Horrie's book[citation needed].

Former Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle reportedly referred to "gotcha journalism" in 1999 during an interview with talk-show host David Letterman.

Sarah Palin blamed "gotcha journalism" when she answered a voter's question with a summary of policy on Pakistan that was in direct opposition to that of her running mate.[citation needed]

During the 2004 U.S. presidential election, Wall Street Journal columnist Gordon Crovitz suggested that the term "gotcha journalism" was used heavily by Republican campaign managers to diminish the credibility of journalists interviewing about the Iraq war.[5]

[Sister Artemis]

It occurs to me that, given Obama's gift of speaking well and remaining calm in the face of sheer idiocy, the tables are turned on the faux journalists when it comes to "gotcha journalism" trying to "gotch" Obama.  I haven't seen the Fox interview, but in other venues -- the January Q&A session with Republicans comes to mind -- it seemed to be the questioners who were on the receiving end of the "gotcha."

[daMamma]

The right-wingers seem to be under the impression that Obama didn't answer any of the questions.  Never mind that 1) the questions they are talking about were not asked and 2) the ones that were asked, the interviewer either interrupted or talked over the president's answer.

Really quite amazing to me that they actually take this interview as a win for their side and tout that it proves Obama has no idea what is in the bill and refuses to tell what is in the bill.  (as if both could be true at the same time)

[Irishgirl]

I agree daMamma.  Their logic seems skewed to me.

Thanks to all for the clarifications about the origins of "gotcha."

[Jaime from Wasilla]

Logic?!!!? We don't need no steenkeen' logic!