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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy message to Kristin Welker and the rest of the corporate media
Take a page from the old song by the Staples Singers (one of mr. senseandsensibility's favorite songs) and RESPECT YOURSELF.
Do not put up with demeaning name calling, lies, and personal insults. Do not beg trump to complete the interview if he is insulting you and not answering questions or providing your viewers with useful information. Respect yourself and the solemn obligation you have been given by our nation's founders and the constitution. Your job is too important to succumb to a fear of losing access or a desire to complete the conveted interview at all costs.
You have legal and constitutional power, as well as a moral obligation to demand answers. But unless you also demand respect, you will get lies and insults. Neither of these is of any use to your viewers. By allowing them, you are failing.
Chasstev365
(8,274 posts)senseandsensibility
(25,797 posts)That's why it is actually Welker and the legacy media who are doing HIM a favor by interviewing him. If they insist on doing so, it must be rigorous in the extreme. Allowing insults and begging him to complete the interview is playing into his hands.
GoodRaisin
(11,129 posts)I think she did fine. She got him to show his true colors.
johnnyfins
(4,093 posts)But now he just looks bad, he is easily debunked in real time and people arent buying his bullshit anymore.
Courts are starting to rebuke him. Even Welker went at him multiple times for his lack of evidence(which he never talked about or produced). He just said there is so much evidence amd then talked about California. They guy is cooked.
senseandsensibility
(25,797 posts)fact checking and a demand for professionalism (no personal insults). What we seem to have is the worst of both worlds: a platform for his lies and a chance for him to demean the journalists with insufficient pushback.
johnnyfins
(4,093 posts)regarding election evidence. All he could say was California. He looked like an absolute ass, actually. Like the old, washed up conman that he is.
She should have pushed back when he called her "darling" at the end. Fucking dirty old misogynist rapist.
senseandsensibility
(25,797 posts)But unfortunately, it just wasn't enough. His lying has gotten so pervasive that at this point journalists should say "That's a lie." The fact that they still can't be this clear is a problem. We've had ten years of this BS.
Bluetus
(3,189 posts)That is, when he lies, which is continuously, they should say "That's not true, Donald". Talk to him like he's a toddler with a firm voice. Maybe he will pout and call names. If he does, "That is not very nice, Donald."
Remember, he fears strong women. And he immediately started backtracking, blaming it on the weather, as if the rain makes him lie more?
And he agreed to another interview with her. He needs the microphone.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,773 posts)To his brain dead followers.....Der....that means he WON again! winning!
DeeDeeNY
(3,973 posts)interviewers need to start fact checking him during the interview, or if he abruptly walks off after a temper tantrum, then the interviewer needs to read off to the camera all the facts contradicting his lies. They shouldn't waste the air time by letting him have the last word.
WmChris
(808 posts)senseandsensibility
(25,797 posts)I think the reason she or other reporters for that matter don't do that is they fear losing access. And that's a problem.
FakeNoose
(42,714 posts)She would have had good reasons too, he didn't answer her questions and he acted completely disrespectfully. NBC would have backed her up if she had done that. I'm sure of it. They can see that CBS is circling the drain and they don't want to be next.
thesquanderer
(13,143 posts)...if she called it off, she possibly could have been fired. Not only was it her job to do the interview, but as she said, they had flown a whole crew to Wisconsin to do it. I don't think she can make that call. I suspect NBC was happy that she tried to get him to stay. That was her job.
struggle4progress
(126,912 posts)They'll be stuck there until the pushback worries them
progressoid
(53,429 posts)Last edited Sun Jun 7, 2026, 07:46 PM - Edit history (1)
Then he'll be your best friend for ever.
Or until you say something bad about his ballroom or his back swing.
Uncle Joe
(65,805 posts)Thanks for the thread senseandsensibility
senseandsensibility
(25,797 posts)live love laugh
(16,534 posts)in the few minutes that sicko vehemently lashed out? He was overbearing, loud, bullying . I am not a fan of Welker, but I dont see that she did anything wrong and I dont think she hardly had a chance to do anything differently.