Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Message to Talking Heads and Mainstream Media

When you are interviewing Republican bullshit artists (aka Politicians) on your shows and they use discredited, untruthful talking points like...

"Obamacare is collapsing under it's own weight"

"The government has never created a job"

"Climate change is still unsettled science"

...and just about anything else that we hear when their lips are moving.

Instead of asking your next hard hitting question that they have no intention of answering, how about calling them out on their bullshit talking point. When you let them state nonsense and then move on you only...

  • Encourage them to continue to spew their false bullshit.
  • Allow viewers to keep hearing said bullshit over and over, uncontested, and it gets to a point where many people only remember the bullshit one-liners.
  • Demonstrate what a crappy interviewer you actually are. 
  • Give them a free commercial for their nonsense.

Did you not go to college and get a degree in journalism? Did they not teach you when someone says something devoid of facts to...

  1. Cite what the facts are for them.
  2. Reiterate their talking point and state that their statement would seem to be in conflict with the facts.
  3. Ask them what their sources are to backup their talking points. (and be prepared to call them out on the bullshit sources they cite. Most do not even come prepared with sources as they know how lame y'all are)

Mike Wallace is rolling over in his grave every time y'all do this. Do you damn job or get into another line of work.





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