That's a Stupid Question

wayoutwest · 2018-11-09T20:47:18.032Z

How long did Benghazi go on and what were the findings?

hindsight · 2018-11-09T20:50:10.437Z

CharlesFreeman:

Lib journalists trying to bully trump into a gotcha moment with juvenile questions all day and night. Its insane. Just let the man do his job and cover the real stories.

Waaaaah they’re upsetting Trump! I don’t remembering the journalists cornering the President outside the White House and refusing to let him pass until he answers some questions.

CoachMcGuirk · 2018-11-09T21:23:04.288Z

WuWei:

How? How in the hell does he answer that stupid question.

I’m not a politician but off the top of my head, this is how I would answer if I was in his shoes:

"I’m glad you asked. One of the principles that we hold most dearly in this country is that each vote counts. It’s imperative that our election process is sacrosanct, unsullied by foreign interference. Not only does the process need to be secure, perception needs to match. Voters need to have confidence that the scale isn’t tipped by outside or hidden influence.

“Robert Mueller and his team are looking very closely into these matters. It’s important work that Mr Mueller is doing and I encourage him to be thoughtful, resourceful, and thorough. I am confident that Mr Mueller will find no evidence of collusion between my campaign and any Russian actors–independent or part of the state–and the sooner Mr Mueller can complete his investigation the sooner we, as a nation, can move on. No. I do not want our acting AG to reign in Mr Mueller. I welcome the exhaustive and expeditious completion of his investigation.”

mike_c_56 · 2018-11-10T14:42:42.766Z

I don’t think he could read that from a teleprompter…much less construct that response himself.

WorldWatcher · 2018-11-10T14:46:24.651Z

Rodeo:

Lefties have spent a year and a half treating Mueller like he’s the new 4th Branch morning of government…and they’ve spent longer than that peddling this collusion crap. If I had a nickle for every post here and on the old forum, for every breathless pundit “Trumps going to fire Mueller!”, over and over and over…

And yet Mueller is still running his investigation in search of a crime. The whole thing is stupid…including the question what’s her name asked. I m sick of hearing it God knows how tired the president must be of the daily diatribe of Russia and Mueller.

Mueller has been at this for long enough.

And Starr’s political investigation was - IIRC - about 5 years.
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noSpaces · 2018-11-10T14:51:24.258Z

Literally our TV President:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p1Pdh5jA3U

FloridaYankee · 2018-11-10T15:13:11.682Z

Konssurvative1:

The questions was. “Do you want him to reign in Mueller”? NO…is the answer.

So what you are saying is that it is a Stupid question because it forces Trump into a lie. Then isn’t the placement of Whitaker as acting AG a lie. He doesn’t want him to be AG…he just wants him to knock Mueller out of his investigation…so what Trump deems a Stupid question is actually a very smart questions…it’s just one he doesn’t want to answer…

And then you carry his water for him by continuing to say it is a stupid question…thereby belittling the woman who asked it.

The correct answer is “I look forward to being completely exonerated of this politically motivated investigation”.

That would really only come quickly to mind in someone with the mindset of an innocent victim however. Guilty or not, his brain is working in the manner of someone guilty as hell.

Konssurvative1 · 2018-11-10T15:15:38.385Z

Yep…his staff aren’t doing a good job of prepping him for these questions…or he just doesn’t listen. I’m guessing more of the latter.

Roxiebelle · 2018-11-10T15:19:02.108Z

It is a stupid question, most WH Press questions are stupid! They were stupid during Bush’s Administration, they were stupid (& fawning) under Obama’s Administration and they are even more stupid under Trumps Administration.

Journalism keeps getting dumber by the day. I’m glad President Trump calls them out!

FloridaYankee · 2018-11-10T15:19:22.167Z

That and he’s just no Bill Clinton, perhaps the best liar to ever hold the office LOL.

Konssurvative1 · 2018-11-10T15:22:19.027Z

Just what was so stupid. .i keep asking and you guys don’t have an answer. Or do you just repeat what Trump says?

fathom · 2018-11-10T15:31:00.550Z

“There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question” - Carl Sagan.

Morgan · 2018-11-10T16:09:36.720Z

So it’s stupid because Trump is obviously trying to obstruct justice and reporters should not try to get him on the record about it.

wonderingrover · 2018-11-10T16:17:06.684Z

It would seem that Trump finally realizes he is about to get a taste of something he has never really had to experience - accountability. And it scares the hell out of him.

AZslim · 2018-11-10T18:03:30.194Z

I believe this was after the sociopath whined about respect in the White House.

What a miserable jerk.

Candyman · 2018-11-10T18:15:56.256Z

The respect need only go one way in his world. Toward him.

zonulet · 2018-11-10T18:23:01.732Z

Reminds me of when you hear parents ask kids “do you want a spanking?” It’s a statement hidden in a stupid question. Like the kid is gonna answer “Oh yes please, and make it a good spanking”

Blackwolf · 2018-11-10T18:26:19.754Z

WuWei:

You can’t be serious. “Do you wish you weren’t being investigated?” is right there with it.

It’s a grade school question. “Do you wish Robert would stop being mean?” Check yes or no.

It was a question designed to bait Donald into a petulant response.

And bless his tiny fingered soul, the idiot simply couldn’t help himself.

Blackwolf · 2018-11-10T18:28:14.885Z

wonderingrover:

It would seem that Trump finally realizes he is about to get a taste of something he has never really had to experience - accountability. And it scares the hell out of him.

It has to be jarring when before 2016 he was surrounded solely by bootlickers and lackeys constantly reaffirming how most bigly amazing he is.

CoachMcGuirk · 2018-11-10T19:41:41.607Z

It wasn’t a stupid question. It was an obvious question. The fact that Trump wasn’t able to answer is further evidence of what a mental midget he really is. But rather than admit that their idol has feet of clay, Trump apologists rally, once again, to defend Cheeto Benito and blame the reporter.

It’s reminiscent of Sarah Palin when Katie Couric asked what news sources inform her opinions. If Palin was more savvy, she would have taken the wide open opportunity to slam dunk on Katie Couric in a way that would have made Daryl Dawkins look timid.

She could have said: "Katie, I know you mean no disrespect by the question, but it hints at a larger issue that I read about often. The big city newspapers like to describe folks like me and my neighbors as simpletons. I’ve seen this for years.

Sure we like to fish and hunt and play in the dirt; and I’ll admit that many of us work with our hands as well as our brains. But hunting and fishing is a vital part of land management. It puts food on many a proud table when the alternative is public assistance. Self-reliance and honest hard work are noble.

But getting to the heart of your question, there is something that might come as a shock to people that have never visited a truck stop, or people that think Manhattan or Washington DC is the center of the intellectual world: The “conservative base” might live in flyover country or the remote state of Alaska, we might work with our hands, we might live a hundred miles from our nearest neighbor, but that doesn’t mean that we are ill-informed or stupid. We have bookstores and libraries, Katie. We have access to all of the same books that you might read, and we have the internet, and in this age of technological wonder, we have instant access to every news source that you might see at a quaint little 5th avenue newsstand and MUCH MORE.

So Katie, I resent a question that implies that I and my neighbors are ill-informed. We read the very same newspapers and magazines and books that big city liberal do, we just come to different conclusions."

But instead of admitting that Palin was ill prepared for a line of questioning that she should have seen coming, conservatives cling to the belief that reporters are meanies.