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.
