House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) refused to answer whether the 2020 election was stolen when pressed eight separate times in a Sunday interview with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos. Ask…
I wish that more interviewers would play hardball more often.
Like, I get it they can’t get a reputation for being hostile or nobody will give them interviews, but just as often the subjects want to be interviewed because they want to get their own message/promotion/plug out there.
In those cases, I feel like the interviewer is entirely within their rights to say something like, “I’ve asked 5 times now and every time you’ve been evasive. So here that question comes again. We’re not moving past it until you answer it. So here it is, yes or no, and if the next word out of your mouth isn’t either yes or no, the interview will be over.”
In my opinion, answering the questions is part of doing your job. These people are elected to represent us. How can they represent us if they dodge yes or no questions?
Scalise was asked 8 times in the conversation. Scalise dodged 8 times never saying “yes” or “no”.
I wish that more interviewers would play hardball more often.
Like, I get it they can’t get a reputation for being hostile or nobody will give them interviews, but just as often the subjects want to be interviewed because they want to get their own message/promotion/plug out there.
In those cases, I feel like the interviewer is entirely within their rights to say something like, “I’ve asked 5 times now and every time you’ve been evasive. So here that question comes again. We’re not moving past it until you answer it. So here it is, yes or no, and if the next word out of your mouth isn’t either yes or no, the interview will be over.”
In my opinion, answering the questions is part of doing your job. These people are elected to represent us. How can they represent us if they dodge yes or no questions?