In Case Anyone here did not catch Jake Tapper's

[busterbrown]

Pathetic telephone conversation with Trump.....Tapper was just awful..

Let the Donald get out every talking point he wanted to by simply out shouting Jake...

Trump’s Strategy in these kind of interviews are straight out of the “Gish Gallop” Playbook..

Just do not give your opponent or interviewer a chance to get a word in edgewise..

Something Republican’s who know can not defend their positions successfully( based on reason) do on a continuing basis during debates or interviews.. It’s sickening to listen to..

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gish+Gallop

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/09/politics/donald-trump-blood-comment-response-2016-sotu/index.html

[ZX86]

1. While I didn't see the interview.

I pretty sure they were all stupid questions anyway.

Anything about income inequality, student loan debt, police misconduct, jailing bankers or war criminals, etc.? I didn't think so.

[busterbrown]

2. Even if he did...

He wouldn’t have answered honestly..

[lunatica]

3. Perhaps Jake Tapper knows when to let his guests bloviate on and on

If you want to know about your guest don't interrupt them. By letting the Donald talk on and on we get to see what a boor he is. And he's getting to look much more like a pathetic boor as he desperately talks himself up as being someone everyone loves.

I think Jake Tapper did a very good job. No amount of questions on his part could have shown us what The Donald did by talking so fervently and passionately about himself and nothing else.

The picture emerging about The Donald is that he is profoundly self-pitying and thin skinned. His own actions and words are coming back to choke him now, and all he can do is lash out like a bully.

It's no surprise that his demographic are also self-pitying bullies.

[busterbrown]

4. Disagree...thought he just gave Trump more ammunition to prove how he never backs down from anyone..

The Gish Gallop... Used by republicans everywhere, every time..

[lunatica]

5. I think you said what I said only in different words

When it comes to Trump, giving him ammunition and giving him all the rope he wants is basically the same thing. He'll shoot himself with the ammunition or hang himself with the rope.

[busterbrown]

7. I would bet that half the people listening to the exchange..

believed everything Donald said.. We agree to disagree on this.. He makes a fool out of himself true.. But those who favor him to be President? Well Jake certainly didn’t change any minds.. He had the chance to do so , but chose not to..

Trump is a dangerous man..He’s sick..needs to be called out point by point.. For instance when he said he cherish’s women and will do wonders for them.. I would have asked him exactly what he would do for millions of woman who do not have healthcare due to the elimination of so many planned parenthood clinics?

[lunatica]

8. And his reply would have been pretty much the same as it was with Jake

He would have claimed that all women love him, and then would take credit for saying that no one was talking about women's issues until he talked about women.

He's beginning to get predictable in his responses. He attacks the person who asks the question with a tsunami of inflammatory tweets while sitting comfortably at home and then literally calls it in to the pundit du jour to continue his tirade and self adulation from the comfort of his home. He then proceeds to yell louder and take the conversation wherever he wants to take it, which is always about him and how everyone just loves him. He's doing it so much that he's saying the same thing again and again. He believes his insults don't make him enemies. Au contraire, they endear him to everyone. Just ask him and he'll be glad to repeat for the uptheenth time that the very people he disparages and insults just love him and that he gets along very well with everyone because they adore him.

[One of the 99]

6. Tapper's been a right wing hack for years.

What did you expect?