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		<title>By: Marc</title>
		<link>http://monoblogue.us/2008/10/25/tough-questions-for-the-left-for-once/comment-page-1/#comment-96055</link>
		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>While I do agree that Biden (and other politicians, Republicans and Democrats) don&#039;t get hard questions regularly, I don&#039;t think that has anything to do with this incident. Her questions weren&#039;t very intelligent, in my view, and were quite clearly biased. I think Biden asked who was writing these questions because he thought they were so ridiculous, not because he thought they were difficult. They were one level up from an Ali G interview. 

Good reporters should ask hard questions, no doubt about it. They should not be trying to advance a political view through by asking clearly biased and slanted questions. It&#039;s no better when Republicans do it than when Democrats do it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I do agree that Biden (and other politicians, Republicans and Democrats) don&#8217;t get hard questions regularly, I don&#8217;t think that has anything to do with this incident. Her questions weren&#8217;t very intelligent, in my view, and were quite clearly biased. I think Biden asked who was writing these questions because he thought they were so ridiculous, not because he thought they were difficult. They were one level up from an Ali G interview. </p>
<p>Good reporters should ask hard questions, no doubt about it. They should not be trying to advance a political view through by asking clearly biased and slanted questions. It&#8217;s no better when Republicans do it than when Democrats do it.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Without giving Barbara West style points, wouldn&#039;t you both (Marc and Joe) agree that Biden doesn&#039;t usually get these sorts of questions on a regular basis? Some of the criticism of her style is justified, but when Biden asks who&#039;s writing these questions it&#039;s apparent that he&#039;s not used to those high hard ones.

They sound a little like questions a good blogger should ask. :)

My other point that no one&#039;s followed up on (at least that I&#039;ve seen) is whether she&#039;s had the death threats and such which I alluded to in the post. That&#039;s worth following up on as well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Without giving Barbara West style points, wouldn&#8217;t you both (Marc and Joe) agree that Biden doesn&#8217;t usually get these sorts of questions on a regular basis? Some of the criticism of her style is justified, but when Biden asks who&#8217;s writing these questions it&#8217;s apparent that he&#8217;s not used to those high hard ones.</p>
<p>They sound a little like questions a good blogger should ask. <img src='http://monoblogue.us/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>My other point that no one&#8217;s followed up on (at least that I&#8217;ve seen) is whether she&#8217;s had the death threats and such which I alluded to in the post. That&#8217;s worth following up on as well.</p>
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		<title>By: Marc</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marc</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I line up with Joe on this one, Michael. While I am dismayed at reporters who fail to ask tough questions, this reporter&#039;s questions were pretty ridiculous. She could have done a lot better job with questions that were tough but weren&#039;t so absurd. 

Her failure to follow up on Biden&#039;s answers and question some of his assertions inducates to me that she was simply reading from a script and not thinking for herself. For instance, if she was truly thinking for herself she could have asked Biden if he thought there was no difference between &quot;spreading the wealth around&quot; through government programs and creating wealth through tax cuts. But instead she went on to read the next ridiculous question. It&#039;s unfortunate that Republicans are celebrating this type of empty-headed journalism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I line up with Joe on this one, Michael. While I am dismayed at reporters who fail to ask tough questions, this reporter&#8217;s questions were pretty ridiculous. She could have done a lot better job with questions that were tough but weren&#8217;t so absurd. </p>
<p>Her failure to follow up on Biden&#8217;s answers and question some of his assertions inducates to me that she was simply reading from a script and not thinking for herself. For instance, if she was truly thinking for herself she could have asked Biden if he thought there was no difference between &#8220;spreading the wealth around&#8221; through government programs and creating wealth through tax cuts. But instead she went on to read the next ridiculous question. It&#8217;s unfortunate that Republicans are celebrating this type of empty-headed journalism.</p>
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		<title>By: Joe Albero</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joe Albero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I happen to disagree with this Post Michael. I have viewed the interview and simply feel that Joe Biden was answering tough questions.

Storming off the set, I think not. I walked away from it thinking, how refreshing to see a politician actually answer ridiculous questions. The Reporter tried to make a name for herself and IMHO I think Biden made her look like a fool. Good for him.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I happen to disagree with this Post Michael. I have viewed the interview and simply feel that Joe Biden was answering tough questions.</p>
<p>Storming off the set, I think not. I walked away from it thinking, how refreshing to see a politician actually answer ridiculous questions. The Reporter tried to make a name for herself and IMHO I think Biden made her look like a fool. Good for him.</p>
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		<title>By: Maria</title>
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		<dc:creator>Maria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michael,

It is refreshing to see that a reporter has finally put aside whatever political views that she has really stuck it to Mr. Crest whitening strip Biden.  Maybe he should do whitening strip commercials.  Beware of someone who smiles too much!  They can&#039;t be trusted! Biden smiles too much.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael,</p>
<p>It is refreshing to see that a reporter has finally put aside whatever political views that she has really stuck it to Mr. Crest whitening strip Biden.  Maybe he should do whitening strip commercials.  Beware of someone who smiles too much!  They can&#8217;t be trusted! Biden smiles too much.</p>
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