Gotcha, G.O.P.

[applegrove]

Gotcha, G.O.P.

by Charles M. Blow at the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/02/opinion/gotcha-gop.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-

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But perhaps it has its most resonance because of its use by the disastrously ill-equipped Republican vice presidential candidate, who repeatedly used the phrase as an excuse for her train wreck interviews.

Gotcha questions have come to mean any question one doesn’t want to answer, any question whose answer would or could reveal something unflattering. In a way, a question is simply a question and only becomes a gotcha if you, the answerer, feel convicted and unsettled by it. Gotcha is in the mind — and spine — of the interviewee.

Carson simply wasn’t prepared for the Mannatech question and wasn’t completely honest in the answer. If that is gotcha journalism, I’m here for it “every day of the week and twice on Sunday,” to borrow a phrase from Mike Huckabee.

This is not to say that the debate wasn’t a bit of a mess. It was. Nor is it to say that some of the questions weren’t questionable. They were. But questions that seek clarification of a candidate’s past are fair.



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[randys1]

1. If you cant get got, there cant be gotCHA

[ZX86]

2. If you want serious answers to serious questions

You can't bury them in a barrage of gotcha questions.