Umm...American reporters? THIS is how you're supposed to do your job.

[TrollBuster9090]

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Just in case you've never seen television reporting in action before, and you want to see how a REAL reporter does it. Here's an example. See how EASY it is? When a politician makes a ridiculous statement, you simply ask them to give you specific examples.

DO:
1. Ask for specific examples.

2. Fact check the examples.

DO NOT:
1. Pull a Chuck Todd. ie-Sneer, and say "It's not my job to check facts. That might involve me actually having to make a phone call, or do a Google search, or maybe even drag my lazy ass out of my office."

2. Invite somebody from the 'other side' to rebut their claim, thus allowing a false equivalence to be set up.

3. Blather "we report, you decide" or some other pathetic copout trope.

4. Shit your pants when he suggests that your reasonable request for him to back up his assertion with facts is a 'left wing' talking point; and stop pursuing the issue.

5. Feel sorry for him as you watch him squirm for excuses, especially since he's always seemed like such a good old boy off camera.

In other words....JUST DO YOUR JOB, YOU LAZY, STUPID, FECKLESS ASSHATS!

#t=50

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. Is it me, or did his drawl go away when pressed?

And when did his southern drawl (at the beginning of the clip) get so pronounced?

[dballance]

4. Yep, I noticed that too.

What a tool!

[TrollBuster9090]

10. I noticed that, too. He had a "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" moment.

It suddenly dawned on him that he wasn't still in a place where it HELPS to "yokalize" the cadence of your speech.

[rep the dems]

2. Dafuq is Bobby Jindal doing in the UK anyway? nt

[TrollBuster9090]

11. My guess would be that he's there to get stamps in his passport, thus boosting his 'Foreign Policy'

credentials.

Remember when Sarah Palin was the VP candidate, and people started questioning her foreign policy credentials on the grounds that she'd never even been out of the United States? So the McCain/Palin camp responded by LISTING all the foreign countries she'd been to?

The list included:
-Canada
-Ireland
-Kuwait

Very impressive. (They hoped nobody would notice the fact that she only visited Kuwait once when she visited the Alaska National Guard, and her jet only stopped in Ireland to refuel. She never even got out of the plane and touched the tarmac.)

Okay, so Jindal, who is only in the 2016 nomination race in the hopes of getting a VP slot from JEB, has already doubled his Foreign Policy bona fides by flying to England to barf out a bunch of GOP talking points while standing on foreign soil.

[SheilaT]

3. I almost have to admire how good he is at sticking to his talking point:

There are neighborhoods where the police are less likely to go and where women don't feel comfortable going about without veils.

I just wish the reporter had pressed even harder to name the areas and to name his sources.

[Ed Suspicious]

5. Don't forget the "radical left" nugget as well. What an embarrassment that was. They should stay

at home with their crazy.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. He should stop worrying....

[TrollBuster9090]

12. I noticed he's no longer using that Alfred E. Newman/ Dennis the Menace hairstyle anymore...

He's switched to a more conservative, 1950 version of Superman look, hoping to appeal to his midwestern base.

[TrollBuster9090]

13. That OLD hairstyle makes him look way too much like...

Gilligan

[Skittles]

7. what a lying fucking weasel

hard to believe people vote for someone like that - embarrassing

[TrollBuster9090]

14. Not many actually do, and I think he knows it. The fact that he can pull off a nomination in rural

Louisiana doesn't mean he can sell in greater America. I don't think Mr. VooDoo thinks he can pull off a mainstream American victory in a general election. I think he's just doing all of this to audition for JEB's VP slot. Ever since the days of Eisenhower, the VP position has been to A) appeal to the crazy base, and B) be an attack dog against the other party, leaving the President free to rise above politics. Jindal, Paul, Huckabee, Rubio and Cruz are all doing their best to audition for that post.

[Skittles]

8. notice how he keeps referring to what THE LEFT supposedly wants everyone to believe

he is a one-trick pony who performs his one trick very badly

[TrollBuster9090]

15. I can't say I blame him. In the USA that trick usually works like a charm.

Barf out some ridiculous, fact-free right wing meme, and when the reporter asks you to back up your assertion with facts, you accuse him/her of being a puppet of 'THE LEFT.' That makes most American reporters shit their pants with fear, and change the subject. I guess he forgot that he wasn't talking to an American reporter?

[alp227]

9. Jindal is using his Indian ancestry to give stronger credence to anti Islam kookery.

So that white conservatives can say "see I'm not racist, an Asian guy says that there is a Sharia conspiracy!"

[Scuba]

16. Bobby, you're ABSOLUTELY a dumbass.

[Chakab]

17. They're too afraid of losing access to their clowns to do any real journalism.

I've been hoping that this "no go zone" controversy in the European press leads to some reporting in foreign outlets about just how much misinformation goes unchallenged in the US media.

If they actually shamed Fix into apologizing for that nonsense, they may be able to shame the rest of the media into engaging in actual journalism.