Comments on: Will Anyone Answer, “The Bada Bing”?

By: G

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:30:39 +0000

Actually, I don’t think that the candidates would be offended by the questions. I think that they would consider them fluff, or at their very worst, questions that can answered with very flippant answers.

Me personally, since I have more than a passing interest in Linda McMahon, simply because I’ve been following Titan Sports/WWWF/WWF/WWE since the mid 70′s, I would like a few of the candidates to actually press the various issues about those steriods, those drugs, those early deaths, the corporate thumbing of Congress and the circle wagon mentality of hysterical overreaction when anyone does ask her a tough question.

By: AST

AST — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:14:13 +0000

I’ve heard of lazy reporters, but expecting the person you’re supposed to vetting corruption to give you the goods on himself really takes the cake.

By: Fuzzy Dunlop

Fuzzy Dunlop — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:23:00 +0000

No matter how much Brian Lockhart tries to justify this, it is not journalism. It is a glorified self-reported survey.

A real newsman who was interested in reporting this story would have used current sources or developed new ones, and would have obtained the information himself. He would have appeared at candidates homes unannounced to obtain the photos, instead of giving the candidates to pose for glam shots.

By: MartyA

MartyA — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:40:12 +0000

How much do you figure it would cost to have the campaign PR firm fabricate some sort-of, quasi-accurate but pithy answers that don’t quite honestly answer the question asked but appear to?

By: Linda McMahon Strongly Denies That She Is a Kevin Rennie Mouthpiece « Chris & Nancy: … by IRVIN MUCHNICK

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:12:51 +0000

[...] On his blog yesterday, Hartford Courant columnist Kevin Rennie, a former Republican state legislator, runs down the 16-item questionnaire Hearst gave each of the candidates. See “Will Anyone Answer, ‘The Bada Bing’”?, http://www.dailyructions.com/will-anyone-answer-the-bada-bing/. [...]

By: bandit

bandit — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:40:25 +0000

I like most of the questions and I fully appreciate the right of the candidate to say noyfb. The best question I ever heard asked in a televised ‘debate’ was “Can you name any issue where you don’t think the gov’t has any business being involved in?” I’d add that in as well. When I learned Scott Brown owned a timeshare I had serious second thoughts.

By: Usher

Usher — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:58:33 +0000

Ed: “Ya know, I actually like these questions. How on Earth can we expect someone with two houses to understand a budget?”

You’re joking, right?

By: el polacko

el polacko — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:16:57 +0000

of course i wouldn’t base my vote on only this survey, but i don’t see the harm in learning the answers. i might get a little extra insight into the candidate. how is that a bad thing ? wasn’t this exactly the problem in the last presidential election: we knew almost nothing about the winning candidate.

By: miriam

miriam — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:21:19 +0000

The only question I would like answered is; where do your children go to school? Teddy Roosevelt’s children attend public schools in Washington, DC.

By: Micha Elyi

Micha Elyi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:15:04 +0000

Basic fairness demands that the publisher, editor, opinion page editor, and political editor of those newspapers put up the same information – with photographs and story placement chosen by the editors of their rival papers.