Mitchell is giving the whole country a lesson in how to interview a person...

[LAS14]

...making a complaint of sexual assault. I think the GOP have done truth a favor and themselves a harm.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Disagree. Prosecutors interviewing victims is a bad look.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Agree.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. I refese to watch her be raped a 2nd time, based on this OP one would

assume the hired gun who worked for ARPAIO is being a decent person and getting to the truth without unnecessarily demeaning the witness, is that correct?

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Yep.

[rurallib]

3. Well right now she is undercutting Ford's credibility

by making it look like she is lying about fear of flying.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. What in the FUCK does flying have to do with anything.

She didnt want to fly and needed a couple extra days and THAT is what they ask her about?

I knew it, i hope all American women get real angry

[nolabear]

8. Oh you can count on it.

That flying thing went nowhere.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. No other person in this situation gets asked that question, well if it is a con asking a patriot sur

I dont know how we have not blown our minds with RAGE yet

[nolabear]

10. I'm hoping the suffering is toward progress. She is fantastic.

[womanofthehills]

29. and Donald Jr had to make a dumb tweet about it

guess that's all they have - she was anxious to get on a plane to Washington.

[Lars39]

11. That her flying proves that her PTSD wasn't that bad...

therefore she wasn’t really harmed by the incident. An amazing tack to take because it infers the incident took place.

[Eliot Rosewater]

12. Great catch, of course it confirms that it did happen.

GOP are filth, sure hope people notice.

[rurallib]

18. interesting point

[uponit7771]

34. +1, wingers believe Ford and this is what they're hanging their hats one; she wasn't 'that' harmed

[mcar]

13. She really didn't

[LAS14]

14. Boy, I don't see it this way. She is confirming her credibility!! nt

[EffieBlack]

28. You're joking, right?

[LAS14]

31. Not at all! She offered Ford an opportunity to address...

... the GOP gotcha questions in a respectful, kind manner, and Ford knocked her answers out of the park!

[uponit7771]

33. That's what winger forums are saying without any basis of fact behind it. Sounds stupid

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. Seriously tho what hearing are you watching because that prosecutor is serving as a GOP tool

[LAS14]

15. Not to my eye. She's an objective, respectful interviewer who is...

... clearing up any possible unclear points and Ford is coming across totally credible.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. She is using an age-old tactic

Start slow, act nicey-nicey, make the witness comfortable, then start tightening the screws.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. She's a prosecutor whose job is to find inconsistencies. Just because it's backfiring on the GOP

doesn't mean it's a good process for interviewing survivors.

[LAS14]

20. One would hope that a good, neutral interviewer would address..

... any inconsistencies. To me she's giving Ford an opportunity to explain them well. Some of the posts in this thread sound like they want Mitchell to be working for the Democrats. She sounds neutral to me.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

21. Prosecutors are not neutral.

[LAS14]

25. In her role as a prosecutor she was on the side of victims of sexual assault. It shows. nt

[emulatorloo]

23. She's not neutral. She's asking gotcha questions fed to her by Ted Cruz and his cohorts

[emulatorloo]

27. She's asking more "gotcha" questions at 1:42 pm about the polygraph test

Trying to make insinuations about who paid for it. You don’t see how partisan that is?

[BumRushDaShow]

16. The fortunate thing is that ALL of the Democrats on that committee except for DiFi

are lawyers, so they know the bullshit that Mitchell is doing and are ready for it.

[LAS14]

24. It's bullshit in the sense that she's pursuing GOP questions, but she's...

... doing it in a neutral way, just to find the truth and giving Ford a chance to shine!

[BumRushDaShow]

26. I think what you describe is an unintended consequence

Anyone who has a PhD has to defend themselves in front of any myriad group of people so she has been "grilled", in a sense, before. The questioner may appear to be "neutral" but the questions aren't and are designed to be "gotchas".

I think too that because she is a psychologist as a field and as a teacher, she is very aware of "people" and what is going on around her and I think that helps for her training to "kick in" automatically.

[LAS14]

30. Of course the questions are gotchas. That's why they screwed up...

... royally to hire a respectful, neutral person who wants the truth. Remember, her whole professional life has been oriented to prosecuting offenders in sexual cases.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. I think Cory Booker expressed the problem best

that this is not a "court of law" and that is how she has conducted the questioning - which is why Dr. Ford's lawyers have been intervening more and more as this hearing goes on. She has been crossing the lines that she shouldn't in a hearing setting (let alone if it had been a court of law).

[emulatorloo]

22. Nah, she's just asking Ted Cruz's asshole questions while smiling

Attempting to discredit Ford and failing miserably at it.

Oh by the way

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