Wow........ great question from a person in a diner.......

[Takket]

Last edited Sat Aug 26, 2023, 12:50 PM - Edit history (2)

There's a reason the media and right wing politicians almost always talk to voters in diners... they are almost always right wing.

ABC news just showed Tim Scott getting the shock of his life in a diner... I'm sure he was expecting to get asked if he'll lock up crooked Hillary for eating babies, but instead he was asked "If you can't stand up to Trump, how are you ever going to be able to stand up to the leaders of China and Russia?"

GREAT QUESTION

unfortunately ABC news did not show his reply but just said "Scott pushed because but the voter was not convinced".

But I'd like EVERYONE to keep asking EVERY rethug candidate for this. Make them choose. The MAGATs, or everyone else. You can't have it both ways.

[MagickMuffin]

1. This is what we're up against "unfortunately ABC news did not show his reply but just said"

The media should have showed the reply. They need to follow up on the questions being asked.

[betsuni]

3. Vexing, not showing full answers and replies about politics but spending a long time on

weather events in regional areas: deadly wildfires, deadly tornados, deadly hurricanes, deadly this and that, reporters asking "Were you scared?" and "How did you feel?" and that's ten minutes.

[NCDem47]

4. There's also no time because of commercials.

All the broadcast network nightly news feel like they spend 20 minutes in commercials (usually prescription meds). My other favorite is when they tease a story and it’s just a 30-second anchor read—usually between two commercials!

[Wednesdays]

6. 30 seconds if you're lucky

We really should time them to be accurate. It's probably more like twelve seconds.

[MOMFUDSKI]

2. Howard Dean was just on Ari

and said Germany checked their brains somewhere and Hitler happened. Likened what happened over there to what is happening here.

[calimary]

32. I still love Howard Dean!

[DENVERPOPS]

33. Great Man

He could have lead the Dem Party, but the Repubs knew that and wore him down......

[orleans]

5. i saw it on the news too. i'm looking for the video but can't find it.

i think the guy he spoke with at the diner was in or from new hampshire? thought that was what i heard.

anyway, chuck goudie also did a story about the two people from chicago who surrendered at fulton county. at the very end of the clip he said their abc legal analyst said the best way for trump to evade prison on these four indictments is to be president and pardon himself.

i thought: no! he can't pardon himself out of the georgia STATE crap, only FEDERAL crap!
way to go abc legal analyst!

here's the clip
https://abc7chicago.com/13701247/

[Attilatheblond]

37. Sad to know the movie Idiocracy was a prophecy

We are in a lotta trouble in this nation, what with rampant mental illness and stupidity up a gum stump

[paleotn]

7. Depends on where the diner is.

For Repukes, invariably it's a diner in B. F. Egypt, Red State.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

8. Scott pushed the voter?

[Takket]

13. my typo... edited.

[dalton99a]

9. Tim Scott has tense back-and-forth with New Hampshire voter over support for Trump

https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/tim-scott-tense-back-forth-new-hampshire-voter-support-trump-rcna101885

Tim Scott has tense back-and-forth with New Hampshire voter over support for Trump
The South Carolina senator was one of the GOP candidates who said at Wednesday's debate that he would support Trump in the general election if convicted of crimes.
Aug. 25, 2023, 3:09 PM CDT
By Nnamdi Egwuonwu and Emma Barnett

CONCORD, N.H. — Sen. Tim Scott got into a tense exchange with a 79-year-old retired schoolteacher Friday during a campaign stop, focused on his resistance to criticizing former President Donald Trump.

Scott was making his way through the Windmill Restaurant, a small diner, when customer David Coffey called him over to the booth where he was eating and confronted the South Carolina senator with a question about Trump.

“You don’t stand up to Trump, how are you going to stand up to the president of Russia and China?” Coffey asked.

As Scott tried to talk around the question and Coffey pushed back, Scott said, “Do you want to have a conversation? Or do you want a monologue? I’m happy to listen, but if you want to have a dialogue, I’ll be speaking as well.”

...

[2naSalit]

10. Well...

If he can't keep side stepping the question then he feels like he's being mistreated. Got it.

[gratuitous]

21. Standard dodge: Talk about something else, and if the questioner presses for an answer

"Don't interrupt me while I'm dodging your question" or "Do you want a monolog?" Sen. Scott would desperately like to distinguish himself, but he's pretty bog-standard politician.

[Cha]

25. Well said... that Pissed me Off.

[Cha]

24. Arrogant Authoritarian Asshole Deflector.

What the fuck does he think he has to offer Except Major Fucking Bullshit.

[dflprincess]

36. Getting snippy when trawling for votes

Never a good look.

[Delmette2.0]

11. None of the R's from my state want to meet the public.

No town hall meetings only preselected visits at a business or family with a photo-op.

[Captain Zero]

34. Exactly. In Indiana they visit county courthouses and photo opp with elected republicans

Then the papers write it up like it was real dialog of issues or something.

[keep_left]

12. LOL, "Midwestern Diner Man" is a favorite meme...

...in This Modern World, the Tom Tomorrow cartoon. I guess this guy was a little more independent-minded; maybe it's the location ( New Hampshire--"live free or die" ) rather than the usual "Fred's Typical Ohio Diner" customer in the cartoon. ( Another of Tom T's favorite memes is the "Sunday Talking About Stuff Show" ).

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=17368877

[Diamond_Dog]

14. Consistently one of the best editorial cartoons on the comic pages.

[keep_left]

15. Yep, and for decades now...

...since the late '80s, I think!

Though I only find TMW in places like editorial pages, the DailyKos, alternative weeklies (the few that remain), etc. Never have seen it on a comics page.

[calimary]

31. I especially like that "Sunday Talking About Stuff Show"

[llmart]

16. only talking to voters in diners

I wonder why they don't go to Whole Foods stores or maybe Trader Joes or even Panera and interview voters? Oh that's right. No one wants to hear what those "elitists" have to say. They use all those big fancy words that no one understands but them.

I'm sick of the diner being some sort of representative of middle America. They're not. I can't even think of a diner near me.

[onecaliberal]

17. BOOM!

And that is the ballgame.

[UTUSN]

18. K&R

[flashman13]

19. Hey, take it easy on diners. It doesn't get any better than Waffle House. It's your 3AM home away

home.

[Emile]

20. I saw that on the national news tonight

and my mouthed dropped. What a great question!

[republianmushroom]

22. Seems like a fair question, to me.

[LonePirate]

23. I wish every journalist in this country had the same guts as this citizen.

Unfortunately, being spineless is a requirement to be a journalist in this country nowadays.

[TSExile]

30. The only current exception to this rule...

...I believe, is Mehdi Hasan of MSNBC. Too bad he will never moderate a debate of the Geand Old Patriarchy, ahem, Party. He would eviscerate them!!

[PatrickforB]

26. This says bad things about journalistic ethics, because it sounds like Scott and his

producer had an outcome already in mind when they went into the diner.

ABC has always been a bit right-leaning.

Same with science. If you go into something with a desired outcome in mind and you shape the data to show that desired outcome then it isn't really science.

If a journalist goes into something with an outcome already in mind and allows that to shape the story, then it isn't really journalism.

As to Scott, well, he's finding out how very thin that line is between placating the deplorable base to win the primary and being credible as a national candidate. Because that was a GREAT question that should be asked of all the clowns in the GOP clown car.

[DENVERPOPS]

35. It continues to boggle my mind

when people seriously wonder about the so called Journalists in the entire U.S. Media...............

A simple fact should be clearly evident to the population of the United States...........

90+% OF ALL MEDIA IN THE UNITED STATES IS OWNED AND OPERATED BY UBER RICH REPUBLICANS.......
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EXPECT THEM TO SAY?????????????????????

Most evident is the White House Press Corps. Those journalists worked hard to get to that position. Do you honestly expect them to say one single word that the Uber Rich Republican Owners and Operators wouldn't like?????? REALLY?????? That reporter/journalist would lose their job instantaneously, their prestige, and their incredible salary, with just ONE anti-republican question or statement..........
Most journalists in America have sold their souls, not ANY different than the street walking coke whores in cities across America.....

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

38. Not to mention how the oligarchy pays them enough

To qualify as 1%. All of the major TV bobbleheads are firmly in 1% territory when it comes to pay, and it's far from rare for some of them to be in .1% territory. The major newspaper reporters are, at a minimum, in the top 10%, and a whole bunch are pushing 1%.

So they support the oligarchy party because it's in their financial interest to do so.

It's time to face the fact that they are not and will not be on the side of We the People. Nearly all of them are traitors, and deserve to be treated as such.

[DENVERPOPS]

39. the only reason MSNBC allows Rachel

is that her viewers are making them an absolute fortune........

And we all know that profits are even more important to the owners/managers than their Republican leanings..................

[Martin68]

27. GREAT QUESTION! One everybody should be asking the candidates.

[sarge43]

28. Regardless of their politics, Graniteheads tend to be cranky ...

with a well developed bs detector. They usually don't like government, but like politics which they pay attention to.

If Scott interrupted Granitehead while he was having his fifth cuppa blacker than the heart of darkness coffee, he got exactly what he deserved.

Note all primary candidates: New England diners are sanctuaries; treat them as such or else some cranky old bastard could go Tim Scott on your ass. Also the diner's owner/manager may go Tilton Diner and throw you out for getting in way of the servers and customers.

[SouthernDem4ever]

29. I will ask that same question to every dumb trumper I meet.

It's the great unanswered question.