Word: interviews
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...refusal of Senator John McCain to answer many of the questions asked of him, the emphasis Time placed on that aspect rather than on his answers on the issues is another example of the media?s liberal bias [Sept. 8]. I was disappointed that the vast majority of your interview with McCain was devoted to his ?prickly? attitude, when the full version of the interview on Time.com had much more substance. Alanna Rice, Council Bluffs, Iowa...
...Your special issue on the Republicans bent over backward to present McCain as an honorable man, but the transcript of your bizarre interview, in which McCain refused to answer simple and legitimate questions, was frightening. It showed a resentful, uncommunicative and un?cooperative McCain who was uncomfortable with the straight talk he used to be known for and who had a chip on his shoulder the size of a sequoia. Such a volatile temperament renders him ?unfit to have his finger anywhere near the Button. Lee Otterholt, Laguna Beach, California...
...Though I differ with McCain on specific issues, I?ve always admired his maverick spirit and straight-talk approach to the press. But his interview with TIME raises grave concerns. McCain could have defused legitimate questions about his campaign?s new discipline in any number of ways, but to put reporters from a major newsmagazine in the deep freeze betrays a fundamental lack of self-control, not to mention candor. Do we really want to elect such a mercurial individual as our Commander in Chief? Owen Prell, Mill Valley, California...
...Palin is back in Alaska on Wednesday - but she won't be staying there for long. The McCain-Palin campaign needs her star power to keep its post-convention surge going, and even this short stay in her home state will be occupied with prepping for a Thursday television interview with ABC's Charles Gibson...
...interview with the BBC, Ward suggested that the obstruction of the investigation had been motivated by the desire not to anger Kenya's then president, Daniel arap Moi, a key Cold War ally at the time. An open acknowledgment that Ward had been brutally murdered might have raised uncomfortable questions, and perhaps put a serious damper on the country's tourism industry...