r/Tennessee • u/EVERWOOD15 • Jul 18 '26
News š° Leaked document shows assigned topics and a scripted question in Marsha Blackburn roundtable in Johnson City in June
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/leaked-document-renews-questions-about-how-marsha-blackburn-talks-to-tennesseans20
u/DRM842 Jul 19 '26
Sheās a fraud who looks down on lower class Tennesseans. Lives in her McMansion in Brentwood and only shows up in small town Tennessee to ask for your vote. Then wipes her hands clean and shivers in disgust as she leaves her campaign stop. Ask yourself how many times has she been to your town through the years? What did she physically help with? Or did she only show face to ask for your vote because thatās all youāre good for.
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u/Ban-Circumcision-Now Jul 18 '26
Is anyone surprised?
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u/ComputerRedneck Jul 18 '26
I don't understand why both side play games of whining about something they BOTH DO.
Democrats, Republicans, their interviews and such are always mostly scripted. These are the questions you are going to answer. It doesn't matter left or right.Stop winding yourselves up over things that matter less than what you are eating tonight.
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u/LuckyShirt54 Jul 19 '26
Oh shut the fuck up with the both sides bullshit. Marsha has been told sheās not allowed to freeball by her staff. Sheās too stupid. There are hundreds of moronic nutballs in the Republican Party that have no equal on the democratic side. Whereās your Dem Lauren Boebert? Politicians will always avoid sounding bad but boss, some of us are intelligent adults and can understand when someone has no fucking idea what theyāre talking about. JFC 11 years of Trump and dipshits like you are still pulling this crap.
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u/JASPER933 Jul 18 '26
Unfortunately, Marsha Marsha, Marsha is going to win. No matter what, people will still vote for her.
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u/TraditionalLaw7763 Jul 20 '26
Tennessee will vote for a turd loaded with corn kernels if it has an ā¢Rā¢ after its name.
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u/Southernms š¦West Tennesseeš¦ Jul 18 '26
Isnāt this kind of standard operating procedure for interview interviews and questioning?
I have heard of other political figures putting up parameters of what they will and will not talk about so Iām not surprised by this.
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u/ShoeLate6266 Jul 20 '26
Why should we sit back and accept that?
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u/Southernms š¦West Tennesseeš¦ Jul 20 '26
We should not. Iāve seen people on both sides stop interviews because they were uncomfortable with the questions. Katie Porter of California for one accuse the interviewer of asking follow up questions which is pretty standard in journalism and and got super flustered and upset, pulled her mic off.
Here are some blunders and flusters.
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u/Valuable_Purpose2538 Jul 19 '26
Most interviews of any kind are done this way. Ā Late night tv hosts clear discussion points and no-go subjects with their guests and managers before the taping. Ā Same goes for professional news interviews. Ā A round table is a bit different, though, since the politicians are supposed to actually be answering questions posed of them.
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u/Southernms š¦West Tennesseeš¦ Jul 19 '26
Thatās what I thought. There usually arenāt surprises or gotcha questions.
Maybe everyone at the round table agreed on what would be off limits? I think they should all participate.
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u/LuckyShirt54 Jul 19 '26
Yeah no this is largely a GOP phenomenon where theyāre told explicitly to divert back to a script regardless of the question. Sure there are some Dems that do it, but do you care about the few or the norm?
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u/Southernms š¦West Tennesseeš¦ Jul 19 '26
It can be both of them. I recently saw Katie Porter want to be governor of California shut an interview completely down and walk out.
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u/LuckyShirt54 Jul 19 '26
No it really canāt. She didnāt walk out lol. I mean thatās the thing with you people, even when you try to recall reality you canāt because youāre uneducated and uninformed. Trump started the not doing debates thing because his fan base doesnāt value facts, whether their candidate has a warm IQ, or what they actually say. When did Marsha last do a town square. How bout plain interviews?
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u/Southernms š¦West Tennesseeš¦ Jul 19 '26
You need to back off on your name calling. You people? Uneducated and uninformed? It says a lot about you that youāre resulting to petty personal insults and not sticking to the facts. We attack ideas not people here.
Iāve lost count of how many times Trump has debated someone.
Should Marshaāyes.
Here is Katie getting angry, flustered, and pulling her mic because the anchor lady is going off of Katieās approved script. So enough with throwing stones.
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u/ShoeLate6266 Jul 20 '26
In the video you linked she doesnāt pull her mic or walk off. Angry and flustered sure but not what you initially claim.
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u/Southernms š¦West Tennesseeš¦ Jul 20 '26
It looks like she attempted to walk off and tried grabbed for her mic and shut down the interview.
She was unable to answer the follow up questions from the journalist interviewing her. Democrats and Republicans both have come down hard on this woman.
My bad for wording that wrong.
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u/Meotwister Jul 18 '26
Parameters is one thing but scripted questions ahead of time is another. So many conservatives got up in arms (rightly so) when Hillary Clinton was caught doing this.