Obama To Local Reporter: 'Let Me Finish My Answers' Next Time (VIDEO)

I live in the Dallas area and watched this interview last night on the news. I was offended by the way the reporter was talking to the President from the onset of the interview. He kept interrupting and wanted to make it more adversarial than informational. What type of question is why does Texas not like you? Really, with all that is going on in the Texas education system, this was a relevant question? The news director of WFAA should have a conversation with this reporter about how to interview the President.

This is an initiative that the WH is doing with local stations across the country. I am pretty sure it was a competitive process to land that interview, and this reporter in my opinion did not represent this channel well. Even before the interview was over, I thought it was a horrible interview. When I heard the President make the statement at the end, I was like: Good for you Mr. President, teach him how to treat to you.

President Obama sat down for a series of interviews with local television outlets Monday, one of which ended with some presidential scorn for a Texas reporter.  Brad Watson of WFAA-TV in Dallas met with Obama in the White House to discuss the president's deficit plan and Texas politics. During their sitdown, he pressed Obama on his standing in the Lone Star State.

"Why are you so unpopular in Texas?" Watson asked the president.

Obama responded by claiming that the state had historically leaned Republican, but that he only "lost by a few percentage points" in 2008, perhaps a sign that politics in Texas were shifting.

"Well, you lost by about ten," Watson corrected, prompting the president to reply, "If what you're telling me is Texas is a conservative state, you're absolutely right."

After a few more chippy exchanges, Obama concluded the interview by telling Watson to "Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, all right?"

Obama similarly confronted Fox News' Bret Baier during a testy interview last year in which the president accused the anchor of repeatedly interrupting him before he could fully respond to questioning.






SOURCE www.huffingtonpost.com

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