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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitchell is giving the whole country a lesson in how to interview a person...
...making a complaint of sexual assault. I think the GOP have done truth a favor and themselves a harm.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,431 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)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
(22,355 posts)rurallib
(62,416 posts)by making it look like she is lying about fear of flying.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)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
(41,984 posts)That flying thing went nowhere.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)I dont know how we have not blown our minds with RAGE yet
nolabear
(41,984 posts)womanofthehills
(8,712 posts)guess that's all they have - she was anxious to get on a plane to Washington.
Lars39
(26,109 posts)therefore she wasnt really harmed by the incident. An amazing tack to take because it infers the incident took place.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)GOP are filth, sure hope people notice.
rurallib
(62,416 posts)uponit7771
(90,346 posts)mcar
(42,334 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)... the GOP gotcha questions in a respectful, kind manner, and Ford knocked her answers out of the park!
uponit7771
(90,346 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)... clearing up any possible unclear points and Ford is coming across totally credible.
BumRushDaShow
(129,057 posts)Start slow, act nicey-nicey, make the witness comfortable, then start tightening the screws.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,355 posts)doesn't mean it's a good process for interviewing survivors.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)... 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
(22,355 posts)LAS14
(13,783 posts)emulatorloo
(44,130 posts)emulatorloo
(44,130 posts)Trying to make insinuations about who paid for it. You dont see how partisan that is?
BumRushDaShow
(129,057 posts)are lawyers, so they know the bullshit that Mitchell is doing and are ready for it.
LAS14
(13,783 posts)... doing it in a neutral way, just to find the truth and giving Ford a chance to shine!
BumRushDaShow
(129,057 posts)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
(13,783 posts)... 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
(129,057 posts)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).