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After comparing interviews
It seems both he and Joe Biden recently did extended interviews with Time Magazine, and the questions asked of the two were posed in markedly different ways.
"Something striking: the substance of Trump and Biden's answers is, of course, quite distinct but, even more than that, one can tell the interviewer has more confidence in the intellectual capacity of one man over the other," she wrote.
They then pointed out to an instance in which the interviewer asked both men about their positions on defending Taiwan.
"I want to get your thoughts on China," Time asked Trump. "Do you think the U.S. should defend Taiwan if China invades?"
When it came time to ask Biden the same question, however, the interviewer asked a much more detailed question.
"CIA Director Bill Burns says the President Xi Jinping of China has ordered the Chinese military to be ready by 2027 to conduct a successful invasion of Taiwan," Time asked Biden. "You said on multiple occasions that you would use U.S. forces to defend Taiwan. What does that mean? Is it boots on the ground? What shape would that take?"
In analyzing this, Jacobs said that it indicated that Time interviewers believed they needed to dumb down questions to get a cogent response from Trump.
It's pretty obvious when you look at them side by side.
Link to the article at the top. and here are the original tweets
x.com 1798063134256902437
Apparently we need a software adjustment now that Elmo has finally changed twitters address to X.
It seems both he and Joe Biden recently did extended interviews with Time Magazine, and the questions asked of the two were posed in markedly different ways.
"Something striking: the substance of Trump and Biden's answers is, of course, quite distinct but, even more than that, one can tell the interviewer has more confidence in the intellectual capacity of one man over the other," she wrote.
They then pointed out to an instance in which the interviewer asked both men about their positions on defending Taiwan.
"I want to get your thoughts on China," Time asked Trump. "Do you think the U.S. should defend Taiwan if China invades?"
When it came time to ask Biden the same question, however, the interviewer asked a much more detailed question.
"CIA Director Bill Burns says the President Xi Jinping of China has ordered the Chinese military to be ready by 2027 to conduct a successful invasion of Taiwan," Time asked Biden. "You said on multiple occasions that you would use U.S. forces to defend Taiwan. What does that mean? Is it boots on the ground? What shape would that take?"
In analyzing this, Jacobs said that it indicated that Time interviewers believed they needed to dumb down questions to get a cogent response from Trump.
It's pretty obvious when you look at them side by side.
Link to the article at the top. and here are the original tweets
x.com 1798063134256902437
Apparently we need a software adjustment now that Elmo has finally changed twitters address to X.
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