The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
The thing I love about political interviews is, if you're really prepared, you can make great headway because these are the people for whom, theoretically at least, the buck stops.
I don't think the candidate would be directly responsible for things that their supporters say, but when it gets to a certain level, they ought to say, 'Cut it out.'
When journalists forget that our job is to question and annoy those in power, there can be huge consequences.
The reporter claimed he was going to write the article from my point of view. Instead, he made me sound like a little idiot. It made me never want to do another interview again.
It used to be that you could have fun with interviews with the foreign press, knowing that nothing you said would make it back to any voters until long after the election was over, if ever.
Politicians take something out of context to create problems.
I don't understand these politicians who want to be president and complain when they get a tough interview.
An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.