Was Laura Kuenssberg Right To Ask Such A Loaded Question?

[vortex]

Should we be proud or embarrassed?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4165220/President-Trump-mocks-BBC-s-political-editor.html

[mikey4444]

Togo....you still haven't explained why Kuenssberg is being castigated on here this morning, for asking a tough question ? To repeat myself, she was only asking him about things that he has already said.....ie calling him to account for his own words.

[Zacs-Master]

I think it was the way she phrased her question to seem as if she was representing the whole of the UK. It undermined TMs visit.

[vortex]

Zacs-Master - spot on.

[mikey4444]

She is the political Editor of the BBC Zacs, not CNN. She represents the BBC.

[vortex]

I was going to say that you would expect better from the BBC but actually....

[Zacs-Master]

She doesn't represent the whole of the UK though Mikey, as she seemed to try and state.

[mikey4444]

She was asking on behalf of British viewers and listeners. She was asking from a British point of view. Not sure what is wrong with that ?

[vortex]

Mikey, I was a viewer and a listener. She didn't ask on behalf of me...

[ichkeria]

I think some people are letting their irrational dislike of Laura K get the better of them.
Which actually puts them at the very least on an even footing with the slimy lefties etc :-)

[mikey4444]

Obviously not Vannon. Perhaps you should have sent your own Trump-loving political Editor instead.

[Zacs-Master]

The question was obviously designed to embarrass TM. If you're a fan of that type of journalism then so be it but I'm not. Trump handled it very well and spared her from a potentially very awkward situation.

[ichkeria]

Put it this way: I live in a small English village: in no respect could you describe it as crawling with leftists, jihadists, etc etc etc
When I went to get my paper last Saturday I saw that it had an outer cover commemorating the Trump inauguration, with a large photo of the Orange One very much to the fore. I joked to the lady at the till that I was jolly well going to remove it from the paper proper as soon as possible. After I had removed it there was another picture of Trump underneath: she looked at the picture, then looked at me, and said very pointedly "That man should be behind bars!" before offering to bin the other bit for me!
The point of all this is that here is a lady who looked very much like she had voted Tory all her life, and certainly not one to get on the front line in Portland, London or at any off those frightful wimmin's marches :-)
So if someone like her feels like that about Trump, I think Laura Kuenssberg is on pretty sure ground in indicating that there are a lot of people in the UK alarmed at the stated views and plans of the new president, and those people are likely the majority. And even if they weren't, what would have been the point of getting up and simply asking Mr Trump where he gets his hair done, or has Mrs May bought any nice shoes lately ...

[vortex]

I think it's an important point to also see this from TM's perspective which many on here have alluded to. She should not have been placed in such an awkward position.

[dannyk13]

Laura Kuenssberg and Mikey are both tarred with the same red brush.

[Khandro]

ichy;//I think some people are letting their irrational dislike of Laura K get the better of them.//

I think some people are letting their irrational dislike of Trump prevent them from seeing reason.
For the third (and last) time, she has no mandate to speak for the British people, her questions were irrelevant to the meeting, she made a fool of herself and embarrassed not Trump, but Mrs May and many British people watching.

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

Read what our Katie has to say, it may explain matters more.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4165338/KATIE-HOPKINS.html

[ichkeria]

Some of these comments are unbelievable :-)

[Togo]

//Togo....you still haven't explained why Kuenssberg is being castigated on here this morning, //

What? Can you read Mikey, and if so can you understand just what you are reading? I think I have made my self very clear, indeed you appear to be the only one who needs further "explanation".

[mikey4444]

Khandro....there is nothing remotely "irrational" about fear of Trump.

I only know what he has said and said many times over.

Perhaps the BBC should have sent someone like Michael Gove to the Press Conference, instead of Kuenssberg ?

Or may be one of those sofa-journalists that infest daytime TV these days.

[vortex]

I suspect that 'Scottish twerp' is the watered-down description by Katie!!