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Why can't he just say sorry, that figure has slipped my mind but it is costed and I will get the details for you?
Not seen this interview but can imagine it.
I went to a play once a few years ago, and one of the poor actors had a stumble - completely unable to remember his lines.
He graciously broke character, addressed the audience, unnecessarily apologised and explained how terrible it was when you had a mental block then accepted his cue from another actor and got on with it.
I accept that you couldn't get away with that explanation ("Corbyn gets mental block under pressure, cannot win Brexit!!!" headlines); but, yes, you'd have thought they could come up with something better that he can just say in response to 99% of these 'fact' questions than stumbling around.
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Anyone listen to the interview? Was it bad? Twitter, which isn't the ideal source for balanced views, seems to be unanimously attacking the interviewer for being unprofessional.
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Listening. He really should have apologised. But it was also an awkward interview.
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the interviewer, who is also employed by the telegraph oddly enough, is now pulling a kuenssberg by claiming to be the victim of abuse.
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It was pretty poor, but the interviewer wasn't great. He didn't know the childcare figures off the top of his head and wasn't able to cover it gracefully while he checked the answer - he seemed to think that if he said nothing, she'd go away. Silence doesn't work on radio ...
It got a bit better for him, but she was badgering him on long term care costs and on Labour's record on electing women, and not giving him space to finish his answers. He seemed to cope a bit better with that.
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This is the specificity fallacy - asking a question that requires very specific facts or figures to answer. And once those figures are given, the interviewer can say, 'but isn't your figure too low? Aren't you not really thinking this through?' The one being questioned is fucked either way. Corbyn's been around long enough to know this sort of rhetorical trap (which is, by the way, a big part of public school education and yet completely missing from the national curriculum - can't let the proles know what we're up to, haw haw)
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And Kate Middleton- that great example of strong independent womanhood...
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Corbyn's been around long enough to know this sort of rhetorical trap
Yet not, apparently, long enough to have developed a way of dealing with it. He didn't have the figures, he didn't cover that by making a joke of it, he didn't challenge the question as a rhetorical trap, he didn't challenge the interviewer, he didn't divert the line of questioning or the subject.
None of those would have necessarily had any more substance than "Er, it will cost, er" but they might have sounded better.
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Probably playing a bit of Angry Birds.
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The BBC hatchet job continues
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his IPad wasn't switched on - interviewer suggested he was waiting for an email with the figures.