I am actually furious at Rosemary Barton for not pushing back at the frankly astonishing rhetoric we are getting from Gordon Sondland. Going on Canadian TV and saying that “everything is up for negotiation” when it comes to what Canada is willing to discuss? And Barton just sits there saying “I have no opinion”?! And then saying telling us we should not take him serious because that’s Donnie’s personality after our own fucking Prime Minister has basically told us the threat of annexation is actually real?? And then talking about forcing us into a customs union or “common passport”?
Sondland was talking down on us, scolding us for taking his shitty president seriously, and Rosemary Burton was just letting him go unchallenged. What is this bullshit?
That’s what I really want to see/hear in interviews. I find it’s rare, however. The journalist needs to be fairly knowledgeable on the topic at hand, and have the gumption to challenge a guest.
It is rare… rare enough that my only memory association on the topic is over 20 years old.