If you’re Piers Morgan or Larry King, you can write books about interviewing women who feel insulted by your questions and leave or threaten to do so. In recent memory, the women who have done this have been distinguished by indistinguishable intelligence and lack of experience. In the videos that follow, you will see the work of two masterful interviewers who have learned how to win at the Q and A racket no matter what the subject says or does.
Case #1 Carrie Prejean
You remember Carrie – all that hoorah with the Donald about the Miss USA Pageant and the standing of gays in the world. That theme takes down a lot of men and women these days. Carrie answered Perez Hilton question about gay marriage during the pageant this way:
Straight answers to gay questions land you on Larry King Live and other talk shows and you have to be prepared to explain your answer and/or philosophy. But Carrie continued as the victim:
Case # 2 Christine O’Donnell – the defeated Delaware candidate. Christine O’Donnell has got to be a muse for martyrs. Look at her most used image – the winsome whiner:
Christine had views of gays that were captured on video and audio tape and that she mentioned in her new book. Yet when she made an appearance on the Piers Morgan Show, suddenly she was the victim of the hour and walked off the show when Piers went to ask her questions about her comments in the book and elsewhere about gays.
Sad that so many middle class women are tripping over their own words. And rather than stand their ground, they are taking a hike with words of how they have been wronged foll0wing them out the door.
Please, fellow females, do not mess with the spotlight when it is thrust upon you. Embrace it and talk on. The key these interviewers have is that they can and you can’t. They stand their ground. They smile and calmly continue no matter what you do. To head for the door is, well, acting “inappropriately.”
If you want to be taken seriously and to advance in life, you need to learn ways of handling the press in any form. Why? Because no matter how you answer their questions, the interviewers ultimately win through calculated, conditioned responses. You can only snatch victory here from the jaws of defeat through effective control of your reactions and putting forth your views in a clear, concise and artful way that draws people to you rather than provide fodder for laughter through dramatic high dudgeon. SamHenry could never vote for a woman who took a hike from the mike in the middle of a classic hissy fit.
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Do see these other related articles about interviews that ended with guests taking flight:
HOW TO: The interview walk out – - A guide to flouncing out of interviews in a huff
Christine O’Donnell Walks Out on Two Interviews Promoting Her Book
Paris Hilton Walks Out of ABC News Interview
blackwatertown
August 21, 2011
Hilarious – good clips thanks.
What a shame that such questioning appears to be unusual.
The interviewers don’t always win in the UK – recently Fr Ted writer Graham Linehan turned the tables on the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 recently – possibly because he came across as reasonable and measured, and they have a reputation for unprovoked aggression (notwithstanding that it is sometimes justified when dealing with slippery politicoes).
TV-wise -UK defence minister John Knott flouncing off from an interview by Robin Day after he called him “a dare I say, here today, gone tomorrow, politician.” That was a good one.
These days guests either suck up the punishment, countrt attack or go for distraction.
The Morb
August 21, 2011
Another priceless one from SamH !!! … I sit here in amusement once again at the folly of the human experience !!! … And hope that it is not an ‘ inappropriate ‘ state of mind !!! …
DarcsFalcon
August 24, 2011
If you’re going to have an opinion and the stones to express it, at least have the additional stones to follow through on sticking up for your own opinion!
I know the media is relentless these days on those who disagree with them, but to my mind, that’s even further call to dig in one’s heels and stand your ground.
Even better if those heels are McQueen or Louboutin.