This is great. The moderator of Saturday’s debate asks Jerry Kilgore whether he agrees that the tone of the campaign is negative and non-substantive, and what steps that he’ll take to change that.
Jerry Kilgore elevates the dialog
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This is part of a series of debate excerpts. Transcript and complete MP3 available.
Talk about a non-substansive answer to the question!
I love his accent though! It’s great!
And, just to avoid any confusion, this is excerpted. I excerpted the question and then a portion of his response for the purpose of contrast. There was no portion of his response in which he actually provided any kind of a response — the bit that I included was simply the most ludicrous part of his reply.
To be fair, it’s a tough question for Kilgore or Kaine to answer kindly. Are they supposed to say, “Yeah, I’m sorry. I’ve been nasty.” or are they supposed to say, “Yeah, the other candidate has been really nasty and unsubstansive. I appreciate you bringing that up.” or are they supposed to indignantly say that of course they aren’t being nasty and recite a litany of meaningless positive things they’ve said.
You do need to be clear in the body of the post (via an update) that it was chopped up.
When I listened to it, I had no idea you tinkered with it.
RE: “in the body of the post”
Not nearly everyone reads the comments.
I did in my post that introduced the series, which I linked back to in this blog entry:
I’m also providing and linking to both the transcript and the full MP3. I can’t be much more open about this. :)