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Karl Stefanovic vs Malcolm Turnbull: “You are waffling.”

The look on Malcolm Turnbull's face said it all when Today host Karl accused him of "waffling."

Begins: 7:41 mins

Sometimes an interviewer catches their guest off-guard and the look on Malcolm Turnbull’s face said it all when Today host Karl Stefanovic accused him of “waffling” this morning.

Under pressure on several fronts, including politicians’ Citizenship debacle, the PM attempted to turn the conversation back to jobs and feebly threw back that Stefanovic was patronising.

16 Responses

  1. Yes, it’s good to see the PM get a bit of spirit for a change, but he does waffle … and a lot, a fair percentage of which is so disingenuous that it just makes him look silly – IMO of course.

    1. “Unprofessional”?
      Definitely not. He was doing what all journalists / reporters should do – give Politicians a nudge to define their answers more clearly, and not accept dribble and jargon that makes no sense.

  2. Sadly interviewing politicians these days is a waste of electricity. They are so primed by minders about talking points that they repeat them endlessly. We do not have the calibre of interviewers these days that have the ability to press pollies and get real answers.

    1. Well, there’s still some around. Problem is they’re mostly on the ABC, and both the parochial commentariat & random gobs on Twitter get annoyed when “their” money is being used to ask slightly awkward questions of “their” side…

  3. Go Karl… Wanna get those ratings, why not say something controversial to the PM.

    Seriously though, this makes me dislike Karl even more.. And remember a few months back when someone had a go at ABC News Breakfast about their hair dresser, well whats up with whoever is doing Karl’s hair??

  4. I don’t care who is talking or on what side of politics they are on, I dislike it when interviewers and the media cut the speaker off. If you want people to get all sides of any debate, then they should let them speak and ask questions after they have finished talking. I stopped watching Sunrise because of it.

    1. “If you want people to get all sides of any debate …”

      Hint: An interview isn’t a debate – it’s asking questions to elicit answers in an attempt to determine the truth of a matter. If you let the interviewee waffle on without answering the question, you’ll never get to hear _any_ side, let alone all.

      You don’t debate with your children whether they ate all the biscuits or not, do you? Political interviews aren’t a lot different…

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