Schiffren: It’s “Inappropriate” To Ask Candidates About Stuff

If you just met someone for the first time, it’d be pretty rude to suddenly start grilling them about the basic facts of national policy, even if you grilled them in a gentle and polite tone. The must be what NRO’s Lisa Schiffren had in mind when she wrote this:

And, for the record, it just looks condescending and inappropriate for one of the great minds of the national media to sit, notebook in hand, quizzing this younger woman, as someone said, as if she were a grad student.

The younger woman in question might be President of the United States four months from now. To do the job she’s (a) going to need to know the answer to basic questions, and (b) going to need to face-off against some tougher folks than Charlie Gibson.