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Jesus Christ, for someone who keeps telling people how in touch with yours and others feeling you are, you sure can be a condescending prick.

 

Sun rises in the East.

 

What? I'm asking honestly. What was condescending there? I don't get it.

 

Nope. Personal Responsibility and all that.

 

Come on. You were mocking the guy who tweeted, as if he was, oh, I don't know, a coffee machine repairman.

I've never worked in television, but it seems that if you thought your interview subject was drunk you might gracefully exit the interview in a professional manner. Not embarrass the guy (further).

 

I put his name in quotes because I didn't know if that was a real name or a Twitter handle. I don't know who he is, and it sounded made up to me. Sorry, man. I didn't mean anything by it.

 

Back to the original Nunberg question, I have no idea what the right move is if you suspect, on live TV, that your subject is drunk. I think if you say he is, you obviously better have cause for it. (Asking if someone is drunk is different from saying someone is drunk, at least to me.) But if someone is really ripping, about a national story with possibly serious legal implications, are you really going to stop them from talking? I'm honestly asking. I really don't know what I'd do there.

I think if you ask, "Are you sure you want to say these things," if he says yes, then I think you keep him on, right?

I could totally be wrong.

 

Fair enough. He's one of the many Washington journalist-types I follow.

The Trump aide sounds like a loon, but alcoholism is a scourge I would rather not be quite so familiar with, so I was genuinely curious what the protocol would be for live TV in such a situation.

 

Paging @PCLoadLetter.

 

I'm genuinely curious, too.

I really had never heard of T. Becket Adams. That name honestly sounded like a Twitter character to me, like Old Hoss Radbourn.

 

Our overstuffed national dotard doesn't joke about anything. If he says it, he's already angling for it in his head.