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Sep. 28th, 2016 08:33 amThe takeaway
"But maybe it worked. Maybe, just this once, America saw a man yammer on for an hour and a half about a subject he knew nothing about to a woman who had spent her lifetime in that field, and America said, “Oh,” quietly, to itself. Maybe. But knowing America, maybe also not."
Read the whole thing:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2016/09/27/last-nights-debate-or-the-mansplaining-olympics/?utm_term=.e595ca77b472&wpisrc=nl_az_most
The thing I don't understand about Trump, who has appeared on TV and radio for decades, is that he doesn't seem to realize that something one says is available to the public, at the time one says it or possibly forever. There is no sense denying something a hundred million people heard you say five minutes earlier.
"But maybe it worked. Maybe, just this once, America saw a man yammer on for an hour and a half about a subject he knew nothing about to a woman who had spent her lifetime in that field, and America said, “Oh,” quietly, to itself. Maybe. But knowing America, maybe also not."
Read the whole thing:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2016/09/27/last-nights-debate-or-the-mansplaining-olympics/?utm_term=.e595ca77b472&wpisrc=nl_az_most
The thing I don't understand about Trump, who has appeared on TV and radio for decades, is that he doesn't seem to realize that something one says is available to the public, at the time one says it or possibly forever. There is no sense denying something a hundred million people heard you say five minutes earlier.
