1. If you get picked to ask a question, and you start off a long-winded 150-word 'statement' (not the question itself) and then reach the 12-word question itself....the people at home now grasp what you attempted to accomplish. It's like that stupid Vegas magic act that was supposed to be ultra super-secret, and they figured out that the 'mechanism'. So cut the 'statement' and just ask the stupid question.
2. When you utter the phrase....'some scientist said' or 'a expert said'....then you fail to mention the guy's name, you've just proven the fact that you didn't do your homework. All the President has to do is ask you.....who is the scientist or expert? Then you look extremely foolish because you don't have the name.
3. Thinking that you 'train' the President and teach him leadership qualities? You, a mere journalist....having leadership or management qualities? Oh please, what a joke.
4. Prepare yourself for this.....a large segment of the nation now watches the White House 'product' in its entirety. So if you look super-foolish, and it used to be that the network would just that delete that stupidity out....well, the rest of us see the whole segment and just laughing. So you might to be at the top form of your game.
5. Asking a very detailed question, using the phrase 'worst-case' scenario....just leads the President to utter the response that he's working with the average to best case scenario. Your attempt to lead to the proper answer to make your people happy....failed miserably.
6. Finally, if you come off looking like you attempted to trip up the President....you ought to be barred from the next couple of conferences. No one likes that type of behavior in a chaotic crisis period.
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