# Jan Brewer: liar and hypocrite **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 27, 2012, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-brewer-liar-and-hypocrite/610837 "2012-01-27T06:18:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-brewer-liar-and-hypocrite/610837/121 "2012-02-01T23:33:36Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > KG, it’s the mutualuity of the exchange while it is taking place that makes a conversation. The fact that a person my call a press conference doesn’t turn it into a conversation–it’s still a press conference. Arguments are conversations. Negotiations are conversations. Heck, even writing letters and mailing through the post is a conversation, albeit a slow one. There are many different types of conversation. If I ask you one question and you answer it, that was a conversation. So again, how is a press conference something that does not fit the definition of the word “conversation”? Saying it isn’t mutual somehow is clearly wrong: Gov. Brewer was asked a question and responded. She stopped so that the reporters would be able to ask questions. If she had not stopped, had not responded, then you’d have a point that this wasn’t a conversation. But she did stop, she did respond. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-brewer-liar-and-hypocrite/610837/122 "2012-02-01T23:47:15Z")
Oh, yeah, almost forgot to make this point (in regards to what **magellon01** had to say): sometimes conversations have more than 2 participants. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-brewer-liar-and-hypocrite/610837/123 "2012-02-02T02:55:48Z")
Sweet! The “is a press conference a conversation” debate got picked up! I can’t tell you how much I was hoping that that issue would become the central point of a thread! I can only hope it manages to stay just as exciting as it has been this far. ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-brewer-liar-and-hypocrite/610837/124 "2012-02-02T03:02:11Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > Sweet! The “is a press conference a conversation” debate got picked up! I can’t tell you how much I was hoping that that issue would become the central point of a thread! I can only hope it manages to stay just as exciting as it has been this far. Even better is when it takes a turn for the meta and we talk about how bored we all are about the point!! Holy shit!! Now I’ve just taken it to the meta-meta. Whoa … I just blew my mind!! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-brewer-liar-and-hypocrite/610837/125 "2012-02-02T03:34:12Z")
In my opinion, it isn’t a REAL conversation unless someone compares somebody else to Hitler or the Nazis. ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-brewer-liar-and-hypocrite/610837/126 "2012-02-02T04:35:57Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > In my opinion, it isn’t a REAL conversation unless someone compares somebody else to Hitler or the Nazis. You know who else wouldn’t answer questions at a press conversation? ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-brewer-liar-and-hypocrite/610837/127 "2012-02-02T12:12:33Z")
> [@miltan](#): > > you know who else wouldn’t answer questions at a press conversation? Yer Mom!!! Haw Haw Haw!! ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-brewer-liar-and-hypocrite/610837/128 "2012-02-02T16:30:34Z")
Whether or not a press conference is a “conversation” is so _very_ fucking important. \*\*\*Everything \*\*\*hinges on that. Please, keep it up, because I don’t know whether what Brewer did was classless, rude and disrespectful to the highest office in the land until we get that settled. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-brewer-liar-and-hypocrite/610837/129 "2012-02-03T00:50:18Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Whether or not a press conference is a “conversation” is so _very_ fucking important. > > \*\*\*Everything \*\*\*hinges on that. > > Please, keep it up, because I don’t know whether what Brewer did was classless, rude and disrespectful to the highest office in the land until we get that settled. Uh, did you read the OP? That was one of, if not the, main charges. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-brewer-liar-and-hypocrite/610837.md?page=6)