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.
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.
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.