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For those who never lived in or watched TV from the local Detroit-area. This is local WXYZ-TV channel 7 action news anchor Bill Bonds interviewing Orrin Hatch during the Anita Hill hearing. Notice how he doesn't care about future access or give a damn how he feels:
dlk
(11,567 posts)I met with a reporter from a paper in a large US city who said he could not report certain important stories for exactly that reason. He didnt want to lose his access. Our free press is seriously compromised.
Ohioboy
(3,243 posts)Wow, that is the way it should always be.
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)Bill passed on, but we here in Detroit still miss him.
tomhagen
(3,604 posts)DAngelo136
(265 posts)Here's his obituary:https://www.freep.com/story/news/obituary/2014/12/13/bill-bonds-channel-broadcaster/20375881/
It's also noteworthy that Orrin Hatch was as much of an a**hole then as he is now.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)be expected to be interviewed? It is time for term limits, to end the perception by these politicians that they are really "royalty". Hatch should have retired many years ago.
woundedkarma
(498 posts)Grew up near Detroit and Bill Bonds was a regular voice on my television. Usually commercials for the news hah. Never saw him do a serious interview like this. Glad to see it.
Orrin Hatch is still a jerk.
llmart
(15,540 posts)Harker
(14,020 posts)When the questions get difficult, fall back on accusing the questioner of being "discourteous."
I liked that this interviewer didn't waste time with pleasantries... just went straight at him.
llmart
(15,540 posts)irisblue
(32,980 posts)When he was good, he was very very good. When he was bad, it was quite a fall.
Crowman2009
(2,497 posts)Well the Comedy Central show "Detroiters" paid homage to it with a scene involving Bill's arch-rival Mort Crim. Enjoy!
niyad
(113,326 posts)apkhgp
(1,068 posts)I am tired of hearing all of them talk, PERIOD. No more listening to any of them. NO MORE.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Orrin Hatch is and always has been such precious, pathetic hack. I can't wait until he's gone.