The interview subject is interviewed as normal. The difference? Where a specially selected cross-politic panel of experts feel that the question has not been answered (a) truthfully or (b) sufficiently, the interviewee is required to perform a dare - drawn at random from a selection of viewer-submitted choices.

Might get the kids watching.
-- my face your, Mar 07 2003

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If the panel can determine what a truthful answer is, why bother asking the politician?
-- beauxeault, Mar 07 2003


[mfy]: sorry, trying to evade a question requires a forfeit dare...
You have to stick your finger in someones ear - when they turn, in shock, to face you you then have to put that finger in your mouth.
-- Jinbish, Mar 07 2003


"Truth or dare. Are you, Mr. Hussein, currently developing weapons of arse destruction while destroying a set of missles for show?"
"Dare."
"Okay. Our requirement: walk to the wailing wall, wearing a cardboard sign saying 'I love Hitler!' on it.
-- RayfordSteele, Mar 07 2003


I am a fool. Dear Reader, please mentally re-insert the following between Harold's and Jinbish's annos.

"A good point, [beauxeault]. I'd like to evade that line of questioning by saying that it was poor word choice on my part. It should read "honestly", rather than "truthfully.""
-- my face your, Mar 07 2003


i had the idea that politicians should be interviewed using the technique used by phoebe from friends. ask two simple questions - i.e. 'what's your favourite colour?' etc. - before quickly unleashing the real question - i.e. 'where are the weapons, jackass?'
-- sambwiches, Mar 07 2003


I love it, maybe then some of my contemporaries would watch the news (and gain some goddamned intelligence). One problem: no clinton with a female audience/interviewer.
-- igirl, Mar 08 2003



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