Everybody does it

By Megan McArdle
Honestly, the question-planting thing just doesn't strike me as interesting. Politicians rarely say anything worth hearing whether they're answering your questions or someone else's. On the scale of political sins, this is somewhere between mopery and forgetting to turn off the lights.

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