Asked whether he planned to protect the greenbelt from what the questioner called "the relentless push for economic growth", he cited Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, which follows the campaign against building a railway from Manchester to Gaskell's home town of Knutsford, immortalised in the novel as Cranford.
Here's how it works: Once called upon, the questioner stands, announces their name, title and organisation.
"We have a problem in this country: It's called Muslims," the questioner began, going on to state that President Obama was himself Muslim.
The episode was reminiscent of the time last month when Mr. McCain called another questioner a "little jerk," and paid with another Drudge headline.
But he never flipped out at the Christian questioner, as he did at King, calling the CNN reporter's query "close to despicable".
By ignoring the fact the questioner called Obama "a Muslim" and "not an American," Trump created a furor late Thursday night.
But, given the example set by the bad actors currently dominating the national stage, it seemed best not to rely on hope as a guard against "particularly shitty guys," as the questioner called them.
But he did not condemn the questioner, instead calling it an "excellent question".
Mr. Dinkins, who was elected mayor in 1989 and lost to Mr. Giuliani in 1993, said that Mr. Ferrer had later called him to explain that the questioner at the debate had cut him off before he could say that he would have supported Mr. Dinkins.
Then came our real triumph: Rowley questioned the questioner.
Endlessly curious, he is very fond of questioning the questioner.
