When asked about the latest rumor — that Memphis's O. J. Mayo was involved in a potential three-team deal that would send Anthony to the Knicks, instead of the Nets — he thought the questioner was asking about a recent fight Mayo had with a Grizzlies teammate, Tony Allen.
Most often, if a question is asked, it's an effort to get the panel or speaker to agree with the questioner's mindset or viewpoint.
Ferguson poured scorn on his questioner when he was asked yesterday whether the memory of last season's result – which he described at the time as "our worst ever day, the worst result in my history.
"Look around this room," Bush was asked by a white questioner.
He would actually look his questioner in the eye, think about what was asked for a moment and craft a thoughtful answer.
When Mrs. Clinton was asked by a Jewish Week questioner whether she would have done anything differently with the benefit of hindsight, she responded briskly.
In southwestern Virginia, he was asked what ought to be done about the medical-malpractice suits that a questioner said were driving doctors out of the state.
At a Des Moines event last week, King was asked if he identified as a white supremacist, and responded by kicking the questioner out of the room.
Recently, I was asked if I got nervous before speaking to large groups, and I think I surprised my questioner by replying that I did not.
One questioner was from Arizona, where Davis went to high school, and he asked the Mets' rookie if he would ever play for the Diamondbacks.
