Stupid Media Interview Questions

I’m watching a morning show and they are interviewing survivors of a wave of tornadoes that hit Arkansas. Apparently one of these tornadoes hit before the sirens could go off. The interviewer asks this American Gothic-looking couple, clearly still stunned and standing in front of a hole that once had their house, the following two moronic questions. Bless this elderly couple for not punctuating the answers with “Duh”.

Interviewer: So you went into your bathroom? Why did you go in there and not in your basement?

Wife: Because we don’t have a basement.

Interviewer: Ohhhhh, you didn’t have a basement. Looking at the hole behind you, I thought that looked like a basement.

Wife: No, that’s where the foundation used to be.

Interviewer: But no basement under the foundation.

Wife: No sir.

Interviewer: So tell me, there were no warning sirens for this one. How does that make you feel?

Husband: Like we don’t have a house.

Interviewer: So without a siren, how did you know a tornado was even coming?

Wife: I looked out the window.

Now they are doing a story about Ambien addiction. More stupidity:

Interviewer: So how did you know you were addicted to Ambien?

Junkie: Well, mostly because I couldn’t sleep without it. But the shaking sort of gave me a clue too.

Interviewer: Is it possible you were just addicted to finally having a good nights’ sleep and not Ambien?

Junkie: I don’t think so. But I couldn’t get a good nights’ sleep without the Ambien so it doesn’t matter.