Unprepared interviewees.
They seem to be ubiquitous in the news these days. Every election, at almost any level of politics, seems to have at least one candidate who stumbles when asked a question about embarrassing personal or professional conduct.
And it's not only politicians. Business executives, professional athletes, and plain Joes suffer the same fate.
I'm often asked why people, many of them experienced public figures, aren't prepared when the inevitable questions come.
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who was forced to resign after being caught in a sex scandal, provided an answer.
When asked by NBC Today Show's host Matt Lauer whether it had ever occurred to him his actions might be exposed, Spitzer replied,