“I think that the question I was really answering wasn’t ‘Will Abe visit Yasukuni?’ but ‘If I were PM of Japan, would I visit Yasukuni?’ ”3 That’s astute. And it should sound familiar: Bill recognized that he had unconsciously pulled a bait and switch on himself, substituting an easy question in place of a hard one. Having strayed from the real question, Bill dismissed the new information because it was irrelevant to his replacement question.
