- Once a tool, always a tool. You did it to yourself. I will never or can never feel sorry for you, tool.
Posted on 11/17/2007 12:49:59 PM PST by FocusNexus
Last week, CNN had contacted Ms. Parra-Sandoval, a political science student at University of Las Vegas-Nevada, through a professor, and asked her to submit a question. She wrote one about health care for children. CNN rejected it, calling it too similar to another question that would be asked. (No such question was.) So she sent another, about Iraq. That was rejected too. On Wednesday, a CNN producer asked her for two final questions, one substantive and one light. Ms. Parra-Sandoval sent one about Yucca Mountain, the Nevada site under consideration as a storage facility for radioactive waste. With the deadline approaching, she stared at her computer screen. Noticing the pearl-pattern background on her MySpace page, she dashed off the jewelry one.
CNN asked her to come to the debate with both questions memorized. Two hours in, a producer whispered that she should ask the second one.
Ms. Parra-Sandoval does not seem the least bit frivolous or bling-minded. A former illegal immigrant whose parents clean and do laundry for Las Vegas hotels, she attends a UNLV honors program on scholarship and work-study programs. Two summers ago, she interned for Senator Harry Reid
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Then they select the questions.
Despite of all this, CNN has the temerity to pretend that these are "ordinary people" asking their own questions!
The NYT printed this?
Is there bad blood between them and CNN?
Am sick of hearing how this IS television - after all - and some control has to be made to 'fashion' or control at least some of content. Yes, no doubt they are worried about 'entertainment value' here. . .
This whole so-called debate was a contrived steaming pile of putrid democrat donkey dung. It smelled of Clinton from the first nanosecond to the merciful end.
Teh Reid connection is new, that means she was a Democrat insider, who whined on her blog because her College friends were disparaging her, and there is another questioner who was an Anti War activist.
That only leaves two other questioners left....
And the questions were all pre approved and required memorization, she said that, and Malveaux had to interject “Abortion” into one question about judicial appointmentsso CNN “knew” what the questions would be even to the point of editing them on the fly as the hand picked plants “forgot” what they were supposed to ask.
That is pitiful, I cannot wait until the last two questioners are exposed for the plants that they were!
It is in an NYT BLOG, probably NO ink involved.
This stinks to high heaven... and I just saw CNN’s Bill Schneider today fawning all over Hillary’s ‘performance’. (BARFFF!)
“The NYT printed this?”
I am totally surprised too!
In the end she could have chosen to ask any question she wanted. Instead she played the game.
This is shaping up to be a drawn out train wreck!
The question should have been about Mrs Clinton approving of her worthless scumbag husband giving Monica a pearl necklace.
Maria...they’ll use you and toss you aside. You are scum now for talking to the media.
This “diamonds or pearls” question is a transparent attempt to mimic the “boxers or briefs” question asked husband Bill years ago. Yet you may recall that it was Monica whom he gave the pearl necklace.
The entire debate was a sham and a fraud, a complete set-up to make one candidate look good. Any people wonder why they call it the “Clinton News Network”.
Its CNN! What else do you expect?
I found this information on another site, and thought it a good idea to post it here as well, to unravel the identity of the otehr 2 “unbiased” questioners.
“But more info has come out since about some of the “randomly selected questioners” CNN mysteriously failed to fully identify.
It seems the real identity of the aforementioned Luisa of diamonds & pearls fame is Maria Luisa Parra-Sandoval and she is a “former illegal immigrant whose parents clean and do laundry for Las Vegas hotels, she attends a UNLV honors program on scholarship and work-study programs. Two summers ago, she interned for Senator Harry Reid.” Update: click here to see her listed at Reid’s staff page under Maria Parra-Sandoval.
And remember this lady?
AllahP asks : “Blitzer introduces her as an “undecided voter” and it sounds like the onscreen graphic mentioned something about her belonging to a church. And … that’s it. Is this the same LaShannon Spencer who served as the Arkansas Democrats’ director of political affairs in 2003?”
Here’s her pic from a few years ago, same glasses different hair but obviously the same LaShannon Spencer, Ark. Dem Director of Political Affairs:
(Guess she just happened to be in Vegas just to see Elvis & decided at the spur of the moment to drop in & watch the debate. On the front row.)
But wait! There’s more!
Remember
Khalid Khan, “the randomly selected ordinary citizen” who asked the question about profiling at airports? Turns out “But he is not an ordinary citizen. For years he has been a prominent Muslim leader — the president of the Islamic Society of Nevada,” & is no stranger to CNN, having been profiled by them in a story before. Guess their chyron editor didn’t have time to get that pertinent info up on the screen.
Yeah right. Just like Suzanne Jackson, whom we all now know is a well-known local antiwar activist was presented as just your “average soldiers’ mama”.
AllahPundit says:
“I went back to the beginning of the debate to see how Blitzer introduced the format. Did he offer any details on who’d be doing the questioning? Why, yes. After mentioning that the debate was sponsored by the national party — something likely understood by most viewers as a mere formality — he described them as “ordinary people, undecided voters.” Note: not even “undecided Democrats.” Just undecided.”
So, not only does the plot of the ‘CNN hearts Clinton’ story thicken, it seems as though it is turning into a huge steaming pile right before our very eyes.
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