Posted on 11/18/2015 7:45:22 AM PST by TroutStalker
By now, there’s a reasonable chance you’ve seen Fox Business anchor Neil Cavuto’s interview with Million Student March organizer Keely Mullen. It was all over the Internet in recent days -- and particularly the right-leaning portion of said Internet, which delighted in a liberal college student struggling to explain how giving everyone free college would be paid for.
The exchange was, in a word, uncomfortable.
Cavuto began by giving Mullen the floor to lay out the demands of her group, which orchestrated student walkouts at 110 college campuses last Thursday. They were: free tuition at public universities, the cancellation of all student debt and a $15-per-hour minimum wage for all campus workers. Cavuto then asked Mullen how to pay for all this.
“Um, great question,†Mullen replied.
It was almost instantly apparent that Mullen was in over her head. She seemed flustered and unprepared. She seemed like, well, a kid.
Yet the interview continued for nine excruciating minutes. Cavuto, who had moderated a Republican presidential debate just a few days earlier, would ask a tough question, Mullen would squirm and fumble her way through a response, then they’d do it all over again.
Given the vocal role students are playing in national conversations about racial discrimination and, naturally, college debt, it’s likely that more media encounters such as this one are on the way. Which raises an important question: Should the press cut student activists some slack, recognizing that their reasoning — or, at least, their ability to articulate it — might not have caught up to their passion? Or should news outlets treat students like true activists and like the adults that they technically are, expecting them to hold their own against journalistic pushback?
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Glad to hear something good came out of it. : )
Why are you busy writing articles like this when you should be suing your parents? :)
Clearly, the Post probably is not that interested in such exploratory journalism.
The scary thing: These mush brained “gimmies” are allowed to vote....the 47% just continues to increase! My advice: Get a job and deal with the real world!
Neil is an honorable and decent man. On the other hand, Callum Borchers at the WaPo seems to be an idiot.
No, the Washington Post editors are idiots for publishing the idiot Callum Borchers article. How incredibly immature they are — newspaper staff and child reporter.
I am curious why Cavuto didn’t ask the little girl if she considered going into the military and then using her GI Bill benefit to pay for her tuition.
I should change that to awful simplistic questions that a 5th grader would observe and ask her. Neil didn’t reach over to do rocket-science stuff. All she had to do is answer where this fantastic amount of money would come from. She acted like it just grows on trees.
Very much “entitled” infantile Keely Mullen tried to portray herself as if she’s from a working “Blue Collar Family.”
Her online profile at Shiftgig says she graduated from Francis W. Parker High School in Chicago. According to the Francis W. Parker School website, it offers kindergarten through 12th grade classes for which tuition tops out at $34,560.
Assessor records show that Mullen’s family has a home on West Wabansia Avenue in Chicago’s north side that carries a value of $989,990.
According to BlockShopper, the student’s father, Steven Mullen, paid a little more than $1 million for the home in 2005.
Maybe he should used words of one syllable or less to match her level of understanding.
well she couldn’t answer the 5th grade level questions, so I’m not sure why that was his fault. If he had asked her something appropriate for a college student with at least an economics 101 course to her name, it would have been even worse. I’m waiting for them to demand the govt print more money and give it away.
So his daughter’s education. Is not the only thing he lost money on. His house was a bad buy, too!
Worse...that she’s trying but not making a living!
I agree with you 100% !! My feeling sorry for her was that she was so freaking stupid but thinks she is well educated and listened to someone who put her in front of a camera as a spokesperson when she needs to be back in junior high school.
"It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought to be an idiot than open it and remove all doubt" Mark Twain
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