"CNN demanded that I ask you a stupid question about jewelry ... but I really want to know where you stand on the Yucca Mountain nuclear wast repository?"
If she talked fast enough, she might get it all out before they cut off the microphone.
The media is playing the studio audience for chumps. By fronting the questions and finding a fall guy to read the cards for them, they can claim they had no “knowledge” that it was going on. If they had their own staff read the cards, they’d have to swallow their pride and engage in fluff to “tart it up” to use a Ratherism.
“CNN demanded that I ask you a stupid question about jewelry ... but I really want to know where you stand on the Yucca Mountain nuclear wast repository?”
“Away from the radioactive areas”