Posted on 11/16/2007 3:48:47 PM PST by Red Badger
Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred "diamonds or pearls" at last night's debate wrote on her MySpace page this morning that CNN forced her to ask the frilly question instead of a pre-approved query about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. "Every single question asked during the debate by the audience had to be approved by CNN," Luisa writes. "I was asked to submit questions including "lighthearted/fun" questions. I submitted more than five questions on issues important to me. I did a policy memo on Yucca Mountain a year ago and was the finalist for the Truman Scholarship. For sure, I thought I would get to ask the Yucca question that was APPROVED by CNN days in advance." Now, Luisa is getting "swamped" with critical e-mails. So what happened? Writes Luisa: "CNN ran out of time and used me to "close" the debate with the pearls/diamonds question. Seconds later this girl comes up to me and says, "you gave our school a bad reputation.' Well, I had to explain to her that every question from the audience was pre-planned and censored. That's what the media does. See, the media chose what they wanted, not what the people or audience really wanted. That's politics; that's reality. So, if you want to read about real issues important to America--and the whole world, I suggest you pick up a copy of the Economist or the New York Times or some other independent source. If you want me to explain to you how the media works, I am more than happy to do so. But do not judge me or my integrity based on that question."
(Excerpt) Read more at marcambinder.theatlantic.com ...
On Rush’s show today he stated that the “independent voter” mommy of the Iraq vet has been involved in anti-war protests. This cr*p never ends...
It wasn’t a FAKE question, it was one derived by staffs of political aides and newswriters.
It was a Democratic Party Debate. Assume everyone and everything is being done to make each candidate look as good as possible.
This is being made too big a deal. Mountain out of a mole hill.
The reality is that the questions are contrived. The duty of each individual is to judge the manner in which each candidate responded.
You are being led to focus on ‘plants’ and not on ‘candidates’.
I mean, were they serious about this as a political ‘news’ item?
I thought it was like Ex-Lax. Shiny wrapper, inside shiny chocolate. Mmmmmmm- chew.
And then, you gotta run to the bathroom.
As an aside-unless there’s been a secret draft I wasn’t aware of-WTF did her son think he was getting involved in when he enlisted?
Nuts or sluts, here we go!
Was the show on tape delay (even by a minute or so?)...most talk radio is on 7 sec. or so delay so they can bleep things out.
I would think if the questions really were rigged, it would be that way.
Wow. Now she's REALLY giving her school a bad reputation.
I am beginning to hear more and more people say they don’t like Hillary. They also don’t like Obama.
When are these silly liberal students going to realize that they are only used by the democrats?
Kinda like Billy Jeff, huh?
She blew her one chance to blow the whistle.
LOL
Hillary doesn’t WANT to do it on her own, she wants the little people to take care of this for her.
She’s not even engaged in her own campaign, just obsessed with her future plans....seriously goofy. And rather scary.
(( pinging Pearl ))
You may be right. But there would be a record, and word would get out. ;-D
Ever since the infamous wardrobe malfunction at the Superbowl nothing is live.
I remember Rush talking about John French Kerry’s run in 2004, he repeated over and over that Senators make bad candidates because they cannot come to decisions, they delegate then will not listen to the delegatees.
Remember Kerry sail boarding? Hillary is like that only much more narcisstic.
no....Don't you remember when she announced her run for Senate and the papers were full of "Wait until that tough New Your press goes after her." Not even the NYPost asked her any tough questions. She stayed on her unmocked "listening tour" until the election.
We had better start praying as much as we did during the Florida recount.
Well for naieve students it’s a WAKE UP CALL......
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