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
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In Clinton News Network’s defense...every voter is ‘undecided’ since the primaries haven’t occurred yet!
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November 17, 2007 =
Senator REID tells America on TV that Secretary of Defense DEAN testified before Congress that there was no problem for our troops if new funding is held up till next February. And that the Dept of Defense will have to conduct war within its own Defense Budget.
(Secretary of Defense DEAN actually testified before Congress that there would be a lot of problems if Congressional funding for our troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan was held up till next February.)
November 17, 2007 =
Secretary of Defense DEAN announces that if Congress continues to hold up War funding the Pentagon will have to start cutting off Defense Contracts to pay for our War on Terror.
THE question of the week to ask seems to be:
“Exactly WHO is on OUR side, and WHO isn’t..?”
Absolutely nothing.
This whole thing was a sham from the start...not surprisingly...sad to say.
PS opportunity
“Leather or lace”?
Or, “What kind of Arkancide do you most often use?”
I noticed that heckler started to cut off Ubama there at one point while he was talking about Hillary. CNN thought of everything ahead of time.
She should have asked, Men or Women?
The Clinton people know Harry Reid’s days are numbered-he’s unpopular in his own state. My guess is they’re going to throw him under the bus over this one. If Reid can be connected to this in even the most distant way, it could be at the least a huge embarrassment and at the most a violation of Senate ethics. Reid has been a disaster and I’m sure the Clintons would love to have him out of the way before the next election so he won’t be a drag on the party.
Calling a former summer intern an "insider" is vastly overstating the case.
So they all were politicaly connected to the Democrat Party, or had a special interest axe to grind, and they “may” have met the candidates before hand?
The entire debate was a Potemkin Village, a show for the American People that had nothing to do with reality.
So working in Reid’s office at one time wouldn’t make her an insider?
What would, exactly?
Would she be considered a ordinary audience member who just happened to win a lottery and had -0- connection with a Democrat Politico at any time?
Seems so. Your Potemkin Village analogy is a great one. Or like the propaganda films of work camps in Nazi Germany showing the workers are well fed, housed and as happy as they could be. I'd like to know if CNN really left it up to the Nevada Democrat Party (decidedly pro-Hillary) to distribute the tickets to the debate as the writer in that blog claims.
This is going to turn into a big deal - Rush, Sean and others are going to make it so. This as a follow up to the Hillary planted question story of last week will taint her further even if she cannot be connected to this latest story. We're just going to hear "planted questions by pro-Hillary supporters" and it's going to play into the template that she can't think on her feet and has to know the questions ahead of time.
CNN Defends ‘Diamonds vs. Pearls’ Question [semi-satire]
Viewers who may have been puzzled by the Democratic debate’s final question to Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) got an interesting explanation from the Cable News Network. At the end of the debate, Maria Luisa, a UNLV student, asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred “diamonds or pearls.” After being inundated with criticisms over the “frivolous” nature of her question, Luisa revealed that CNN instructed her to ask the question.
“Every single question asked during the debate by the audience had to be approved by CNN,” Luisa said. “When my turn came, they forced me to ask the frilly question instead of the one about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository I really wanted to ask. Now, I’m just embarrassed.”
Presidential rival Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) accused CNN of “lobbing a softball to help her look good.”
CNN spokeswoman, Shirley Paltry denied Obama’s accusation. “To a man like Senator Obama this may look like a ‘softball’ question,” Paltry said. “But to the women of America it is very salient. Men just cannot grasp the importance of achieving the right look. Luckily for them, they can rely on their wives for guidance. Hillary, on the other hand, has to make these kinds of decisions herself. The women of America will understand the importance of the question and appreciate the skill with which Hillary answered it.”
Former senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) agreed that the question was worthy, but said it should have been directed to him. “I think the voters can see that I am best qualified to answer such a question,” Edwards asserted, adding that “it’s also a good metaphor for my ‘two Americas’ message.”
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http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
I'd have asked:
"Carpeted or bare?"
"Or maybe you perfer a little grass landing strip for your BIG nose?"
Thanks for that link:
Khalid Khan who asked the question about racial profiling in airports is the President of the Islamic Society of Nevada.
The woman who asked the supreme court question is LaShannon Spence who was the director of political affairs for the Democratic Party in Little Rock, Arkansas.
http://pcexposed.blogspot.com/
No, it wouldn't. Any more than working in the Merill Lynch mailroom makes someone a "Wall Street insider." Trust me. I was a summer intern on the Hill. It's not like folks were calling me for policy advice when I got back home.
What would, exactly?
Having some inside knowledge or influence.
Would she be considered a ordinary audience member who just happened to win a lottery and had -0- connection with a Democrat Politico at any time?
So anyone who has any connection with a politician at any time is now an "insider?" Cool! I was on a train at the airport with Maynard Jackson once. I should call City all and hit up the mayor for a cushy patronage job.
College kids -- especially if they're majoring in political science, public policy, or something like that -- take a summer internship because it's fun, you get to spend the summer in DC (which is a bit of a mixed blessing; the museums are cool, but the heat can be brutal), and it looks good on a resume.
A junior member of the House has three or four interns at any given time. I would guess that a party leader in the Senate has at least a dozen at a time. They're not necessarily active in any particular party, nor do they necessarily support or vote for the senator they're working for -- you apply for an internship with the senator who represents your state. Though a lot of offices use out-of-state interns when it's not summer and they get fewer applicants.
Nevada has one Republican and one Democrat in the Senate. If I were a college student and got an offer from both, I'd probably choose the party leader -- because that's where the action is and there's more to learn. The same way even the most staunchly conservative law student would rather intern for Justice Ginsberg than for a more conservative district court judge.
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