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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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The exchange wasn’t painful or uncomfortable for Cavuto. The painful and uncomfortable part of it had to have been for the parents of this young woman on whom they are pissing away a lot of money for her unsuccessful education.
The real crux of the matter is this young woman didn’t even realize how badly she was acquitting herself because she’d likely never been held accountable for what she has really learned that is worth a sh!t.
As is anyone of us with real jobs even read your silly little paper, WaPo.
Shove your poorly organized ramblings up your collective Obamaholes.
Neil was painfully gentle and kind to this nimrod. He asked her simple questions that she should have been able to answer. Saying he was wrong by not treating her like the immature, spoiled child she is does not cut it.
**Should the press cut student activists some slack**
Why?
Cavutos questions were spot-on . . . and he asked, then gave her stone cold silence to respond She was clearly uncomfortable by the straightforwardness of the questions, her expectations she was going to be tossed snowballs, and her general overall ignorance
She put herself out there as a “public figure” She asked for it, and sure enough, here’’s the Compost trying to defend her. I guess she was supposed to just spew her BS without repurcussions
Which is typically liberal. What’s that expression, you can tell when liberal is losing the argument . . . ?
Agree, Cavuto could of easily made her break down (crying) and end the interview. I thought he showed great restraint.
I watched the episode. There are three observations that I will make.
This young gal is a bit naive and just felt that she could show up.....talk for five minutes and get a fair shake with no stupid questions. Well, Neil asked a couple of stupid questions, and she really couldn’t handle that, period.
Second, on the activist scale....of one to ten....at best, she was a three. Whoever is her mentor....is a real loser for a professor and couldn’t even give her a marginal starting point for this belief. I think she might end up going back....thinking over Neil’s words, and in two years be a Republican.
Third and final...I’ve come to this humble belief that people are going off to college or university, and actually getting dumber than what they were prior. For $80,000....I’d be expecting a heck of a lot of explanations, wisdom, blunt logic, world perceptions, foresight, reason, enlightenment, and good judgement. If you end up giving me a box of rocks....how does that relate to the $80,000? This gal ought to ask for her money back....she’s still at the 12th grade level as far as I’m concerned.
Was it fair?
Yes.
Cavuto didn’t break into her house and start asking questions.
This young woman considered herself to be an organizer and a leader.
It’s hard to watch a stupid person on the news, but we’ve had Obama for about seven years now.
You should watch it. It was painful.
In a good way.
Cut them slack? You mean like ESPN does at the Special Olympics?
Cavuto only brings these idiots on his show so they can show us what Idiots they are
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We need to expose these mental midgets who know nothing and understand nothing except emotions and feelings. Is Katie Couric “fair”? Was Candy Crowley “fair?
We wring our hands worring about “fair, the Left assassinates us. Wake up.
Callum Borchers, a recently graduated 20-something ignorant liberal defending the ignorance of another ignorant 20-something liberal. How adorable...
I have no doubt that she wants to carry an M4 at the tip of the spear so what is the big deal about talking to Neil Cavuto?
Pajamas boy’s brother?
Isn’t she also the one who was lying about how “poor” her family is? Too bad Cavuto didn’t have that background info on her at the time of the interview.
“Should the press cut student activists some slack”
Like you did/do with the community-organizer-in-chief?
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