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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Thanks for posting the author’s photo. These idiots need to be exposed.
Really telling about the Wash Post journalistic standards, that they think that people with the “correct” political ideology should be granted preferred treatment by the News Media.
I think it's worse than that. They invested time and money in her education with the thought that she would be employable, that she would grow intellectually.
It appears that college has made her less employable, has made her dumber. I would be furious.
“Reasoning that hasn’t caught up with passion” is EXACTLY what needs to be pointed out with these snowflakes.
Expose that they’re all about emotionalism, with no substance to back it up.
I felt sorry for her in a way but in reality she should go back to Junior High and start from there with her education. If her IQ was one point lower she would be a brickbat.
“Should the press cut student activists some slack,”
Nope. They want to play in the big game, they want to take their case to the public, let them.
“. . .recognizing that their reasoning or, at least, their ability to articulate it might not have caught up to their passion?”
Shows their true nature, emotive, unTHINKING babies that are democrat/socialist at heart. She was representative of the average entitled student, the type of student that wholeheartedly supports Sanders. Nothing wrong with showing that.
Besides, Cavuto was clearly MORE uncomfortable than her. . .and all he did was ask the usual questions, did not press or push like he would do with a grown-up. She had no clue how clueless she appeared.
I liken it to the intellectual equivalent of a father finding out his daughter makes a living dancing on a brass pole.
” this young woman didnt even realize how badly she was acquitting herself because she d likely never been held accountable “
Or
” this young woman didn’t even realize how badly she was acquitting herself because she d likely never been asked to explain herself and her reasoning”
“I think she might end up going back....thinking over Neil’s words, and in two years be a Republican”
Especially after receiving her first paycheck and actually seeing how much is taken out of it.
You will love this one.
Out here in Howard county (eastern part) MD development of new neighborhoods from woods, etc is still going on strong.
Seems every year another woods is destroyed, land owners and contractors make millions... trying to oppose these is pointless.
I have tried. Builders have the big $$$.
So the Dems solution was to tax us peons to clean up all the runoff water going into the bay (ice salt, herbicides, fertilizers, etc , yuck ) that comes from the neighborhoods that would have been cleaned by the woods and open land naturally.(going into trees and underground streams)
Yep, we got taxed for that by O Malley. He created a Rain tax.
When the only way you reach opinions and convictions in your own life is based on, ‘what I want’ and ‘what I feel’...then you are reasoning like a drunk a child or a mentally challenged person, because that's all THEY take into consideration.
Actually a drunk a child or the mentally challenged have a perfectly acceptable excuse for the limitations controlling THEIR views and reasoning.
AND-students can be excused because (by definition) ‘student’ means you are young, your experience is limited and your education is INCOMPLETE.
Age and experience DO matter so- students cannot be said to have any reliable discernment.
When I was a student... I held off on making large life decisions (example: child bearing, marriage, drugs, leaving school, etc.) because I KNEW I had a LOT TO LEARN.
I really resent people who have NO experience in life and who have very incomplete education presuming to TELL ME how it is! I would take it as seriously as if I was talking to a drunk or a two year old.
If their reasoning, or their ability to articulate it, hasn’t caught up to their passions, then they need to keep their passions in check.
No one has the right to “demand” things without being asked to justify their positions.
If they’re too immature to give articulate answers to simple questions about their position, then they’re too immature for their position to be made public.
She wanted the free air time, so she has to take her chances. You can’t let people spew lies without challenge.
But, then again, I have no problem with Canadians clubbing baby seals, so I am probably not the right guy to ask...
My thoughts too. She is so dumb that she doesn't know just how really dumb she is. But really dumb people actually think that they're a lot smarter than they are. She probably walked away from that public humiliation thinking she aced it. A classic example of Dunning Krieger effect
“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?”
No, if the want to bring their ideas to the big kids’ table, then they need to put their big boy pants on.
“Was Neil Cavuto’s painful interview with a college student activist fair game?”
Absolutely not. No one expects a “Progressive” student to be able to intelligently answer questions about financing their socialistic utopia, so interviewing a fool like Mullen was like shooting ducks in a barrel. Conservative students are the only fair game for gotcha questions involving finance and other “hard” subjects that require actual knowledge.
Part of the article was recommending easier interviews for college students b/c they should not be expected to have an adult activist’s command of the debate material (facts or lack thereof).
I say “Bullsqueeze!”. This broad wants to consficate other people’s money/wealth and redistribute it. If she can’t handle talking about adult issues then maybe she shouldn’t be allowed to drink and drive either. She’s a fascist.
No sympathy at all. ‘Pod.
This girl is incapable of defending her position because she's never had to defend anything previously. Both in college and HS, all that has been required of her is to vomit back the bilge and propaganda dumped into her small brain by leftist zombie teachers.
She is unaware of any arguments against her position because she's never been presented with any nor is she curious enough to go beyond the surface of any topic to see the diversity of arguments (no matter what topic it might be).
Then when she is confronted by Cavuto, its like her going into battle without any armor or weapons.
She's obviously some sort of "liberal arts" major. If she was in a hard science, she'd think more rationally and wouldn't be wasting her time, making a fool of herself, on the national stage.
You knew that was a lie as soon as you heard the words.
Turns out, the family of the PLS is loaded.
I didn't. She was advocating stealing the total accumulated savings of everyone who actually managed to get ahead and giving the loot to people who had done absolutely nothing to earn a penny of it.
What would you do if you found someone in your house taking everything you had? I know what I'd do. She's too lazy and too cowardly to steal in person, so she wants the government to do the stealing for her. She's nothing but a thief.
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