‘Diamonds or pearls’? CNN made her do it.
‘Diamonds or pearls’? CNN made her do it.
During last night’s Democratic presidential candidates debate, UNLV student Maria Luisa asked the final question of the evening. Luisa laughingly asked Clinton: “Do you prefer diamonds or pearls?” Marc Ambinder reports that Luisa actually wanted to ask a substantive question about the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository, but CNN urged her to go with “diamonds or pearls” instead. Luisa writes on her MySpace page:
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.
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Wolf Blitzer must have been 'gotten to', along with everyone else.
What are the dem handlers afraid of?
November 16th, 2007 at 12:37 pmCNN planting a softball for HRC? No! The 'approved' corporate candidate? Never!
November 16th, 2007 at 12:39 pmI've seen three of the Democratic debates and am knocking off the rest of them. They are all the same. They need to take Biden's suggestion and use each debate to cover one topic in depth.
And I'm shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, that CNN would plant a frivolous question!
November 16th, 2007 at 12:39 pmComment by John Kerry — November 16, 2007 @ 12:36 pm
Too bad for you, one of them will be your president. Good for real Americans, bad for republican scum.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:40 pmwell, all I can say is I feel sorry for libs.
Comment by John Kerry — November 16, 2007 @ 12:36 pm
It will be interesting to get your assessment of the Republican crop when they have their next debate.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:40 pm"Wolf Blitzer must have been ‘gotten to’, along with everyone else."
He's part of the corporate media. There's no "getting to him", per se. They are all already "gotten".
November 16th, 2007 at 12:41 pmThis girls whining now. If she had a real question and any guts she would have let her "real" question come out. How would they have stopped her once she said it?
November 16th, 2007 at 12:41 pmShades of the "boxer or briefs" question lobbed to the first Clinton. CNN has picked its candidate, have you?
November 16th, 2007 at 12:41 pmHe’s part of the corporate media. There’s no “getting to himâ€, per se. They are all already “gottenâ€.
Comment by Frosty Cupcake — November 16, 2007 @ 12:41 pm
Wolf seems to have gotten a little extra attention lately, just to make sure he didn't pull a 'Russert' on the good Senator Clinton....whatever that means.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:43 pmShades of the “boxer or briefs†question lobbed to the first Clinton. CNN has picked its candidate, have you?
Comment by Minotaur — November 16, 2007 @ 12:41 pm
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The difference is, "boxers or Briefs" was asked on MTV, not CNN. The bar has lowered substantially in 15 years.
Jesus...
November 16th, 2007 at 12:43 pmWell, 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.
And that, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with the American Media today. And that's reality.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:45 pmBut do not judge me or my integrity based on that question.
No Luisa, we can and will judge your integrity based on that. You see, you played ball with CNN. You went along and thus you are no better then them. Worse in fact. You are just a tool and they are your users. It is as simple as that. If it weren't for tools like you willing to carry water for the corps for your 15 seconds of "fame", this sort of abuse of public trust (which you call "politics") could not have happened. If people were refusing to ask planted questions and were actively protesting / revolting against this crooked corporate circus then the corporates would not be able to pull much of it off. Luckily for them there seems to be an endless suply of sanctimonious tools like you.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:47 pmThe difference is, “boxers or Briefs†was asked on MTV, not CNN. The bar has lowered substantially in 15 years.
Jesus…
Comment by deebaser — November 16, 2007 @ 12:43 pm
Im with ya brother, though whether MTV or CNN is asking the question, the pol standing in front of the camera still lends the exercise legitimacy.
I would go with cupcake's suggestion, especially this early in the campaign; pick one or two big issues and dissect them.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:48 pmIt's because of the attitude that 'this is what the media is" and allowing it to continue that perpetuates things like this.
We need people willing to stand up and ask those kind of questions rather than knuckle under. Certainly CNN probably would have went to dead air or something, but in the blogosphere, how long would it have taken for that to reach the masses.
If there's one thing that we can do in the blogosphere, its keeping our media accountible. How many news items have sprung into the mainstream media after the blogosphere made the intial discovery?
I think that history will be made when an 'acknowledged' reporter, quits his corporate media job and becomes a blogger using his full resources as a reporter to find out the 'real' truth.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:48 pm"I had to explain to her that every question from the audience was pre-planned and censored."
Uhh..perhaps that's why she said you give her school a bad reputation.
Well, at least Luisa is aware of what a tool she is...I'm not sure that all of her comrades in the media do.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:49 pmI stopped taking the "debate" seriously at all when Kucinich was prevented from speaking when it came his turn on the question of security vs. human rights.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:50 pmMike Gravel was on top of his game last night. if they hadn't CENSORED him from the debate he'd kicked all their asses and did. He paused the debate after each answer and told everyone what they were really saying. Great patriot Mike is.
gravel08.us
November 16th, 2007 at 12:52 pmAnd that, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with the American Media today. And that’s reality.
Comment by LibertyLover — November 16, 2007 @ 12:45 pm
It is only reality because tools like that Luise woman are available to be used by the corporates without any risk of them revolting and asking a "non corporate approved" spontaneous question and because fat, narcisstic, useless, self-satisified tools watch all that drivel and uncritically accept it, following which they vote as instructed.
As someone once said, you get the kind of government the citizens themselves deserve. How true.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:52 pmKucinich should have brought a role of duct tape. Might as well have taped his mouth shut to make a point.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:56 pmWell she allowed herself to be used as a fool. Enough said.
November 16th, 2007 at 12:59 pmIf you were paying close attention you noticed that the CNN person on the floor was reading the question to them when they forgot how the question was worded. That's when I knew for sure that the questions were planted.
CNN News, not anymore baby, it's "infotainment".
Buck Fush
November 16th, 2007 at 12:59 pmSee, the media chose what they wanted, not what the people or audience really wanted.
But do not judge me or my integrity based on that question.
She could have said "oh, in that case, I won't ask her anything". But she would rather ask a crappy softball question like that instead of refusing to go along with it.
So... yeah, she will be judged by that.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:02 pmWhy didn't Maria Luisa defy CNN and ask the question she wanted to ask? It was live TV and CNN couldn't have done anything about it. In fact, if I were Maria Luisa, I would have announced to the world that, although CNN wanted her to ask a softball question, she was going to deliberately defy them and also ask Hillary not only her Yucca Mountain question but also ask Hillary if she approved of CNN's attempt to coerce a member of the public into not asking a question she wanted to ask.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:04 pmMSM has taken the word "Debate" and turned it's meaning to be "Asking inane questions which will not allow anyone with common sense to make a serious judgment on the 'debaters' stand on any real issue."
November 16th, 2007 at 1:04 pmThe difference is, “boxers or Briefs†was asked on MTV, not CNN.
Nice. Now we know "mini-taur" is a teenager, or barely removed from.
WHO THE F*(K WATCHES MTV, OTHER THAN ADOLESCENT BRATS?
November 16th, 2007 at 1:08 pmSince she agreed to be a stooge for CNN, thus if she had tried to ask the other question her microphone would have gone dead and she would have been wisked away.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:12 pmLittle girl, you could have decline to ask any question if it was scripted and you opposed. Little steps are the only way we will get our democracy back. And that means back from the fourth estate too.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:13 pmNice. Now we know “mini-taur†is a teenager, or barely removed from.
WHO THE F*(K WATCHES MTV, OTHER THAN ADOLESCENT BRATS?
Comment by DieNowForPeace — November 16, 2007 @ 1:08 pm
If you had a clue you'd know this wasn't the poster who said the question was asked on MTV. And some of us watch the debates where ever they are, except Fox News of course. If you feel the need to attack somebody else at least figure out who said what.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:19 pmCNN has harped all week about Hillary getting a planted question.
Kettle, meet Pot.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:19 pmSince she agreed to be a stooge for CNN, thus if she had tried to ask the other question her microphone would have gone dead and she would have been wisked away.
Comment by Jay Randal — November 16, 2007 @ 1:12 pm
And that's what real Americans need to stand up and do today!
November 16th, 2007 at 1:20 pm"Wah, CNN made me do it!"
Stupid beotch is a media-whore-enabler.
Why are most Americans such a bunch of wussy, spineless, morons?
November 16th, 2007 at 1:22 pmAnyone else watching last night notice when Kucinich was proceeding
to speak about his Cheney impeachment bill Wolfie cut him off?
MSM will not even acknowledge the bill has been filed. Word is Cheney
dropped his hunting trip is SD & flew right back to D.C...think he'll
shoot Kucinich in the face?
November 16th, 2007 at 1:26 pmOh, how I can't wait until the nominees have been selected!!
Then we can all look forward to the even more heavily scripted faux debates put on by the privately funded Commission on Presidential Debates.
[From wiki: The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) was established in 1987 by the Democratic and Republican parties to establish the way that debates between candidates for President of the United States are run. The Commission is a private entity, funded entirely by corporate contributions.]
When the League of Women Voters had their debate sponsorship revoked for actually asking real questions that were not party-approved, a significant political process in our country was killed.
The commission is a JOKE, and they're why almost NOBODY watches those dramatized/scripted/sanitized/controlled/non-informative/fake debates today.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:26 pmHere CNN for your next scam debate: "Sen. Edwards, do you use gel or mousse in your hair?"
November 16th, 2007 at 1:27 pmI didn't watch the debates but it would have been good if HRC would have sidn neither, now what's your real question? Quess that didn't happen did it?
November 16th, 2007 at 1:31 pmAnother suggestion for CNN: "Rep. Kucinich, do you use cologne or body spray?"
November 16th, 2007 at 1:31 pmIs anyone else just debated out at this point?
November 16th, 2007 at 1:31 pm"Sen. Obama, do you wear pajamas to bed or just underpants?"
November 16th, 2007 at 1:33 pmI think a relevant question needs to be asked; †Mrs. Clinton, while your husband was in office, he betrayed you by having sex with Monica Lewinsky. If your husband doesn’t think enough of you or has enough respect for you, why should the American people?
Comment by Southern Man — November 16, 2007 @ 1:31 pm
Everybody has a right to act like an idiot but YOU abuse the privileges.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:34 pmHillary: Granny panties or thong?
Comment by Southern Man — November 16, 2007 @ 1:34 pm
Maybe you should save this question for your boy Rudy.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:35 pmDid anyone else notice that two HUGE Repturds were the initial questioners during the first part of the debate?? It was so obvious that the questions were intended to rile up the frontrunners and ratchet up the dissent that it was almost comically predictable.
Campbell Brown (A true GOP dolt) is married to one of the principals on Mitt Romney's campaign.
John Roberts (another GOP idiot) is a dyed-in-the-wool Repturd so much so that his heels click to attention each time he enters a room.
If there ever was a "human sphincter muscle" it would be named John Roberts.
What a difference when Suzanne Malveau took over the second half. The first two GOP and whoring corporate "plants" made the debate into a circus - which was their intention from the outset.
Instead of making the Dems look like back-stabbing pols, it turned the mirror to Campbell Brown and John Roberts and their "ulterior motives". The people aren't idiots and could readily see how these GOPhers were steering things.
I'd rate Campbell Brown and John Roberts up there with the "faux newscasters" that parade around Focks Snooze.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:38 pmShayne: I've heard that Rudy wears thongs - the unisex type - so he doesn't have to change them when he's in drag or in reichstag uniform.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:38 pmCNN needs to ask probing questions for Republican candidates: "Sen. McCain, are you completely straight or do you stamp your feet in public restrooms for sex with other men?"
Gov. Romney, do you wear the Mormon underwear garment or nothing under your pants?"
Rudy Giuliani, do you like pink or red bras when you cross-dress?"
November 16th, 2007 at 1:41 pmThe black mark for the debate rests squarely on the shoulders of CNN, Blitzer who totally lost control and had everyone running roughshod over him the entire time (what a whimp!), and the two empty-headed morons asking the first set of questions. I loved the way Hillary put round-heeled Campbell in her place by saying "Now Campbell" when it came to the token female question directed at Hillary by Campbell. The look in Hillary's eye said it all and told the sorry tale about women in the media who sleep their way to the top. There was more said in those two words to put Brown in her place coupled with the look of having inside info on Brown and her rise to the top of the whoring heap.....you had to love it.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:43 pmWhen you de-ball a nation, it will suffer.
Comment by Southern Man
Speaking from experience, no doubt?
Last I checked, is was water carrying, boot-lickers like you who prefer the ball-less, brain-dead populace to empower the weakest minded world leader in history.
When your dumber than a bag of hair, Dumbya must look GREAT.
November 16th, 2007 at 1:44 pmI'll bet some of the creative minds here could formulate a good set of questions for the moderators of the next GOP debate!!
Rudy: Do you prefer Nair, waxing, or a Bic when you shave your legs?
November 16th, 2007 at 1:46 pmFirst, if CNN asks this girl to jump under a running bus, is she going to to it? But it is sad that comercial media is like that. If the people of the USA wants to know what is really going on inside their own country, to find out how the country where they used to live in became a FACIST COUNTRY, THE FACIST STATES OF AMERICA, they have to get on the net and read (That is right READ!) international and independent media. But if americans do so, I suggest to take with you a valium, because the news you will find there about the FSA (former USA) is preatty heavy!
November 16th, 2007 at 1:51 pmI think a relevant question needs to be asked; †Mrs. Clinton, while your husband was in office, he betrayed you by having sex with Monica Lewinsky. If your husband doesn’t think enough of you or has enough respect for you, why should the American people?
Comment by Southern Man — November 16, 2007 @ 1:31 pm
And this question is relevant...how? Since when do we measure the worthiness of our candidates by whether or not they're the person that Bill Clinton most wants to have sex with? Is this the new yardstick? In that case, the solution is simple. Send Bill on a cross-country tour to locate a suitable presidential candidate -- somebody he's willing to have sex with. He'd probably even enjoy that assignment.
Or maybe it has less to do with Bill Clinton specifically than it has to do with adultery in general and whose "fault" it is. Apparently, you think the cheated-on party is to blame -- you know, for not being "respect-worthy", which would make Giuliani's adulterous behavior just hunky-dory.
If this is how you make your voting decisions, I feel sorry for you. On the other hand, your question is no more stupid than "diamonds or pearls?".
November 16th, 2007 at 1:58 pm#1 If you feel sorry for the dems, you should be about to jump off a cliff when you take a gander at the sicko bunch of repturds. I feel sorry for you that you're such a closet queen/pervo-reptard that you can't see the forest for the trees.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:01 pmMissMolly: Southern Man is attempting to hijack our thread. He's none other than Mr. Pee with a southern accent.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:02 pm53...of course she would if she would get to be on TV. Everybody wants to get on the tee-vee!
November 16th, 2007 at 2:02 pmMr Pee was absolutely "obsessed" with Bill Clinton and his sex life - mostly because he has none and lusts after Bill's. He's a super troll and needs to be disgraced by ignorance of his posts.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:03 pmMr. Pee, Shaky Jake, Mr. President, just to name a few. The hot buttons are all the same with predictable (yawn) responses which is how he gives himself away every time. That along with some of his typing habits, use or misuse of grammar, spelling errors - the evidence is all there.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:05 pmSince we've outed Southern Man, now let's watch him vanish only to be "reborn" as yet another irrelevant, moronic, piss-soaked troll.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:06 pmWhen the League of Women Voters had their debate sponsorship revoked for actually asking real questions that were not party-approved, a significant political process in our country was killed.
Comment by kelso — November 16, 2007 @ 1:26 pm
The LWV did a decent job when they were the ones handling the debates. And you're right about all you said about the sad state they are in now.
Any chance the LWV could sponsor a debate outside of the CPD? Think about it. It's true that many candidates wouldn't want to step foot outside a safe sanitized environment where they can look good -- especially the top tier candidates. But let's say that LWV held a debate for candidates and only one candidate showed. Fine -- give that candidate some free air time just for showing up. He'll make the papers and the talk shows the next day and have some new life breathed into his campaign. If you have a few second-stringers show up, they get free publicity, too. And a fair amount of this publicity is probably going to focus on answers candidates give to hardball questions.
Next thing you know, the public will pay attention to the LWV debates containing real substance, and the CPD candidate infomercials will fade into obscurity.
Darn -- time to wake up from my dream...
November 16th, 2007 at 2:07 pm"Panty hose or garter belt". Question CNN will be asking Trudy Julie-Annie at the next Republican debate.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:13 pmThe difference is, “boxers or Briefs†was asked on MTV, not CNN.
Nice. Now we know “mini-taur†is a teenager, or barely removed from.
WHO THE F*(K WATCHES MTV, OTHER THAN ADOLESCENT BRATS?
Comment by DieNowForPeace — November 16, 2007 @ 1:08 pm
Actually dude, I kinda pointed that one out not minotaur...
November 16th, 2007 at 2:18 pmAnd yeah I was an adolescent brat when i saw that...
...in 1992
"But do not judge me or my integrity based on that question."
You compromised your integrity when you ASKED a fluff, nothing question.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:20 pmGood Grief, the MSM and their REPUBLICAN MASTERS are FREAKING STUPIDLY INSANE - just like minotaur the self loathing homophobic troll!
November 16th, 2007 at 2:41 pmI was impressed with Joe Biden's short but concise answers. Didn't know much about him til last night but plan to check him out. Really thought he was a Bush supporter in Dem clothing, guess I was wrong.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:44 pm...all I can say is I feel sorry for libs.
Comment by John Kerry — November 16, 2007 @ 12:36 pm
And we pity you. Because of your support for the traitor-happy, treason-filled Bush administration, you have the blood of our troops and hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians on your hands. You must be so proud to have sold your country out for the crooks that have poisoned the republiscum party.
November 16th, 2007 at 2:54 pmLame... Thanks a lot CNN.
I love how republicans love to deride CNN as being liberal, when they're clearly not helping to have even a basic honest debate on the issues. CNN is, however more honest than Fox, which obviously makes them a "Communist News Network". LOL @ the republican trolls.
November 16th, 2007 at 3:23 pmDennis Koospinach=unitard.
Comment by Billy Hill
Billy Hill = omnitard - in German, it's pronounced Ubertard.
November 16th, 2007 at 3:30 pmif CNN said 'jump off a cliff'. Would Maria Luisa do it?
Inquiring minds want to know.
November 16th, 2007 at 3:31 pm.
too many Americans like Maria Luisa have lost their soul.
November 16th, 2007 at 3:33 pm.
Isn't Hillary an AIPAC member along with Wolfe? Was that audience stacked with paid? Hillary supporters allowed to heckle the other candidates and Wolfe had no problems with this?
November 16th, 2007 at 4:22 pmWho are all these supposed Hillary supporters? They have to be those invested in corporate interests, know the dems will win and terrified of the other dem candidates.
Thom Hartman did another on the spot poll - on the spot so phone calls can not be made to help rig, and the results are still the same.... Hillary is not coming in 1st, 2nd or 3rd.
I hope all of the Democrats running for president will realize three things:
1. All but one of them will fail to win their party's nomination. If you lose, do it with honor and I'll respect you.
2. If the nominee wins the nomination by destroying his or her rivals, it will be a tarnished prize.
3. The media is looking for conflict, and will generate it where there is none.
Candidates, please keep it civil. Don't form a circular firing squad, okay? I support Clinton, but I don't worship her. I will support the nominee. I really hope my party doesn't hack itself to death between now and next summer. The stakes are too high.
November 16th, 2007 at 4:48 pmThis is almost uninteligable by your standards.
Comment by Southern Man — November 16, 2007 @ 3:58 pm
I agree that I can usually make my arguments in a less unintelligible (and I believe that's how it's spelled) way than my post here indicates. I'm operating on very little sleep, and when that happens, I tend to ramble. My bad.
I am not a big fan of Hillary, but I refuse to judge her worthiness for the office on her laugh, her wardrobe, her ankles, or her marriage. And even if I DID consider an adulterous marriage to be a factor, I would judge the person actually committing the adultery far more harshly than the spouse being cuckolded.
The question you proposed asking the candidate is an extremely personal one and has no business being asked in a debate setting (or anywhere else, for that matter). And I would say this no matter how I felt about Hillary's suitability for the Oval Office.
November 16th, 2007 at 4:55 pmWomen and men with integrity are not dragged by corporation or govt. interests. The girl who told you you were embarrasing your school was absolutely correct.
November 16th, 2007 at 5:01 pmSo, why didn't she stand up for her rights and beliefs and principles instead of acquiescing to the so-called media?
November 16th, 2007 at 5:07 pmWhere are her morals?
Is she too damn stupid to know the difference?
First:
Mrs. Clinton, while your husband was in office, he betrayed you by having sex with Monica Lewinsky. If your husband doesn’t think enough of you or has enough respect for you, why should the American people?
Comment by Southern Man
Deep politics analysis by this poster...right. And then a complain!:
This is almost uninteligable by your standards.
Comment by Southern Man
Huh? Missmolly is perhaps one of the most coherent posters here in TP, and your VALID question is about a man cheating on his wife? This is related to politics, economics of a country in which way?
November 16th, 2007 at 5:08 pmBTW, from what I read the best one was Kucinich. The guy is too smart to be running for President.
November 16th, 2007 at 5:10 pmI agree completely that it is disingenuous for the questioner to be complaining that she was used by CNN. She didn't have to ask the question.
Moreover I'm disappointed to see all of the discussion in this thread as to how CNN lobbed Ms. Clinton a 'softball' or that CNN has obviously chosen their candidate.
The question - do you prefer diamonds or pearls (sorry if thats not exactly the wording) - is degrading and misogynistic.
Cameron Scott on the MoJo blog has already said it so I'll borrow his or her words (sorry don't know)
November 16th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Of the references to Hillary's sham marriage--it is a relevant point! Bill was a serial womanizer when Hillary met him, and she knew it. After they were married, Bill was a serial adulterer, and Hillary knew it. Her actions, cataloged even by her admirers, clearly show that she knew what was going on.
But he has the charm and politicking acumen that she is bereft of, and she needed him. "Standing by her man" was the price she paid him to set up the debts he would owe her. When they left the White House [like the NY HillBillies, they loaded up the trucks with White House belongings that were not theirs, and many items they were forced to return later], what did our love-birds do? They set up completely separate living quarters as they have maintained ever since. But when campaigning, she has to cling to his skirts [while he looks wistfully at other skirts] and she gazes on him like a goggle-eyed teeny-bopper. After the solicitation for votes and money ends, they go about their separate ways.
Even a glance at the tip of this iceberg demonstrates why looking at their marriage shows important things YOU need to know about the character of this woman who wants to be POTUS.
And yes, you can use the same criteria towards that other strutting preencox phony, Giuliani. God, our country deserves so much better than either of those two! Or as Thomas Jefferson said, "I tremble for my country when I consider that God is just."
November 16th, 2007 at 5:27 pmI don't disagree with some of the comments about Louisa, but CNN was in charge here and they deserve to hear that we find their actions unacceptable.
November 16th, 2007 at 5:29 pmThe audience was certainly prompted, stacked, or otherwise planted - the cheers and boos are not appropriate -- Stupid questions by Blitzer and company notwithstanding.
Dear Maria Luisa:
CNN may have urged you to fire that question off, but in the end it was your choice to give voice to CNN's softball and irrelevant question. Because you made that choice, ma'am, it's on your shoulders.
Don't be surprised if we aren't sympathetic to you. You had the opportunity to buck the establishment. You chose to take the course you did.
November 16th, 2007 at 5:32 pmMs. Luisa seems to refer to the New York Times as an independent news source. She's got some learning to do.
November 16th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
I hate to say it, but she could have chosen not to ask the question if she didn't agree with what CNN was doing....this is not asking the question she wanted to, but if she objected, she could have remained silent in protest of the 'censorship'
If I'm missing something here, someone please tell me.
November 16th, 2007 at 5:56 pmnot gonna bother to read all the comments...
(it's getting to sound like a broken record, after all)
but i have to agree with shayne here, and webslinger, i see...
This girls whining now. If she had a real question and any guts she would have let her “real†question come out. How would they have stopped her once she said it?
Comment by Shayne — November 16, 2007 @ 12:41 pm
but having asked it, the ONLY answer that hillary should've given
would be something like "what a useless and demeaning question"
in as best a dipolomatic speak she could conjure...
but she answered "both"... imagine that...
November 16th, 2007 at 7:03 pm...
katy--quite right you are! And if Kucinich had replied similarly to the idiotic UFO question. And if ... and if.. and if they all did similarly to these asinine questions--gosh, we might have a debate on issues and ideas worthy of the magnitude of this election.
May I dream on with you?
November 16th, 2007 at 8:12 pmThe candidates SHOULD have been asked:
Do you think George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are WAR CRIMINALS, and will you have them arrested and TRIED if you are president?
Sincerely,
NRA Gun Nutes
November 17th, 2007 at 12:38 amdream on, radical...
i heard that kucinich DID give such an answer to another question, another time, though i can't seem to find the quote...
he gave a "that's an insult" response to an insulting question...
maybe hil was pandering to the diamonds and pearls crowd...
November 17th, 2007 at 10:39 ammaybe? ... duh...
.
What kind of debate is it when the media gets to choose and approve the questions, why that is anti Democratic Party, it is almost criminal no less Yellow Journalism. CNN has suppressed the right of Free Speech and should have had a disclaimer that the debate was orchestrated. I say the Democratic Party exclude itself from CNN for a period of two months while it assures the public that if preconditions are there that will make the public aware. They have made a sham of our patriot right for a Free Press that their media is biased and maybe bigoted for corporate Royalty.
CNN, I have decided you are not entitled to my eyes that you failed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of "We the people." I pray that those who support a Free Press quit supporting CNN, until they sign a Declaration of Independence from Royalty.
BBC please outsource yourself, to the United States and give US patriot news without the corporate, and Royal bias. Congress lay on your a**es and let them destroy Free Speech. God what p*ss a**es, why it make a poet curse in what they have done under Royalty. They need to get their Royal a**es out of our “We the people†Congress an White House, “We the people†are going to reclaim them. Your Royal benefits are over “We the people†are going to knock you down in size so you are again equal to US. (Excuse the ** words, Mercedes called me obscene and I hate using four letter words only for *** effect.)
We need to have a Patriot Party to elect our Constitution back were "We the people" walk in Congress and OUR White House raises the red, white, and blue to bring back a mainstream Main Street country proud President.
November 17th, 2007 at 4:25 pmThe only thing we need to plant are the seeds to truth that grow beyond any BUSH. We need to germinate Democracy where we feel the truth of the question being answered grow in US that "We the people" blossom in our faith of our leaders opening up to bloom before US.
Well guess what, the garden needs weeded from those that will stunt the Freedom to explore the truth beyond a Diamonds-and-Pearls kind of person. Today fashion must sparkle from within the pearl of wisdom and the diamond sparkling in a heart of reason that respects and honors the pride to speak aloud among US as equal but not a Royal that sucks the garden dry.
"God Bless America" must be a religion of "We the people" not of Country Clubs of segregating themselves from the needs of a whole nation.
Demand our politicians stand up with US, and not under its secrecy. I salute the troops that sometimes serve those that fail to do their homework, who say and are our Presidents "At Will". For a true leader has no need to hide from US.
November 17th, 2007 at 4:35 pmCNN has turned into a political gotcha circus and don't worry about hearing bad news, cause there IS NO news on CNN, at least when the monotone AIPAC protector Wolf Blitzer is on .
Did you know Larry Franklin allegedly gave TWO AIPAC executives classified information . Blitzer buries that along with any attack on GAZA , by the IDF . He regulates over 12 Palestinians killed to ticker at the bottom , and NEVER did a normal report , but here's the kicker, when Hamas attacks PLO THEN CNN reports the fighting .
As far as his " Speculation Room " this opinion driven sensationalism is about the WORST source of news on TV. For OVER a week Blitzer beat to death the " planted question' as if it was never done b4 and was capital offense .
November 19th, 2007 at 3:07 amI'm am NO fan OF Clinton , but the debate was designed to instigate a fight between Obama, Edwards and Clinton, THAT"S IT !
And Kucinich should consider WALKING OUT , during the stage debate . " Hey , if you don't want ask everybody serious questions or in my case ANY questions , I should leave . It's about time these circus performers get CALLED out for what they are , gotcha infotainers .