The woman who asked the question last night says CNN essentially made her do it and she wanted to ask a question about the issues.
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"Diamonds of Pearls"
16 Nov 2007 12:20 pm
Comments (29)
Unless CNN was threatening to waterboard her, I'm not sure she really gets excused that easily, but in any case CNN certainly should be ashamed of itself. But then again, we knew that already.
Not so surprising, especially the way that litmus test question was tossed in from that other audience question.
But I thought only Hillary planted questions!
Why the heck can't the DNC buy airtime, and let the League of Women Voters moderate, they way it used to be?
CNN planting audience questions is just the end.
This is worse than kabuki. It's bukkake.
This seems less ridiculous when you consider that (a) it was her question, not CNN's, and (b) Richardson and Obama had already talked about Yucca mountain so it would be a little odd to have another question about it.
It is live television, if she had any balls she could have asked her yucca mountain question anyway. And besides, who honestly believes that the questions for the debate wouldn't be vetted by CNN? It was one of the questions that she wanted to ask the candidates or she wouldn't have sent it in to CNN for approval. Non-story.
We know that our TV networks helped George W Bush lie like hell to us all through his administration.
Bin Laden told our TV networks in 1998-99 exactly WHY Al Qaeda was going to start waging war on the US -- and the networks played it for laughs. After 911 , of course, they suppressed those facts and the American people still believe 19? citizens of our Saudi ally committed suicide in order to strike at us because "they hate our freedom".
I think its about time We the People DESTROY our goddamm TV networks. Because the deceitful shitheads exist to mislead and con us -- not to tell the truth or to support fair debate of our problems and issues.
In fact the TV networks carefully avert their eyes from the nation's problems so long as those problems only hurt people making less than a million a year.
It's OUR goddamm airwaves. And OUR legislative warrents for public monopolies. So NO news organization should be allowed to exist that has assets outside the county in which it is headquartered.
Maybe if we have 3000 sources instead of 3 or 4 -- sources dependent upon their local viewers -- then we can start to get the truth.
But our current "mass media" is worse than NO media at all.
Strether would never use such a word. Imposter!
But, "diamonds and pearls," indeed.
This is worse than kabuki. It's bukkake.
that's 100% solid win
lambert strether comments about diamonds and pearls:
This is worse than kabuki. It's bukkake.
I'm gonna have to use that line at a party sometime...
Anderson: Now if Strether had been fetching his son from debauched Japan, instead of Paris...
lambert strether: the League of Women Voters is, like the ACLU, a group that hides behind an anodyne name to support something quite different. For instance, by holding biased forums (search at my site if you really want to know).
As for the question, I have the solution for the student and everyone else:
1. Go to campaign appearances.
2. Ask real questions (i.e., non-CNN, non-MattY questions).
3. Upload the response to Youtube.
As for CNN vetting questions, now we know that CNN allowed a lie and an unverified claim to be broadcast.
Er, Mrs. Newsome's son, that is.
This is why your analysis in this post was flawed. You had the unstated, and as it turns out inccorect, assumption that 'audience questions' were somehow different from 'media questions.' The audience members who got to ask questions, although probably nice folks, were no more 'real people' than your typical reality show contestant.
Didn't this happen last cycle too? I distinctly remember at a "student forum," a Brown U. student asked the participants whether they used "Macs or PC's." When she was widely panned, she wrote an op-ed piece, saying "don't blame the messenger," and writing that CNN told her what question she could ask.
You know what's coming...
Senator Obama...cut or uncut?
Cleek:
Thanks very much! Try the veal!
Remember when everybody made fun of that chick who asked Bill Clinton "boxers or briefs"? And wondered whether our culture was on a slippery slope to retardo-land?
We were! It's been straight downhill since then, and the good folks at CNN have decided to celebrate and accelerate our decline.
Already corrected myself lambert.
Vintage MY post. Love sloppy typo in the post title, ""Diamonds of Pearls""
What, exactly, is a Diamond of Pearl, Matthew? It sounds like some spiffy new item of jewelry tho.
If I gave you diamonds of pearls / would you be a happy boy of a gril?
I'd like to ask,
"How would your campaign be different if you could replace all the Gotcha! artists, whose mission is to troll for humiliating sound bites, with real journalists who seek to help us understand the issues?
>>This is worse than kabuki. It's bukkake.
I thought it was only a pearl necklace, not a full-on bukkake.
>>"Diamonds of (sic) Pearls"
I'll assume you meant "or" but couldn't be bothered with actually reading the title of your own post.
You wonder about the long term impact.
I think you could ultimately see new internet-based tv channels (by which I don't mean You Tube) with more popular credibility than the networks host some of these things.
No, the corresponding question for Obama would be "Watermelon or fried chicken?"
The silly bitch. Since when would The Economist or the NYT count as serious media?
Wow, could it hurt you once to double-check your own title. "Here peasants, feed upon this blog post! Enjoy my crumbs!"
"This is worse than kabuki. It's bukkake.
Posted by lambert strether | November 16, 2007 1:17 PM"
I find this to be a lot more clever than I should. Gold.
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Heads in the Sand
Well, at least we know that Giuliani likes pearls! They match his dress.
Posted by astrodem | November 16, 2007 12:27 PM