Don't shoot the messenger (Student says CNN came up with Mac, PC question)

Brown Daily Herald ^ | November 10, 2003 | Brown university student

[RJL]

I had to make the decision whether to actively participate in Rock the Vote by asking a question that wasn't mine and wasn't representative of me as a Brown student, or to sit in the stands uninvolved.

I would have hoped that such a liberal student body, from a school that in the very school catalog advocates intellectual freedom, would have reserved judgment on a situation and person it knew little if nothing about.

She "pretended" it was her question, now she's upset that people believed what she said.

[karen999]

The silly jackass COULD have said: "CNN wants me to ask this question: ...."

Then proceed with the question.....but nooooo....thereby giving away the "game."

These Town Hall meetings/debates have long been a crock of dung...I remember one such Dole/Clinton '96 "debate" [gag] that was advertised as being given before a San Diego audience who "are ALL neutral and have not made up their minds." One of the "gee, I just can't decide" "questioners" tossed a real softball at clinnochio. San Diegans who followed politics knew it was the SISTER of an ex-Demo San Diego Mayor (Maureen O'Conner). Suuurrrree she hadn't "made up her mind." At that debate NOT ONE person asked clinnochio about the dirty hands chinese money he had been recieving NOT ONE...bastards all....

I NEVER watch these so-called "debates" anymore. They're all softballs and "Gotchas" depending on how the media wants it to go:

"Mr. Bush, who is the #4 man in Ugudabugadah Land?" Then when he "doesn't know!!!" he's "stupid."

Then they turn around and say:

"Mr. Demo, If you could have another 10 days of the year to help crippled children, would you do it?" then demo says "Yes" and "he cares, he's sensitive, he feels our 'pain' "[he's also full of $&!+ but that is beside the point]

Poor Bush #1---frankly while it didn't score "he feels about our pain and 'cares' about it" Bush looking at his watch to see how much longer he would have to put up with that crap showed a REAL sign of genuine intelligence, no matter how the media spun it.

[WorkingClassFilth]

So what I want to know is...Did the CNN puppetmaster had his hand up her skirt when he moved her lips and made her ask the question that he wrote?

Enquiring minds want to know.

[dangus]

>>Loyalty to my commitment and the opportunity to be involved in Rock the Vote outweighed any criticism I thought would come from the question.

Translation: I knew I was coming off like a dumb bimbo, but I was going to have my chance to be on TV!

Guys: Don't date this woman. (OK, there are better reasons than this:) She'll screw your brother if she thinks it'll get her on Jerry Springer.

D@mn! I had more respect when I thought she was just asking a "personality question."

[thoughtomator]

Now she's learned her lesson. Play the fool for the Left, be pegged as a fool. If you think it's stupid, don't put your name on it!

[ReleaseTheHounds]

This is just PERFECT for CNN and so typical: don't trust the people to come up with appropriate questions -- you have to PRODUCE it! Nice to see they found a gullible Brown co-ed willing to participate in their fraud.

I bet she really did want to ask the "boxers or briefs" question but would Carole Mosley Braun have answered?

[kittymyrib]

These college kids haven't learned yet that they are just props at candidate events such as this, to show how "with it" the nerdy candidates are? Ha! I thought this Y Gen was supposed to be so media savvy, but they are just as gullibe as the elderly in nursing homes who are used as props for the cameras when discussing "saving Social Security". TV is the worst thing that has happened to politics in this country.

[AZLiberty]

In case anyone cares about the stated computer preferences of the Democrat Presidential candidates, they were:

PC: Dean, Kucinich, and Moseley-Braun (but her son has a Mac)
PDA: Lieberman

and, drum-roll please ...

Mac: Sharpton

(courtesy of The Mac Observer)

[AZLiberty]

And here's George W. Bush with his PowerBook (what a great name for a Presidential computer).

[AZLiberty]

Oops, should have included the picture.