- Once a tool, always a tool. You did it to yourself. I will never or can never feel sorry for you, tool.
Posted on 11/17/2007 12:49:59 PM PST by FocusNexus
Last week, CNN had contacted Ms. Parra-Sandoval, a political science student at University of Las Vegas-Nevada, through a professor, and asked her to submit a question. She wrote one about health care for children. CNN rejected it, calling it too similar to another question that would be asked. (No such question was.) So she sent another, about Iraq. That was rejected too. On Wednesday, a CNN producer asked her for two final questions, one substantive and one light. Ms. Parra-Sandoval sent one about Yucca Mountain, the Nevada site under consideration as a storage facility for radioactive waste. With the deadline approaching, she stared at her computer screen. Noticing the pearl-pattern background on her MySpace page, she dashed off the jewelry one.
CNN asked her to come to the debate with both questions memorized. Two hours in, a producer whispered that she should ask the second one.
Ms. Parra-Sandoval does not seem the least bit frivolous or bling-minded. A former illegal immigrant whose parents clean and do laundry for Las Vegas hotels, she attends a UNLV honors program on scholarship and work-study programs. Two summers ago, she interned for Senator Harry Reid
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Then they select the questions.
Despite of all this, CNN has the temerity to pretend that these are "ordinary people" asking their own questions!
The NYT printed this?
Is there bad blood between them and CNN?
Am sick of hearing how this IS television - after all - and some control has to be made to 'fashion' or control at least some of content. Yes, no doubt they are worried about 'entertainment value' here. . .
This whole so-called debate was a contrived steaming pile of putrid democrat donkey dung. It smelled of Clinton from the first nanosecond to the merciful end.
Teh Reid connection is new, that means she was a Democrat insider, who whined on her blog because her College friends were disparaging her, and there is another questioner who was an Anti War activist.
That only leaves two other questioners left....
And the questions were all pre approved and required memorization, she said that, and Malveaux had to interject “Abortion” into one question about judicial appointmentsso CNN “knew” what the questions would be even to the point of editing them on the fly as the hand picked plants “forgot” what they were supposed to ask.
That is pitiful, I cannot wait until the last two questioners are exposed for the plants that they were!
It is in an NYT BLOG, probably NO ink involved.
This stinks to high heaven... and I just saw CNN’s Bill Schneider today fawning all over Hillary’s ‘performance’. (BARFFF!)
“The NYT printed this?”
I am totally surprised too!
In the end she could have chosen to ask any question she wanted. Instead she played the game.
This is shaping up to be a drawn out train wreck!
The question should have been about Mrs Clinton approving of her worthless scumbag husband giving Monica a pearl necklace.
Maria...they’ll use you and toss you aside. You are scum now for talking to the media.
This “diamonds or pearls” question is a transparent attempt to mimic the “boxers or briefs” question asked husband Bill years ago. Yet you may recall that it was Monica whom he gave the pearl necklace.
The entire debate was a sham and a fraud, a complete set-up to make one candidate look good. Any people wonder why they call it the “Clinton News Network”.
Its CNN! What else do you expect?
I found this information on another site, and thought it a good idea to post it here as well, to unravel the identity of the otehr 2 “unbiased” questioners.
“But more info has come out since about some of the “randomly selected questioners” CNN mysteriously failed to fully identify.
It seems the real identity of the aforementioned Luisa of diamonds & pearls fame is Maria Luisa Parra-Sandoval and she is a “former illegal immigrant whose parents clean and do laundry for Las Vegas hotels, she attends a UNLV honors program on scholarship and work-study programs. Two summers ago, she interned for Senator Harry Reid.” Update: click here to see her listed at Reid’s staff page under Maria Parra-Sandoval.
And remember this lady?
AllahP asks : “Blitzer introduces her as an “undecided voter” and it sounds like the onscreen graphic mentioned something about her belonging to a church. And … that’s it. Is this the same LaShannon Spencer who served as the Arkansas Democrats’ director of political affairs in 2003?”
Here’s her pic from a few years ago, same glasses different hair but obviously the same LaShannon Spencer, Ark. Dem Director of Political Affairs:
(Guess she just happened to be in Vegas just to see Elvis & decided at the spur of the moment to drop in & watch the debate. On the front row.)
But wait! There’s more!
Remember
Khalid Khan, “the randomly selected ordinary citizen” who asked the question about profiling at airports? Turns out “But he is not an ordinary citizen. For years he has been a prominent Muslim leader — the president of the Islamic Society of Nevada,” & is no stranger to CNN, having been profiled by them in a story before. Guess their chyron editor didn’t have time to get that pertinent info up on the screen.
Yeah right. Just like Suzanne Jackson, whom we all now know is a well-known local antiwar activist was presented as just your “average soldiers’ mama”.
AllahPundit says:
“I went back to the beginning of the debate to see how Blitzer introduced the format. Did he offer any details on who’d be doing the questioning? Why, yes. After mentioning that the debate was sponsored by the national party — something likely understood by most viewers as a mere formality — he described them as “ordinary people, undecided voters.” Note: not even “undecided Democrats.” Just undecided.”
So, not only does the plot of the ‘CNN hearts Clinton’ story thicken, it seems as though it is turning into a huge steaming pile right before our very eyes.
This country has so much to lose right now that these types of scams and shams are a dis-service to the American people.
I htink this question was meant to help “humanize” Hillary, but it backfired, as these revelations came out.
It meant to help Hillary attract more women voters.
But what everyone sees now is how conniving she is — her campaign warned CNN to be nice to her, CNN followed her order to the extent of picking the people asking the questions and the questions.
If she can’t handle questions from the audience, how will she stand up to our enemies?
Why are we suprised at these antics? These dispicable media whores and their “step over thier dead grandmother to get a vote, liberals” all sleep in the same bed. Does this not bother anyone? They are deliberatley spitting in our faces and calling us idiots. Open your eyes America these people are dangerous and are not true Americans!
What makes you think Hillary, the Democrats and the MSM care about the country and the American people? :/ Clearly they don't, unfortunately the American people still don't realize this.
Clinton News Network back in full swing!
I think this is all a ploy to make this kind of stuff “old news” and unworthy of comment when it happens next year.
Notice no one is talking about the money/fund raising scandles? It’s such old news that the Clintons are taking shady money that no one cares anymore.
I thought Bush was “the liar, the faker, the fraud and the cheat”.
Just look at these phonies!
Well, if most voters think this sort of telecast is honest fair and impartial, they deserve whatever they get.
Us sane ones will just go along for the ride until the inevitable train wreck.
When the majority of voters have an IQ under 80, and an IQ2 (Informed Quotient) under 20, that telecast would be deemed significant. Me? you couldn't pay me enough or torture me enough to watch that crap -- even if it weren't exposed for the sham that it is.
It's in the article:
"At last night's Democratic presidential debate, the candidates faced questions on Pakistan, trade policy, and merit pay for teachers. So how did it come to pass that, at the close of the debate, Senator Hillary Clinton was asked what sort of jewelry she liked?
"Do you prefer diamonds or pearls?" Maria Luisa Parra-Sandoval, one of several audience members who posed questions, asked her.
"I want both," Mrs. Clinton replied to laughter."
They always eat their own.
Despite CNN’s stacking the debate questions, their coverage post debate ran like a Clinton campaign. While they billed Hillary as once again unassailable having weather the one storm, they trashed her main rivals (all missed their one chance to ever dent Hillary) and also boosted the lesser rans as distinguished VP candidates for her ticket. Crowley and the Anderson Cooper sub (Soledad?) were horrid. Its little wonder the polls are so stacked to Hillary with little regard as to the fact the did 180 degree reversal on Spitzer’s DL plan. With that kind of ridiculous force-fed “reporting”. They failed to even point out she changed her position within a 1.5 week period giving no explanation and not even being asked about it.
I love how the “person” that asked the question was almost a Truman Scholar. Education is such a joke these days with the worthless generation of cowards and their self congratulatory nonsense.
You know what gets me....it's the 'Rats and their myrmidons in the MSM thinking they won't get caught. If only all the nation's enemies were this dang dim.
It's in the article:
OOops.
New York Times. I stopped going to their link because you have to sign up to read articles there, and I refuse to do that.
Since the posted article was entirely about a specific question, logically that question, if nothing else, should be part of the excerpt.
Just saying...
Useful idiots beget useful fools who beget useful tools!
The country survived the useful idiots, survived the useful fools, and perhaps can survive the useful tools...but we don’t have to like them, employ them, or swim with them!
Some of the comments posted on the link are worth reading—esp. #26 by Ruth Canon, about the Clintons’ ties to the infamous Singer of Princeton University.
She should have asked, “Leather or lace”?
I just went to the link and read the article (and comments) without signing up—I don’t know if they have dropped that requirement or if this is a different category item.
In Clinton News Network’s defense...every voter is ‘undecided’ since the primaries haven’t occurred yet!
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November 17, 2007 =
Senator REID tells America on TV that Secretary of Defense DEAN testified before Congress that there was no problem for our troops if new funding is held up till next February. And that the Dept of Defense will have to conduct war within its own Defense Budget.
(Secretary of Defense DEAN actually testified before Congress that there would be a lot of problems if Congressional funding for our troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan was held up till next February.)
November 17, 2007 =
Secretary of Defense DEAN announces that if Congress continues to hold up War funding the Pentagon will have to start cutting off Defense Contracts to pay for our War on Terror.
THE question of the week to ask seems to be:
“Exactly WHO is on OUR side, and WHO isn’t..?”
Absolutely nothing.
This whole thing was a sham from the start...not surprisingly...sad to say.
PS opportunity
“Leather or lace”?
Or, “What kind of Arkancide do you most often use?”
I noticed that heckler started to cut off Ubama there at one point while he was talking about Hillary. CNN thought of everything ahead of time.
She should have asked, Men or Women?
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