Enough with the obsession with female candidates' clothing!

[elbales]

I mean, seriously!

Diamonds and Pearls and Girls for President
by MissLaura

Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 01:40:34 PM PST

Remember how last night's debate closed on a, like, totally serious note with a question to Hillary Clinton about whether she preferred diamonds or pearls? Can you even believe that some ditzy student would ask such a question?

Well, as it turns out:

Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred "diamonds or pearls" at last night's debate wrote on her MySpace page this morning that CNN forced her to ask the frilly question instead of a pre-approved query about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

"Every single question asked during the debate by the audience had to be approved by CNN," Luisa writes. "I was asked to submit questions including 'lighthearted/fun' questions. I submitted more than five questions on issues important to me. I did a policy memo on Yucca Mountain a year ago and was the finalist for the Truman Scholarship. For sure, I thought I would get to ask the Yucca question that was APPROVED by CNN days in advance."

Oh, but hey! CNN says they didn't FORCE her to ask it! They just, you know, asked her! Because plainly it was an issue of burning importance!

This is newsworthy?

My opinion of TV news has sunk to a new low. Thank god for YouTube.

And incidentally, people are criticizing the girl because she should have refused to ask such a stupid question and clearly it would have been easy for her to collect herself enough to do that because they were on live TV and it was a high-pressure situation and they were adults in a position of authority and she's a student! No disparity there.

*headdesk*

MAKE THE STUPID STOP.