CNN’s Youtube Debate: You present the questions, CNN questions your intelligence
July 21, 2007 Posted in The Daily
We live in a society filled with bad, bad ideas. Gigli, The Bill Engvall Show, Txt Me Tees. With all of these contrived, truly terrible ideas being created and than marketed around me, I tried to give one bad a chance. On July 23, CNN is going to host a debate for the Democratic presidential hopefuls. The futuristic twist to this debate is that anyone in the country can submit a 30 second video to Youtube, and there is a chance that your question could be read to the candidates.
In theory, allowing the public to voice their own questions would put an end to the drawn out, scripted questions of past presidential debates. After reading the press release for the event, I immediately thought of the potential of such event; hard hitting questions, from real people. You can’t discredit the real people! My enthusiasm was short lived however when I saw the Anderson Cooper promo commercial, and I finally got a clue to what type of event this will be.
Now… I am one of the biggest proponents of free speech, but this is what our country’s election coming to. A teddy bear asking about gays in the military, a giant nerd dressed up like KISS. It is safe to say this debate is going to be harder to watch than the required scene in every submarine movie where they have to close the flooding hatch even Billy is still in there trying to stop the leak followed by 30 seconds of dramatic music and no dialogue.
Bottom line, I’d give this debate a 2 out of 10 on the watch-able scale. In comparison, Live Earth was an easy 4, and the Jimmy Kimmel Show is a 6. Youtube debate 2007 will be watered down by CNN trying to make it more hip than it actually is, and will be brutal, because if any legit question does sneak through, Hillary Clinton will just suck the soul out of it like she dies everything else.
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this is going to end up like all other debates. Canned questions and answers that tell us nothing.
Like i said, it has potential, but so did the XFL. the questions are going to be annoying (see: Kim and her healthcare question on the vid) and even if they are legitimate, the candidates will be able to talk around them becasue they dont have to lie to the person face to face.
I hope I'm wrong, but someone like me doesn't make mistakes.
i want to know about net neutrality. this is very scary
I am curious, Rory: What would your YouTube question have been, and how are we to assess its profundity weighed against the supposed stupidity of those posed by others?
oh, i have complete faith in people to pose very important questions… my worry though is that CNN will ruin the oppurtunity by choosing questions that aren't hard hitting. I was actually pretty excited about the idea until I saw this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orBHS8AH81Y
I never said any question was stupid, just annoying. I think the video is a good indicator of how the debate will go… and i dont think that is promising. The other part I am not excited about is now the candidates will have an easier time talking their way out of tough questions becasue the dont have to look the people in the face (not that would matter that much).
I think that people should be given a chance to ask follow up questions. That would make things interesting.
If i could ask a question via youtube to the potential leader of the free world, I would not be wearing a mask or talking through a stuffed animal (see video)
heres my question: if a tree fell in the woods and no one was around to hear it… does this tree make a noise? does it Hillary????!??!??!?!??!