NYT - Tell me this was a joke?

Debate Wrap: Viva Las Vegas

By Katharine Q. Seelye

“But why, oh why, could she not choose between diamonds and pearls? How easy that should have been, especially with the Diamond District in New York! (Then again, the Yankees’ being in her adopted state didn’t help her pick them over the Cubs in a hypothetical World Series.) Is there a Pearl District somewhere? In a swing state?”

Tell me this was meant as a joke....a very tasteless and inappropriate joke for which the contributor should be fired. I really do not care if this was written on the Times “Political Blog”, it was flat out wrong for a contributor of a major newspaper to go down this road.

*****update ....my bad, guess this was not the NYT at work but rather a comment about a late question at the debate......Which I missed the end of.....I will dig more........

*****update 2....turns out CNN is the bad guys......my apologizes to Katharine Q. Seelye, however you still should have let it lie.

from crooksandliars

This doesn’t reflect well on CNN’s idiot factor.

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.”

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