Comments on: How the annoying “diamonds or pearls” debate question came about

By: Kevin Moore

Kevin Moore — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:10:33 +0000

OMG - That would be a great question! You’d get a momentary facial twitch, then instant gracious smile as she ends the interview and scuttles away.

By: PG

PG — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:22:32 +0000

If I were going to ask an impudent personal question of Sen. Clinton, it would be, “Do you ever regret having put your own political career on hold to support your husband’s, or do you think of your time as First Lady as part of your political career?”

By: RonF

RonF — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:09:44 +0000

Then again, I want to have sperm, so the public be damned.

My personal experience is that this is a myth. I’ve always worn briefs, and my wife got pregnant with little trouble both times that we decided we wanted kids. Has there ever been a study of actual outcomes on boxers vs. briefs?

By: sylphhead

sylphhead — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:41:48 +0000

“But the candidate’s response reveals so much about their character. Like, a boxers person is concerned with comfort and warmth, and perhaps a little modesty, while a briefs person wants their junk all squeezed up their taint, which is just nasty.”

Oh, I disagree that boxers are necessarily more modest, especially when your pants are casual fit and the top two inches of your boxers are bunched up in a little inner tube of underwear above your beltline. Which wouldn’t be so bad, except when your publicly displayed boxers in question has cartoon characters drawn on it.

Then again, I want to have sperm, so the public be damned.

“Right question, wrong person to ask. She should have asked Edwards just to watch him squirm.”

What?

By: Tom Nolan

Tom Nolan — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:46:16 +0000

I wear briefs because my penis doesn’t feel so small when I do. I sleep in them for that reason.

By: Daran

Daran — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:20:27 +0000

But the candidate’s response reveals so much about their character. Like, a boxers person is concerned with comfort and warmth, and perhaps a little modesty, while a briefs person wants their junk all squeezed up their taint, which is just nasty.

I wore briefs for no other reason than that they were what my mum gave me.

I blame the Matrinurtury.

By: links for 2007-11-21 at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

links for 2007-11-21 at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:17:39 +0000

[...] How the annoying “diamonds or pearls” debate question came about - Alas, a blog More evidence of CNN’s random crappiness. “a female student in the audience asked Hilary Clinton which she prefers, diamonds or pearls” Turns out she had a real question but CNN told her not to ask it. (tags: politics tv) [...]

By: Mandolin

Mandolin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:03:08 +0000

Well, I wonder whether they would have found a way not to air it.

By: NotACookie

NotACookie — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:28:54 +0000

Mandolin wrote:

I wonder what would have happened if she’d said “fuck it” and asked her child care question.

Hmm. I suspect nothing terrible would have happened to her. CNN doesn’t have secret police after all, and can’t punish her — I suspect a lawsuit premised on “we had an unofficial secret understanding that she’d ask X” would be laughed out of court, and seriously damaging to CNN.

Actually, I wonder why she didn’t ask what she wanted. I assume that this sort of question-fixing is common, and what’s unusual is that it came out this time. So that suggests that most people are willing to ask inane questions at the behest of TV producers, which is a truly odd thing, when you think about it. College students aren’t known for being blind followers.

By: Jamila Akil

Jamila Akil — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:14:28 +0000

I wonder what would have happened if she’d said “fuck it” and asked her child care question.

I was wondering the same thing. And I wish that’s what she would have done.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:59:03 +0000

Right question, wrong person to ask. She should have asked Edwards just to watch him squirm.

By: Kevin Moore

Kevin Moore — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:20:53 +0000

But the candidate’s response reveals so much about their character. Like, a boxers person is concerned with comfort and warmth, and perhaps a little modesty, while a briefs person wants their junk all squeezed up their taint, which is just nasty.

And if diamonds are a girl’s best friend and pearls are forever, or - wait, diamonds are forever, too, but pearls are more matronly and sophisticated, so Hillary showed how her preference for both is the perfect example of triangulation AND betrayal! She totally stabbed diamonds in the back! Some “best friend”!

Yeah, but seriously, damn lame.

By: TLB

TLB — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:57:28 +0000

There’s much more to this story, including a CNN-approved lie and their failure to indicate affiliations of some of the questioners.

By: Mandolin

Mandolin — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:03:51 +0000

I wonder what would have happened if she’d said “fuck it” and asked her child care question.