Digg'n for Substance

David Weigel | August 27, 2008

Hand it to CNN's web channel (beaming to the Big Tent): They cut from Harry Reid's surprisingly rough-edged speech about "wars for oil" to run a live interview with Nancy Pelosi, questions submitted by Digg users. Sample question: "Does your support for telecom immunity [in the FISA bill] have anything to do with your husband's stock in AT&T?" Pelosi bristles. "First of all, he does not have large shares in AT&T." She blames the Senate for telecom immunity.

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Pablo Escobar|8.27.08 @ 10:08PM|#

Nancy Pelosi has a long history of corruption, conflicts of interest and hypocrisy. Watch this Youtube video where it's revealed she has been paying her interns less than the minimum wage.

Orange Line Special|8.27.08 @ 10:53PM|#

I'd like to thank Comrade Weigel for not complicating matters by pointing out that CNN has a horrible history when it comes to selecting questions from the audience and a horrible history concerning debates in general.

|8.27.08 @ 11:39PM|#

Did they ask if her stonewalling of domestic drilling and support for wind power has anything to do with her $250,000 investment in Pickens' wind company?

|8.28.08 @ 9:09AM|#

@Orange Line Douche:

The questions were presented by the CEO of Digg - not CNN. And the questions were selected based on which ones got the highest number of diggs from digg users. You don't know what the hell you are talking about, once again.

Quercus|8.28.08 @ 10:58AM|#

First of all, he does not have large shares in AT&T

The certificates for his hundred thousand shares are the exact same size as everyone else's!