Candy Crowley (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)After two debates in which domestic concerns of particular interest to people of color were barely mentioned, moderator Candy Crowley of CNN said Tuesday night that she made a deliberate effort to raise such issues as gun control, immigration and long-term unemployment in that evening's town hall presidential debate.While the questions for President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney came mostly from an audience of 82 undecided voters, Crowley chose the questioners and knew what they planned to ask.The makeup of that audience didn't go unnoticed. The Rev. Al Sharpton observed in MSNBC's post-debate commentary, "I'm amazed that in Nassau County," N.Y., site of the Hofstra University debate, "only one African American could ask a question. . . . Two Latinos was not a diverse audience."
Rev. Al has a point 82 over 3 is a heavy burden of fairness of "we the peoples" expressions that was sorely absent from those proceedings
But Crowley said later on CNN that in selecting the questioners, she wanted "to make sure that we had some variety in; we didn't want all white guys or all white women. . .
"We wanted to cover subjects that maybe folks hadn't heard about but still were interested in and I think -- ," Crowley said.
so is she saying there were only 3 questions by Blacks and hispanics that fit that criteria?
The next question, you know, was to make sure that we had some variety in, we didn't want all white guys or all white women, or you know, we tried to get some kind of with what we were given, some kind of variety in the questions. And we also were, you know, thinking of where are they going to go with this that's new."
so 1 Black and 2 Hispanics are representative of the major part of those groups? failure to launch, and "a failure to communicate".
