You remember the classic TV game show Jeopardy. The contestants were given the answer, and had to come up with the right question.
Now, many of us wonder why the MSM fails to ask important questions even when the answers are staring them in the face. So here is your chance to play Confluence Jeopardy. Ask the questions Tweety and Timmeh and Rachel Maddow and Wolf Blitzer refuse to ask.
Here are a few examples to start you out:
The answer is: “Because I am a masochist, that’s why.”
The question is: “Why am I watching MSNBC after waking up at 5 a.m. and spending all day in court?”
The answer is: “It’s over.”
The question is: “How much longer can I continue to listen to Chris Matthews tell his guests and viewers that there is no way that superdelegates ‘can’t take the nomination away from Barack Obama’?”
The answer is: “Because they said so.”
The question is: “How do the MSM pundits know that Hillary Clinton cannot possibly win the nomination?”
The answer is: “There will be rioting in the streets.”
The question is: “What did a guest on “Hardball” say would happen if superdelegates “take the nomination away from Obama” after he wins a majority of pledged delegates?”
The answer is: “Nobody, silly.”
The question is: “How many guests on that program commented on the extortionist undertone of that statement?”
The answer is: “Crickets.”
The question is: “What was Chris Matthews’ response when another guest asked why no one was concerned about what female voters would do if Clinton were denied the nomination?”
The answer is: “Welcome to my world.”
The question is: “What did Hillary Clinton say to Barack Obama after Obama declared on national television that he will not tolerate people being unfair or unflattering to his wife?”
The answer is: “Westminster Abbey, tomorrow.”
The question is: “Where and when do Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann plan to conduct the coronation of Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee?”
The answer is: “CNN, to show that Obama isn’t rushing to claim the nomination.”
The question is: “Which MSM outlet recently ran a clip of Obama telling a female reporter to ‘wait just a mnute, sweetie,’ and why?”
The answer is: “Sexism? What sexism?”
The question is: “Why didn’t CNN comment on the sexist nature of Obama’s comment to the female reporter?”
The answer is: “Kool-Aid.”
The question is: “Why do the MSM pundits accept Obama’s claim that he will obtain a majority of pledged delegates when they do not include delegates from MI or FLA?”
The answer is: “Felix Gaeta (IMHO).”
The question is: “Who will be revealed to be the 12th Cylon on Battlestar Galactica?”
So start playing now! Post your “answer,” and wait for a fellow Confluentian to give you the “question.” Oh, and have a mojito while you’re playing. Or a Cosmopolitan. Whatever works for you.
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