10 Questions to Ask at the Next Democratic You Tube Debate

While I was extremely impressed by the efforts of my colleague to ask a question at the CNN/YouTube debate earlier in the week, the event as a whole was a little silly to me. It was more of a way for CNN to get other people to ask the same questions as every debate, only this time they would be funneled in by kids with webcams. Perhaps it was a good ploy to get more ratings, or to create the illusion that CNN is techno-savvy and forward thinking. But, here are some things I wish we would have seen at the debate.

10. They should have asked each candidate to set up a MySpace page, and see whose was the ugliest and whose was the nicest. I'm guessing Gravel would have had his page filled with dancing GIFs, crazy music, and unreadable neon green text on a photograph background.

9. Lonelygirl15 could have asked Hillary why she's so fake.

8. "How many of you have actually used YouTube before?"

7. A video starts with footage from the Sega game "Streets of Rage," set to some music from the anime "Naruto." At the end of the video, after everyone has just watched someone beat the game in eight minutes, the question is posed: "Do you favor support of CAFTA?"

6. Coach Z shows up to ask "Where my lasers at?"

5. I wish the Ninja, from AskNinja.com, would have asked a question. He's a YouTube star, and I'm sure he has some concerns about healthcare options for midnight assassins.

4. "Who has the most facebook friends?"

3. "Mike Gravel, would you like help with your website?"

2. "How will you force Viacom to let kids post video clips of their old TV shows back on YouTube?"

1. "Who do you like better, Fred Thompson or Rudy Giuliani? Or are you holding out for Newt Gingrich too?"

Posted by MikeRubino at July 26, 2007 7:46 PM | TrackBack