Leland_palmer Member Username: Leland_palmer
Post Number: 500 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 7:31 am: | |
...and the children are smarter. Click on the video under related content. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20080429/M ETRO/804290383/1409/METRO |
Alsodave Member Username: Alsodave
Post Number: 1092 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 7:35 am: | |
Incredible. It's a new show--"Are you smarter than an 8th grader?" Unfortunately, the answer is no... |
Craggy Member Username: Craggy
Post Number: 328 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 7:36 am: | |
I saw this very early this morning. Not a great way to start my day. |
Karenka Member Username: Karenka
Post Number: 17 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 7:42 am: | |
Hats off to those students for holding their own and not backing down in the face of Conyers' attempts to intimidate them. |
Django Member Username: Django
Post Number: 207 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 7:44 am: | |
Classic Detroit, CLASSIC. Has it made it to youtube yet? |
Pam Member Username: Pam
Post Number: 3999 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 8:06 am: | |
Wow. Did she think allowing this to be filmed would help her image? I liked the commentator's reference to her "peculiar debating style". |
Single_malt Member Username: Single_malt
Post Number: 41 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 8:07 am: | |
Pretty sad when an eight grade student has a better disposition of right and wrong. I had to laugh when the student said..."we are kids". I especially loved when Monica Conyers answered the 8th graders question with a question. Too much...too sad...and too funny. I hate to say it, but I had to find humor in it this, otherwise I just get frustrated...I wonder how her husband feels. |
Leoqueen Member Username: Leoqueen
Post Number: 2035 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 8:08 am: | |
I was very proud of those young ladies. They were not afraid of Conyers. And I'll bet Conyers was just itching to get into their faces and wag her head. |
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit
Post Number: 1643 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 8:15 am: | |
:-| |
Baltgar Member Username: Baltgar
Post Number: 114 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 8:56 am: | |
I only pray that videos like this make Detroiters become more aware of who they are voting for instead of just checking a box because of a name. |
Danny Member Username: Danny
Post Number: 7318 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 9:08 am: | |
Her election year is getting DOOMED! A uneducated woman like Conyers from a uneducated schools. |
Gingellgirl Member Username: Gingellgirl
Post Number: 169 Registered: 04-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 9:14 am: | |
Beautiful! Kierra Bell, you're my hero! |
Django Member Username: Django
Post Number: 209 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 9:21 am: | |
There talking about on wrif right now, That woman is just diggin herself deeper and deeper. Like I said CLASSIC DETROIT. |
Django Member Username: Django
Post Number: 210 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 9:23 am: | |
Kierra Bell should get an honorary seat. |
Django Member Username: Django
Post Number: 211 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 9:25 am: | |
If ANYONE deserves a tiara its little girl |
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua
Post Number: 1560 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 10:56 am: | |
I just watched this video, and I can't even tell you how disgusted I am. When you get into a fight with everyone you come across Ken Cockrel, Huel Perkins, and now a LITTLE GIRL ... you've gotta start looking at yourself man. How do we get this idiot out of office? |
Gaz Member Username: Gaz
Post Number: 160 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 11:16 am: | |
what a PIG! |
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed
Post Number: 3055 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 11:37 am: | |
quote:Her election year is getting DOOMED! A uneducated woman like Conyers from a uneducated schools. She has a law degree. |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 1999 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 11:51 am: | |
"She has a law degree." they must be passing those out like candy |
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw
Post Number: 4709 Registered: 02-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:21 pm: | |
Conyers is so stupid. She's defending herself with the most flawed logic...against little kids, no less. And what the hell is she wearing?...around little kids, no less. Quite the role model. |
Dshen Member Username: Dshen
Post Number: 1 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:28 pm: | |
Now that we have high school students speaking out against the mayor, and grade school children showing more intelligence than a city council member, maybe the people will stand up and demand competent and humble city government members. |
Craig Member Username: Craig
Post Number: 756 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:32 pm: | |
Question: if Monica Conyers were on DY and she called Karl "Shrek" would she be banned as well? |
Retroit Member Username: Retroit
Post Number: 21 Registered: 04-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:33 pm: | |
I was waiting for Monica Conyers to say "Little girl, I'm gonna get my gun, and I have four brothers that will whup your ass if I asked them." She'll probably accuse the school children of having a "lynch mob mentality." That seems to work for the mayor. |
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 6396 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:33 pm: | |
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Chuckjav Member Username: Chuckjav
Post Number: 517 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:45 pm: | |
Ladies & Gentlemen: Hats-Off if you please, to Monica Conyers....the quintessential retard. |
Detroitmaybe Member Username: Detroitmaybe
Post Number: 102 Registered: 03-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:51 pm: | |
This is amazing...I wish they would play this on the news. I'm wanna e-mail Steve Wilson or somebody. Much respect Miss Kierra Bell..you're a very intelligent young woman!! |
1953 Member Username: 1953
Post Number: 1564 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 12:55 pm: | |
OMG. I can't stop laughing! She just got schooled by an 8th grader! LOL! |
Kid_dynamite Member Username: Kid_dynamite
Post Number: 520 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 1:16 pm: | |
Revolting. Frickin' revolting. |
Spacemonkey Member Username: Spacemonkey
Post Number: 488 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 1:24 pm: | |
Kid_dynamite, you are becoming one of my least favorite users of this forum. Your perpetual idiotic blurbs contain little more than immature one-liners and feeble attempts at humor. I am not mainly referring to this thread. Cracking a joke hear or there is OK, but that's pretty much all you have to offer. Why don't to try to contribute to one of these conversations with something that others would actually have an interest in reading? |
Kid_dynamite Member Username: Kid_dynamite
Post Number: 521 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - 1:31 pm: | |
That was original. Thanks for proving my point from the Quicken thread. Grow up, little boy. (Message edited by kid dynamite on April 29, 2008) |