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The Saint: The Latin Touch (1.2, ITC, 1962)

"All of a sudden you're kind of quiet."

"The meek shall inherit the earth."

"Yeah. When the strong get through with it."

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Today in History: December 7, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

Today in History: December 7, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

Today in History Today is Wednesday, Dec. 7, the 341st day of 2022. There are 24 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched an air raid on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as well as targets in Malaya, Hong Kong, Guam, the Philippines and Wake Island; the United States declared war against Japan the next day. On this date: In…

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Carole Simpson: Trailblazing African American Journalist

Black History: Special Delivery!!

Carole Simpson (1940 – ) is an award winning pioneer in the field of broadcast journalism. As an African American female journalist, she has achieved many “firsts” in the field.

Simpson was born in Chicago, IL in 1940. She excelled in school was encouraged to go into teaching because of the lack of opportunities available to women and people of color in the…

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Hillary surrogate Carole Simpson went on CNN to insult “entitled” young women, millennials in general.

I seriously don’t understand what the Clinton campaign and associates think they stand to gain by telling young voters, “We think you’re stupid and entitled, you don’t know what you’re talking about, you don’t deserve the things you think you do, and that’s why you should vote for our candidate over the one you prefer.”

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"They kept saying they wanted an Oprah-style town hall format, so that probably had something to do with them choosing a black woman. I was told in my earpiece by a producer, 'Go interview the lady in the green dress on the left, and now the man in the red sweater.' I had no control over the questions that were asked, or who asked, or in what order. I was like a traffic cop." - Former ABC News Anchor Carole Simpson, on moderating the 1992 presidential debate. [via HuffPo's Laura Bassett]

Tonight's debate moderator, Candy Crowley, is only the second woman to moderate a presidential debate. And there's a critical, oft ignored foot note here: both woman will have hosted "town hall" style debates, meaning neither woman has written her own questions for the debate.

Luckily, Candy Crowley's role is more prominent than Simpson's role was in 1992: Crowley has received questions in advance from audience members and she will choose which audience members to call on. This is an improvement from 10 years ago, but four years from now, we deserve to see what we've seen from Gwen Ifill and Martha Raddatz during the vice presidential debates - a fair and decisive female moderator whose experience qualifies her to write her own questions for a presidential debate.

[photo via blackamericaweb.com]

Update: Via Politico, Crowley says she may ask follow-up questions, despite the Memorandum of Understanding's rules against doing so.

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On Being the Lady with the Microphone, by Carole Simpson

Way back in 1992 I became the first woman and first minority to moderate a presidential debate. This past summer I was constantly asked, "Why hasn't another woman moderated a presidential debate?"

Why people thought I had the answer, I don't know. It should have been directed to the Commission on Presidential Debates. Supported by the Republican and Democratic Parties, the Commission has been responsible for producing the debates since 1987. Together with campaign officials for the candidates, Commission members decide the dates, locations, formats and moderators for the one debate for vice president and the three for president.

Allow me to point out here that of the 17 members most are male and white. Only two women serve on the Commission. Perhaps a problem?

Read more. [Image: C-SPAN]

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Teenagers get first woman journalist in 20 years to moderate presidential debate

Candy Crowley (right) reporting from Houston for CNN in 2008.

By ROMINA PUGA

Elena Tsemberis, Emma Axelrod, and Sammi Siegel started a Change.org petition earlier this summer that received over 120,000 signatures. They asked the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) to select a female moderator after learning in a civics class that a woman had not moderated a U.S. general election presidential debate in 20 years. The last female moderator was ABC's Carole Simpson in 1992. Simpson moderated the debate between George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot. 

"Women and men will never be truly equal in our country until they're one and the same in positions of power and both visible in politics," the petition said.

Carole Simpson backed the petition, as did Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), NYC Councilwoman Christine Quinn (D), and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D)

Even after they were turned down by security at the CPD's offices in Washington, D.C. this summer, the girls continued the fight to get their voices heard.

"We wanted to get the public as frustrated as we were about not being able to reach the commission in hopes that it would help convince them to pick a woman," Axelrod told ABC News. "I wouldn't be at all surprised if that played a pretty big role in their decision."

Candy Crowley is CNN's chief political correspondent and the host of CNN's Sunday morning program, State of the Union. She will moderate the second of the four debates at the Hofstra University campus in Hempstead, N.Y on October 16. PBS's Jim Lehrer and CBS's Bob Schieffer are hosting the first and third debate.

The second debate differs from the other two in that it will be the only town hall-style debate. Undecided voters will have the chance to ask the candidates direct questions on foreign policy and domestic issues.

But Crowley isn't the only female journalist moderating this year. ABC's Martha Raddatz was also chosen to moderate a debate -- the Vice Presidential debate. Raddatz has also never moderated a presidential forum, so October 11th will mark her first, with Joe Biden and Paul Ryan in Danville, Ky.

The Commission on Presidential Debates has not acknowledged that the teens' petition was the driving force behind the female picks. They have, however, acknowledged success of the moderators.

"These journalists bring extensive experience to the job of moderating, and understand the importance of using the expanded time periods to maximum benefit," said CPD co-chairs Frank Fahrenkopf and Michael D. McCurry in a statement.

Hopefully the right questions will be asked and answered at the Hempstead debate, as it has already been shown that the people's voice -- old or young -- can be heard.

(Photo: Flickr, Munoz Family)

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'News Lady' Carole Simpson's Career Of Firsts

HANSEN: Why were you let go from the anchor desk?

Ms. SIMPSON: I fought racism; I fought sexism and I decided ageism is going to rear its head soon, I know. So, I fought it to the length of having plastic surgery in 1998 when I noticed my eyes starting to droop a little bit on the air, and double chin creeping in. I think it was ageism. They would say things like, you know, we need to bring other talent along and the weekend shows is a place to teach them how to do it.

So, they just decided that it was time for me to move. And it's their toy store. I was just one of the little toys in there, and they said this toy can't play anymore.

HANSEN: Uh-huh. And then you sang "I Will Survive" at your going away ceremony. So, good for you.

Ms. SIMPSON: Yes, I did. I wanted them to know, you may take me off the air, but I will survive, and I have.

HANSEN: You made a lot of noise about the discrimination and the disparity that was going on at ABC News. Did that work against you? Were you treated as some kind of agitator that maybe overlaid what you were actually doing, you know, as the work?

Ms. SIMPSON: Yes. It's funny. I hadn't thought of myself as an agitator. I associate that with the South. But I was a troublemaker. I was a thorn in the side of ABC News. I know that. Because my experience in Alabama, I wasn't demonstrating and I wasn't taking part with Dr. King, so I decided that I was going to do what I could to change things where I was.

So, I paid a price. I'm sure they're much happier without my being there, but then I worry. I see things slipping backwards. Where is me? Where is the person like me who is going to challenge them?