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CNN: PWNED!

Submitted by Tully on Thu, 11/29/2007 - 10:14am

Good Grief. Horticulture journalism? Question videos here.

GOP YouTube Debate: No Snowman, But a Question Planted By Hillary

"Mostly what I noticed wasn’t the bulge of their holsters, but the obviousness of CNN’s agenda."

Like the debate format suggestion--bonus points for any candidate that orders something stronger than iced tea to drink.

Scarborough: 'Total Crap' CNN Didn't Know Gay Questioner Is Clinton Campaigner

Abortion questioner is declared Edwards supporter (and a slobbering Anderson Cooper fan); Log Cabin Republican questioner is declared Obama supporter; lead toy questioner is a prominent union activist for the Edwards-endorsing United Steelworkers

I'll add a few more that seem to have been missed. Michael Weitz of Question #3 is obviously not an Edwards fan. Jack Brooks of Q#4 is a leader of the Chesapeake Bay Seafood Industries Association who wants migrant workers for his crab-picking plant. Andrew Fink of Question #14 appears to a 9/11 "Truther." Tyler Overman of Memphis is, er, a little odd (vaguely NSFW).

UPDATE: The list just gets longer and longer. Add a Richardson supporter who openly said afterwards his question was shaped and re-shot by CNN and who was a questioner in the previous CNN/YouTube Democratic debate presided over by Anderson Cooper, an activist working with Dick Durbin's office, a former intern for Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman, and ANOTHER Edwards supporter.

Previous: The CNN Debate--The Wolf is a Beotch

Nice summary

Overman's resume made me laugh. I can't say that Hillary planted a question, but it would have been strange to have a Paul supporter ask Obama why he is timid on confronting the racist and degrading rap.

I remember the gun nut who asked Biden a question and Joe responded by questioning the rationality of letting someone who was affectionately embracing his rifle get a gun in the first place. Another ablative: The Second is our right; I love my beautiful girlfriend..ah..gun.

If CNN wanted to trip up candidates they could have planted real fire bombs. Instead they look silly and apparently out did their question selection at the last Democratic Debate. They could have brought up some old Larry King interviews with Rudy and the Emir of Qatar.

This whole thing has got to be painfully embarrasing.

I generally don't buy into the left-wing media conspiracy, but this is one of those examples that righties will shove in our faces to make their case. This reads like systemic, mind-blowing journalistic incompetence. Are you telling me that after having this excat same problem a couple of weeks ago, on the same network, that they could not think to do basic fact-checking, and the Bill Bennett and low-level righty bloggers had to do this for them? If this is in fact incompetence, then one wonders how CNN even functions as a journalistic outfit anymore.

I almost wonder if CNN isn't secretly in the tank for Obama?

"In the world you will find tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world."

John 16:33

Shoved in face? You bet

This reads like systemic, mind-blowing journalistic incompetence.

Willful omissions of professionalism amounting to naked bias aren't incompetence. They're intent. It seems that CNN's definition of "undecided voter" is anyone who hasn't already voted, which means everyone.

Let's review: Democratic candidate debate involving questions from "undecided voters" is found to be heavily stacked with leftist activists and Democratic Party operatives. CNN gets caught in moments with Google-fu, apologizes, claims ignorance. Republican candidate debate is found to be heavily stacked with leftist activists and Democratic Party operatives. CNN gets caught in moments with Google-fu, apologizes, claims ignorance.

From WSJ's Political Diary:

Last week, CNN's Anderson Cooper quipped in an interview with Townhall.com that ?campaign operatives are people too? and that CNN wasn?t worried if political partisans posed questions at the upcoming GOP debate he was moderating. ?We don?t investigate the background of people asking questions (by submitting video clips). It?s not our job,? is how he put it.

But now CNN?s logo has egg splattered all over it, as it scrambles to explain how a co-chair of Hillary Clinton?s veterans? committee was allowed to ask a video question on gays in the military at Wednesday?s debate and was also flown by the network from California to the debate site in Florida so he could repeat his question to the candidates in person. CNN claims it verified retired Brig. Gen. Ketih Kerr?s military status and checked his campaign contribution records, contradicting Mr. Cooper?s blas? attitudes. Still, they somehow missed his obvious connection to the Hillary campaign which any Google search would have turned up. CNN later airbrushed Mr. Kerr?s question out of its rebroadcast of the debate, indicating that it apparently doesn?t think ?campaign operatives? are legitimate questioners at the network?s debates.

And another questionable questioner has been tabbed. "Yasmin from Huntsville, Alabama" is a former intern for CAIR, the Council on American Islamic Relations.

PWNED.

As Fox said last night

if the media doesn't hold CNN to some reasonable standard of competence, then one may reasonable question the bias of the NYT, WAPO and others. Like I don't already? You clearly show incompetence and air-brushing doesn't cut it. My only question is the extent Democratic candidates personally had much to do with CNN manipulation. Given their numerous contradictory positions, it seems they and others like AP have their own strange agenda. I believe the non-Clinton Left was better represented in CNN questions, than by positions Hillary advocates.

People like Russert and others have asked some pretty direct questions of Hillary, yet no one really examined some troubling concerns about Mitt and Rudy. As far as Yasmin, Clinton was questioned by a mother and son, clearly from the anti-war crowd. They were given alot of time painting their picture and Blitzer used their partisan spin to launch into his own question on Iran.

Yes, add crappy journalism to an already uninformative debate. And then the media referees spin who won and how this all changes the races.

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