Posted on 11/30/2007 7:52:58 AM PST by ConservativeMajority
Edited on 11/30/2007 8:15:04 AM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]
CNN's YouTube Republican presidential debate will go down in history as one of America's biggest media scandals alongside Dan Rather's fake documents and Will Duranty's Pultizer Prize-winning pro-Stalin proganda for The New York Times. The cries of "foul" from conservatives and Republicans will soon be drowned out by the wails from those who rightfully lose their jobs at CNN for the supposedly objective forum that was rife with Democratic activists posing "gotcha" questions.
So far, bloggers have unmasked no less that NINE "undecided voters" who have obvious and announced ties to Democratic presidential candidates or pro-Democrat special interest groups. It is lakely that more fraud will be discovered soon.
At this point, an investigation of the screening and selection process needs to be conducted. The network officials responsible for organizing the debate should be identified and held accountable.
I'm calling on CNN President Jonathan Klein to immediately intiate such an investigation. In the past, Klein has had much to say about press integrity and should step up to the plate now that an enormous fraud has been perpetrated on his watch.
As I note in my book, "The Great Media War: A Battlefield Report" Jonathan Klein, a former CBS executive uttered the famous quote about those who challenged the authenticity of the documents Dan Rather used to smear President Bush, "These bloggers have no checks and balances...[Y]ou couldn't have a starker contrast between the multiple layers of checks and balances and a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing."
Where were those "multiple layers of checks and balances" at CNN, Mr. Klein?
In his April 2005 keynote address to the National Association of Broadcasters, Klein had the audacity to suggest that the White House Correspondents Association cancel its gala and "instead spend that time and energy creating standards - and enforcing them - for those who would call themselves White House correspondents." By this he meant find ways to keep independent conservative journalists like Jeff Gannon away from the White House briefing room. It would appear that Jonathan Klein and his minions have perfected a filter to keep Republican and conservative voters from CNN debates.
John Roberts from CNN was just on Laura Ingraham’s show and walked all over her....and he got away with it!! Her arguments and info were LACKING.
NICE!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Although I wish it weren’t true, I think this story has peaked.
No one will be fired, promoted maybe...
ping
well if they can’t handle a few questions from Democrats they aren’t qualified to be President anyway
And on the gay general, it was having him harangue the candidates from the audience that was the biggest outrage. A total left wing disruption of the debate. I don't see how CNN could argue its way out of that.
It'll be old news by next week. The R candidates could keep it relevant, however, by boycotting CNN. No more R debates, news shows, interviews, etc. with CNN. The odds that that'll happen, however.....
Laura Ingraham has really done a poor job as a talk show host - I stopped listening to her over a year ago when I just got tired of her bashing Republicans and allowing liberals to come on her show regularly. I don’t want to listen to Pat Buchanan or Charlie Rangel on talk radio or I’d be listening to Air America. Why is Rush so popular - he doesn’t shovel down guests all day long - the few times he gets guests on guess who they are: Vice President Dick Cheney and even President George W. Bush! Yep, Rush is the tops in talk radio and he doesn’t sit back and let people run his show for him!
You miss the point. It’s not whether or not they can “handle” the questions (they actually did handle them pretty well with a couple of exceptions). It’s how the questioners were presented as being “average” voters, Republicans or on the fence voters. That was a flat out lie. Had the Republicans pulled a stunt like this one, there would have been senate hearings, house hearings, DOJ investigations, and who knows what else.
LLS
Another day, another media fraud. It’s a habit hard to break for them.
I couldn’t agree more, but let the myriad Democrats in the press ask the questions. This debate among Republican candidates was intended to allow undecided Republican voters to pose questions to Republicans. If a few Democrats got a question or two in, that is one thing, but it seems clear that the deck was stacked to make Republicans look bad. Is the Confederate flag an issue that Republicans care about or has been a factor in this election? Gays in the military? This was a sham and needs to be exposed - just as the last CNN debate with the planted questions from the Hillary campaign does. If a network cannot be trusted, why should anyone watch, should Republicans show up for a debate or be granted access to the President and the White House?
That happens often to Laura, but when you are a populist that interviews liberals, you lose.
That's the difference between Bill Bennett and Laura Ingraham, sad to say. Ingraham's show, be it her or her staff, it's still her name on the marque, have a strong "Not invented here" bias. So she walks into the gun fight holding a butter knife.
Bennett's producer, Seth Liebson, had an ear to the ground and passed it along to Bennett and there was Bennett getting it in play virtually immediately. A real coup.
Is it just me?
Or does anyone else think that we’ll get no worthwhile leadership from idiots who let the enemy control their debate?
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