Posted on 10/16/2012 9:44:13 PM PDT by Darnright
How good was Gallup’s vetting of the questioners at the 2d Presidential debate held at Hofstra on Long Island?
One explicitly feminist question was asked by undecided voter Catherine Fenton:
And it’s Katherine Fenton, who has a question for you. QUESTION: In what new ways to [do] you intend to rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn?
By a strange coincidence, there happens to be a Catherine Fenton who in 2008 identified herself as the Media Coordinator of CodePink Long Island.
Is she the same Catherine Fenton? Presumably we will be able to determine this over the next few days. For now, it is worth noting that the CodePink Fenton discussed whether feminists in March 2008 should support Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or a third-party candidate:
As a liberal, I believed and still do believe, that after the complete and abject failure of conservatism, we should have been heralding in a President Al Gore, or if not, then a President John Edwards. Barack Obama is not my first choice. But as he did vote yes on banning cluster bombs in civilian areas, and speak out against this war before it happened, perhaps he is the better choice. Perhaps a third party candidate is a better choice for you. These are matters of individual conscience. But Hillary is not the answer.
And I’m not turning my feminist card in.
A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
Catherine Fenton Media Coordinator CODEPINK Long Island
The CodePink Fenton seems to argue that Hillary Clinton is not reliably left wing enough for her tastes.
More here and here.
UPDATE: Because probably few people who supported McCain in 2008 are undecided today, Gallup had a problem coming up with unbiased undecideds. Indeed, CNN admitted that almost all of the audience had voted for Obama in 2008.
There may be a partial solution to this problem: pick a majority of people who supported Bush in 2004. 2004 was a close election, so it shouldn’t have been hard to find undecideds today who voted for Bush in 2004. Next, CNN (or the debate commission) could have picked a Republican-leaning reporter to be a moderator.
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Here is an article by her:
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/4192-real-sheroes—catherine-fenton
Totsl plant.
They likely fed Obama the pre scripted questions as well.
Crowley was giving Obama two extra minutes to lie for the first hour on every question.
She’s a dyed-in-the-wool true believer, isn’t she?
You might be surprised by how many there are.
Go to Google mages and enter her name.
We’ve assumed “undecided” meant they were undecided between Romney and Obama.
Most of this crowd seemed to be undecided between Obama, Rosanne Barr and that guy from the Socialist Workers Party.
Yeah, she’s undecided, undecided between Obama and the Green Party.
>You might be surprised by how many there are.<
If she’s a Code Pinkster, what do you want to bet some enterprising Breitbartian will come up with a photo of her at one or more of their protests?
I called that a plant the second she finished her question.
Nah, she looks way too young to be the same 5 years ago. Probably a product or current student at a liberal college, or is that repetitive!
A related thread:
A reminder about the last plant-infested, CNN-run town hall debate
This question, and a couple others, sounded like they were written by the Obama campaign team. Unbelievable that they let them ask such one-sided questions.
I wouldn't be exactly surprised to find the crowd was mostly cooked, as opposed to largely cooked. But there did seem to be some real questioners in there who had some pretty darned unfriendly questions for Zippy—I'm thinking of that middle-aged black guy. He was not a happy camper, and he made 0bummer look bad.
For "undecideds," isn't a roomful of Democrats about what one would expect? Everyone else figured out the disaster a long time ago. You'd expect people who are undecided because they were attached to 0bummer, but now they're mad at him. And that's supposed to be why most undecideds break for the challenger, right?
There were a probably enough plants in that crowd to make a greenhouse, so I wouldn't say they were actually representative, but I thought the debate went very well. Candy was a typical narcissist hag-reporterette, but Romney seemed more than equal to the task. He had forceful ideas and figures at his command—while Zippy was flailing around, recycling the same four or five lame generalities.
A lot of people were watching, and I'll bet most of them were impressed with Romney a second time. Man, what a great line he had, pointing out that another four years with 0bummer would be just like the first four.
You gotta hand it to Code Pink in that they get where they want to go.
Is she the one who kind of stumbled on her question and 0bama jumped in and said “you’re doing good.” And he knew that because ... he wrote the question?
You realize that Gallup is being sued by the DOJ.
Gallup better pony up for Zero or cough up hundreds of thousands in legals expenses.
Then again, refuting the premise of the question with logic and facts wouldn’t have played well.
That they do.
I got it from switchboard.com
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