CNN Defends Loading Republican Presidential Debate with Democrat Questioners

The Arizona Conservative ^ | December 1, 2007 | John Semmens

[2ndDivisionVet]

If you thought there was something odd about CNN's YouTube Republican presidential debate you are correct. As it turns out, at least nine of the “undecided Republican voters” have subsequently been identified as Democrats who have taken stands in support of one or another of the current Democratic presidential candidates.

CNN President Jonathan Klein was quick to defend loading the questions in this fashion. “Who better to show the unsuitability of these Republican candidates than knowledgeable Democrats?” Klein asked. “The American people deserve to see these poseurs exposed to critical scrutiny. Our only disappointment is that the revelation of the identities of these questioners will now be used by the vast rightwing conspiracy to cloud the issue.”

Klein emphasized that “what may appear to the ill-informed as a ‘dirty trick’ is warranted by the critical nature of next year’s election. It is absolutely essential that control of the government be returned to Democratic hands. Key policy initiatives like nationalized health care, the award of citizenship and voting rights to undocumented residents, and increased taxes need a unified Democratic executive and congress to ensure enactment.”

The CNN chief said he was confident that the disclosure of CNN’s efforts to tilt the election outcome “will be known only to the ‘lunatic fringe’ who dominate talk radio and Internet blogs because no reputable media outlet will cover this story.”

[Hunterite]

Satire and reality blend so well nowadays, who can see the seam?

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He fooled me too.

[xtinct]

CNN = Irrelevant News Organization

[cripplecreek]

For the most part they were democrat questions but things like trade are fast becoming republican questions so the republicans had better man up and be prepared to answer them.

[Ann Archy]

AMen...it made our guys look GOOD and CNN look HORRIBLE!