Posted on 07/24/2007 9:45:58 AM PDT by ReagansRaiders
CNN hosted a YouTube debate last night where "ordinary people" could ask questions of the Democrat candidates via YouTube.
Much has been made of this one with the "hillbillies" talking about Al Gore.
One problem. These guys do sketch comedy and are affiliated with the liberal Salon.com. They are not "ordinary" voters. Heck, they don't even live in Tennessee anymore, but are based in L.A.
CNN, you've been had.
I don’t think any of the people they had on there asking questions were random people from YOUTube. They’re all plants and CNN knows it.
Even if they weren’t plants, someone at CNN chose the questions from the pool. CNN had 100% editorial control of the questions.
The whole thing was faked. CNN is in the business of electing Democrats, everyone knows that. It’s like watching wrestling on tv.
Fake but accurate?......
oooooooh CNN has ‘plants’ ask question during the debate?
They want to join Dan ‘Fake but Accurate’ Rather in losing (any remaining) integrity?
Most Democrats probably tuned in and said, “What is YouTube?”
A farce. A total disgrace for selecting a candidate. Should be called You-Boob.
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This whole idea was stupid, but only slightly more stupid than the “debates” themselves.
Either that or they review and screen submissions from McYahoo’s/McYouTubes etc. before putting it on live. [The technology is available.]
Except less entertaining.
Not a single question on immigration.
All the video submissions were pre-screen and pre-selected.. by CNN and, maybe, the candidates...
this was phony.. they answered the questions they wanted to answer..
It’s that internet thingamajib, you know with the tubes!
These folks claim to be from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Well, here's a scoop: I live in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and have for the past 20 1/2 years. (Prior to that, I lived in nearby Nashville for about 33 years.) And I have never heard the sort of dialect spoken by these (supposed) Murfreesborians. I have, on occasion, witnessed a similar lack of apparent literacy. But even that is unusual.
The person who posted this is simply playing into a stereotype--and a poorly considered one, at that. It is my understanding that hillbillies of the Tennessee variety (although I have never seen a real, live one, in person) reside principally in Appalachia--which is in the mountainous region of upper east Tennessee, past Knoxville.
The now-defunct TV series Hee Haw probably did a great deal to advance the notion of Nashville (in middle Tennessee) as a mecca for hillbillies. And the Nashville Chamber of Commerce no doubt played along, as this image--albeit a hugely false one--tends to promote tourism, if only out of a patronizing curiosity.
But Tennessee is not dominated by Apalachia (which, by the way, extends into some other states also), any more than Mississippi can be defined by its Delta country or Missouri and Arkansas defined by the Ozarks.
This is just another example of certain stereotyping being considered okay by the politically correct folks--the same folks who would roundly roast anyone who might dare to suggest a forbidden stereotype.
Sounded more like Andy Kaufman than anyone from Tennessee that I know.
Yep. And I hear the Republicans are doing the same format in September. (CNN/YouTube)
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