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CNN Gets Fooled in YouTube Debate
Virginia Virtucon ^ | 07/24/2007 | Riley, Not O'Reilly

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008debates; 2008electionbias; cnn; debates; democratdebates; democrats; dnctalkingpoints; fakebutaccurate; globalwarmingscare; howtostealanelection; makingitup; redstateupdate; salon; waronerror; zogbyism
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To: ReagansRaiders
I doubt CNN was fooled, but rather they knew in advance it was all staged as a circus.

Look at where the candidates were on the stage. Does anyone really think it was by chance that the top three were together so they all be on camera at all times?

How about the only question about gun control?

They picked a dork and had Biden say he seemed too unstable to own any guns.

It was all staged BS!

21 posted on 07/24/2007 10:15:52 AM PDT by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super Walmart for news .)
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To: AmericanExceptionalist
Geeze, you don't even want think of the stuff that we in New England get blamed for. A map of Appalachia. The lure of Appalachia is poor Whites. Politically it's easier to sell poverty programs if they aren't seen as an interracial income transfer mechanism.


22 posted on 07/24/2007 10:17:18 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I never consented to live in the Camp of the Saints.)
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To: ReagansRaiders

YouGoobs.


23 posted on 07/24/2007 10:17:45 AM PDT by dforest (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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To: tje

Hillary would never appear anywhere unless she had approval of all questions.


24 posted on 07/24/2007 10:18:19 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: lowbridge

don’t you love that the same moonbats that accuse the government of checking what library book you read in the pursuit of terrorists are the same idiots that want us to give the government complete control over health care and all our medical records


25 posted on 07/24/2007 10:23:13 AM PDT by edzo4
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To: AmericanExceptionalist

It is a “stereotype” but it won’t be branded racist. “It was a joke” you know “A choke, maaaan, jess lighten up eeets funny”. Oh wait, that dialect wouldn’t be PC.


26 posted on 07/24/2007 10:26:45 AM PDT by weegee (NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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To: SunStar
Yep. And I hear the Republicans are doing the same format in September. (CNN/YouTube)


27 posted on 07/24/2007 10:28:14 AM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: Mr. K
oooooooh CNN has ‘plants’ ask question during the debate?

Actually, quite a few plants have much more intelligence than most dimocRATs.

28 posted on 07/24/2007 10:37:19 AM PDT by Bob
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To: ReagansRaiders
Rush was saying that someone at CNN is going to be in deep trouble for the distracting camera shot of Mrs. Clinton's derriere...

CNN: CRAZY NEWS NETWORK
NY POST
By CHARLES HURT


July 24, 2007 -- LAST night's "debate" may have been brought to you by YouTube with questions from viewers like you, but it got hijacked.

Of the thousands of video questions submitted, the few dozen that CNN selected to air were by and large suspiciously just like the ones that a room full of journalists inside the Beltway could have come up with.

Only worse.

To inquire about the "serious" issue of global warming, CNN honchos tapped a goofy snowman on a Web cam who asked: "As president, what will you do to ensure that my son will live a full and happy life?"

Later, a guy holding up a quarter asked the Democrats to tell the world what the words "Liberty" and "In God We Trust" on the coin mean to them personally.

The "debate" wasn't illuminating or even entertaining. Instead of sharp, pointed exchanges, we got another rambling forum with all the depth of a beauty pageant.

From the first question, it flopped. A guy named Zach from Provo asked each candidate to tell us what would make them more effective than the other candidates.

Now, that's hardball.

Left on CNN's cutting room floor were plenty of better and tougher video questions.

One asked Hillary Clinton whether her husband's philandering in office could hurt her chances of capturing the White House.

Another questioned Sen. Barack Obama, who wrote of his own drug use when he was young, and about his views on legalizing drugs.

churt@nypost.com
29 posted on 07/24/2007 10:49:24 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: ReagansRaiders

They were making fun of the supposed fly over country people. Hillary is laughing her fat *** off. That is what she REALLY thinks about the “little people”


30 posted on 07/24/2007 11:31:06 AM PDT by marty60
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To: samtheman

“This whole idea was stupid, but only slightly more stupid than the “debates” themselves”

Well, the Republicans get their YouTube/CNN debate in September.


31 posted on 07/24/2007 11:36:15 AM PDT by soupcon
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To: Red Badger

Decency, fairness and honesty are not part of CNN’s policy.


32 posted on 07/24/2007 11:50:56 AM PDT by freekitty
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To: ReagansRaiders

I think these videos turned the whole thing into a joke.
I hope the republicans just have written questions.


33 posted on 07/24/2007 11:51:03 AM PDT by nuconvert ([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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To: AmericanExceptionalist

I work in Mboro and am wondering where all the cud-chewers are? Good God that was ridiculous.


34 posted on 07/24/2007 12:14:30 PM PDT by cpanter (9/11 - first time in history that fire has ever melted steel - Rosie the Hut)
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To: soupcon

Right. And it will be even more stupid. The questions will be heavily loaded from Paulites and other forms of RAT.

CNN will bend over backwards to dump sewage on the Republicans, and the Paulites and other RATS will be spewing it out wholesale.


35 posted on 07/24/2007 12:55:11 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: weegee

No matter, that’s not a timely or important issue in 2007.

What a joke, letting CNN filter through 30,000 submissions defeats the purpose of having viewer submitted questions. You could have put Chris Matthews or Wolf in there and had the same horrible results.


36 posted on 07/24/2007 1:14:43 PM PDT by outfield
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