CNN Gets Fooled in YouTube Debate

Virginia Virtucon ^ | 07/24/2007 | Riley, Not O'Reilly

[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.

[Beagle8U]

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!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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.

[dforest]

YouGoobs.

[longtermmemmory]

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

[edzo4]

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

[weegee]

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.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

Yep. And I hear the Republicans are doing the same format in September. (CNN/YouTube)

[Bob]

oooooooh CNN has ‘plants’ ask question during the debate?

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

[Miss Didi]

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

[marty60]

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”

[soupcon]

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

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

[freekitty]

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

[nuconvert]

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

[cpanter]

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

[samtheman]

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.

[outfield]

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.