Clinton Campaign Confirms Planting Town Hall Question, Says It Won't Happen Again

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s campaign admitted Friday that it planted a global warming question in Newton, Iowa, Tuesday during a town hall meeting to discuss clean energy.

Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Elliethee admitted that the campaign had planted the question and said it would not happen again.

"On this occasion a member of our staff did discuss a possible question about Senator Clinton's energy plan at a forum,” Elliethee said.

“However, Senator Clinton did not know which questioners she was calling on during the event. This is not standard policy and will not be repeated again.”

DFU had a thread about it here

It repeats the same article and DFU couldn't verify it either.

I think post #23 in that thread makes a good point.

But I would still have trouble believing that the advance team could convince hospital staff to bring in their own kids in pajamas ... on a school day ... for a quasi-political event, and the only media that picks up the story is the American Spectator. It seems likely that the advance team just picked the least sick-looking kids in the hospital for the photo op.

They would have 3 or 4 contestants all with hard luck stories. At the end everybody would applaud for their favorite contestant. During the applause, a meter with an arrow (think speedometer on a ‘53 DeSoto) would appear over the contestant. The louder the applause, the higher the meter arrow would register. Then the winner would be escorted to a throne, presented with a crown and flowers provided by the host. (here,picture Bill Clinton blubbering in a 1950’s 3 piece suit...heh heh). Even for a kid it seemed pretty cheesy.

I sense the hole in the dam with the media. They have actually started to REPORT on Hillary’s gaffes! If they start opening up and actually do investigative reporting on her duplicitous acts regarding fundraising, the whole dame will come down at once!

Bubba said it wouldn’t happen again either....and that was before he got elected.

Exactly, and well said.

Just blows the mind how society is conditioned to the drumbeat of the media, and how absence of its din isn't evidence of "no story," it's a signal of an out and out cover up.

All the dead people were just a coincidence, the women were all lying, every shred of evidence has been given up, all documents have been turned over, all the illegal money has been returned, all the IRS investigations of conservatives were just another coincidence, we were so close to our dog, Buddy, we didn’t commit perjury multiple times, we didn’t sell our nation’s most guarded secrets to the Chinese commies, we never took campaign cash from foreign agents, we never sold seats on flights for the Commerce Department, we never sold overnights in the White House, we never used the White House for campaigning, all the Republicans were lying, all the investigations were contrived, we never sold pardons for cash, we never sold burial plots in Arlington, we never pardoned terrorists, we never did anything wrong in Whitewater, Arkansas Highway Patrol never solicited sex partners for Bill, U.S. Secret Service agents never obtained names and numbers of women for Bill, we love the military, we never snorted cocaine, we never lied about Bill’s draft record, Bill never used drugs with underage girls in Arkansas, the rape charges are all lies, the sexual harassment charges are all lies, we have never intimidated anyone, never bribed anyone, never blackmailed anyone, never threatened anyone, it is just one big vast right wing conspiricy out to get us........we are good people..........everyone else is lying.

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