**CNN's six "undecided voters" were all Democratic operatives**

UPDATES BELOW - CNN hits bottom and digs: All six debate questioners appear to be Democratic Party operatives. So much for "ordinary people, undecided voters". To paraphrase Junior Soprano, CNN is so far up the DNC's hind end, Howard Dean can taste hair gel.

In a nutshell, CNN's six "undecided voters" were:

A Democratic Party bigwig
An antiwar activist
A Union official
An Islamic leader
A Harry Reid staffer
A radical Chicano separatist

Wow. This looks "rather" like a scandal. Hot Air:

...You’d think the network’s audience might want to know who among the questioners has had a paid, formal relationship with the party.

...I went back to the beginning of the debate to see how Blitzer introduced the format. Did he offer any details on who’d be doing the questioning? Why, yes. After mentioning that the debate was sponsored by the national party — something likely understood by most viewers as a mere formality — he described them as “ordinary people, undecided voters.” Note: not even “undecided Democrats.” Just undecided.

Word on the street is that Hillary's staffers are extremely pleased with CNN's Wolf Blitzer for his softball questioning of Sen. Clinton during Thursday's Las Vegas debate. Blitzer "was outstanding, and did not gang up like Russert did in Philadelphia. He avoided personal attacks, remained professional and ran the best debate so far."

Who were the questioners upon whom Blitzer called? According to CNN, they were "ordinary people, undecided voters.” Like these folks:

Plant #1: LaShannon Spencer, whom Blitzer introduced as an "undecided voter", was tagged by Dan Riehl: in truth, she served as the political director of the Democratic Party of Arkansas.

Plant #2: Khalid Kahn, who expressed concern about profiling and the Patriot Act, asked "[m]y question is that -- our civil liberties have been taken away from us. What are you going to do to protect Americans from this kind of harassment?" Classical Values notes that Mr. Kahn is the president of the Islamic Society of Nevada, who has hosted conferences like this one (with guest speakers like Muzzamil Siddiqi). In fact, Kahn in no stranger to CNN, appearing on a show called Keeping the Faith in Sin City.

Plant #3: Suzanne Jackson -- mother of a three-term Iraq war veteran -- is aso a well-known antiwar activist. She appeared in the Las Vegas Review Journal protesting -- with a poor monkey, no less -- outside of Harry Reid's office in May.

Plant #4: Maria Luisa -- the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred "diamonds or pearls" -- wrote that CNN forced her to ask the "frilly" question instead of a pre-approved query regarding the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility.

Update: Andy writes to point out the eerie similarities between Maria L. Parra-Sandoval and "Maria Luisa." Regarding Ms. Parra-Sandoval, the UNLV website states:

This spring she will serve as the political communications intern for Senator Harry Reid in Washington, D.C. Currently a junior at UNLV, Maria is... is an immigrant on a quest to become a United States citizen.

In other words, she's not even eligible to vote, unless the Democrats changed the rules when I wasn't looking.

Thanks.

I especially like this guy.

Out of eight audience members selected, at least half had some form of undisclosed link:
* Khalil Khan (made unverified claim that he'd been racially profiled at the airport; Malveaux does say "he says" about those claims; the impression I received when watching it live was that she bought the claims)
- identified by CNN only as a "businessman"
- President of the Islamic Society of Nevada (lvmasjid.com)
- Appeared in Paula Zahn segment (transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/28/pzn.01.html)
- more

I have yet to see anyone involved with an "Islamic Society" or similar organization that wasn't on the side of the Democrats/Liberals (read terrorists) I don't CAIR what they say.

And quite "decidedly" so.

This "unknown random citizen"

Thank goodness he was profiled at the airport. It's not racial profiling, it's ROP profiling. Let's hope it really happened and continues to happen.

CNN = Clinton News Network. Stooges, lackies and Dim hacks.

Imagine the outrages if the Republicans played this way. The slimy media would latch on and not let go but since this is CNN, you won’t hear about this anywhere other than on Freerepublic. I just hope that this properly prepares the right people for the “real” debates between the party nominees rather than the friendly discussions between each party’s own.

Disgraceful. Another reason I have not watched CNN since I was able to get Fox News Channel on my TV in 1999.

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

CNN's six "undecided voters" were all Democratic operatives