**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.

“I just hope the MSM picks up on this article.”

They won’t, because they can’t. They are in the tank with the socialists. Letting the masses know that they are and have been conning them, is not at all in their interest.

Do you think CNN is now going to admit that their “great debate” was nothing more than an infomercial? Nope, no more than CBS would admit that they condoned ole Dan Rather’s blatant attempt to swing the 2004 election with his fraud.

The MSM is not our friend.

"ordinary people, undecided voters"

Great work, Syncro! These are obviously not 'ordinary' people in any reasonable sense of the world since they are all left-wing activists for the Demagogic Party. I'm not as certain about how to interpret the 'undecided' voter claim, though - CNN wasn't necessarily saying they are undecided between Demagogues and Republicans, just that they might be undecided among the Demagogue candidates ....I doubt that such devout activists are all actually undecided at this stage of the campaign, but unless we can find actual evidence that they have professed an affiliation or preference for one of the candidates, I don't know that it is necessarily inaccurate to say they are undecided. But they are most certainly NOT "ordinary" citizens, so I suggest that is where we should focus our fire on CNN's hack fest.

I can get the video to load

It is attributed to FR poster RaceBannon

It looks like U-Tube is making it largely unavailable

This is from the U-Tube page of the video:

DON’T KNOW WHY THIS VIDEO IS UNWATCHABLE NOW. PLEASE ALLOW THE VIDEO TO PLAY, YOUTUBE!

They did the same thing with DFU’s video exposing Clinton with the Peter Paul/Spiderman thingie.

Here is the link again

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gYmRIO9nKlc

Like I said, I can get it but apparently it is blocked for most people

YouTube/Google/CNN/MSN/Etc are quite liberal. Understatement yes I know...

Terrible job by CNN (or maybe a "great job," since their job is to work for Democrats??).

One thing, though: before we jump on "Maria Luisa" for being an ineligible voter, we should probably consider that she might not actually be ineligible. The linked UNLV website states: "She is an immigrant on a quest to become a United States citizen and this will soon become a reality."

The website is a page about a 2006 award, and so presumably, the page came out sometime in 2006 or early 2007. Depending on how far along she was in terms of becoming a citizen, it is entirely possible that she is a citizen, and thus (obviously) entitled to vote.

This is how 1992 was accomplished, how “ordinary” people suddenly discovered that “it’s the economy, stupid.” Thank God for the Internet.

Yep! Who can ever forget that scumbag Peter Jennings opening every evening's 'ABC World News Tonight' with the phrase, "More bad news for George Bush tonight....", and then reporting the latest declining "economic indicators"? Month after month of reports like that suddenly ceased in the first week of November 1992, the day after Clinton was elected.

Not long afterward, reports about the "recovering economy" began to appear, including one famous one where the New York Times credited Bill Clinton with turning the economy around even though the data they cited covered a time period during which Bush was still President. The New York Times actually took the bold move of "apologizing" for that error - - in a blurb way back in section 'F' somewhere.

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

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