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CNN Reporter: Stacked GOP Debate 'Inexcusable'
Jeff Gannon - A Voice of the New Media ^ | 12/3/2007 | Jeff Gannon

Posted on 12/03/2007 9:30:00 PM PST by ConservativeMajority

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To: ConservativeMajority

What is this CNN, anyway?


41 posted on 12/03/2007 9:59:52 PM PST by claudiustg (You know it. I know it.)
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To: John Valentine

I totally agree.

We need to show where they don’t play by the rules, however, there comes a point, or so it seems to me, that we overdo the complaining and what starts out as a completely valid complaint becomes a whine.

Just my opinion.


42 posted on 12/03/2007 10:00:12 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: ConservativeMajority

Cnn admits they stacked debates.
CNN also admitted they lied for Saddam.

In both instances, the damage is already done.

In one, they pushed Hillary/Democrat agenda items to the front of a REPUBLICAN DEBATE.

In the other, American Citizen Soldiers paid for it with thier lives...

In neither case will CNN pay a penalty.


43 posted on 12/03/2007 10:00:15 PM PST by tcrlaf (You can lead a Liberal to LOGIC, but you can't make it THINK)
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To: ConservativeMajority

Cnn admits they stacked debates.
CNN also admitted they lied for Saddam.

In both instances, the damage is already done.

In one, they pushed Hillary/Democrat agenda items to the front of a REPUBLICAN DEBATE.

In the other, American Citizen Soldiers paid for it with thier lives...

In neither case will CNN pay a penalty.


44 posted on 12/03/2007 10:00:15 PM PST by tcrlaf (You can lead a Liberal to LOGIC, but you can't make it THINK)
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To: JennysCool

LOL, yes lot’s of troll bait threads here for the last 6 mos!


45 posted on 12/03/2007 10:00:17 PM PST by roses of sharon
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

How about a Free Republic interactive debate.

(not joking actually)


46 posted on 12/03/2007 10:00:35 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (I'm a proud Yankee Doodle Protectionist)
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To: ConservativeMajority

I find it funny that the dems refused to have a debate on FNC, and I’m sure FNC wouldn’t have done anything like CNN did. No republican should ever appear on CNN again, in any way shape or form. They would have good reason not to do so.


47 posted on 12/03/2007 10:01:51 PM PST by KoRn
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To: KoRn
I’m sure FNC wouldn’t have done anything like CNN did

No, but they sure would have done everything possible to push Rudy and give him an advantage.

FNC's hands are not clean in this matter!
48 posted on 12/03/2007 10:03:33 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: Graybeard58

Excusing CNN’s complete fraud as, “Oh, well, gosh darn it, everybody should have known it would happen. Hee hee! Let’s just move on, shall we?” is nothing I’d ever “agree with.”


49 posted on 12/03/2007 10:05:19 PM PST by JennysCool (Don't taze me, Bro!)
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To: JennysCool; Graybeard58

You need to read the rest of the posts on this page before responding.

No-one, including myself is saying that.


50 posted on 12/03/2007 10:08:07 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

The GOP should stage a debate that would be televised on LIVE STREAMING INTERNET - that would upstage ANYTHING in quality that the drive-bys would do and would also kill their ratings in the process ;-).

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I’d be willing to bet the Free Republic server, has enough bandwidth...


51 posted on 12/03/2007 10:09:40 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (I'm a proud Yankee Doodle Protectionist)
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To: SoConPubbie

What Fabozz is getting at is not to complain about the nature of the questions... they were what they were, and we go on with our lives.

BUT, it appears that CNN was fully complicit in an outright fraud, if the questioners were knowingly mis-described as “undecided Republican voters”. That looks very much like completely intentional hogwash, and not just an innocent mistake.

CNN ought not to get a pass on this.


52 posted on 12/03/2007 10:10:19 PM PST by John Valentine
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To: SoConPubbie

That is pretty much exactly what you said.


53 posted on 12/03/2007 10:10:35 PM PST by JennysCool (Merry Christmas!)
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To: JennysCool
That is pretty much exactly what you said.

You still have not read the rest of the thread!
54 posted on 12/03/2007 10:12:37 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: John Valentine
CNN ought not to get a pass on this.

I agree with you, CNN should not get a pass.
55 posted on 12/03/2007 10:15:23 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: Fabozz
"The reason why you're seeing people like King and Cooper speak out against CNN's "vetting" is because it's a smokescreen."

This is the second excuse they've tried to float. The first was that the Democrat party planted the questioners. That didn't work so now they're trying this.

56 posted on 12/03/2007 10:16:38 PM PST by antinomian (Show me a robber baron and I'll show you a pocket full of senators.)
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To: SoConPubbie

I have. Twice.

This is what you said:

“The GOP should stop whining about this and grow up.”

I do not believe people are “whining” about this complete fraud, I believe they are holding CNN’s feet to the fire on it, as they should be.

This was fraud, pure and simple. And for you to characterize those who complain about it as “whining” shows EXACTLY where you stand on the issue.


57 posted on 12/03/2007 10:17:01 PM PST by JennysCool (Merry Christmas!)
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To: ConservativeMind
You don’t succeed by playing in a game in which your enemy controls all the rules.

Indeed.

Fact: The political directors at CNN, Fox and NBC have individually had far more power over this year's Republican presidential primary process than the entire conservative base of the party.

And they wonder why the GOP is called "the stupid party."

58 posted on 12/03/2007 10:17:43 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Democrats: "Government is god, and Hillary is its prophet....")
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To: JennysCool

So we disagree!

Welcome to FreeRepublic!


59 posted on 12/03/2007 10:18:12 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: ConservativeMajority
The reality is it far worse

Both the CNN Democrat debate and the CNN Republican debate were total shams

Both debates we were told by CNN were to have supposed “undecided voters” of their given party

Both CNN debates in fact had planted left wing/Democratic activists

One can be sold as an “opps” twice is "contempt for the public" pattern

If these two debates were Fox sponsor debates and filled with right wing shills...

It would be the scandal of the century per the rest of the MSM

Head's there would be rolling right and left and...

A congressional investigation would be going on right now to find some way to get them closed down for violating the public trust

60 posted on 12/03/2007 10:18:57 PM PST by tophat9000 (You need to have standards to fail and be a hypocrite, Dem's therefor are never hypocrites)
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