Video: CNN’s politics of planting
Hot Air’s Bryan Preston strolls through CNN’s garden of not-so-undecided “undecided voters:”
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If the Right did anything resembling this kind of media manipulation, the crying of “Foul Play” on the Left would be deafening.
Are the Dhimmicrats this afraid of their chances in November 08 that they are dress rehearsing for the “slam dunk” they are trying to pull off to get the White House back?
Did Obama hold an envelope up to his forehead? I didn’t notice.
the fraud being perpetrated via the clinton’s ‘the presidency at all costs machine’will not be stopped by the likes of the MSM or driveby media. the exposure to the plants in the audience must continue. the so called booing of edward’s recount of the differences between the two campaigns were most likely shrillary plants, too.
but, my question is this: why would hillary need to plant ‘undecideds’ or so called ‘independents’ in the audience? because she thinks that they are drones and if you can make it appear that independents are deciding for her, well then they will like sheeple follow suit come voting day.
independents are not that easily fooled. only a democrat can be that stupid. sort of like the statement that 18% of repulican women will vote for hillary cause she is a woman. please, we didn’t come out for Dole when she was running in 2000, cause she was a woman.
To conclude that women are that stupid, well this is just an insult to women everywhere and was most definitely spoken by a fool.
preview is missing… republican*
Remember the secrecy surrounding the YouTube debate questions? Now you know - made up, planted, and an agenda…
The entire debate was a sham an audience loaded with Hillary supporters, edwards was to dumb to notice the applause she got at the beginning and realize going after her might not be a good idea tonight. Geez it was as obvious as all the make up on Bidens face.
I would like to read the demands placed on the debates by the candidates, like who stands where, what can be asked ect.
I just know that they do it but nobody ever writes about it.
All I can say is WOW. I’ve always pretty much known that many candidates (let’s be honest, on both sides of the aisle) have put in ringers while on the campaign trail, but this is a huge step further! Having CNN be a co-conspiritor with the democrats is a new low for even them. Too bad the general public won’t care or is too worried about who’s winning on the Biggest Loser to take this seriously…
But, it makes it so easy when you know what questions to answer. That way you know how to answer to meet the current direction of the wind. /Sarcasm off and 100%.
The is a LVRJ article that says Obama spoke to a gathering of about 300 Culinary Union 226 members prior to the debate and the lady is mentioned in the article. However the way the article is written it is unclear if she attended that event or she was being questioned elsewhere about the labor negotiations going on.
But still what is the odds that even if Obama had met her at the event of 300 members that he could know she would be a participant in the debate.
The real issue here is that each participant had their description toned down to obscure their status to perform a deception even on their own voter base.
I also find it interesting that Ms Spenser from Arkansas has not been included in the transcript of the debate CNN has on their website.
Search the document for LaShannon Spenser and her question was left out of the transcript and you will not find her.
Doug Ross documents the omission of Ms Spenser.
We need to have questions like this, right outa the blue, if there were I bet the candidates would make this girl look like a genius.
pageant girl
Bryan is fantastic. He is always well informed and does his homework.
Yep, I am undecided as well. I can’t make up my mind which dimocrap candidate I like least.
Think the Repubs will capitalize on this?
not.holding.breath
Is this really a surprise from the Clinton News Network???
The liberanimals always cry and moan about Fox News and their alleged bias but fall mute when the same questions are raised about their pet networks. Hmm? Could it be the Gigantic Left-leaning Hypocrisaurus on the loose?
If they held a little straw poll of the staff at CNN, who do you think would win? Gee, maybe Hillary? Ask yourself who would win the same poll at CBS, NBC, ABC, the NYT, the LA Times, USA Today, MSNBC? Can anyone convincingly argue that it would be anyone other than Hillary or another Democrat?
These antics will simply be par for the 08 elections course. “Mayor Giuliani, have you stopped hating black people?” “Senator Clinton, why do you think the Bush administration prevented you from stopping the 9-11 terror attacks?”
WOW.
As if - there was any question as to why the democrats boycotted the fox news sponsored democrat debate … and prefer to be on CNN.
This video is absolutely amazing. Absolutely.
And we’d NEVER see this on any other news program. I wonder if Bill Moyers will do a special program on the politics in the media on his PBS program.
not.holding.breath either.
I LOOOOOVVVEEE IT! Absolutely brilliant! What I want to know is how they thought they could keep all of this under cover? Then again, they are so arrogant that they figure that the MSM will play along and the general population that doesn’t follow along with politics will never know about it.
Ha anyone yet mentioned the term, TOTAL CONTROL? This is exactly what we can look forward to if HillCo takes the reins of “power.”
I think this has less to do about the MSM, and more to do about total corruption at the highest levels in the Democrat Party…during any coup, the “freedom fighters’” first order of business is to take over ALL media outlets. With very few exceptions, this has already happened apparently! God help us all!!!
American Spectator has a CNN source telling of the high standard they expected questioners to meet.
I would think that the candidates themselves would have ground rules that a state party level person like Ms Spenser even if she is possibly not in the position any more be excluded on ethics grounds from participation as a simple audience member in her case a church member as she was only referred to as.
Hey, just because CNN was founded by a creepy old guy who called Catholics “Jesus Freaks” on Ash Wednesday and married the most famous traitor since Tokyo Rose doesn’t mean they would run a tainted debate does it? (With apologies to regular creepy old guys.)
Gee that sure worked so well didn’t it?
On November 19th, 2007 at 1:57 pm, right_on said:
Ha anyone yet mentioned the term, TOTAL CONTROL? This is exactly what we can look forward to if HillCo takes the reins of “power.”
I think this has less to do about the MSM, and more to do about total corruption at the highest levels in the Democrat Party…during any coup, the “freedom fighters’” first order of business is to take over ALL media outlets. With very few exceptions, this has already happened apparently! God help us all!!!
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Does the Antichrist necessarily have to be male?
How can anyone be surprised, that the Clintons would do this, or that the lamestream press would ignore it?
I think they meant “undecided” perhaps in the sense of “I haven’t decided which donk I’m going to vote for.”
It’s a safe bet that Republicans, conservatives, or genuine independents are going to be pretty scarce at a donkey party “debate.”
The make up on Biden’s face???
My God, there was so much on Hillary’s face, they had to have caulked the wrinkles and bags before they even applied the make up!
No fraud here,they are undecided.They can’t choose between Socialism and sharia.
“no longer available”
What a shock. CNN didn’t waste much time there…
nope… it’s up… never mind.
What a sickening display! I was looking forward to watching the debate because I had heard that Wolf was told to go easy on Hillary and knowing how she was blundering in the previous weeks, was hoping too see her fall. But no it was the opposite. And the question and answer part was the worst display of disgust. I had mentioned to someone that all the questions sounded planted and lo and behold they were!
Would someone, somewhere call them on this? I swear to never watch a democrat debate again but the very fact that this is how corrupt CNN is and that Wolf went along with this is truely sickening. And the very fact that the democrats see this debate and find no fault is truely scary also. Liberalism is truely a mental disorder.
No one should be surprised at this, or at the fact that the MSM isn’t going to report it. As soon as I heard about the debate, I knew there would be plants. The shocker would be if they actually got a spontaneous question.
Why would the MSM report it? They set it up in the first place. That kinda defeats the purpose. I’m sure there are a bunch of Kool-aid drinkers out there nodding their heads saying “Wow, that was a really good answer to the question!”
MSM (and CNN which isn’t so mainstream anymore): Mission Accomplished!
/utter disgust/
I think the only thing left undecided in the audience was how many times they would vote for Hilary!
CNN’s proClinton bias was so horrendous that even the Daily Kos and the NY Times castigated CNN. Most shameful of all was CNN’s allowing James Carville to appear as an “analyst” without telling his audience that Carville is a financial contributor to the Clinton campaign, that he has sent out a fund raising appeal for Hillary and that he talks strategy with Bill Clinton. To Anderson Cooper and the CNN crew, those facts do not make Carville a biased analyst. The whole CNN staff believes that as a matter of objective truth, the nation needs the Clintons in the White House. To the entire staff at CNN from editors to newsanchors to reporters in the field, the need for the Clintons to be in the White House is as obvious as the earth rotating around the sun or the earth being round. So they see no need to identify Carville’s extraordinary identification with the Clintons. To CNN, that just makes Carville a person who is speaking the objective truth, as if he were announcing the temperature in Boston.
These incidents of planting show the intellectual cowardice of the Left. They are so afraid of getting a question they can’t answer, they are tuning everyone else out. They are only harming themselves in the long run.