CNN/YouTube debate questioners not as "regular joe" as they were reported to be
Michelle Malkin has the scoop on last night’s CNN/YouTube debate wherein CNN chose questions sent in via YouTube. The questions were all supposed to be from just your average joes and chosen specifically to bring critical issues to light, allegedly without becoming a partisan Democrat gotcha-fest. Well, the debate did bring out the issues but it’s coming to light that CNN didn’t put too much research into the partisan membership of the questioners.
One question regarding gays in the military was posed by retired Brigadier General Keith Kerr. What CNN failed to tell anyone was that Kerr is a Clinton/Kerry supporter actively involved in Hillary’s campaign. Another was from a mother asking about lead in imported toys. Turns out she’s an activist with the United Steelworkers, which has endorsed John Edwards. Another one regarded abortion from a young woman, allegedly undecided, who turned out to be another John Edwards supporter who’s put up other YouTube vids actively supporting him while sporting an “Edwards 2008″ shirt. Finally, a man portraying himself as an undecided Log Cabin Republican is on record in a profile written by himself as being a Barak Obama supporter.
These items have come to light with simple Google and other search engine use inside of 16 hours of the debate. How much work could CNN have possibly have done in vetting these questions when they had weeks to perform the task others have accomplished in hours?
Anderson Cooper at CNN made an on-air apology about General Kerr’s question saying that CNN was unaware of his association with the Dems’ campaigns and would have said so before using the question, if they had used it at all. Will they own up about the rest of these that have come to light (with more, possibly, to come)? I cannot imagine for a moment the level of shrieking that would be coming from the Kos Kidz and HuffPo if Fox were to have done the same thing to the Dem candidates and chosen only questions from GOP supporters.
That is, assuming the Dems develop the fortitude to actually appear on Fox News.
Comment from representativepress
Time November 29, 2007 at 11:01
CNN has once again screwed the viewers of the Republican debate. See who was which YouTube videos When clowns like CNN’s senior vice president David Bohrman and the rest of the CNN political team are the ones selecting the videos, it is no surprise. Here is why, see this video to see what they have been doing to us.