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A. Cooper is really nothing more than another of the CNN's Clinton supporters. Why would they want to point out Democratic political operatives when they're trying to skewer the Loyal Opposition's plodders at a debate? That would just detract from their inciteful questions against those Fascists in the Fringe of American Society? |
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Why couldn't we have had a TownHall/Hot Air version of this? |
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None of this surprises me about the plants in the debate. The Republicans should have seen the obvious and known that this was a farce from the beginning. The level of the questions in most debates has digressed to the level of village idiots.
At least the Democrats know they would be outmatched and asked tough thoughtful questions on Fox so they run from that network like Rosie Odonnel from a health club. |
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Maybe youtube/google is the gardener with all of the plants. Google is famous for it's support of all things liberal, especially it's
'news' search. |
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What a bunch of typical right wing wackos you people are. No one said that questions had to come from voters with no opinions or preferences.
A vast vast majority of questions were so carefully screened by staunch Republicans that the debate was more of a right wing rally than a serious policy debate.
Most notably, everyone outside of the Republican Party believes that global warming is the single greatest threat to our world. Yet, there was not one question that allowed candidates to address this threat to our homeland.
I know that it's hard to use according to their defined and accepted meanings. But you too, can do it. A "plant" is a question from someone in the audience who has been solicited by the candidate or politician to ask a question that politician wants to answer. It is not a term to be applied to anyone who happens to disagree with your weird ideology. |
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Republicans should not cry being hoodwinked. What did Republicans expect from CNN? |
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The answer to that question is "C: All of the above." Yes, it is willful and yes they are that stupid. If they were smart, they wouldn't be liberals. |
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Just because we have had seven years of George Bush and Dick Cheney telling a different version of the truth every day through Faux News Network, Republicans can not always spin the "truth" the way they want it to appear. Hillary will be a great president! |
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I recomend dueling pistols at 30 paces for Romney and Guiliani......Then we can move forward and hear what the few conservatives on the stage have to say. |
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I'll go one step further, I would bet they sought out the questions that furthered the agenda of the Socialist Party and Communist News Network. I'll agree with what was said before, what did they expect from CNN.
The fact that the Republicans had the guts to do it any way, while the Socialists won't go near Fox, speaks volumes about honesty and integrity. |
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way to argue like a leftist: broad generalizations; and untruths passed off as 'truths'. All hot air and no shred of evidence to back up.
Save bandwidth, go away. |
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Michelle Malkin has a great overview of all of these neafarious Commie-Jihadist plants. What really upsets me about all of this is that these phony You Tube video submitters just stole time from real red blooded Americans. We needed more questions from lonely fat white men with guns and insecurities. We also could have used a question or two about the War (the War on Christmas).
Where do these candidates stand on the War on Christmas? |
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Sure, CNN should have caught this, but then I'd bet good money they did in fact catch it. And they should have acknowledged it, just to make clear what was going on.
But beyond that, so what? If anything, the GOP candidates should be taking questions from liberal activists, and the Democrats should be taking them from conservative activists. At least then they might get asked a real question, and Hillary's refusal to answer one might wake a few more people up to just how dishonest her campaign is about what she really believes or what she would really do if elected. |
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I agree with people asking what the big deal is.
I mean, coming up to the Democrat Primaries, it's good to know what questions Democrat Operatives and Insiders are asking.
And coming up to the Republican Primaries, it's important to Republican Primary voters to have the questions and the dialog controlled by Democrat Operatives and shills. Who knows what information might come out if Republicans got to decide what questions were asked of the Republican Candidates in the Republican Debates before the Republican primary.
Thank goodness we have the Hillary Campaign steering committee willing to control and focus the dialog allowed in both parties for both debates.
What's the big deal? Of course the Democrats are going to try to control all the dialog, silence dissent, drown out any alternate options or voices and in general run the show without any dissent allowed. That's what Democrats do.
And CNN is in the tank for Democrats? Why not explain to me that water is wet while you're going over the obvious. |
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I tell you what the DEMS learned real well from NIXON on how to tap into the enemy. They ought to be ashame for stealing NIXONS Strategy. But the problem is that they have the gaul to talk crap about what NIXON did as long as they can make the country feel pity for someone. I was waiting for them to show a women with a baby and no diapers on and blame the REPS for the baby not having anything becuase of the WAR and the mean ole REPS. They are slipping . |
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The question is raised - so what?
I guess if a fair, honest, fully-disclosed forum free of media bias and manipulation isn't important .. then I agree.. who cares?!
But if you're genuinely interested answers about issues important to Republican voters without the "political theater" of manipulation, smoke and mirrors from Democrats/CNN - than this DOES matter.
At matters to me, at least. |
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Liberal losers....
When do you ever hear specific instances of Republicans doing the kind of things liberal operatives do in terms of campign scandals? Same question with respect to the antics of liberal imbeciles with respect to physical confrontations with Republican or conservative speakers or event?
Republicans and conservatives do not engage in the low-reaching, gutter tactics of the liberal left. The liberal socialist Communist sympathizing left-wing of the Democratic Party has no scruples. Just examine organizations like MoveOn.org and Daily Kos. Hillary is the public epitomy and chief representative of the slimy left.
Liberal losers.... |
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I still don't like Michelle and think she's annoying, irritating, brash, arrogant, close-minded, and has a massive chip on her shoulder. I still have flashbacks to her fill-in work on "The O'Reilly Factor." It's painful.
I'm sorry to dump on Michelle every time she's mentioned here, but she and the people that comment to Hot Air and her personal blog are scary. They bashed Bill O'Reilly at every turn and anointed Michelle as the host in waiting. If any commenters here are on those blogs, I'm sorry if I offended you. |
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Its like the old story about the guy who encountered a snake, freezing to death on the road.
"Help me, dont let me freeze to death," begged the snake.
The man put the snake in his coat and after the snake recovered it turned and bit the man. The man collapsed and as he lay dying he asked the snake, "Why?"
'You knew I was a snake when you picked me up", was the reply.
The Republicans knew about the snakes at CNN, or they should have. When are the doofus Republicans going to stop trusting in the good intentions of their evil-minded sworn enemies? |
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Clinton News Network.....CNN, Or the Communist News Network same thing.It took about 3.2 seconds for me to comprehend the type of questions that would be brought forward. I think it was good for the canidates to undergo that type of "debate" it shows how they will handle their everyday life in office. Because if we are lucky enough to elect a republicrat they will face the same if not worse attack machine as G.W. faces on a daily basis. If they are going to fall flat on their butts I would rather know now before they actually have to keep their campaign promises. I consider the way they react as a very important indicator as to how they would be as a leader. In that case John Mcain is hands down the best choice although I am worried about how he would fair in a debate against Billary. |
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Once again, I'm not surprised that there were left-leaning plants in last night's debate. All you can do is shake your head in disgust. You won't get that on FNC. You won't see Carl Cameron talking to plants; just regular folks. |
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I agree, but first we'd have to have honest questions from the Republican interlocutors, instead of the usual softball BS that passes for debate these days.
As I said, let the people who are honestly antagonistic to the candidates ask the questions and then see how the answer. If the Republican candidates cannot take a question from a liberal, they are unworthy of the office they seek. All I ask is acknowledgment of the stance of the person asking the question instead of this lame attempt at claiming they are unbiased and a willingness on the part of the Dems to accept the same ground rules.
Problem is, the GOP candidates wont accept it either. They all want softball questions and as long as the two parties control the system, that's all they'll get. |
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It's okay if a regular person asks a tough question, but if it's a plant, we have a problem. |
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No No No. I;for one, am glad the old army officer's question was asked. Now we know where many of the candidates stand (not withstanding this question has been tackled in previous debates.) It's the underhandedness of how it's presented. If you're a political operative; CNN owes it to their own integrity (or lack thereof) to disclose this. Quit trying to pass off as some poor undecided Replubican voter to get your 'gotcha' moment or 15 minutes of fame. |
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I'm so glad that the right wing
has never used the media to get a point across. These criticisms are coming from people like you all who didn't say a word when Bush organized his "Town Hall" meetings across the country by stacking them with phoney questions designed to make him look good and audiences who were loyal to the Right or just plain operatives.
There are so many hypocrites posting here - It's amazing to me that you suddenly are outraged.
The Bush "Town Hall" meetings were never publicized as staged, pre-written events, and the so-called "liberal media" networks that broadcast them pretended they were spontaneous, honest debates as well.
You guys just amaze me.
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The right is hysterical on this point. You're criticism of the questioners being "plants" drips, literally, with irony. The rightwing is never been so whiny, churlish and insufferably victimized than when they are out-manuevered at their own game. Hypocrites - and none bigger than Malkin. |
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Let me get this straight, Hillary's camp plants softball questions for her in the Dem debate, Hillary and Edwards both have operatives in the GOP debate to throw hard questions that the Dems would never get asked yet you call one side hypocates and cannot see the lack of integrity on the part of CNN, and the others? Slam Bush if you like, if he deserves it. But how do you pass over this crap? |
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"When do you ever hear specific instances of Republicans doing the kind of things liberal operatives do in terms of campign scandals?"
Well, never, if you are tuned in to the righ-wing wacko media.
But consider that there were NINE felons among Bush 'Pioneeers'; that the Bush campaign papered South Carolina with fliers in 2000 intimating that John McCain had a black baby; that the Bush administration paid a gay escort to lob softball questions at White House press conferences; that they paid commentators and columnists to parrot the White House line.
Really? You think there's no scandal on the right? You need to get out more. |
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I agree. you can't look around without seeing a right-winger crying that they are a victim; they are being oppressed because someone asked their candidate a question in a debate or they are being persecuted because someone didn't say Merry Christmas to them at the mall, or they are being abused because they can't take money from college student funds so they can pay for their own private clubs that they bar the people who paid into that fund from attending.
Get over it, people. Conservatives look absurd when you play the victim, and you do it so much that it's becoming tiresome to the majority of Americans. Quit whining and accept the fact that candidates get asked questions. |
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My point is about all the whining that is going on about the gay operative, plant or not. Republicans have been famous for planting questions and questioners in taxpayer-financed "town-halls", press conferences, and campaigns. Funny, I don't remember Hamm crying about those instances; in fact, I don't remember them even being mentioned on TH.
As for a softball question to Hillary, I don't suppose you consider the baseball question to Giuliani a little present (from the so-called left Wing media).
The problem I am having is with the hypocritical outrage, like this column, which avoids having to address the basic question which was asked in the first place.
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Hamm says "the girl who was asking the abortion question was wearing an Edwards T-shirt!!!!!"
Horrors! I suppose that means that 21 year olds aren't supposed to favor one politician but ask questions of another one? When was that law passed? |
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The baseball question just like the diamonds question is stupid and irrelevent, I want to know positions and will the person give a straight answer. The Gen. Kerr was too easy to check out, plus they had him on doing an interview a few years back, then not only does he get in a youtube question but is there in-person for a follow-up question (happens all the time, right?) Also, this was supposed to be a forum for those supporting republicans and the undecided to get their chance at questioning, not for the time to be given to Dem supporters. Here is a word some may consider out of style or corny, Integrity, CNN has none. |
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