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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Amanda Carpenter :: Townhall.com Columnist
Clinton Tries to Stuff Student Plant
by Amanda Carpenter
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The college student who told CNN that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign made her a “plant” at an Iowa campaign stop now says Clinton’s staff tried to stop her from telling the media about it.

After Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, 19, told a reporter for her Grinnell College paper a Clinton aide had given her a pre-determined question listed in a binder to ask the senator at a campaign event, Gallo-Chasanoff said a Clinton aide phoned her and asked her “not to talk about” it any more, according to the New York Post.

Clinton’s campaign first denied “planting” questions at campaign events, but later admitted to it after CNN aired an interview with Gallo-Chasanoff describing in detail how Clinton’s staff engaged her in doing so.

“They brought me to one of the senior staffers,” she said. “He showed me in his binder, he had a piece of paper that had typed out questions on it and the top one was planned specifically for a college student. It said ‘college student.”

Gallo-Chasanoff said she wanted to ask Clinton how her energy plans compared to other Democratic presidential candidates. She was told this wasn’t “a good idea” and instead she should ask Clinton about global warming.

When Gallo-Chananoff did ask Clinton about global warming as directed Clinton prefaced her response by saying: “It’s usually young people who ask me about global warming.”

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Amanda Carpenter is the author of “The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Clinton,” published in October 2006.
 
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great post jerseyvet!!!!!
PRICELESS!! PRICELESS!!!!!!!!!

Jerseyvet writes: Thursday, November, 15, 2007 2:04 PM
Reality Check
Reality check for liberals: Conservatives don't hate the Clintons. We just feel that if you hired a man to do a job and he spent more time fondling the help than doing the job and his wife spent more time protecting him and enabling him and they both lied often and publicly about the job they were supposed to be doing--why would we want to hire these people again?

WELL PUT!!! EXCELLENTLY WELL PUT!!!! I AGREE 100%!!! WE KNOW THE PRODUCT, WHY WOULD WE WANT TO HIRE THESE COMMON WHORES AGAIN?

Jetpilot
Nobody here is exactly proclaiming the coming of the Antichrist because the Hillary team planted some questions.

My opposition to Hillary is no more or less vehement than it was to Kerry, Gore, or Dukakis. She's just another in a long line of McGovernized leftovers from the 1960s.

And that opposition has nothing to do with her being a woman. Our conservative British counterparts elected this woman named Thatcher something like 3 times in a row.

You send me a Thatcher, and I'll send her a vote.

Where do you get these almost caricaturized notions of American conservatism from?
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