Shillgate
The Clinton campaign's planted shill at the CNN/Youtube debate is getting major right-blogospere coverage and a deafening silence on the left side so far. I don't expect that will change much. Isn't her campaign content with planting questions for her? "You know, many young people ask me about that…."
Assorted Babble: CNN did it again. Tonight in Florida, the CNN Republican debate had more than Youtube videos asking questions.
Ace: You have to hand it to them…the Hillary people are really good at planting questions. At least CNN didn't identify him as an undecided voter.
Oh, no, wait, here's The New Republic, no stranger to fraud: GOP Audience Boos Gay Veteran (Ed. Note:Or boos plant, who can say….)
Hot Air: …CNN not only approved a question from someone affiliated with the Clinton campaign without identifying the affiliation, they invited him to the debate so that he could ask a follow-up.
STACLU: Update by Jay: Just to be clear, this is the man who claimed to be a retired general who is gay and asked about gays in the military. Is he a Hillary shill? Here’s all the evidence one needs.
Flip: For the record, my guess is that not only did CNN genuinely not know about Kerr's affiliation, but that Team Hillary was unaware of his participation in the debate.
Liberty Pundit: And CNN, there’s no way they didn’t know who this guy was or who he was connected to.
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The Anchoress » Blog Archive » CNN-YouTube Debates: The good, the bad and the ugly — Thursday, 29 November , 2007 @ 11:38 am
By syn, Thursday, 29 November , 2007 @ 7:34 am
I’d call it the resounding shills of identity politics.
I suppose CNN needs to cover for Democrats because of the quagmire their identity grouping creates; ie feminism, gayism, colorism, classism and enviromentalism all pit against one another for the position of who is the supreme aggrieved group.
Seriously, shills for Clinton should be asking Democrats why her husband enacted the ‘don’t ask don’t tell’.
To tell the truth I’m sick and tired of identity politics and its phoney shlick; social justice is just another way of maintaining stuck on stupid.
By martian, Friday, 30 November , 2007 @ 1:24 pm
Flip, what planet do you live on? Is the weather nice there?