Midnight In The Garden Of Good And CNN
It would appear that CNN had more than just one partisan shill at the CNN/YouTube debate. They had a thriving colony of plants there.
Digging out more CNN/YouTube plants: Abortion questioner is declared Edwards supporter (and a slobbering Anderson Cooper fan); Log Cabin Republican questioner is declared Obama supporter; lead toy questioner is a prominent union activist for the Edwards-endorsing United Steelworkers.
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The best thing about Republicans agreeing to do the CNN/YouTube debate is that it created yet another invaluable opportunity to expose CNN’s abject incompetence.
And you know what? The candidates, by and large, handled the planted questions quite well. So if the planted questions did any damage at all, politically, it was to the Democrats themselves. It shows a large degree of weakness at their core that they felt they had to try to hijack the debate. It is also safe to speculate that if the Republicans had done the same thing to the Democrats the howling, frothing rage would have set off seismic monitors.
I actually heard Mike Huckabee's answer of the Log Cabin Republican question posed by the plant life and I thought he nailed that one down hard.
DAVID CERCONE (POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA): Hi. My name is David Cercone. I would like to ask all the candidates if they accept the support of the Log Cabin Republicans. And why should the Log Cabin Republicans support their candidacy? Thank you.
MR. COOPER: Governor Huckabee, would you support — would you get — would you allow support from the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of gay Republicans?
MR. HUCKABEE: You know, in my position in this entire election, I need the support of anybody and everybody I can get. (Laughter, applause.) So I'm happy –
MR. COOPER: Should they support you?
MR. HUCKABEE: Sure they should. I disagree with them — strongly disagree with them — on the idea of same-sex marriage. But in a democracy, we can have disagreements over some policies and still agree on the greater things that make us Republicans.
So would I accept their support? Of course. Would I change my position on same-sex marriage? No, I wouldn't. But if they're willing to support me — (applause) — I'll be their president. I'll be anybody's president, but I'll be true to my convictions. And I think that's what Americans look for — not someone they're going to agree with on everything, but somebody who at least has some convictions — (applause) — sticks with them, can explain them, and can at least have respect for people who have different ones. (Applause.)
Which is quite a lot better show of respect for divergent opinions than planting questions from operatives and activists in a debate, don't you think?
UPDATE: Goin' to the candidate's debate: Gardening with Hillary!
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By Mwalimu Daudi, Thursday, 29 November , 2007 @ 9:30 am
Why do Republicans (a.k.a. the Stupid Party) keep showing up at these Democrat-controlled “debates” and allow themselves to get slapped around without even a whimper of protest? You would think that even the stupidity of the Stupid Party has a limit, but we have yet to see the GOP reach it.
You can bet the next time the MSM hold a “debate”, the GOP will show up again (in force) to be pummeled by more planted when-do-you-plan-to-stop-killing-homosexuals-children-racial-minorities-and-old-people questions. Sometimes it seems that Howard Dean is actually running the GOP.
By Quinn, Thursday, 29 November , 2007 @ 10:22 am
This kind of thing still surprises me when I hear about it!
I think its just the idea that CNN believes they could get away with it without really trying to cover their tracks.
Anyways, this idea that the states ought to decide whether or not to legalize the killing of innocent babies is inherently vile and evil. Anyone who makes such an argument (like Ron Paul, Fred Thompson, etc.) is by definition a bad person.
To get a better idear of what I’m talking about check out this analysis of Ron Paul’s response to a question asked on YouTube about abortion a few months back.
http://www.kgov.com/bel_56kbps/20071016