If anyone is wondering why one of the popular nicknames for CNN is Communist News Network, allow Michelle Malkin to explain (I’ll skip the horticulture pics):
Concerned Young Undecided Person "Journey" = John Edwards supporter "Journey"
Concerned Undecided Log Cabin Republican supporter David Cercone = Obama supporter David Cercone
Concerned Undecided Mom LeeAnn Anderson = Activist for the John Edwards-endorsing United Steelworkers union LeeAnn Anderson
Concerned Undecided Gay Military Retiree Brig. Gen. Keith H. Kerr = Hillary/Kerry supporter and anti-"Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" activist Keith H. Kerr
Unlike Michelle, I am not giving CNN the benefit of the doubt, especially with Kerr. A self-respecting propoganda organization wouldn’t bring somebody in to be part of the live audience unless they knew every last detail.
Revisions/extensions (7:58 am 11/29/2007) – I swear I didn’t break Michelle’s site (seriously, it’s a combination of an Instalanche and a Drudge Crush). In the interim, the overflow at Hot Air is open.
R&E part 2 (8:24 am 11/29/2007) – An eagle-eyed commenter at the Hot Air overflow thread is claiming CNN is trying to erase history vis-a-vis the Hillary plant. When are they going to learn that scrubbing after the fact doesn’t work. Side note; those of you with video of this, find somewhere other than YouTube/Google to put that video up; I expect that they’ll be scrubbing as well. Hell, send it to me, and I’ll host it.
Bumper-crop R&E (8:50 am 11/29/2007) – Make that 6 plants (H/T – Doc). From Jason Coleman, plant #5 is Ted Faturos, former intern for Rep. Jane Harman (D-California), whose question was on farm subsidies. Plant #6 is David McMillan, Breck Girl supporter and Uncle-Tom hunter (appropriate, because his question was why Pubbies weren’t attracting the black vote). He also found a couple of Paul-Nuts sprinkled in for “levity”.
Overflowing-bushel R&E (4:02 pm 11/29/2007) – And we’re up to 8 out of 30 (not 40) questions. With a tip of the cap to Flip, PowerLine has plant #7 as Adam Florzak, who worked with Dick Durbin on Social Security reform and asked a question on Social Security, and plant #8 as Mark Strauss, an admitted Bill Richardson supporter who played a PaulNut on BoobTube (what, they couldn’t find an actual PaulNut, or are all the PauNuts actually DhimmiRATs?). Un-fucking-real.
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15% of the comments from easily known Democrat political activists. And I’m reasonably sure “Yasmin” is a political partisan too, but I can’t verify my suspicions.
6 of 5000, not a shock. 6 of 40 selected from 5000– well, that’s just like getting struck by lightning 12 times on the same day!
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
[...] Steveegg at No Runny Eggs has more also and a couple of more plants. [...]
I notice you don’t post the actual questions asked….could that be because you can’t show any bias in the actual question…how come grover norquist lofts snowballs and you say not a word?
I guess I shouldn’t have assumed that you were paying attention to the debate Wednesday well enough to listen to the questions. You can go back through the (edited) CNN tape to get them, if you’re interested.
It wasn’t the questions; it was the lack of disclosure on the part of CNN. In case you missed the Grover Norquist “softball” (which got flubbed again and again), CNN disclosed his affiliation.
only the right wing could get so worked up about a bunch of questions.
How dare they ask us questions that expose the ugly side of our political motivations!
Which explains why, to a person, the Democrats refuse to appear on a debate hosted by Fox News.
Wait a second, citizens asked questions of people who have the potential to be their next president? Oh no! How dare those citizens! I don’t think you should be allowed to vote if you declare your preference for a candidate.
Maybe none of the conservative activists could put together rational questions? Just sayin…
And to reiterate, this is a red herring. The questions were reasonable questions that the candidates were unable to answer or that made the candidates look bad, not because of the questioners’ “activism” but because the candidates are bad and not fit to be president.
Oh, you don’t think conservative activists could put together rational questions? Try viewing Bryan Preston’s question, or Stephen Green’s. They’re just two of the questions that were axed in favor of what CNN wanted to push.
CNN sold those questions as being from “undecided Republican voters”. Those plants were affiliated with the Democrats. Therefore, it’s not a red herring.