More CNN/YouTube Democratic plants
Posted November 29th, 2007 at 9:09 AM by Jon HamIt gets worse. It wasn’t just the gay general who works for Hillary. It has now been learned that the undecided “ordinary Americans” who asked questions via YouTube included two avowed Edwards supporters, a gay Obama supporter, and some Edwards-supporting union activists. Host Anderson Cooper claimed that CNN had no idea the gay general worked for Hillary. Sure. He hasn’t responded to the several other Democrat-connected activists that found their way into the bank of YouTube questions and, in the case of the gay general, into the studio, flown there at CNN’s expense. It took bloggers only a few hours to find these people via Google (including one young girl who can be found wearing her “Edwards 2008″ t-shirt complaining that her question was not answered to her satisfaction). CNN couldn’t do that before settling on the questioners? This is just laughable.
UPDATE: It’s bias upon bias, it seems. Glenn Reynolds caught an airbrushing of history this morning on NPR:
JUST HEARD A LENGTHY NPR STORY ON THE YOUTUBE DEBATE, with a live followup from Mara Liasson — and it omitted any mention of the planted question issue. Hmm. If Fox hosted a Democratic debate and many of the most pointed questions turned out to come from Republican activists, but Fox didn’t disclose that, do you think it would pass unremarked?
November 29th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Don’t they realize that every time they pull a crap stunt like this, they’re just turning off more and more of their potential viewing audience, forever? I’m to the point now where I’m removing CNN from the channel lineup not only on my TVs, but on any TVs whose remotes I happen to get my hands on.
What needs to happen from now on is that all GOP candidates should just straight up boycott CNN until they get their journalistic practices back into some sort of order.
November 29th, 2007 at 10:01 am
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