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Saturday, November 17, 2007

More Questions for CNN

We've already had the item about the planted "diamonds or pearls" softball that was thrown to Hillary at the end of the Las Vegas debate, and Classical Values points out to other "everyday citizens" who are not exactly what they appear to be:
It turns out that Suzanne Jackson, (mother of a three term Iraq War veteran) is a fairly well known antiwar activist.

Activists have just as much right to ask questions as anyone else. It's just that when their activist backgrounds are known but not disclosed, the false impression is created that they might as well be ordinary Americans selected at random.

Why, they're just plain folks like you sitting at home!

Like the randomly-selected ordinary citizen questioner Khalid Khan. ...

OK, I have no way of knowing the extent to which Mr. Khan has been subjected to profiling. But he is not an ordinary citizen. For years he has been a prominent Muslim leader -- the president of the Islamic Society of Nevada, who has hosted conferences like this one (which included the controversial Muzzamil Siddiqi), and the first sentence in a piece in the LA Times described him as "a stalwart among Las Vegas Muslims."
Others are questioning the use of James Carville on CNN's post-debate show. Carville is an unabashed supporter of Hillary, and used his time on the show to praise Hillary and bash Obama - all without any disclosure of his ongoing support of the Clinton campaign.

CNN really laid down for Hillary, and their use of ringers to ask certain questions without disclosure is extremely unprofessional. No wonder the Dems don't want to appear on Fox News - they might get real questions from real citizens.

UPDATE: It appears that another of the "random" questioners at the CNN debate was a former Arkansas Democratic party director of political affairs. This thing is really starting to stink.

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