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WaPo: CNN coached audience to cheer for Hillary during town hall event
Hot Air ^ | 21 Jun 2014 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 06/21/2014 5:31:54 PM PDT by mandaladon

When CNN rolled out the red carpet for Hillary Clinton’s town-hall interview with Christiane Amanpour, they did more than just build a set and invite an audience to participate.

According to the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple, who attended the event, CNN warmed up the crowd for Hillary and even coached them on how to cheer and make noise to demonstrate enthusiasm for the former Secretary of State.

Note the whoops at the beginning of the broadcast, and near the end of this clip when Amanpour asks about her decision on running for President — cheers that were part of the coaching Wemple reports: To add “energy” to its show (attended by the Erik Wemple Blog), CNN deployed an enthusiastic stage director who coached the audience to applaud at various points throughout the broadcast — not in a partisan manner for Clinton, but for the sake of the town hall’s television optics.

Approximately 15 minutes before the show, the producer ran the audience through a practice round of applause and noise-making. The results of the audience-prodding turn up in the show’s video.

Just how difficult was it for CNN to find a naturally enthusiastic audience, anyway? The event was staged in Washington DC, which as Wemple notes isn’t exactly a hotbed of conservative politics:

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016electionbias; amanpour; bias; boycottimewarner; clinton; clintonnewsnetwork; cnn; collusion; dnctalkingpoints; hillary; hillarybooktour; mediabias; msm
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To: NonValueAdded

For some reason CNN’s ratings are in the toilet. When you see a report like this, the explanation becomes clear.


21 posted on 06/21/2014 6:05:36 PM PDT by Robwin
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To: mandaladon

Hmmm.....that is what the Colonel did for Elvis. He hired screaming teeny-boppers when he appeared on TV shows or concerts.

Is the Colonel or Elvis now working for Hitlery?


22 posted on 06/21/2014 6:13:08 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: mandaladon


23 posted on 06/21/2014 6:14:03 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: mandaladon

This wouldn’t take much coaching. The American people just know by instinct how to cheer when a celebrity walks into the room. They are mainly celebrity-driven. And dumb as rocks too


24 posted on 06/21/2014 6:19:53 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Robwin

CNN ratings are poor because the American people are not interested in 24-hour “news”, much of which is commercials anyway.


25 posted on 06/21/2014 6:20:49 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: 12th_Monkey

If she was an inanimate object, she would be a rectal barometer. Much more painful than a rectal thermometer.

I liked the saying that she could never be President because she reminded people of their ex wife. In a sane world her candidacy would be laughed at every time. After Obama, I wouldn’t put anything past the sheeple to do the most moronic thing possible.


26 posted on 06/21/2014 6:23:18 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Exactly.


27 posted on 06/21/2014 6:32:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

SO CNN is Leni Rehtheal least she was good filmmaker before she decided Hitler movies


28 posted on 06/21/2014 6:35:22 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: mandaladon
CNN warmed up the crowd for Hillary and even coached them on how to cheer and make noise to demonstrate enthusiasm for the former Secretary of State.

These people's hearts are so hardened by evil. How else can we explain how they can lie with a straight face, and still sleep at night? It seems to me, there is a verse in the Bible about them. Woe unto them who call good evil and evil good.

29 posted on 06/21/2014 6:35:29 PM PDT by Mark17 (Rudyard Kipling: Liberals be wary, when the SHTF, The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon will clobber you)
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To: mandaladon

Was the fat woman from CNN that threw the presidential debate to Obama leading the cheers for Hillary?


30 posted on 06/21/2014 6:40:26 PM PDT by laconic
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To: mandaladon

A Hillary campaign event organized by CNN.


31 posted on 06/21/2014 6:56:40 PM PDT by Moorings
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To: lonevoice

Heeeeee!


32 posted on 06/21/2014 7:01:11 PM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: mandaladon

Watching Eleanor Clift and understanding that some people are just Vaginocrats. If that is your politics, I suppose Hillary! Fits the bill.


33 posted on 06/21/2014 7:02:37 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: mandaladon

Yeah but did they all buy a book ???


34 posted on 06/21/2014 7:16:07 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: mandaladon
Too bad your post lost the link to the original story on the WaPo.
35 posted on 06/21/2014 7:18:43 PM PDT by upchuck (Everyday, Joe Wilson becomes more correct!)
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To: mandaladon

I’m so shocked I could plotz.


36 posted on 06/21/2014 7:21:19 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: GeronL

They are not part of the government they are the illegal propaganda arm of the Democrat party. Media outlets are supposed to give equal access to both parties...show me where that is happening.


37 posted on 06/21/2014 7:21:33 PM PDT by databoss
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To: databoss
Media outlets are supposed to give equal access to both parties

I don't think that is true any more, if it ever was.

38 posted on 06/21/2014 7:22:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Yaelle

vaginacrats. i like that


39 posted on 06/21/2014 7:28:50 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: mandaladon

They’ve been running free commercials for her:

A member of an audience plaintively asks, “Mrs. Clinton, if you don’t stand up for women who will?” Hillary beams, the audience erupts into wild applause.

CNN has been running this ad in advance of some interview with the American Queen over and over and over again.

And they want us to respect their “journalism.”


40 posted on 06/21/2014 7:49:05 PM PDT by cookcounty (IRS = Internal Revenge Service.)
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