[subterfuge]

I don’t think any of the people they had on there asking questions were random people from YOUTube. They’re all plants and CNN knows it.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

[Red Badger]

Fake but accurate?......

[Mr. K]

oooooooh CNN has ‘plants’ ask question during the debate?

They want to join Dan ‘Fake but Accurate’ Rather in losing (any remaining) integrity?

[gunservative]

Most Democrats probably tuned in and said, “What is YouTube?”

[ex-snook]

A farce. A total disgrace for selecting a candidate. Should be called You-Boob.

[lowbridge]

CNN/YouTube Special Features Liberal Videos Disproportionately

CNN Continues Liberal Questions During YouTube Special

In YouTube Special, CNN Favors Videos Calling For Universal Healthcare

[samtheman]

This whole idea was stupid, but only slightly more stupid than the “debates” themselves.

[AmericanExceptionalist]

Much has been made of this one with the "hillbillies" talking about Al Gore.

These folks claim to be from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Well, here's a scoop: I live in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and have for the past 20 1/2 years. (Prior to that, I lived in nearby Nashville for about 33 years.) And I have never heard the sort of dialect spoken by these (supposed) Murfreesborians. I have, on occasion, witnessed a similar lack of apparent literacy. But even that is unusual.

The person who posted this is simply playing into a stereotype--and a poorly considered one, at that. It is my understanding that hillbillies of the Tennessee variety (although I have never seen a real, live one, in person) reside principally in Appalachia--which is in the mountainous region of upper east Tennessee, past Knoxville.

The now-defunct TV series Hee Haw probably did a great deal to advance the notion of Nashville (in middle Tennessee) as a mecca for hillbillies. And the Nashville Chamber of Commerce no doubt played along, as this image--albeit a hugely false one--tends to promote tourism, if only out of a patronizing curiosity.

But Tennessee is not dominated by Apalachia (which, by the way, extends into some other states also), any more than Mississippi can be defined by its Delta country or Missouri and Arkansas defined by the Ozarks.

This is just another example of certain stereotyping being considered okay by the politically correct folks--the same folks who would roundly roast anyone who might dare to suggest a forbidden stereotype.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

[Beagle8U]

I doubt CNN was fooled, but rather they knew in advance it was all staged as a circus.

Look at where the candidates were on the stage. Does anyone really think it was by chance that the top three were together so they all be on camera at all times?

How about the only question about gun control?

They picked a dork and had Biden say he seemed too unstable to own any guns.

It was all staged BS!

[dforest]

YouGoobs.

[Miss Didi]

Rush was saying that someone at CNN is going to be in deep trouble for the distracting camera shot of Mrs. Clinton's derriere...

CNN: CRAZY NEWS NETWORK
NY POST
By CHARLES HURT


July 24, 2007 -- LAST night's "debate" may have been brought to you by YouTube with questions from viewers like you, but it got hijacked.

Of the thousands of video questions submitted, the few dozen that CNN selected to air were by and large suspiciously just like the ones that a room full of journalists inside the Beltway could have come up with.

Only worse.

To inquire about the "serious" issue of global warming, CNN honchos tapped a goofy snowman on a Web cam who asked: "As president, what will you do to ensure that my son will live a full and happy life?"

Later, a guy holding up a quarter asked the Democrats to tell the world what the words "Liberty" and "In God We Trust" on the coin mean to them personally.

The "debate" wasn't illuminating or even entertaining. Instead of sharp, pointed exchanges, we got another rambling forum with all the depth of a beauty pageant.

From the first question, it flopped. A guy named Zach from Provo asked each candidate to tell us what would make them more effective than the other candidates.

Now, that's hardball.

Left on CNN's cutting room floor were plenty of better and tougher video questions.

One asked Hillary Clinton whether her husband's philandering in office could hurt her chances of capturing the White House.

Another questioned Sen. Barack Obama, who wrote of his own drug use when he was young, and about his views on legalizing drugs.

churt@nypost.com

[marty60]

They were making fun of the supposed fly over country people. Hillary is laughing her fat *** off. That is what she REALLY thinks about the “little people”

[nuconvert]

I think these videos turned the whole thing into a joke.
I hope the republicans just have written questions.