CNN Stacks the Deck for the Republican YouTube Debate
“Be personal,” CNN told people submitting YouTube video questions for tonight’s debate of Republican Party candidates. “Be original.” “Choose your focus.” What CNN didn’t tell those submitting videos was that “There are quite a few things you might describe as Democratic ‘gotchas,’ and we are weeding those out.”
Wait a second. In this month’s Democratic Party presidential debate on CNN, Wolf Blitzer demanded that candidates declare, yes or no, whether national security was more important than human rights. That’s a Republican ‘gotcha’ question based on the false premise that the two stand in opposition to each other. Blitzer asked the Democratic candidates about their opinion on the “border fence,” a Republican myth that does not actually exist as a single entity and that is a disproportionately Republican concern. The majority of the CNN debate was based on attempts to start fights with CNN’s own ‘gotcha’ questions. But for the Republicans, there won’t be any questions that would be “Democratic gotchas?” Why shouldn’t Republican candidates have to answer questions from across the political spectrum? Why the double standard?
Wolf’s question is irrelevant. CNN should have vetted each and every question by simply “Googleing†the person’s name. For heaven’s sake, the “General†had been on their own news cast a few years back. You can’t expect anyone to believe they didn’t know!!
Hell it’s Bill Clinton’s policy they’re bitching about. Republican issue … BS!! This is nothing more than CNN (Clinton News Network) political bias. They will NEVER be taken seriously again.