Hillary's prefabricated campaign takes planted questions
Clinton scripts "audience questions."
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[UPDATE 12/10 ]For the second time in as many days, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has had to deal with accusations of planting questions during public appearances, FOX News has learned. -- Fox News I guess that stuff about "It won't happen again" went the way of all her other positions.
Democratic Presidential frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton is a sock puppet. Her campaign is comprised of illegitimate, creepy sock puppets. Their hands stay warm, of course, but nothing is what you see:
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s campaign admitted Friday that it planted a global warming question in Newton, Iowa, Tuesday during a town hall meeting to discuss clean energy.
Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Elliethee admitted that the campaign had planted the question and said it would not happen again.
"On this occasion a member of our staff did discuss a possible question about Senator Clinton's energy plan at a forum,” Elliethee said.
But they (Mo Elliethee) must maintain plausible deniability for Hillary:
“However, Senator Clinton did not know which questioners she was calling on during the event. This is not standard policy and will not be repeated again.”
In a state where the caucus is held sacred and the impromptu and candid style of the town hall meeting is held dear, Clinton’s planted question may come as a great offense to Iowans.
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Here's the deal, as reported:
"After her speech, Clinton accepted questions. But according to Grinnell College student Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, some of the questions from the audience were planned in advance. 'They were canned,' she said. Before the event began, a Clinton staff member approached Gallo-Chasanoff to ask a specific question after Clinton’s speech. 'One of the senior staffers told me what [to ask],' she said.
"Clinton called on Gallo-Chasanoff after her speech to ask a question: what Clinton would do to stop the effects of global warming. Clinton began her response by noting that young people often pose this question to her before delving into the benefits of her plan.
"But the source of the question was no coincidence — at this event 'they wanted a question from a college student,' Gallo-Chasanoff said."
Major Garrett, who wrote the piece for FOX, offers:
The campaign's admission that it planted the question may be another blow to the New York senator's image as a trustworthy politician.
Clinton's critics have accused her of being a double-talker who refuses to answer tough questions specifically. Now her campaign has acknowledged planting at least one question.
That is an interesting theory, that there was any voter who trusted Hillary about anything.
She's running a prefabricated campaign, treating the American voting public as a giant blob of vapidity. I wish someone would throw a hammer at the screen.
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it's passed on to Hillary, of course!
When Bill started his town hall meetings, a fella asked "when have we ever taxed ourselves into prosperity?" After that, all of the questions in his "town halls" were planted. Hillary's town halls are a big improvement. Only one planted question!
planting a male prostitute in the white house press room to lob softball questions at the WH press secretary. I dunno..maybe she just couldnt find Jeff Gannons phone number, and she was to shy to ask anyone in the White house for it.
Sorry, we don't allow gay-bashing here.
Drink Good Coffee. You can sleep when you're dead.
Robert A Hahn, you are an intellectual coward. You can't refute the main point that the Bush administration chose to pull the exact same stunt of planting questions. The biggest difference was the the Bush people did it in the actual White House press room, instead of some Iowa campaign stop. You don't have a leg to stand on, so you resort to this silly line about gay bashing, then run away by "blamming" instead of defending your point. You and I both know there was no gay bashing at all in the post, but apparently it hit a nerve, so you feel the need to banish the poster because he embarrassed you.
So, Robert...work up the nerve boy...tell me how the Gannon planting was different than the HRC stunt. Cmon kid..I DARE ya...
Fortunately, you are not a liar, merely ignorant. You do not know how "Jeff Gannon" happened. I do. He was not planted there by the Administration. He planted himself. He was having, erm, a gay old time until some lefty jerk outed him over his politics.
I know "Jeff Gannon" personally. I knew him before all that stuff happened. I had no idea about his Secret Life; I thought he was some entreprenurial reporter-type who had wangled himself a heck of a deal. And in fact, he had.
It was slime-bucket lefties who brought him down. They did it for spite. That's why I say they were scum. Because they were, you know, scum. For you to now say that he was put there by the Administration, instead of by his own dogged and fairly clever efforts, just adds to the lefty scumminess. That guy was living his dream... he had bootstrapped himself into being a "White House Correspondent" and he did it by sheer gall. OK, so he wasn't a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism. So what? There was no need to ruin his life. The people who did that are scum.
Drink Good Coffee. You can sleep when you're dead.
You are the one that threw in the homophobic stuff. I thought you guys were tolerant of other people's lifestyle choices? With how often you attack people for being gay you'd sure never know that.
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The one who asked, "what are you going to do for us?" and who showed up some time later in another forum, though I forget which. Hillary's using an old playbook.
Very interesting article -- but having so many typos in the post was distracting to say the least. The left constantly tries to make us look like uneducated, knee-jerk reactionaries. Let's not contribute to that image.
both.
I agree that one typographical error in anything I write is one too many, but if you are distracted by two, you ought to focus.
Thank you for fixing those errors. You're right that two typos isn't very many. Maybe I'm overly critical of grammar and spelling problems, but they do make it difficult to read the post -- not because they make it difficult to understand what is being said, but because they interrupt the flow of language. They also make Redstate seem more like a social network than a place where rational and intellectual discussion takes place.
The university I work at (like most public colleges in the U.S., I would guess) is rife with the attitude that Republicans (and especially conservatives) are too stupid to be allowed to make political choices. Dealing with that condescension day in and day out makes me especially sensitive to the image popular conservatives sites like Redstate present to the public.
Anyway, I'm sorry if I was too sharp in my criticism. I appreciate the fact that you've fixed both typos.
Much better!
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Shouldn't that read, "The university at which I work..."?
but maybe it's one of them universities that doesn't have an English department?
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This part is a hoot;
However, Senator Clinton did not know which questioners she was calling on during the event. This is not standard policy and will not be repeated again.”
Really? You mean none of the very selective, limited interviews she gives have ground rules such as which questions can't be asked? Please spare me the patronization. This was just reverse engineering of the campaigns modus operandi to ensure she continues the teflon manufactured appeal.
Grow up you bunch of clowns. Not everybody is as dumb as she thinks we are. Oh and some free advice for Mo; if it was your idea, sharpen up the resume. You'll be the first one overboard.
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The Hildebeast shows clearly that she does not have the teflon quality of the slickmeister, her husband. He would never have been caught with his pants down, er, skirt up, er, pants suit pants down, yea that's it. The smartest woman in the world looked like a deer in the headlights during the debate and will not stand up to hard questions when she eventually gets the nomination. She can't dance like slick willy and will get picked to pieces even by the msm.
and in a post-911 world slickness ain't so cute anymore anyway.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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We should be helping Shrillary get the nomination. Then we save our powder for the GENERAL ELECTION. Don't derail her before then!
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
will either derail her or assure her the nomination. That ball is in Hillary's court, as it always has been.
...that she'll get the nomination? She's got the name ID, the backing of the party establishment, the cash, the celebrity factor, the Clinton criminal enterprise, etc. etc. etc.
Even if she loses Iowa, she still has 20-30, sometimes even 40 point leads in other primary states. Can her rivals really overcome all of that?
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
But in this case, that statement means only that it's probably not going to happen. I don't see a switch-on juggernaut in the Dem field who can sweep and and surpass Hillary's impressive lead and organization. Biden? Richardson? Dodd? Hardly.
I agree that it's likely we face her next fall. One wonders, though, if her campaign will be able to minimize her negatives or even, in the dangerous case of the true-believers, acknowledge them.
Between this and Bill taking the blame for Hillarycare, I'm beginning to wonder if they think we're all stupid.
"Hillary would make a great captain"
"I want captain hillary"
ETC
I'd be laughing if there wasn't a good chance she could be our next president, and people from my own party might give it to her.
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In one day we are shown why McCain has a chance to become president. Giuliani is looking more and more like Nixon and Hillary, well I think 8 years in the White house are enough time to see what a disaster she will be. It will Clinton squared exponentially worse especially if the Dems hold congress and the senate by bigger margins.
Rudy Giuliani just stepped on a mine with his best buddy Kerik being indited on 16 counts?! I can't see how he will recover, Hillary doesn't seem like she be stopped, but with stunts like a FEMA press conferance, McCain will beat Edwards or Obama easy.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.
In one day we are shown why McCain has a chance to become president.
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Rudy Giuliani just stepped on a mine with his best buddy Kerik being indited on 16 counts?!
make hillarious reading.
Giuliani is out of the running because he knows someone who is accused of evading taxes but McCain is still in despite taking bribes from Charles Keating?
If you can't see the blatant hypocrisy here, I don't think I can help you. No-one has even suggested that Giuliani knew anything about the crimes of which Kerik has been charged.
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your information is wrong. OTOH, I agree the Kerik thing is a huge joke. If anyone thinks this is news, they must have been living on another planet the last couple years.
Molon Labe!
I understood it was pretty clear that he and five other Senators tried to wangle favours for a major campaign contributor.
Compare that to George W Bush who, when Ken Lay phoned asking for favours, refused to take the call.
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Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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No-one has even suggested that Giuliani knew anything about the crimes of which Kerik has been charged
He may have not been aware of "crimes" per se, but he certainly knew about Kerik's relationship with the mob.
NEW YORK - Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani acknowledged again Friday that he made a mistake when he recommended Bernard Kerik to be the nation's homeland security chief.
The acknowledgment followed a report in The New York Times that the former New York City mayor was warned about Kerik's relationship with a company with suspected ties to organized crime even before Giuliani appointed Kerik as New York City police commissioner.
You appear not to know the meaning of the word 'certainly'.
Don't you just love the way the MSM slimes Republicans. Giuliani acknowledged a mistake on the basis of information that came out after he suggested Kerik for the role and the media reports that this follows reports in other media. Note, they do not say that his acknowledgement of a mistake is in any way related to the other media reports, merely that it follows them - ie happened after them.
And what were these New York Times reports. An unnamed person says that Giuliani was warned about Kerik's relationship with a company that was suspected of ties to organised crime.
So, if the Times's source is telling the truth, and if the source is accurate, then someone (with unspecified credibility) told Giuliani that Kerik had an unspecified "relationship with" a company that might have had unspecified "ties" to the mob. I have a relationship with my local supermarket. For all I know someone suspects the company of having some sort of "ties" to the mob.
This is a really strange basis to report that he "certainly" knew something.
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it is so difficult to run for office if you've actually done anything, though. As a prosecutor and big city mayor, you and the people who work for you WILL deal with some very unsavory characters; it is part of the job, and you will have some sort of relationship with them, sometimes it is actually a pretty good relationship. I always believed that I could have a better relationship with someone I knew to be my adversary and who I knew I could not trust than I could have with the typical wishy-washy sort that gets elected or appointed. You know your adversary and can "trust" him to pursue his interests no matter what, you never know what that other kind of guy might do.
In Vino Veritas
It's more difficult to run when you all you've done is vote in congress!
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UPDATE: Fox News is now reporting on another Q & A planting incident by the Clinton campaign. Below's an excerpt and here's the link:
"SIOUX CITY, Iowa — For the second time in as many days, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign has had to deal with accusations of planting questions during public appearances."
the economy. If she keeps hiring all these shills
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is biased against Hillary. They probably paid the plant to SAY they were planted. (At least that will be the MSM take on the story!)
The campaign's admission that it planted the question may be another blow to the New York senator's image as a trustworthy politician.
ROFLMAO!
IS the "campaign" delusional?
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Considering where the good doctor's head was, when practicing medicine, is it any wonder that the man has issues?
People haven't tried so hard to explain what is going to happen in the Heavens since before Galileo...
This has not been a kind month the Clinton campaign, it's surprising considering just how disciplined she has been in the previous months.
It's almost as if her guffaw at the debate threw her completely off her game. It would be wise for Barack Obama or John Edwards to seize this one chance to distinguish themselves, or they will find themselves becoming old news.
The American people are wise enough to run their own affairs. They do not need Fuehrers, Strong Men, Technocrats, Commissars, Silver Shirts, Theocrats, or any other sort of dictator.-Robert Heinlein
I always sort of figured questions from Dem debate panels were provided by the candidates, but Tim Russert asked one question not on the pre-approved list and got accused of taking advantage of a poor helpless girl.
How many times has the press done this same sort of thing for themselves? Haven't there been stories of some random man on the street appearing in multiple MSM reports? We don't expect THEM to make a big deal over this, do we?
Lastly, this proves exactly why this woman cannot be elected President. All she can handle are canned responses to canned questions. It doesn't work that way for Osama, Ahmadinejad, Assad, Chavez, Putin, Kim, Wen, Hu, etc.
she would have problems with questions from the FBI.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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Why don't Obama and Edwards hit her over the scandals of the 90s?
When Clinton plants a question in a town hall meeting it is reason to question her honesty and ability to answer difficult question, yet when Bush has all of the questions planted in his town hall meetings it is not reason to question his honesty or ability to answer difficult questions.
That's quite the double standard you have.
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Old News.
Even if its happening right now. The press loves them to pieces.
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persecuted Hillary.