Of Plants Not Potted
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Democrats | Hillary Clinton | planted questions | The Politics Of Scripted Campaigns — Comments (11) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Is this any way to elect a President?
The college student who was told what question to ask at one of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign events says "voters have the right to know what happened" and she wasn't the only one who was planted.
In an exclusive on-camera interview with CNN, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, a 19-year-old sophomore at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, said that giving anyone specific questions to ask is "dishonest," and the whole incident has given her a negative outlook on politics.
Gallo-Chasanoff, whose story was first reported in the campus newspaper, said what happened was really pretty simple: She says a senior Clinton staffer asked if she'd like to ask the senator a question after an energy speech the Democratic presidential hopeful gave in Newton, Iowa, on November 6.
"I sort of thought about it, and I said 'Yeah, can I ask how her energy plan compares to the other candidates' energy plans?'" Gallo-Chasanoff said Monday night.
"'I don't think that's a good idea," the staffer said, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, "because I don't know how familiar she is with their plans." . . .
He then opened a binder to a page that, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, had about eight questions on it.
"The top one was planned specifically for a college student," she added. " It said 'college student' in brackets and then the question."
This tactic gets the treatment it deserves here.
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Given the past history of the Clintons, should we do which of the following for Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff and her family:
(a) Raise a fund here at Red State to pay for her personal security detail to avoid any "accidents" happening to her.
(b) Start a legal defense fund for when Soros/Blumenthal-backed groups sue her and her family for telling the truth.
(c) Start an IRS defense fund so that if Hillary gets elected, her family can survive the politically motivated audit that is sure to come.
(d) All of the above.
This whole thing screams deja vu, doesn't it?
It will be needed, when there is the inevitable backlash.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
An automatic disqualification for the WH. If you can't toss a quarter to one of the sanctified little people, the ones who run the country, then ostracism is in order. Hillary at least could have promised the waitress a federal grant if elected, somebody else's money, not hers, the way liberals usually do things. She obviously doesn't share Bill's renowned capacity for feeling the pain of others, hand over heart.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Only seems to apply to interns.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
is a lousy thing for a candidate to have. And I'm glad Hildebeast has it. Her cocky feeling that she can control the media (and everything else in the world) may yet be her undoing.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
Obviously, I am no Clinton fan (but for the great Cops: Little Rock sketch from when SNL was still good), but I highly doubt Clinton's campaign would screw up this bad. If they were going to plant questions, I am sure they would do it with a vetted Clinton partisan. My best guess is that this person is an Edwards/Obama supporter trying to help her side win.
They have admitted it. Granted, with all the typical Clinton weasels (a low level staffer did it; it's never happened before and will never happen again; Hillary didn't know about it) but it happened.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.
Don't overrate their competence, it's a myth fostered by an up to now adoring media. This is not to say they wouldn't do as you suggest, the NY listening tour was probably rigged from the get go. Still, the history of blunders is imposing, but I would prefer however not enumerating them, it's old hat.
This has been reported before at another speaking event, by a male. The waitress I mentioned in my post was also accused of fabricating by Clinton flacks and replied "why would I lie".
It is protocol within the Clinton circle to accuse others of being the liars, amazing considering their character. Recall Bill calling Paula Jones " a pathetic little liar" a while before he, or his donors, shelled out $850,000 to her.
They are many things, none of them nice, but competent is not one of them.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
Spending a large portion of the past two months in New Hampshire as a student reporter for Campus Voices, a web-site focused on covering the ground in New Hampshire to see what our nation's most important primary will look like in January (or December), I am not surprised with this behavior by the Hillary campaign. Her campaign is highly professionalized, with the majority of NH citizens claiming they overwhelmingly get the most mail and contact from Hillary supporters.
However, I think the citizens are beginning to feel a bit of the anger that has been roused in so many by this planted question incident. Her campaign's air of authority and obvious victory is aggravating, this is still a democracy isn't it? Hillary's people should remember that she is running for President because she is supposed to address the concerns of the people, by answering their questions perhaps?, not because the media has annointed her the chosen one for 2008.
P.S. www.campusvoices.org if you want to check out videos and articles on what the candidates, both Democratic and Republicans have been doing on the ground.
Terrible, terrible, next thing you know she will require peopls to sign loyalty oaths to attend her town hall meetings and have people with t-shirts or bumper stickers indicating opposing political viewpoints escorted out by her supporters. Who does that behavior remind you of?
Have American politics sunken to the point where candidates FEAR what words may come from the electorate? Candidates have to listen to us; we elect them!
...don't we?
The world only goes round by misunderstanding - Charles Baudelaire