Wednesday's CNN
Republican Presidential debate was the network's second primary forum in
two weeks to feature softball questions for or supporters of Democratic
hopeful Hillary Clinton.
Wednesday's YouTube debate consisted of video questions selected by CNN
from submissions from throughout the nation. Only two of the questioners
were present to be allowed a follow-up, and one of them was retired General
Keith Kerr, a known gay activist who is also on the Clinton campaign's LGBT
Americans for Clinton Steering Committee.
The November 15th Democratic debate at the University of Nevada-Las
Vegas was billed by CNN as a forum for students and "undecided voters" to
ask the candidates questions of their choosing. However, one of the
questioners, Maria Parra Sandoval, later revealed that she was told by CNN
she had to ask Senator Clinton an innocuous question about her preference
for "diamonds or pearls" rather than the serious policy question she wanted
to pose. And another supposed "undecided" voter was LaShannon Spencer, a
former Political Director for the Arkansas Democrat Party who has in the
past gushed about her admiration for both Hillary and Bill Clinton.
MRC President Brent Bozell released the following statement:
"How much farther into the bag for Hillary Clinton could CNN possibly
go?" said L. Brent Bozell, President of the Media Research Center.
"Trying to slough off Wednesday's fiasco as simple incompetence does
not explain CNN's forcing a student with a substantive question to instead
ask Hillary her preference in jewelry.
"Besides which, CNN has been paving the road for Hillary since her
first Senate campaign; their first campaign advertisement for her dates
back to April 24th, 2000.
"Then, CNN's Candidate Clinton 'town meeting' at the State University
of New York at Buffalo was nothing more than a Potemkin town hall. Wolf
Blitzer claimed the format to be 'open-ended', but it was later revealed
that 'questions from university students (were) screened by CNN staff
members'.
"CNN owes the American people an explanation for its ceaseless and
continuing assistance of Hillary Clinton.
"The past is prologue; the Clinton News Network, alive and well during
Bill's two terms, is again rearing its ugly head in anticipation of a
Hillary Administration."
Bozell's new book, written with MRC Director of Research Tim Graham, is
entitled Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You About Hillary Clinton,
But Conservatives Will. It documents in detail how the media have
consistently and continuously avoided reporting on her stridently liberal
record and agenda and her great many personal, political and financial
scandals, and how they have instead served as her de facto promotions
department.
Source: Crown Forum
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