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Serious 'splainin!

Luigi Montanez — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:13:48 -0500

Because at CNN's YouTube Democratic debate, none of the questioners chosen had an obvious anti-Democratic, conservative agenda:

Hat tip to Sadly, No!

CNN's bias is only in looking for what they deem the most entertaining questions.

What was CNN really doing?

tlsmith — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:24:58 -0500

As I look back at the debates, both the Democratic and Republican, it appears CNN wanted to try to mash up a serious debate with an entertainment program. The questions selected generally dealt with gays, God, guns, and immigrants. Their objective wasn't so much to inform us as to highlight differences amongst the candidates, which they did, especially between Giuliani, McCain, and Thompson. Huckabee, the consensus winner of the debate per the mainstream media, wasn't asked a question until about 26 minutes into the debate! One of the undecided Republicans who watched the debate and commented on it for CNN even said that she might vote for Edwards if he was the (Democrat's) nominee.

I have a strong feeling that this format will be back. Perhaps not with YouTube as a title sponsor, but we will see this internet town hall style debate in the future. How do I know this? I can give you 4,400,000 reasons why. That number is the number of people who watched the debate, which is quadruple CNN's normal weeknight viewership.

[places tin foil hat on head] I wonder if CNN had an objective of trying to discredit the internet as a news source so people would turn back to them for their news. [removes tin foil hat]

CNN Demeans the Internet and the Candidates

Tama — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:58:50 -0500

Horrible. CNN did the worst job of all the debates they've hosted. They chose redundant questions that made the YouTube citizen involvement format look shallow; that demeaned the candidates and led them into mud slinging (well ok Romney and Giuliani don't need much assistance in that) and that should embarrass Republican voters. I felt like CNN really made Republicans look small minded and narrowly focused on issues that are not the most critical for our nation at this point in history. How many guns do you own!? The confederate flag?! That ridiculous opening song!? It was appalling and I can't begin to understand CNN's decision making process. Get the debates off of TV. Bring them totally ONLINE - please!