The Republican YouTube debate is at 8pm this evening on CNN.
While CNN producers won’t say which 40 or so questions are going to make the cut, viewers can expect to see divisive questions, controversial questions, and questions that will set the candidates apart.
Really? I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
That is, if I can stay awake 
Same old, same old stuff.
Posted by T-Shirt | Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 10:52 pmIn case anyone is interested, you can read the debate transcript here.
Posted by vjp | Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 11:29 pmSorta paid attention to the last half of it. But really, after you’ve seen one Klan rally, you’ve seen ‘em all.
Anyone hear anything about healthcare? Mortgage crisis? Education? What any of them think about the plummeting dollar?
Nah, just more killin’ and scary brown people.
Oh, and crosses. They love crosses.
Posted by MB | Thursday, November 29, 2007, 9:28 amYou cannot blame the candidates for the questions that were chosen.
Posted by Anon E. Mouse | Thursday, November 29, 2007, 12:45 pmNo, for that I blame the Republican electorate.
But really, I could ask a question about student loan subsidies, and Guiliani would tell me about 9/11, Huckabee would tell me about the Bible, and Tancredo would point to the brown guy behind me and yell “Alien!”
Posted by MB | Thursday, November 29, 2007, 1:05 pmHalf of the questions were apparently from Democrats.
Posted by Anon E. Mouse | Thursday, November 29, 2007, 1:47 pmA very bad job by CNN last night. They don’t bother to check out their live questioners? They let in a guy who works for Sen. Clinton (and Kerry in 2004) without knowing it? Are they really that clueless? And what was up with the Youtube selections? One might almost think that some sort of bias was at work last night….
Posted by Brian | Thursday, November 29, 2007, 2:24 pmAnd please do tell, in detail, how this fellow “works for Sen. Clinton.”
Yes, the thing to note there was that, and not the fact that the audience booed a retired general for advocating equality in the armed forces.
Bias, indeed.
Posted by MB | Thursday, November 29, 2007, 2:41 pmActually, MB, he’s a member of Clinton’s LGBT steering committee, if this is to be believed.
Posted by vjp | Thursday, November 29, 2007, 3:32 pmI’d say there’s a bit of difference between working for Clinton, and being a Clinton supporter. Video of Gen. Kerr’s explanation here.
But yeah, it would be ideal that there be no existing affiliation (tho’ I’m not sure how realistic that would be) by questioners. That said, it’s got nothing to do with the substance of the matter (or the answers). Truly, that was one of the more appalling sections of last night’s debate.
Posted by MB | Thursday, November 29, 2007, 3:54 pmMB,
Here’s a bit from the Washington Times:
“Retired Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr, who asked a question about gays in the military, was named to the leadership team of LGBT American for Hillary this summer, according to an article in the Advocate that was posted June 27 at gay.com.”
He works for Sen. Clinton. He may not be getting paid by her campaign, but he works for her.
I have to marvel at CNN’s apparent incompetence. Have they not heard of Google?
As for your complaint about the bias of the audience, so what? They weren’t the ones putting on the debate. It’s the bias of the people who actually pick the questions and run the debate that actually matters.
Posted by Brian | Thursday, November 29, 2007, 6:59 pmClick the link. Listen to the man describe his role.
I marvel at someone’s contempt for common meaning in the English language.
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You’re right, my complaint isn’t bias. It’s the utter lack of decency of the people who booed. Because those people? Those people are the reason those (mostly) contemptible people were up on stage.
Posted by MB | Thursday, November 29, 2007, 7:18 pmI watched the video and I agree with MB – this guy is not working for Clinton.
Posted by vjp | Thursday, November 29, 2007, 8:26 pmHe is on her Stearing committee… Clinton 08 put put a release about him 6 moths ago.
THOUSANDS of videos submitted. 40 or so flown to the debate, two get a mic, he is one of them.
Hmmm, wow, what an amazing coincidence. Wow…. ugh
Clinton has taken her habit of placed questions to a new level… NOW will you join me in calling CNN the CLINTON news Network?
Posted by The Squeaky Wheel | Friday, November 30, 2007, 12:02 amSadly, Dems can attend Dem debates and ask Dem questions, but Republicans are supposed to get Dems to ask them Dem questions…
PRIMARIES, not general elections. ugh
Posted by The Squeaky Wheel | Friday, November 30, 2007, 12:03 am