Republican debate: anybody watching?

2008 Presidential Race, National, Politics 1 Minute

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 😉

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35 thoughts on “Republican debate: anybody watching?”

  3. Sorta 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.

  5. No, 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!”

  7. A 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….

  8. And 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.

  10. I’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.

  11. MB,

    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.

  12. Click the link. Listen to the man describe his role.

    I marvel at someone’s contempt for common meaning in the English language.

    ~

    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.

  14. He 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?

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