DID CNN SET UP REPUBLICANS IN THE YOUTUBE DEBATES?

Once again the issue of media bias raises it's ugly head. This time in the form of the CNN/YOUTUBE debates. While CNN is celebrating the fact that they hosted the #1 rated Presidential debate of all time, some conservatives are left grumbling that the "Secret Selection Process" CNN used was questionable at the very least. Somehow CNN didn't find it necessary to even 'Google' some of the people who's questions were chosen. This "oversite" on CNN's part meant that Retired General, Keith Kerr, who is on Hillary Clinton's Gay and Lesbian Rights Steering committee got to question Republicans as to why they (Republicans) don't think our military is "professional" enough to handle having openly gay people in their ranks. The question itself should have raised flags, as our military is still operating on the "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy set up by none other than Bill Clinton. This "oversite" lead to bloggers such as Conservative Michelle Malkin, jumping all over CNN for allowing political activists for the Democratic Party to handle the questions.

I take a slightly different view of this than most of the right wing columns I have read . Ms Malkin demonstrates in her piece that several "operatives" for the Dems got questions selected. Now, the General, I think, should never have gotten his question through, but to say that someone is in collusion simply because they support Democratic candidates is a bit of a stretch. Michelle points out a Barack supporter, a Edwards supporter, as well as more Hillary supporters. I would assume, in a random sampling, that you would find some people who actively support different candidates including some Democrats. To push it as far as she did diminishes the real point; CNN was not handling the debates fairly.

I think what we're seeing here is simply a left wing dominated media source (CNN) not having a clue as to why they've demonstrated bias. In their world, Democrats should be asking Republicans hard questions. It stands to reason, they believe, that only Democrats would ask the hard questions. So where's the foul? Well the foul is that CNN isn't applying that same principle to the other side of our tired two-party system. CNN uses the same pool of people to pick both the Democratic Youtube Debate questions and the Republican Youtube Debates questions. Now that would be fine if CNN would just come forward and tell use who these people are so we can assess for ourselves if there was a fair sampling from the political spectrum. But CNN doesn't want to come clean and for good reason. The panel was chosen from "Mainstream Media" according to CNN, and since the MM is decidedly left leaning, even according to CNN's own Lou Dobbs, of course the panel would lean left also. Again, CNN sees no foul. All this comes at a time when the Democrats are boycotting FOX News because of their, (you guessed it) ...political bias.

Did CNN purposely slant the questions harshly against the Republicans and softball the Democrats? NO, not purposely. Did one of Hillary's supporters take an opportunity to publicly embarrass Republicans? Yes, definitely. Did Hillary know? I think there are standing orders in the Elect Hillary Camp, she doesn't need to know or approve. Should CNN have been more vigilant in checking out who these people were? Certainly, and the fact that they didn't, speaks volumes. But, in the end, this is just more proof of my chief complaint about the left. They can't see their own prejudices because they're always too busy pointing out someone else's. H.C.