On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:31:19 -0500, ray wrote:
> In article <1194721186.576037.98800@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> FREEP THIS! <freepthis@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> Clinton Campaign Gets Caught Planting Questions
>>
>> Clinton Campaign Gets Caught Planting Questions We all know it happens,
>> but we don't always have reasons to believe that the candidate is aware
>> that it is happening. Sen. Hillary Clinton, though, apparently knew
>> whom to call on at a campaign stop in Newton, and she pretended like it
>> wasn't planned.
>>
>> My friend Pat Caldwell, writing for the Grinnell College newspaper, got
>> the scoop:
>>
>> On Tuesday Nov. 6, the Clinton campaign stopped at a biodiesel plant in
>> Newton as part of a weeklong series of events to introduce her new
>> energy plan. The event was clearly intended to be as much about the
>> press as the Iowa voters in attendance, as a large press core helped
>> fill the small venue. Re****ters from many major national news outlets
>> came to the small Iowa town, from such media giants as The New York
>> Times, Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and CNN.
>>
>> After her speech, Clinton accepted questions. But according to Grinnell
>> College student Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff '10, some of the questions from
>> the audience were planned in advance. "They were canned," she said.
>> Before the event began, a Clinton staff member approached
>> Gallo-Chasanoff to ask a specific question after Clinton's speech. "One
>> of the senior staffers told me what [to ask]," she said.
>>
>> Clinton called on Gallo-Chasanoff after her speech to ask a question:
>> what Clinton would do to stop the effects of global warming. Clinton
>> began her response by noting that young people often pose this question
>> to her before delving into the benefits of her plan.
>>
>> But the source of the question was no coincidence-at this event "they
>> wanted a question from a college student," Gallo-Chasanoff said. She
>> also noted that staffers prompted Clinton to call on her and another
>> who had been approached before the event, although Clinton used her
>> discretion to select questions and called on people who had not been
>> prepped before hand. Some of the questions asked were confusing and
>> clearly off-message.
>>
>> I tried to reach Gallo-Chasanoff and Caldwell to get more information,
>> but neither was immediately available. Still, I don't have any doubt
>> that the story was re****ted accurately because I know some of the
>> people involved.
>>
>> It appears Clinton knew whom to call on, yet she pretended like Gallo-
>> Chasanoff was asking the question because she was a young person - not
>> because a staffer had told her to. When I said that she needed to start
>> taking questions more often to preserve her status in Iowa, I didn't
>> mean it like this.
>
>
> If Hillarious took questions from just anybody, she might have picked a
> person such as myself and she couldn't afford that.
>
ROFLMAO! Yeah, I'm sure she's real afraid of an ignorant, jackass like
you.
Hilarious!!!
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