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- LeadOffMan, on 11/13/2007, -6/+62"Goes neo-con"? Why can't you just say the fake candidate plants questions.
- Groovemaster, on 11/13/2007, -3/+52This is 0.000001% of the big picture.
The entire US political system is a clumsily choreographed soap opera, designed to convince Americans they have a say in the running of their country.
They don't. - vault, on 11/13/2007, -7/+54Yeah, blame conservatives for something Hillary Clinton did.
If the Democrats win in 2008, and you realize that our foreign policy doesn't change at all, will you start using Neo-Lib as a slur? - honkyman5000, on 11/12/2007, -4/+38Isn't this like the FEMA news conference that caused such a stir. Let's see if this receives the same attention.
- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -6/+29How is planting questions "going neo-con"?
Yeah, like leftist *****-stabs aren't capable of doing that either. Nice. - colonelbuckshot, on 11/12/2007, -3/+19Hillary has already proven her neo-con credentials. Here she is slamming Iran in front of AIPAC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7tiEt_iguY - pennvneff, on 11/12/2007, -4/+19Someone needs to explain the definition of Neo-Con to you
- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -4/+17Do not vote for this woman.
- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -8/+19What a stupid title.
Hillary hasn't gone "neocon", she's gone Clinton. Her entire campaign is a fraud. - cranium, on 11/12/2007, -0/+10Let's follow the author's logic: Planting questions makes you a neocon + everybody does it = everybody is a neocon.
/whatever - benroy, on 11/11/2007, -2/+11Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain. Hey Look, Poppies!
- str3ama, on 11/13/2007, -4/+12every candidate does it, and it's not just electoral candidates - it goes for just about every press release, or PR event. Go attend any form of debate or interview - all questions are screened, and in many cases the audience/questioners are told what questions to say "Instead of saying that, why don't you ask this". It goes the same for politicians, celebrity / athlete interviews.
- ralph12c41, on 11/11/2007, -1/+9Neo Con?? You need to get an education. Your immaturity is showing.
- solid12345, on 11/12/2007, -0/+8Neo-cons left because liberals started showing sympathies with the soviet union and communism, civil rights had nothing to do with it.
- FadieZ, on 11/11/2007, -9/+16Vagina.
- Gorto, on 11/13/2007, -5/+12Don't you know the Left by now? They're incapable of wrong doing - it's someone elses fault! Pathetic politics and the stupid people who follow blindly.
- paxil, on 11/11/2007, -1/+8Neo-con? I do not think that word means what you think it means.
- AmericanJackass, on 11/11/2007, -1/+7Although I thoroughly dislike the neocon agenda, this headline is very misleading. How is planting questions "neo-con" if "virtually every presidential candidate" plants questions? You should say ... all candidates go "neo-con" although this is still misleading.
- mlfoley, on 11/13/2007, -3/+9What a wimp. This is why I can't respect the Clintons.
- nonrate, on 11/13/2007, -0/+6I like how the LA Times tries to make it sound ok to plant questions by claiming, with no evidence, that all campaigns do this. What crappy reporting
- SiNN4R, on 11/11/2007, -2/+8It doesn't suprise me this happened in Iowa considering all the subsidies they recieve for biodiesel.
- ZenMojo, on 11/12/2007, -2/+8You realize Obama voted for an appropriations bill demanding a March 2008 withdrawal, right?
- ZenMojo, on 11/11/2007, -1/+7I won't go so far as to say no other campaign does it, but how can you just assume that everyone else does it without proof or examples?
- inactive, on 11/11/2007, -2/+7They were never 'liberals'. They were always extremists. More accurately described as Leftists than liberals, who by definition should be more centrist.
- oceanrain, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5Why Neocon? More like slimy pathological liar.
- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -6/+11don't we already know that Hillary's a scheming little bitch?
- lead2thehead, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5Reporter: "Mr. President... Why are you so awesome and super cool?"
Clinton: "Well I'm glad you asked..." - Matthew720, on 11/12/2007, -2/+7That man, Rudy, knows nothing. His entire platform is based on a tragedy that took place on his watch and that's it. If it weren't for 9/11 Rudy would have been forgotten. Don't get me wrong, he's still and idiot, and to use 9/11 as if he were such a hero that day, despite botching the entire rescue operation by emergency responders because he didn't provide them with the proper equipment they've been asking for eight years prior, is the lowest of the low. How people fall for his nonsense is beyond me.
- petewiz, on 11/11/2007, -0/+4*money-grubbing whore
- ShrimpCrackers, on 11/11/2007, -0/+4I can't believe she has virtual media immunity from her monthly contribution scandals. That said, I agree with the media, she could only lose the race for Presidency, she doesn't have to do anything right, because no matter what the media keeps kissing her ass (see Norman Hsu, see Chinatown fundraising scandal, see the endless scandals when she was first lady, see her endorsement of Queens local representative Meng whom himself was involved in the largest voting fraud scandal in Queens, NYC; and those are among the Asian ones that I've been looking at (I'm Asian and live in NYC), I wonder what else goes on).
- Wookie, on 11/12/2007, -2/+6I bet Ron Paul's campaign doesn't plant questions.
- epicstruggle, on 11/11/2007, -0/+4Im talking about audience questions. Since when do they get press passes? Its pretty easy to get into these events even if you dont support the candidate and ask a totally loaded question.
- j.carcinogen, on 11/11/2007, -1/+5Rupert Murdoch loves Hillary:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/09/politics ... - ZenMojo, on 11/12/2007, -2/+6Show one other politician who DOES.
- pintomp3, on 11/11/2007, -1/+5sadly, it even goes for the white house press corp.
- pseudononymist, on 11/13/2007, -4/+8I would say Kucinich is in the same boat as Paul as far as personal freedoms and the military go.
- EvilAmerican, on 11/12/2007, -0/+3pennvneff = total jackhole
- NoStoppingUs, on 11/11/2007, -2/+5as much as i HATE hillary clinton, this happens on every major political campaign from presidentials to congress. every campaign ive ever worked on has, at one point or another, done something similar. this is a stupid non-issue, and there are PLENTY of other issues people need to be attacking clinton on besides this.
- stealthc, on 11/12/2007, -1/+4Planting questions is an old communist tactic used to sway opinion in public meetings. Sadly it has crept into our own political system and apparently people just accept it now. It is a tool of manipulation and should be grounds for disqualification in an electoral race.
Also used is the Diamond Tactic, where hecklers or supporters organize but participate in the meeting as though they are unrelated in order to give an impression of bigger support or resistance to a candidate or idea than there really is. Google for this as well as the Delphi Technique.
Do not let them manipulate you. - DigitAl56K, on 11/11/2007, -6/+9"virtually every presidential campaign plants questions"
Oh really? And if all your friends told you to jump in front of a bus, would you?
... psst, guys, go get the bus.... - mcraigw, on 11/11/2007, -0/+3
I don't believe that "all politicians do that *****". I haven't seen evidence of any other politicians doing it.
Even if I accept the supposition that "all politicians do that *****", I note the difference in response by digg at large, and the media to this type of reprehensible action. If say Rudy Giuliani were elected and then it was discovered that his campaign workers had plants in the audience with scripted questions, then the same apologists that are presently saying "Oh everyone does it", would be screaming for impeachment.... "Rudy lied people died!" - InferiorWang, on 11/12/2007, -2/+5It's all the same ***** in different buckets.
- mcraigw, on 11/11/2007, -0/+2
Mom, is that you?? - goffy59, on 11/11/2007, -0/+2dugg!
- CoolWind, on 11/12/2007, -1/+3you're delusional
- spyd3rweb, on 11/11/2007, -2/+4If you ask the wrong questions they can just revoke your press pass to the next event.
- mcraigw, on 11/11/2007, -0/+2
No, but if you ask the wrong question, you'll find yourself in prison being tortured for the rest of your life.
Hey, here;s a nice picture of Fidel Castro: http://mcraigweaver.com/liberals/target17.html - hittnrun, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Can't wait for the debate tonight in Vegas. Hillary will overcompensate for her lackluster showing last time and end up looking like a raving lunatic. Mark it.
- CoolWind, on 11/12/2007, -1/+3A boring story, but an interesting discussion, and that's what matters.
- RavagesOfTime, on 11/12/2007, -2/+4And of course, she's still going to win...
We really suck. -
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