And still more CNN/YouTube debate criticism…
The St. Petersburg Times’ Howard Troxler is the latest person to pile on CNN and the YouTube debate…
Here’s an idea for the next YouTube-style debate:
No media screening of the questions.
CNN did a lousy, even offensive, job in Wednesday night’s debate in St. Petersburg.
I don’t just mean that they let in Democratic ringers. I mean that CNN put on a parody of what it thought ought to be a Republican debate.
I know Troxler is not a Republican, so he is not shilling for the GOP. His column mirrors the sentiment of many others, and CNN ought to hang its collective head in shame. And to think it is still defending its position after it got caught red-handed. Thanks mostly to Michelle Malkin who, within an hour, discovered those planted lackeys of the Democrats. Too bad we don’t honor integrity in this country anymore.
Comment by RGL — December 3, 2007 @ 4:38 pm
“CNN put on a parody of what it thought ought to be a Republican debate”
Precisely!
That’s what you get when the network political team and management has almost no conservatives. Read Novak’s book for verification. They don’t have a clue!
Example, CNN used James Carville as an objective analyst. I’d like to see them now use Carl Rove to objectively analyze the Democratic debate; at least Carl has not declared his support for a candidate yet like Carville has done for Mrs. Clinton.
The LA Times got it right, CNN “Corrupt News Network”
Comment by Steve L — December 3, 2007 @ 4:43 pm
I believe integrity went out the door with the bush administration and all his cronies!
Comment by celeste — December 3, 2007 @ 4:45 pm
Integrity went out the door with Nixon and all his cronies…
Comment by Spud — December 3, 2007 @ 4:52 pm
Celeste
Your opinion “feelings” would be worth more if you could give some valid examples.
Comment by Steve L — December 3, 2007 @ 4:56 pm
Justifying bad behavior with more bad behavior… I’ll never understand it.
Comment by ImNotBlue — December 3, 2007 @ 5:06 pm
CNN has announced that it has hired Carl Bernstein as a political analyst. Do you think that will bring more diversity to the CNN mutual mutual admiration staff club. The channel is more to the left than a group of college professors at a Georgetown cocktail party.
Comment by Steve L — December 3, 2007 @ 6:27 pm
Integrity didn’t leave all at once. It’s been trickling out the door for decades. The Clinton’s and Whitewater, Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff Adams and fur coats in the ’50s, Harding’s Interior Secretary Fall and the Teapot Dome in the ’20s, railroad ‘Robber Barons’ in the late 1800s… nothing is new. We just see more of it with today’s pervasive media attention.
Comment by Grandpa D — December 3, 2007 @ 6:35 pm
Great Point Grandpa D!
“CNN put on a parody of what it thought ought to be a Republican debate”
Hit the nail right on the head. It was so bad, I couldn’t even finish watching it. CNN did a terrible job.
“I believe integrity went out the door with the bush administration and all his cronies!”
So then that makes it justifiable and even acceptable for CNN? You comment, Celeste, is almost laughable. Even if I believed that the Bush Admin. is what you claim they are, you act as if they are the only adminstration in history to lack integrity and morality. Your agument is a farce.
Comment by jerziegrl — December 3, 2007 @ 8:42 pm
Harding’s Interior Secretary Fall and the Teapot Dome in the ’20s, railroad ‘Robber Barons’ in the late 1800s… nothing is new.
Are you Grandpa D or Great-Great-Great Grandpa D!!
Comment by Ira — December 3, 2007 @ 8:45 pm
Just grandpa. I only go back to Roosevelt. (Franklin, not Theodore.)
Comment by Grandpa D — December 3, 2007 @ 10:45 pm
#4-Spuds-Richard M. Nixon who used Kennedys taping system?
Comment by Shane — December 4, 2007 @ 6:58 am
“Integrity went out the door with Nixon and all his cronies…”
Integrity, if you want to be precise, went out the door with JFK and all of his cronies. For more, please read “The Dark Side of Camelot” by Seymour Hersch (who is not exactly a conservative).
Comment by PF — December 4, 2007 @ 8:23 am