GOP Contenders Face YouTube Debate

AP:

Republican presidential candidates faced a crowd of unusual debate questioners Wednesday night -- everyday people who sent in video clips.

CNN and YouTube sponsored the debate, the Republicans' eighth major confrontation of the 2008 campaign

People from across the country submitted more than 3,500 videos posing questions; about 40 were to be broadcast in the unusual gathering six weeks before voting begins.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani leads in national polls but trails former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in early-voting Iowa and New Hampshire. Romney faces challenges from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee in Iowa, and from Giuliani and Arizona Sen. John McCain in New Hampshire. Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, Texas Rep. Ron Paul and other lesser-knowns also are participating in the debate.

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Comments

[godlessclif]

Vote Ron Paul if you think Mittens and Rudy are stupid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgQgzKVX9jc&feature=related
Join the revolution

[ChristinDemocrat]

I'd be ambarrassed to stand on the stage and say I'm a republican. You have to be named rudy or mitt to be that stupid. They are all the next Hoover the Engineer fool to take the fools office.

[godlessclif]

Huckelberry was the clear winner. I was really abusinve the way McCain lied about Ron Paul.

I bet McCain got in a lot of fist fights when he was younger with that bullying attitude.

"Let the boy win!! In Iraq!", you ging ho asshole.
If he was in a rifle company and not a fly boy
McCain's own men would have fragged him.

McCain even said we won every battle Vietnam and only had to withdraw because the Jews backstabbed the USA at home.

[BUSHsurvivor]

Romney said it would "not be American" to check the papers of workers employed by a contractor simply because they have a "funny accent."

....

Amazingly it is hard to find anyone covering this comment. On Faux News, I was surprised that Fox reporters covered the gay general story, but used the AP Newswire to talk of the debate. What, don't they want to report that their guy Rudy had a bad night?

[EyeWantOneNation]

I have to admit...watching the debates last night, of all the times I wanted to throw something at the TV, I found myself totally pissed off that Mittens, no matter WHAT McCain said, absolutely refused to say waterboarding was torture.

The fricked up response about not listing what forms of "interrogations" the U.S. uses got me!!

Sounded like Mukasey all over again...check with your advisors...right!

Gotta go buy a new TV now!!! DAM!!!

[Lisette]

What a pathetic collection of humanity these arrogant uncompassionate presidential hopefuls are.

I hope these erstwhile christians are right that there is a God because then I know these murders will all rot in hell.

Warmongers and immagine Huchabee a minister saying he was responsable for enforcing the death penalty more than anyone.

While immigration reform may be necessary who but Romney, Fred and Hunter could be so mean to fellow human beings.

They are disgusting!!

[eanderso]

Just got this from RedState.com (keep your enemies closer...)

Dear RedState Reader:

RedState is calling for CNN to fire Sam Feist, their political director; and David Bohrman, Senior Vice President and Executive Producer of the debate.

During last night's debate, which CNN billed as "a Republican debate, and the goal was to let Republican voters see their candidates," CNN either knowingly or incompetently allowed hardcore left wing activists to plant questions and Anderson Cooper willingly gave one of those activists a soapbox so he could harass the Republican candidates about military policy.

Simple googling would have revealed these left wing activists.

Had CNN done its homework, this would not have happened. They either willfully let it happen, or incompetently bungled it. Either way, heads should roll.

Likewise, we hope one or more of the GOP Presidential candidates will call for a do-over debate on substantive policy issues.

You can read our Directors post here.


All the best,


Erick Erickson
Editor, RedState.com

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[Ramirez]

Question #30 was asked by David McMillan from California. He asked:

"Why don't African-Americans vote Republican?"


From JasonColeman:
****
"This one is David McMillan, an aspiring TV writer in California, AND, a Bush and Rove hatin', John Edwards fan, who asked why the Republican party doesn't attract more African-Americans to it's side.

I'm beginning to wonder, did CNN try to vet these questions at all???? I mean, come on people, all you had to do was look at his YouTube page which features multiple videos about John Edwards, more than a couple of VERY tasteless and discriminatory videos featuring the "Blind Black Republican" (of course the "it's just satire" excuse would probably be put in play here by defenders, but I'm sure that a satirical video featuring the Deaf Dominican Democrat would be villified by libs far and wide). Not satisfied with David's video collection as proof of his liberal/democrat bona fides? Ok, then check out his blog, which is light on links but does feature as it's sole blogger on his blogroll, that most famous of sock-puppeteers, Glen Greenwald."

McMillian's YouTube page:
http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=NewsInColor

McMillian's blog:
http://mrdavidmcmillan.com/

[Ramirez]

Question 11 was asked by Ted Faturos of Manhattan Beach Ca. He asked:
"Will you eliminate farm subsidies?"

Young Ted is a former intern for California Congressperson Jane Harman (D-CA).
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/847/520

[Ramirez]

Here is an excellent link to all the YouTube questions and videos:
http://www.youtube.com/republicandebate


Question #33 was asked by Mark Strauss from Davenport, Iowa.
"Mr. Paul, are you going to run as an independent?"

Mark Strauss is a supporter of Richardson and he also participated in the Democratic YouTube debate, also hosted by CNN.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/off-the-bus-reporter/no-sport-of-kings-how-th_b_57656.html

[LibsRHilarious]

Does CNN actually have a difficult time finding Republicans to ask questions at a Republican debate?

Apparently so.

The latest plants?

The Social Security question asked by an activist who quit his job to work with Dick Durbin on Social Security;

the guy begging Ron Paul to run as an Independent and guarantee a Democratic victory is a Bill Richardson supporter.

Media bias? Nahhhhhhh

[Ramirez]

More plants.

Adam Florzak asked the question "How will you repay borrowed money to the social security trust fund?"

Florzak is an activist who quit his job with Caterpillar to work with Dick Durbin on social security reform.

You can read of his travels here:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:ml3gXE2KrxkJ:www.pactamerica.com/mission.htm+adam+florzak+dick+durbin&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

[Rosieatemydog]

Two phrases I care not to ever hear again:

1. Presidential semen
2. Gay general

Yuck!

[Ramirez]

From Wizbang:
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A few weeks ago, during the most recent Democratic debate, it was uncovered that a lot of the questioners CNN picked had were Democratic party officials and apparatchiks. The justification at the time was "oops -- we didn't know!" and "well, it's for the Democratic primary, so of course it's going to be a lot of Democrats asking the questions."

Now that lightning has struck twice at CNN and we have a new slate of Democratic appartchiks and activists asking questions of Republicans, the new narrative seems to be "well, they were valid questions, so it really doesn't matter who asked them."

-snip-

The irony here is that the argument is correct. Those were good, solid questions. But CNN, by playing by completely contradictory standards for its questioners at debates, betrays its bias: the Democrats get to stack their questions to make their candidates look good; the Republicans find themselves having to squirm and evade, or give concrete answers that won't make some people very happy.

And the greater irony is that, in the long run, CNN isn't doing the Democrats any favors. By protecting them from the same kind of rigorous questioning that they inflicted on the Republicans, they set them up for failure when CNN can't control things as rigorously. On the other hand, the Republicans have already been tested, and know what sorts of things to expect.

Well done, Clinton News Network.

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2007/11/29/cnn-if-its-news-to-you-its-news-to-us.php

[jesthefaxman]

With all the planted questions by the Dems in the GOP debate, it sort of explains the protest over a Dem debate on the FOX channel...if you follow the you can't kid a kidder premise. Knowing their own bullshit actions, they wouldn't want to be subjected to the same hijinx at FOX..

who knew?