Wingers' Heads Explode, Demand YouTube Debate "Do-Over"
by Todd Beeton, Thu Nov 29, 2007 at 02:02:36 PM EST
This is sort of fun to watch. Wingnuts' heads are exploding over the political affiliations of some of the questioners at last night's debate. It all began, as you know, with the question about Don't Ask Don't Tell asked by Keith Kerr, retired Colonel., U.S. Army; retired Brigadier General, California National Reserve. Turns out that, while he is a registered Independent and has not given money to the Clinton campaign, his name is listed as a member of Hillary Clinton's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Steering Committee. CNN has apologized but RedState is anything but satisfied. They're mad as hell and they...want a do over?
This headline appeared on RedState today:
CNN's Performance Was Unacceptable. There Should Be A Do Over of This Debate.
Umm, are they kidding? The Republican candidates didn't even want to do it in the first place. But alas, it doesn't stop RedState from calling for the following:
1) Republican candidates for President should boycott CNN.2) Republican viewers should boycott CNN until they fire Sam Feist, their political director; and David Bohrman, Senior Vice President and Executive Producer of the debate.
3) One or more of the Republican candidates should demand a do over wherein we can have a substantive debate about substantive issues that exclude CNN's agenda, which is clearly out of touch with the Republican party, and the drivel we saw from YouTube.
Their outrage stems, of course, from their complaint that CNN used questions from "liberals" to advance their "liberal agenda;" In other words: that CNN didn't screen the questions to their satisfaction in order to weed out anything resembling a diversity of opinions.
CNN's pre-debate spin was thatThis would be a Republican debate, and the goal was to let Republican voters see their candidates.This debate was not about Republicans asking the Republican candidates questions. This was about CNN abusing its position to push a Democratic agenda.
To fan the flames, Michelle Malkin is doing her usual stalking job on several of the questioners and has uncovered support for some of the Democratic candidates. God forbid!
The thing is, as Sadly No! reminds us, Republicans, and perhaps more importantly, Republican talking points, were not exactly banned from the Democratic CNN/YouTube debate.
Back to the tubes...
What the wingers are really upset about here is that a record breaking audience of almost 5 million people (not including online viewers) watched the Republican candidates reveal themselves to be the fringe wackos that they are.






