One of the "undecided voters" on the panel at the Town Hall Debate - Ben Raybin - describes the experience in a guest article posted at BuzzFlash.com. The tagline at the end of the article notes that Raybin, now a law student at Vanderbilt University, is "a former staff writer for BuzzFlash."
Buzz Flash is a left-wing, pro-Obama, "independent media" website, as anyone can tell by looking at the site or even just their store, the BuzzFlash Progressive Marketplace, where you can support the cause by purchasing Obama stickers, liberal books and Joan Baez records.
As for Raybin, when he was an undergrad student at the University of Chicago - where Obama once served on the law school faculty - Raybin wrote this article for The:New:City, an Australian "web journal of urban and political affairs," while he was studying for a semester at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia
In the article, Raybin writes about what the Australian Labour Party can learn from America's Democratic Party as the ALP seeks to defeat Australia's conservative party.
Does Raybin look like an undecided voter to you?
He did to Gallup and Tom Brokaw.
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To Tom Brokaw!???!!!
October 10, 2008 - 11:48 ET by c5thenAnyone not wearing an Obama t-shirt looked undecided to Tom.
I'm not sure that they made some of them take them off before air-time either.
I'm certain
October 10, 2008 - 12:01 ET by IamTinmanHe wasn't the only one.
One word...typical. The
October 10, 2008 - 12:03 ET by bigtimerOne word...typical.
The msm has been doing this for years, look at the debates just with the dems and the Hillary plants ect...
Difference is now we have the internet and great inquiring minds that want to really know, that expose these critters adn their agenda...
Other problem is, once this is found, the msm stays silent for the most part....either way the damage is done.
Makes one ill..and something needs to be done about this in the future...which I think because of the internet, it will have to be in the future.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
See... now you've gone
October 10, 2008 - 12:33 ET by TD in FLSee... now you've gone ahead an opened up a can of worms. Since we can actually identify and track down these so called "Undecideds", the Nets will be forced to morph their town halls and interviews with the aforementioned people into one or more of the following schemes:
(1) While on camera, liberal use of the blurry lens effect - no pun intended - on the entire body of the Undecided (using the guise of "privacy" as rationale).
(2) Removal of actual live-bodies, substituted with call-in's from Undecideds during the next debate; each call-in will correspond to a particular lifesize cardboard cutout of average Joe and Jane American that will be in the audience.
(3) Using the upcoming Halloween as an excuse, all Undecideds will be in full costume, masquerading as someone they are not. That pun was intended.
(4) Undecideds will now be a mix of people under the witness protection program and/or illegal immigrants - none of whom can have their true historical views uncovered.
(5) Undecideds will be forced to an uncomfortable level to wear shirts that prominantly display guns, American Flags, and slogans such as "Support the Fairtax" or "Proud to be Pro-Life" in an effort to appear more conservative. Shirts will ultimately be burned afterward.
Bill. Is this beginning to sound like Las Vegas (CNN)
October 10, 2008 - 13:22 ET by Gary HallBill. Is this beginning to sound like Las Vegas (CNN)?
Remember the Democrat [D(ic)] party primary debate, hosted by CNN earlier this year. We learned (and a minimal number of voters found out - I have not found on yet, but surely somewhere) that CNN loaded the deck. In the end, if I remember correctly, some 6 or 7 individuals were uncovered who were plants - known, placed, and activist folks selected for the mission to ask questions from the point of view that CNN wanted. NB covered it several times. This is one of Noel's posts: Should CNN Be Allowed to Host Any More Debates? (:~. gary