In the lead-up to Monday night’s YouTube debate with the Democrat presidential candidates, CNN ran prime-time specials previewing videos that might be featured during the debate, and most of those featured came from the liberal side. It should be no surprise then that video clips featured left-wing clips by almost a 3 to 1 margin versus the conservative clips - 17 liberal clips to 6 conservative clips, out of a total of 38 video question clips.
Video of 10 of the liberal questions (6:20): Real (4.53 MB) or Windows (3.79 MB), plus MP3 audio (2.15 MB).
In the 7 pm hour, the first left-wing question came 17 minutes in, and asked the Democrats where they stood on reparations to blacks for slavery. This was followed by a questions on how race and class affected the response to Hurricane Katrina; and how Obama and Clinton address criticisms that they’re not "black enough" or "feminine enough."
Two question clips in a row at the bottom of the 7 pm hour dealt with the question of "gay marriage," one of them from a Reverend Reggie Longcrier from North Carolina, who got to ask his question through his video clip, and in person at the debate. This was the first "gotcha" moment of the debate, which was directed towards John Edwards. Two liberal questions on the timetable for troop withdrawal from Iraq, whether women should have to register for Selective Service, closed the 7 pm hour.
Only two conservative questions were asked during the 7 pm hour. The first came 46 minutes into the hour, and the questioner asked how we could pull out of Iraq, when it would likely get worse after we pulled out. The second, which came immediately afterwards, asked from Senator Gravel from Alaska to defend his statement that members of the military who died in Vietnam died in vain.
At the top of the second hour of the debate, a Stephen from California (and was actually present for the debate as well) asked the Democrat presidential candidates if they would be willing to meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea in the first year of their administrations. This was the second "gotcha" moment, as Stephen was in the audience as well. Host Anderson Cooper first directed the question to Barack Obama, and Stephen himself directed it to Hillary Clinton. Another question about troop withdrawal from Iraq followed.
Twenty-four minutes into the second hour, one of the most egregious question clips of the Democrat debate featured a woman who self-identified as someone who worked for Planned Parenthood, and asked the candidates about sex education. The lunacy continued with the next two questions, but this time on the "hot topic" of climate change. A crudely-animated snowman asked a question about global warming, followed by a "Bay Area" woman, specifically in Berkeley, California, who asked the candidates how they would decrease energy consumption. While a third question clip related to "climate change" followed (the producer agreed with the "scientific consensus" on man-made global warming), the questioner asked the candidates about their stance on nuclear energy, which he supported.
In the last half-hour of the debate, the main issues shifted to the benefit programs of the government, such as Social Security and health care. Two women from Pennsylvania asked the candidates if they would accept a minimum wage salary if they were elected president, in an attempt to get the candidates to see how the minimum wage needs to be increased. In the following clip, a woman from Wilmington, DE asked what was up with people who make more than $97, 500 stop paying into the Social Security system (she obviously saw this as problematic).
The big question of the last half-hour was a question clip that came from four individuals, each with a health problem or disability (a son who has a mother with Alzheimer’s; a woman with three relatives who have diabetes; a woman whose breast cancer treatment made her bald; and a man in a wheelchair) , who asked the candidates what they were going to do to help their problems. As a follow-up, a young woman asked whether the candidates’ health care plans covered "undocumented workers." The last left-wing question came from a young atheist man who worried about the Democrats paying lip service to religious Americans.
The first conservative question of the 8 pm hour, which some might consider to be ambiguous (though it was asked by a member of the military), asked Hillary Clinton how could people in the Middle East could take her seriously as president when they treat women as second-class citizens. The next conservative question did not come until 45 minutes later, when a widely-publicized question on taxes, set to country music, was played. Another conservative question, which pointed out how taxes go up under Democrat administrations, followed immediately afterwards. The final conservative question, which was played as the debate went slightly over into the 9 pm hour, asked the candidates where they stood on the issue of gun control, as he proudly showed-off one of his guns.
The Republicans’ YouTube debate isn’t until September, but the public shouldn’t act surprised if CNN starts showing a number of clips that are mostly liberal in the lead-up to that debate.
—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at the Media Research Center.




















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Matthew... I don't know
July 23, 2007 - 23:55 ET by bigtimerMatthew...
I don't know what is left to say that hasn't been said already about this debate.
I am going to say one thing about it though...
I liked it a lot better than the Matthews/Politico charade...lol.
What also cracked me up was CNN having to report that Hillary came in fourth with their live dem/independent viewers that were voting as the debate was on-going, it was the same with Frank Luntz and his group.
I am sure the pollsters that are for Hill will have it changed by morning.
Obama first, Biden second, then Edwards.....where is Hillary....lol!
Last I saw on the Drudge poll it was Obama and then Biden too...been awhile though, who knows how many workers have come in and voted on the open vote on his site since then.
Matthew... I don't know
July 23, 2007 - 23:57 ET by bigtimerMatthew...
I don't know what is left to say that hasn't been said already about this debate.
I am going to say one thing about it though...
I liked it a lot better than the Matthews/Politico charade...lol.
What also cracked me up was CNN having to report that Hillary came in fourth with their live dem/independent viewers that were voting as the debate was on-going, it was the same with Frank Luntz and his group.
I am sure the pollsters that are for Hill will have it changed by morning.
Obama first, Biden second, then Edwards.....where is Hillary....lol!
Last I saw on the Drudge poll it was Obama and then Biden too...been awhile though, who knows how many workers have come in and voted on the open vote on his site since then.
Matthew B. I don't know
July 23, 2007 - 23:58 ET by bigtimer<edit>
Do not know what is going on here, but I keep getting fatal error message.
}}}----> Democrat Plot
July 24, 2007 - 00:01 ET by Cool ArrowMe too Timer
Is that weird or what
July 24, 2007 - 00:05 ET by bigtimerIs that weird or what cool?
Guess I will see if this posts normally...
Here I go...lol
}}}----> Eureka, it works
July 24, 2007 - 00:07 ET by Cool ArrowI never knew a fatal error could be so insignificant.
Weird
July 24, 2007 - 00:08 ET by Matthew SheffieldI haven't seen any such error tonight.
PM me if you see it tomorrow.
Is that weird or what
July 24, 2007 - 00:07 ET by bigtimerIs that weird or what cool?
Guess I will see if this posts normally...
Here I go...lol..
It didn't, I am afraid to post anymore.
Any suggestions on what to do by others?
....besides say good-night?
What did you do now BT ?
July 24, 2007 - 00:09 ET by Free StinkerWhat did you do now BT ? ;-)
One more test
July 24, 2007 - 00:09 ET by Matthew SheffieldNo more fatal error?
No more
July 24, 2007 - 00:10 ET by Matthew SheffieldSeems gone here now.
I was wrong in my comment earlier in this thread.
}}}----> Logged back in
July 24, 2007 - 00:13 ET by Cool ArrowHere goes
ROFLMAO Free.... I didn't
July 24, 2007 - 00:11 ET by bigtimerROFLMAO Free....
I didn't do nuttin' honey!
Suggestions anyone?
Are you still
July 24, 2007 - 00:12 ET by Matthew Sheffieldseeing it bt?
I believe it is fixed now.
Matthew, My last post
July 24, 2007 - 00:12 ET by bigtimerMatthew,
My last post worked fine...
Thanks...whatever you did...
....and here Free is trying to put the blame on me!
And rightfully so
July 24, 2007 - 00:13 ET by Matthew Sheffield;-)
Dang it all... I always
July 24, 2007 - 00:19 ET by bigtimerDang it all...
I always get the blame....
Boo-hoo!
Whats a poor gal to do?
Like cool arrow said....I never knew a fatal error could be so insignificant.
Scared me for a second or more.
Your timing was good bt
July 24, 2007 - 00:20 ET by Matthew SheffieldI'm glad it happened during the nightshift when fewer were affected.
Matthew...Me too...I
July 24, 2007 - 00:27 ET by bigtimerMatthew...
Me too...I guess.
LOL...
I hope you know I am joking, I completely understand your point....now I am trying to understand the new comment X thing you were talking about in the last blog post you put up.
Time will get me to understand here what that all means.
I also know I am most likely going to be forced to go to Firefox....again.
Most likely will not have as many problems understanding the difference between the two (IE and Firefox) than I did before when I do.
}}}----> Guinea Pigs?
July 24, 2007 - 00:29 ET by Cool ArrowYou're welcome, Matt. Glad you were here to tweak us.
I always get the
July 24, 2007 - 00:33 ET by Free StinkerI always get the blame....
Sorry! :-(
No prob little bro... Now
July 24, 2007 - 00:40 ET by bigtimerNo prob little bro...
Now you had better take that the right way with laughter after all this time...
You remember clear back then about that? ;-)
BT - I think I still have that
July 24, 2007 - 01:08 ET by Free StinkerBT - I think I still have that stuff saved in a Word document...
WOW! Long ago....wasn't
July 24, 2007 - 01:12 ET by bigtimerWOW!
Long ago....wasn't it?
Got a big thunder and lightening storm starting up here soon...I hear the rumble.
May have to close pretty quick.
I have enjoyed the evening though.... what little I have had in and out here.
Have a good one...catch ya later friend...and all else here too.
G'nite, BT
July 24, 2007 - 01:15 ET by Free StinkerG'nite, BT
}}}----> Too funny
July 24, 2007 - 00:00 ET by Cool ArrowI watched the delayed broadcast and was torn between it and switching over to Craig Ferguson. Both were funny, but I stayed with the debate.
Lecherous Old man Chris Dodd was quick to point out his child is going to public kindergarten. You'll notice he didn't mention where his first string of kids went to school.
All of them seemed to have a good excuse in shielding their kids from the real American Public School system they created and control. More uneducated = More Democrats
}}}----> Dem Gay Bi Fem Dom Debate
July 24, 2007 - 03:40 ET by Cool ArrowAfter this Tubeyou debate tonight I can't wait to see the the questions from the Sexual Orientation crowd.
Anybody want to predict some of the questions?
This question is for John Edwards: "John, I am a 5' 9" BBW seeking One Nighter. DDF. Will consider 3way".
Reparations
July 24, 2007 - 20:00 ET by jimpeel<blockquote>It's a question in the back of everybody's head, you know, some people further back than others, collecting cob webs, but is African-Americans ever going to get reparations for slavery?</blockquote>
Answer: Besides being so eloquently posited, if you get reparations for the output of your ancestors that would be wages paid in arrears, would it not? That would mean that what WAS slavery then becomes employment.
What makes you believe that you are entitled to the benefit of the sweat from another man's brow?
Haven't you benefited enough just being here in America instead of running around the African Savana in a loincloth herding cattle; or, worse yet, being a Tutsi in Rwanda?
<rhetorical question>If we give you reparations will you finally shut the f--- up about slavery?</rhetorical question>
Reparation problems
July 24, 2007 - 20:01 ET by dagdaThere are some serious problems with reparations. Since a significant number of blacks were not slaves, they would not be due reparations. And how would it be worked out? Would those whose families were slaves longest get more money, or would it be a flat fee per family, then split between the heirs.
And if blacks are getting reparations, I want reparations from the British government for the way they treated my Irish ancestors. They were slaves longer than blacks were. Plus I want reparations from the US government for the treatment of the Irish here.
You can see this is a very slippery slope.
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