Told You So...

Yep. You read that right; I told you so.

I was called, among other things and the least insulting, a conspiracy theorist for thinking that CNN planted questioners at the democratic debates a couple weeks ago. To reiterate, the issue wasn’t that there were democrats attending a democratic debate. The issue was that the people asking the questions were portrayed to be regular every day folks- just like you or me, and they were anything but that. In fact, they were heavily involved in democratic politics with well documented associates of the democratic party. You can read my last post, I won’t insult you by going over it again.

However, our “most trusted name in news” source CNN decided that in addition to having democratic operatives a the democratic debates- in order to be fair- they’d have democratic operatives in the republican debate as well!

I watched that debate. After the exhausting research I did for the first one, and the fact that it only lit up on the internet (but I’m glad for it)- that the MSM refused to report it, I decided I was not going to give myself a bigger headache by spinning my wheels too much with this one. As it turns out, not a whole lot of digging was required, if one uses Google.

Let me first say this: That the MSM refused to report about the fact that CNN duped us all with the democratic debate, can only prove that they are just fine with the public being lied to. While one cannot implicate Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS, etc. for doing the dirty deed that CNN owns, they did not inform the public what happened, thus condoning the behavior of the executives of CNN.

I would also like to take the time to thank those that linked to my blog, Andrea Shea King for talking about me on her radio program (I was stunned!), Hot Air, News Busters, Dan Riehl, and other individuals out there who worked so hard to get the word out to Americans. While I cannot speak for everyone, I can say that I tried hard not to be partisan and to just state what I found out. As one American to another, I don’t want you to be lied to, and I would hope that you would tell me the truth, if you knew it.

I would also like to thank the ones who worked so hard to bust this latest set up. You did a marvelous job!! And finally, with the MSM backed fully into a corner, they have to talk. Almost a week later, there are still articles on the Drudge report about the corruption, manipulation and outright lies that has come from CNN, broadcasting (in High Def) right to your living room. Take the time to thank your fellow American who stayed up into long hours of the night working to bring you the truth.

Getting back to the subject, when I tuned into that debate, I was waiting for the information to come out about these folks that they were republican operatives. That they worked for someone’s campaign, they made major donations, they were big activists, something that would make then not average, every day republicans. After the last debacle and that CNN basically got away with it, scot free, I just knew that they would have some big ticket republican up there to sway the debate. The only one they had, they disclosed who he was. I wasn’t too happy about the fact that; they could have asked someone NOT affiliated with any particular political group, but at least they said who he was. Like many of you I’m sure, I rolled my eyes at the soldier asking about gays in the military. My first thought it that he should have been at the democratic dupe-bate to ask Her Thighness that question- since after all it is Bill Clinton’s policy. But then that wouldn’t be fair- all her experience is chocked up to her husband, but she doesn’t have to answer for any of it…

My eyes rolled at the guy asking if the candidates believed EVERY WORD of the bible. (Um…does anyone? Really…raise your hand if you think that Jesus is really a lamb-literally-with wool and little hooves-Mary had a little Lamb, but if it’s fleece were as white as snow, then it wasn’t Jesus…get the difference?) That was a question that was a waste of time. Why couldn’t they ask something along the lines of, “Do you believe this book? How much do you believe it? How does this book affect you?” anything like that- but to ask if one believes EVERY WORD? Who the hell picked these questions?

Then there’s the cute (not really) girl asking about the punishment of women for getting abortions, when Roe v. Wade is overturned. She is assuming it would be. Why couldn’t she ask that question- Do you think Roe v. Wade should be overturned? To ask about punishment of women for getting them is what Hillarcrat refers to as a “Gotcha” question. I mean, unless she changed her definition-audience depending, of course.

I went to bed feeling extremely underwhelmed. Waste of my time- wanted my two hours of life back. The only shining moment was when Huckabee put these sneaky Christian bashers in their place by saying Jesus was too smart to get into politics. Which is true, and you would know if you read the gospels when Jesus has the opportunity to save himself from crucifixion, because of politics, but instead chooses truth, and the criminal gets set free and Jesus to death. Which oughtta tell you something about politics. Politics and honesty/truth just do not go hand in hand. Forward, when you hear of an honest or truthful politician, you have to wonder: to whose truth is he catering?

Will CNN be allowed to “moderate” (also known as fix, where CNN is concerned) future debates? Really, it speaks volumes that they fixed the first debate with democrats and fixed the second debate with democrats, too. It should show you where their alliances are. If you are a democrat, you should think about how trustworthy your news is, or how washed it’s been because of the politics involved. Just because you may agree, doesn’t mean it’s accurate.

And why is Andy Cooper off the hook? It’s his show-is he completely clueless about what’s going to happen on his show, before it happens??? Furthermore- why can’t they just tell the people what they’re doing? If they said, for example with the gay soldier, that he works for Hillary’s campaign (postpone the notion for a moment that it would be completely and totally inappropriate for him to even be there), then that would have been honest. If they disclosed that the abortion girl (wonder how many she’s had to have such energy on what the punishment would be for women) was a huge John Edwards fan, that would have been honest.

These are the same arguments I made for the last dupe-bate. If only they would have disclosed…but they didn’t. But, my fellow Americans, at least this time you know you were lied to. And in the news articles online where there is an allowance for comments, you always see a few peppered in there about the democratic debates. Makes me warm and fuzzy inside, you know. I encourage at any cost, the spread of truth from Americans to Americans.

One truth here that cannot be refuted is that CNN is far from manipulative. They are so biased toward the democratic party, as evidenced in the past two debates. I was totally expecting to find that they planted republicans at this last debate- which would just go to show that while they are not honest, they are at least fair about being dishonest. But we can’t say that anymore. CNN is the Corrupt News Network. They shouldn’t even be allowed to call themselves news.

And to think that the democrats squawked about Fox News potentially moderating the debates and how unfair and biased they’d have been.

Did it ever occur to anyone that our freedom of the press, which is for the People, not the politicians, is working against the public? With their absurd falsehoods about the way America feels about immigration, how the war is going, who’s on top- politically speaking, how is it that so many people pay attention to the MSM? How is it that their ratings are so high? Or, perhaps, they have plants as well to make it look as if they’re loved. So sad. Thank God for the internet.

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I would lastly like to make a comment that is completely off my subject that concerns Gillian Gibbons, the British teacher who was jailed in Sudan for having her class name a teddy bear Mohammed, after the name of one of the students. While the radicals of Sudan are protesting in the streets about the execution of Gibbons, she was set free and sent home. Thank God for that, and my prayers are going out to her and her family. I pray that she heals quickly, overcomes the emotional damage caused by the severe radicals there and moves on with her life with no desire to ever return to a place that wants to live as if it’s the seventh century.

If diversity is our strength, try to sympathize with those radical Muslims. Unity is our strength and those types will never unite with infidels. I, however, am proud to be an infidel and I will never submit. God Bless you Gibbons.

CNN Goes Green, by Gardening Plants

I have spent more than 12 hours researching the “random” questioners at the CNN Democratic Debate that was held on November 15th, 2007. I started out looking around, because there was a story about the first questioner, Catherine Jackson, who may have been a plant. As it turns out, she is an anti-war type, who has rallied against the war outside of Harry Reid’s office in Nevada. Harry Reid is one of the biggest supporters of surrender in Iraq, to this day denying the surge is working, among other things. The story came out about Catherine when someone recognized the name and discovered a news story of her interview during one of these protests.

So I got to thinking, who is she, and who are the other people.

I looked up CNN’s transcripts of the debate, to find out who they are. At the same time, I paid attention to other blogs and news outlets, to find some mention of The Diamonds and Pearls girl, being Maria Luisa, and CNN made her ask her question. She said she felt stupid, because she wanted to ask a question about Yucca Mountain. There were links to her My Space page, indicating she was 15.

But the transcripts said her name was Maria Parra-Sandoval and she was a student at UNLV, and in the video clips of that question, that’s what she said her name was. Interesting that no one picked that up. So I popped her name into my Yahoo search engine to discover that Luisa is her middle name, her full name is Maria Luisa Parra-Sandoval, and she worked in Harry Reid’s office in Nevada and DC. (Picture on page 23) She was also invited as a guest on the floor off the 74th session of Nevada Legislature, by a man named Rubin Kihuen, he was elected in 2006 and a member of the Nevada Assembly Democrats. Upon further research and a tip from a commenter on another message board, it turns out that she came here illegally from Mexico as a child with her family, but since gained legal status, and has won scholarships to attend UNLV.

Maria Luisa is Maria Luisa Parra-Sandoval, and her picture is in the yearbook on one of the Nevada government websites, in addition, her name is listed as one of Harry Reid’s staff.

When I found out, I nearly fell out of my chair. So what about the rest of them?

I popped the name Khalid Khan into my search engine, he was the one who asked the question about racial profiling in airports. I was stunned to find out that although after 9/11, he was very patriotic about our country, he’s not just some average Joe, as CNN and the DNC would have us believe, but the President of the Islamic Society of Nevada. Some average Joe, my ass.

Now there’s something fishy about the fact that according to the transcripts given by CNN, the name of the woman who asked the supreme court question is “Unknown”. You mean to tell me, they don’t know her name? But upon further research and the un-edited version of the transcripts, her name is LaShannon Spencer. Why would they leave that out? Could it be that she was a plant as well?

As it turns out, she was. She was the director of political affairs for the Democratic Party in Little Rock, Arkansas. Coincidence? I think not. And if you look at her pictures that are available on the world wide web, she is one in the same lady. Now in case anyone with any liberal affiliation is scrambling to shut down these sites with her picture, I have saved them, but also included the links to the original stories.

I am still doing research. Pointed out by a reader of Hot Air, Obama may have known one of the questioners by the name of Judy Bagley, the supposed cashier of a casino. However, in the transcripts, Obama tells her he appreciates her work in the culinary union. Um…what?! I thought she was a cashier, what great work is she doing for the culinary union? And how did he know? Did they meet the questioners before the debate? Otherwise, he would not have known she did work for the culinary union. We didn’t know.

As if it’s not enough, there is much controversy about the tickets that were issued to attend the debate, particularly with the tickets issued to UNLV, and the manner in which the students were awarded the tickets, which was supposed to be via lottery. Please follow links to these articles, as I feel it would be slightly redundant to post what someone already has. Hat tip to Dan Riehl for helping to discover a lot of this, particularly with the ticketing issue.

It can be said with certainty that at least the three people I mentioned here were NOT ordinary “undecided democratic voters”, but rather people who were prepared and planted into the audience to ask these specific questions. And this is certainly not the first time CNN has been busted planting a questioner into the debate. Remember “Mac or PC”? Perhaps a web search of Alexandra Trustman is in order. CNN said they were sorry in 2003 and that they wouldn’t do it again. How sorry are they going to be once found out about this latest scam?

So what does all this mean? If CNN told you, you being the one who watched the debate (I only watched it to see Hillary get her ass handed to her, which mysteriously didn’t happen because of Wolf Blitzer’s softball questions), that there would be a session of questions from average people, just like you and me, then you were lied to. When you heard the Catherine Jackson ask about when the troops come home, showing off her son (whose name is not Christopher Jackson, but instead Christopher Gallagher) who did three tours of duty, you felt sorry for her, and even might have tried to sympathize. When I heard that, I was glad this isn’t Vietnam, where the soldiers got no support- indeed her son got a standing ovation.

CNN, the DNC or both played upon our emotions, knowing full well she is a professional Moonbat, anti-war type, who’s been in the press before protesting the war outside Harry Reid’s office.

You can’t tell me that they didn’t know about Maria Luisa Parra-Sandoval, working for Harry Reid, either. Some luck that she just HAPPENED to get drawn for the lottery in UNLV to get an admission ticket, and just HAPPENED to be one who got to ask a question and HAPPENED to be called upon.

Don’t try to convince me that they didn’t know that Khalid Khan is the president of the Islamic Society of Nevada. (can someone say special interest?)

And don’t sit and tell me that CNN didn’t know the name of the woman who asked the supreme court question, the same question Suzanne Malveaux injected her abortion piece into, wasn’t LaShannon Spencer. And don’t tell me that they didn’t know of her political affiliation, either, or that she just HAPPENED to be picked for the audience or just HAPPENED to get to ask the question.

Ladies and gents, this is political correctness at its finest. And to think this wasn’t the opportunity for CNN to produce Grade-A sound bites for Clinton is absurd and naïve. Remember “Boxers or Briefs?”

Let me just tell you that when I began my search, I had no idea what to expect. I only wanted to see if something might pop up in the search about these people, I had no idea that they might be connected and how so.

The ONLY thing that has yet to be figured out, is who made the decision to pick these specific people to be the ones delivering questions? Was it someone working for CNN? The DNC? Could it have been a collaborated effort of employees of both organizations? Who decided that those people would be called upon?

And which candidates knew ahead of time? That could be left up to conspiracy, however, one thing remains crystal clear: These people were not the average undecided democratic voters they were presented to the American people to be. These people have big backgrounds, and the proof is irrefutable. The only thing that needs to happen now is the media needs to grab onto it. But some of us bloggers already know and are working hard to get it out.

As a proud American, I feel deceived and manipulated. And you should, too. I feel that it is my duty as a citizen of a free society to get the truth- and verifiable evidence- to the public. This is not a “fire doesn’t melt steel” conspiracy. This is “Dan Rather Loses His Job for Fake Reporting”. And the bloggers did again in relentless search for what really happened. Ala Lindsay Lohan, “They weren’t my pants!!”

They lied to us. They lied to all of us. It’s not really surprising, knowing the lows they’d sink to for potential votes, but it should be awakening to the People that what we are fed by the media as “news” is in fact, not news. We are fed total BS, by some audacious person(s) making the decision of what gets reported.

In the War Against Political Correctness, at least in this issue, this is the tip of the iceberg.

*****UPDATE

I thought it would be very note worthy to mention that the Democratic debate that FOX News was supposed to host, the debate that the democrats pulled out of because of their issue with "fairness", was to be held in none other than...Nevada. Could that be coincidence? If FOX news would have held that debate, then FOX news would have been asking the questions. I can see why they thought CNN to be the better choice for moderators.

*****UPDATE 2

Were all of them plants? It could very well be, but let's just stick to what we know...and what we know is that Judy Bagley is a member of the culinary union, who just HAPPENED to attend campaigns for Obama, Hillary and John Edwards. The same Judy Bagley who just HAPPENED to be at the debate and HAPPENED to get to ask a question. According to the article, she is a cashier, but is audacious enough to think that whoever she and her union friends chose will be elected. (For the nomination or the presidency? Because that's a pretty bold statement to make, either way.) Who is she, in the Union, to be able to give statements to the media? In these articles, they talk to seemingly prominent people...AND her. But she's just a cashier...

Thank you to one of my readers for this tidbit.

*****UPDATE 3

Just a little information on the Union that Judy Bagley is a member of. And it appears that some of these democrats really like this union...or really like talking to them.

CNN/Youtube Debacle

The CNN/Youtube debates were almost comical and nothing close to serious, I thought. My first thought is, “when are these people going to answer the question?” John Edwards is clamoring around claiming that “the real question is…” Earth to John- The real question was the one asked by the person in the video, not the one you made up in your head. And seriously, Obama didn’t do so hot, either. That man opens his mouth and has a pleasant tone of voice. He’s not bad looking either. Because he uses the word “is” properly (as opposed to the Ebonics way of using the word “is”), people think he’s such a charismatic intellectual. But listen to the guy. He doesn’t say anything; he rambles on his talking points and contrasts himself from the current administration. Case in point: When the question by a Youtuber was asked about how to pull out of the war in Iraq NOW (because all the democrats say we should leave now), how do we do that, right now? How does it get done? A very legitimate question, in my opinion. Obama answered, “Well, let me start by saying I opposed this war from the start. The Bush administration…” And he NEVER answered the question. Not once. I was surprised that Hillary was able to give a couple definite answers. She got lucky and was able to answer based on her scripted responses.

The questions were chosen by CNN, I’ve heard that they were based on the diversity of the questions and creativity of people participating (you know, as if we were in first grade- our reward for being creative), rather than the most viewed on Youtube. Whatever- it’s their show, and I honestly thought they did a half way decent job. However, there were completely ridiculous and time wasting questions, such as, “Who was your favorite teacher and why?” WTF? Who the hell cares? (Oh, you and the CNN rep that chose your video. But that’s about it.) In case no one noticed, we’re in a war, our borders have yet to be secured, welfare is broken as is Social Security and Medicare, wages are too low, prices are too high, gas is soaring and our politicians earmark so many bills, they look like spoiled teenagers with access to their parents’ credit cards. Hello? Is there anybody out there? Favorite teacher? What?

The next dumbest feel-good and politically correct thing was to have these politicians “turn to your left and say something good about the person next to you.” What is this, second grade when we learn about paying compliments? Puh-Lease! As I stated above, border, war, healthcare, budget…Maybe these things truly aren’t that important to democrats as they say they are. I mean, I hate to generalize, but if you watched the body language of these candidates relax when such questions were asked, you’d think the same thing.

I do think the democrats were brave by attempting to face their constituents (although, not really, because CNN still chose the questions), because that is certainly more dangerous than FOX news. FOX after all will pull no punches but neither will the constituents. I can picture half these people puking in the toilet right before going on stage, praying someone else would get the tough questions. But it was edited so terribly, and I wouldn’t have considered it some free-style debate as what they posed it to be. I mean, how many questions could have been asked in place of “Who’s your favorite teacher?” I can think of a zillion. I can only imagine how many people are pissed that they were snubbed in favor of this politically correct question. How many do you think Hillary would have been asked about keeping her husband at bay while she’s in office? Which are legitimate questions as well.

I would have LOVED to see the real questions that are on people’s minds. I have compiled a list of questions that are on everyone’s minds these days- which I have yet to hear any one of them answer:

1.Nevermind the Bush administration, what is your real plan for Iraq? (no talking points. We want to hear an actual plan of action.)

2. What are you going to do to fix our border?

3. What are you going to do to fix immigration without attempting to pass legislation that you know the people won’t go for, such as the Amnesty Bill?

4. Are you going to work on Social Security? (because everyone my age knows it won’t be there for us when we’re ready for it)

5. What’s the plan for energy independence? (again, forget what the Bush administration is/has done. He’s out in a year and a half, I want to know what YOU are going to do.)

6. Why are earmarks necessary? Will you practice earmarking bills? What bills have you previously earmarked? Do you think that sponsors of earmarked bills should be made public and give explanation for these earmarks? Are you opposed to line item veto, if so, why?

7. What will you do to curb spending and increase fiscal responsibility? Will you adhere to a tax-and-spend policy? Why is it necessary to have millions of pet programs that get federal funding when most people who pay for them never see the benefits?

8. What will you do to keep us safe? What is your plan to see that Americans don’t have to worry about terrorism in the United States again?

9. What will you do to keep real education such as math, science and reading in the classrooms and political propaganda such as biased holiday parties, sexual agenda, etc. out? Do you feel a need to keep political propaganda out of the classrooms?

10. What is the difference between you and your opponent and why are you better qualified? (This IS a debate, after all. Not a simple discussion.)

I bet you we never hear them answer these. I’ll be submitting questions for the Republican debate, regarding border security and legal immigrants. Maybe I’ll be chosen! But if I don’t get picked because they want to have a video asking candidates’ favorite color, I’ll swear off CNN forever.