Originally Posted by Bill Bennett

On that 'don't ask, don't tell' [question], I'm getting a ton of e-mails saying that this guy who asked the question was part of Hillary Clinton's gay steering committee. I don't know if that's true or not, but if he is, that certainly should have been disclosed....

Originally Posted by Anderson Cooper

That's interesting. I had not heard the possibility that he is on some sort of steering committee for a Democratic campaign. [If] that's true...

Originally Posted by Bill Bennett

I don't know. I'm just getting the e-mails to that effect.

Originally Posted by Anderson Cooper

..it would have been disclosed. Yeah, well no, it's something we should follow up on, because certainly I had not heard that, and had no knowledge of [that], nor do I think anyone here. And if so, that should have been certainly disclosed, and we would have disclosed that. I do know that he is an activist of some sort, but I had not heard that he's actually working for a campaign. If so, that would certainly be an issue that should be addressed immediately.

Originally Posted by Anderson Cooper

Bill Bennett earlier mentioned he was getting some reports from friends of his on the Internet that Brigadier General Keith Kerr, who asked a question about gays in the military during this debate, was on a steering committee for Senator Hillary Clinton. That was something certainly unknown to us, and had we known that, would have been disclosed by us. It turns out we have just looked at it. Apparently, there was a press release from some six months ago. Hillary Clinton's office saying that he had been named to some steering committee. We don't know if he's still on it. We're trying to find out that information. But certainly, had we had that information, we would have acknowledged that in using his question, if we had used it at all.

Originally Posted by dabateman

Okay, So what we have is the station admitting to not knowing the full background of the General which is quite different from planting the man. We also do not have confirmation that the man is a plant for the Clinton's. Simply because the man works for the Clinton's does not mean that the man cannot have an agenda of his own and it certainly does not mean that his agenda is Hillary's.

But I guess this was all part of the vast 'left wing conspiracy to ruin democracy.' or something as subversive as some would have us believe.

Originally Posted by cnredd

What you are saying is that Anderson Cooper knew of the man as an activist but didn't, as a journalist should do, factcheck the guy...

You're giving CNN a pass at not doing their job...

You're also making an assumtion that out of thousands and thousands of YouTube questions, this guy was randomly picked...That CNN...Notoriously known in the past as "Clinton News Network" COINCIDENTALLY picked a question from Clinton Committee person to ask at a Republican debate...

I have swampland...cheap!...

Originally Posted by dabateman

CNN picked a General, not a Clinton person... Big difference. You cannot hold Anderson accountable for something that was handed out to a staffer until you are going to hold others to the same standard. Whatever standard we have must be equal.

If you think that this was a set up I have some beautiful ocean-front property here in NM. Good price just for you...

Originally Posted by cnredd

Did you not see this thread?...

Originally Posted by dabateman

What I saw about that thread is there is apparently one one person on this board who cared...

Originally Posted by cnredd

I apogize for being in the minority...From here on out, I'll only start threads important to others instead of me...

Originally Posted by dabateman

You can't have it both ways... Either we aren't going to censor or we are. You deem that censoring is great, when you disagree with the message that is being censored... *shrug*

But really, you are the only one that really cares about this apparently. No one else thought it was important enough to comment on. That doesn't mean that it's not important, it's just not important to them. Same thing can be said for the questions asked by the 'plants'. The truth is that all of the questions are valid... let them be asked. Who cares if they are planted as long as the answers to the question are open and honest...