Oh CNN - did you write the audience questions for ALL the candidates

[Matariki]

Or just this one? http://www.tubechop.com/watch/7629721

[Le Taz Hot]

1. Well, well, well, well . . .

[notadmblnd]

2. "Secretary Clinton, I can see why they gave you this question"

That's what I thought I heard.

[Autumn]

5. "Secretary Sanders...Clinton, I can see why they gave you this question"

[99th_Monkey]

6. I thought he said ".. why they gave ME this question.." but maybe you're right. nt

On edit: I listened again, and i now think he's saying "you" not 'me'.. just for record

[notadmblnd]

9. Either way, it was chosen for her to be asked.

It did not originate with the person asking the question.

It was not a town all. It was a staged reading of pre-screened questions which audience members were requested to direct to Secretary Clinton.

[greyl]

14. It did originate with the questioner. This is how it worked:

Everyone in the audience who wanted to to, wrote and submitted questions.
From that large set of questions, a few were selected.
Those audience members were then asked to read their question at the mic.
Nothing weird going on at all.

[Rilgin]

16. can you tell us how you know this

It was a weird question. It clearly indicated that it was either not his question or that he did not choose it for Hillary.

Can you tell us how you know that it was his question. Also usually when you see town halls, you both have a question and a person you want to address.

If it was a generic question and they wanted to select it. Why did they not ask it of everyone.

[greyl]

17. Not yet, first provide your evidence that the questions were planted.

You get the first shot.

[Rilgin]

18. ugh

A person gets up to ask a question they wrote of someone they wrote it for, does not say "I can see why they gave you this question"

You gave an explanation based on an assertion on how they picked the questions. This was the post I responded to. I did not ask crassly. Your explanation made sense. I am just asking if you are speculating on how they did it or you know.

I am curious how you know how the questions were picked. I spent 20 minutes tonight on google trying to find out.

[greyl]

21. Ah, ok, sorry for assuming.

Did you find any evidence that the questions were planted during that search?

[Rilgin]

27. Yes, somewhere

One of the threads yesterday had a link to a twitter post from the Student himself.

He confirmed that it was his question, not one provided to him. The choice to address it to Hillary was not made by him. He said it was a generic question. Not one addressed to a specific candidate. CNN decided it would be asked to Hillary. So someone at CNN went through the questions and decided which questions would be asked of what candidate. He of course did not have any knowledge of what criteria or procedures CNN used in screening and selecting questions.

His tweet explains his confusing and somewhat ambiguous statement. It was not a purely planted question. It does show that CNN might not have used the best procedure to insure a pristine environment.

I do not think CNN journalists used explicit bias in the selection and screening process. Proof is that Hillary did have some hard questions addressed to her but it still troubles me that they did any pre-screening and directing of questions to specific candidates. If I ask for a few hundred questions and then pick the one I like, it really becomes my question not the person submitting it.

This was supposed to be a town hall with audience questions. I hope they took a panel approach using different political factors rather than have one individual try to overcome his or her own bias.

To eliminate conscious or unconscious bias it would be a much better procedure to pick questioners randomly and not select on the basis of whether a journalist liked the question. If you want to pre-screen the question do it after the questioner is selected.

Last, generic questions like this tend to be softballs, Again to avoid bias, if you are going to use a generic question rather than one directed to a specific candidate it might be better to ask all of them the same question.

However, the student put to rest any question that it was a planted question.

[notadmblnd]

19. "Secretary Clinton, I can see why they gave you this question"

You can see it for yourself in the video.

[greyl]

20. Right, I heard it. And?

From the large set of submitted questions, a few were selected.

[notadmblnd]

23. It is not the young man's question. They gave it to him to ask

The person who is asking the question, has no ownership of it.

[whatthehey]

26. Then it should have been

They gave ME this question.

It was explained in the show itself. Audience submitted questions, organizers picked which ones they liked and when to call on each questioner.

[Autumn]

3. Wow this one is a keeper

[99th_Monkey]

4. Good catch. Wow... not surprised, but surprised they chose such a young kid

very telling...

[morningfog]

7. Interesting. Did the questioners not write their own questions?

I can maybe understand CNN pre-screening the questions, but the questions should come from the person who wrote it in the town hall.

But who did write the question? Who screened the questions?

[Deny and Shred]

8. I tried to type the actual questions only on the fly

A bit of paraphrasing, but not much. Read through them and ask if the candidates were equally questioned. It is a bit long, but the event took a while. I did not include any candidate responses.

Questions to Sanders

Host: Busy Day?

Host: You were not sure if there was an appetite for a discussion of rich vs. poor when you began the campaign. Are you surprised by the success of Feel The Bern?

H: You centered you campaign on income inequality. President Obama said today you do Not have the Luxury of focusing on just one thing as President. Are you up to the whole job?

Woman 1: Your detractors call you a Socialist. Explain so I shouldn’t be worried.

Woman 2: Nurse : Medicare has a reputation for having problems. Why would people support your program?

Host :To be clear - you will raise taxes to do this (medicare for all program)?

Man 1 : How will you fund your programs?

Host: You paying for these programs is punishment. You are amassing the biggest government ever?

Host : Is the era of big government back with a President Sanders?

Man 2: Given Washginton gridlock, what will you do to cure gridlock to implement your initiatives?

Woman 3: Given the PP and Human Rights Campaign endorsements, how will you be more effective as president than a woman?

View Hillary Ad: Is Sec Clinton better prepared than you?

Host: You referred to Dick Cheney responding to Clinton's experience. Not highbrow of you.

Woman 4: How will you establish better gun control and mental health initiatives?

Host: Isn’t gun liability just wanting to have it both ways?

Host : What’s the difference between selling one gun and selling a thousand?

Host: Your brother says you were a great athlete. Bait & Switch.

You’ll be 75 if elected, shouldn’t you release your medical records (yes) before Iowa?

Would your parents be proud?



Questions to Clinton

Host: You got the Boston Globe endorsement, Des Moines register endorsement, president Obama gave interview - said you are wicked smart, know every policy - sounds like an endorsement.

Host: He (Obama) says you get undue criticism. (comment)

Praise coming your way, but you are in a nail biter with a self-described socialist named Bernie (comment)

Man 1: There's not the same enthusiasm for you than for Bernie. I hear you're dishonest from peers. Why no enthusiasm for you?.

Woman 1: Biden said you are a newcomer to income inequality. will it be an issue you will pursue.

Man 2: I watched the Bengazi hearings - I am gung-ho supporter of yours now.

99% of questions tonight are on domestic policy. . Where do you land 1 - 10 as an interventionist.

Critics see Obama’s time as a period of less stability vs terror. How do you respond?

Arab woman: BLM and Islamophobia - will you protect rights and not marginalize? Will you keep the USA a great place to raise a family?

Woman 3: When you are elected President, what will you say to Republican voters?

Difficult to form coalitions with adversaries. Why would Republicans work with you?

What is it about you that can separate the anger of the Bengazi hearings and then work with them?

Man 3: Is Bengazi an issue in GE or as President?

H: Des Moines register - email problem. You apologized only when you need to. Willing to say it was an error in judgement?

Sanders America Ad reaction?

Man 4: Which previous President inspired you the most? ( Man said “I can see why they gave you this question” - who gave her the question if not you?)

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Those were the questions. Were they fair?

[Matariki]

10. Do you wanna be on TV kid?

here's all you have to do...

[Matariki]

11. The answer was certainly *ahem* well thought out

[senz]

12. It really was

right down to the apologies to Bill and President Obama. She was completely ready for it. Her expression after the young man's "slip" was also interesting -- lips clamped together, glancing sideways.

[darkangel218]

13. It was embarrassing, to say the least.

[greyl]

15. Almost like she had answered questions on the topic before, oooohhh, nefarious. nt

[aikoaiko]

22. Cuomo talked about the rules for the questions

CNN screened the questions from each person and then selected the person and question for a particular candidate.

I was shocked when he first said what he said, but I think it makes sense in the context that he saw his question being selected for Clinton.

At least that's how I see it.

[Matariki]

24. In retrospect that probably makes sense

It did seem like such a contrived question to end her talk with though and her answer was long, motivational, and seemed a little practiced. But I suppose a good politician can think on their feet, so this explanation is probably the true one.

[SheenaR]

25. Per this kid's Twitter

He had this question prepared for any candidate. They chose Hillary for him.

Which to me is still ridiculous.

There were clearly some real questions intended for a specific candidate....(Socialist question to Bernie, dishonest question to HRC)

But how many of these people were told what to ask and who to ask it to? It's a fair point. If people got to ask Bernie or MOM or HRC questions that didn't even want to ask them questions, there is an inherent problem with this process.