Can CNN call itself "fair and balanced" ?

Question

They present people with questions for the Republican candidates as "undecided", average concerned Americans yet: The log cabin repuclican supporter David Cercone is an Obama supporter...LeeAnn Anderson is a John Edwards activist..Brig. Gen. Keith Kerr is a Hillary/Kerry supporter..Journey, who asked the abortion question is a declared Edwards supporter..one other "undecided" quetioner is a former CAIR intern (Councilon American-Islamic Relations)
Is lying and cheating just part of the liberal mindset that we all have to except?

jeffery C...naaaa...the WMDs are in Syria...they were on that convoy when GW was trying to appease people like you by going through the UN first.

mr. bad day....you'll never be blocked by me....lets chat...lol

Mr. bad day...if it wasn't for Fox news and talk radio it would have been ignored, and covered up...you are right about that.

Badmother:...you are right about fair and balanced is something Fox news CAN say...it would be laughable for CNN to say it....

Answer 1

It's safe to say we're laughing at CNN, not with them.

Answer 2

CNN paid for Kerr's flight and hotel and many others plants have been found. CNN claims not to know about their backrounds when a few seconds on Google would suffice.

Amazingly enough CNN never aired the Kerr plant story yesterday, cut Kerr's questions from the replay, and spent most of the time promoting "other" controversies.

Way to cover your *** CNN!

It was amazing how many Dem analysts and "undecided" voters (probably more Hillary plants) they scraped off the floor to comment about "the immigration issue" that Mitt and Rudy sparred about. And then they had program after program about the immigration problem.

Answer 3

Every single thought, policy, belief, tenet, value, philosophical idea, known that belongs to liberals is rooted in some specific logical fallacy. Taxes are not donations. Taxing the rich to help the poor will slow the economy and make more poor people. There is nothing "normal with teaching adolescents and pre-adolescents about homosexuality. The state has no business in promoting homosexuality. The state does have a legitimate reason for promotion of marriage. Fighting evil is not evil. Guns and bullets do not kill people, poor moral values kills people. All liberal rhetoric is simply erudite justification after the assumption of a logical fallacy.

Answer 4

To me, this is just a big old pile of "Who cares?"

First, while CNN may have promised to have questioners who were undecided, "average concerned Americans," I don't know that, because I didn't watch the build-up to the debate, or the debate.

Second, these were "You-tube" questions, right? If CNN did promise these would be average people, then they bit off more than they could chew, because the very fact that their videos were chosen made them unusual. I'll bet even posting a question on You-Tube makes a person pretty unusual.

And third, who do people think was "Winning" as a part of this Horrible deception? If one candidate looked bad in the debate, then wouldn't that help the other candidates?

I don't want to sound like I'm defending CNN. I rarely watch it. But if it weren't for Conservative Talk Radio and the FOX news network, this "Scandal" would be a non-story.

Trust me, the Republicans have just as much chance of winning the White House now as they did before the Debate.

(I hope no one minds. I just edited out my "Cry Baby" remark, and tightened up the sentences. I was pretty sleepy and grumpy when I first posted my answer.)

Answer 5

Of course the libs on here cry, "what's the big deal", and they are partly right. Anyone that is going to be President should be able to answer any question asked of a U.S. citizen. However the CLEAR bias, the CLEAR set-up, should make anyone that watches CNN should question their ability to give an unbiased view. And the fact that on the rebroadcast CNN has removed the gay retired General speaks volumes of their obvious intention of influence the debate.

Answer 6

First of all, CNN never called itself fair and balanced, if they did, Fox news would sue them. Secondly, In this day and age, did you really expect anything different? The democrats don't want to debate on Fox news because they were afraid of this kind or thing, but as my dad would say, "It's always the thieves that think everyone's a thief."

Answer 7

It was a cheap attempt to trap republicans by being deceptive and misusing what was supposed to be a republican debate with republican Q's.

Its funny how the democrats are so frightened by Fox news to handle tough Q's and some that may even make them look bad, yet the republicans arent afraid and stood their ground even though they were decieved by what is clearly a liberal news agency.

Why cant the democrats handle criticism and the tough Q's?????????

Answer 8

CNN doesn't know what those two words mean.
Remember that little ditty with Saddam Hussein?
CNN gave favorable coverage to him so they could stay in Iraq,when all the other news agencies were expelled.
And you ask that question?
We all know that the questioners were there at the behest of CNN. They asked questions they would never contemplate asking a Democrat.
Your last statement is true in spades!

Answer 9

You expected better? I mean, next thing you know they'll want to host a debate, then they'll stack the audience and lob softballs to the candidate of their choice, and have pre-scripted questions. There will be plenty of people who buy it too, I predict.
Oh wait...they already did that! How SILLY of me!

Answer 10

they seem to be fairly on the other side against America in all cases and Balanced in between the Communists and the Islamists