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Wolf Blitzer Sneakily Screened Student Questions for Hillar
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 Wolf Blitzer Sneakily Screened Student Questions for Hillary in 2000
As the Democrats prepare for their latest CNN debate tonight, Wolf Blitzer has denied the Drudge Report’s bulletin that he was pressured by the Clinton campaign to avoid orchestrating a Hillary Clinton beat-down. But with all the controversy this week over the Clinton campaign planting college-age questioners in its events, our new book Whitewash explains that in a 2000 CNN town meeting, Blitzer and CNN carefully screened questions for Hillary - and there were no scandal questions uttered - but Blitzer never told the audience:
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As the Democrats prepare for their latest CNN debate tonight, Wolf Blitzer has denied the Drudge Report’s bulletin that he was pressured by the Clinton campaign to avoid orchestrating a Hillary Clinton beat-down. But with all the controversy this week over the Clinton campaign planting college-age questioners in its events, our new book Whitewash explains that in a 2000 CNN town meeting, Blitzer and CNN carefully screened questions for Hillary - and there were no scandal questions uttered - but Blitzer never told the audience: On April 24, CNN held a town meeting for Hillary in prime time, at 10 p.m. Eastern at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Wolf Blitzer claimed, "The format is open-ended." But it was not. Buffalo News Washington bureau chief Douglas Turner reported that university officials submitted to CNN all the names of students attending, and that "questions from university students have been screened by CNN staff members." University administrators gave CNN students’ phone numbers.Turner called CNN’s behavior "slippery," especially CNN’s calls for student questions on Tuesday afternoon for a Wednesday night broadcast. Although no one found evidence that Hillary received questions in advance, Turner suggested, "That’s an embarrassingly long period of time for mischief to occur." Even if, CNN claimed, Mrs. Clinton had no control over the questions asked or which students were admitted into the audience, it seems odd that there were zero questions from students about any Clinton scandal. No student at the State University of New York at Buffalo was at all interested in scandals, so many of them so salacious, swirling around the Clintons? In comments before, during, and after the event, Blitzer never explained that the questions and questioners were screened in advance. CNN’s Frank Buckley ended a story the morning after the town hall meeting with a very vague reference that Giuliani’s campaign, "in a statement issued earlier, described Mrs. Clinton’s event as carefully scripted, totally contrived, and utterly fake." Surely it was that, but since Blitzer hadn’t mentioned the screening, CNN viewers didn’t have the information to fairly judge Giuliani’s contention.
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