Let’s start with the plant. Too tired to post it last night, but, via Warner Todd Huston at Stop the ACLU (plus buttloads of folks at Memeorandum. including Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, Outside The Beltway, Confederate Yankee, and Wizbang)
General Keith Kerr who appeared as a “spontantous†questioner on CNN’s YouTube Republican Debates hosted by Anderson Cooper is a member of the Hillary Clinton campaign. But this was not mentioned upfront, Kerr treated as a regular, spontaneous questioner. Shouldn’t that have been made clear to the audience? Or does CNN think it’s OK to sandbag the GOP candidates with a Hillary operative without mentioning it?
In fact, he was so interesting to the CNN folks that they not only had his YouTube video question but he was there in person to ask follow up questions.
Isn’t that special? Apparently CNN really does think Americans are stupid, pulling this plant crap yet again. Vid available at many of those links.
Let’s go to the transcript, to see the Paul surrender monologues (apparently, the writers strike is not causing any problems for him)
First, some conspiracy
Paul: Well, it all depends on what you mean by “all of this.” the CFR exists, the Trilateral Commission exists. And it’s a, quote, “conspiracy of ideas.” This is an ideological battle. Some people believe in globalism. Others of us believe in national sovereignty.
And there is a move on toward a North American union, just like early on there was a move on for a European Union, and it eventually ended up.
And there is a move on toward a North American Union, just like early on there was a move on for a European Union, and eventually ended up. So we had NAFTA and moving toward a NAFTA highway. These are real things. It’s not somebody made these up. It’s not a conspiracy. They don’t talk about it, and they might not admit about it, but there’s been money spent on it. There was legislation passed in the Texas legislature unanimously to put a halt on it. They’re planning on millions of acres taken by eminent domain for an international highway from Mexico to Canada, which is going to make the immigration problem that much worse.
So it’s not so much a secretive conspiracy, it’s a contest between ideologies, whether we believe in our institutions here, our national sovereignty, our Constitution, or are we going to further move into the direction of international government, more U.N.
You know, this country goes to war under U.N. resolutions. I don’t like big government in Washington, so I don’t like this trend toward international government. We have a WTO that wants to control our drug industry, our nutritional products. So, I’m against all that.
But it’s not so much as a sinister conspiracy. It’s just knowledge is out there. If we look for it, you’ll realize that our national sovereignty is under threat.
On three government agencies he would cut, or is that cut and run?
And besides, what we can do is we can have a stronger national defense by changing our foreign policy. Our foreign policy is costing us a trillion dollars, and we can spend most of that or a lot of that money home if we would bring our troops home.
Note to self: it is helpful to turn the coffee pot on after putting the water and grounds in. Otherwise, no coffee! Idiot.
McCain on Paul
I just want to also say that Congressman Paul, I’ve heard him now in many debates talk about bringing our troops home, and about the war in Iraq and how it’s failed.
And I want to tell you that that kind of isolationism, sir, is what caused World War II. We allowed…
We allowed — we allowed Hitler to come to power with that kind of attitude of isolationism and appeasement.
McCain got some booing by the Ronulans and libs in the crowd.
After question on Iraq, and others were saying we had to leave with victory
Paul: The best commitment we can make to the Iraqi people is to give them their country back. That’s the most important thing that we can do.
Already, part of their country has been taken back. In the south, they claim the surge has worked, but the surge really hasn’t worked. There’s less violence, but al-Sadr has essentially won in the south.
Showing he has no clue, yet again. The Surge was primarily in the Baghdad area.
How about some of that good old fashioned blame America?
And it is irrelevant. But we have to realize why they want to come here. Wolfowitz even admitted that one of the major reasons that the Al Qaida was organized and energized was because of our military base in Saudi Arabia.
He says, “Oh, now, we can take the base away.” He understood why they came here. They come here because we’re occupying their country, just as we would object if they occupied our country.
Sounding like an isolationist liberal
The infrastructure problem in this country is very, very serious. We as Americans are taxed to blow up the bridges overseas. We’re taxed to go over and rebuild the bridges overseas while our bridges are falling down in this country.
This country is going bankrupt, and we can’t afford this. We need to take care of ourselves. We do not need to sacrifice one thing more. We just need to take care of ourselves and get the government out of our lives and off our back and out of our wallets.
Does Paul live in the America of the late 1920’s and 30’s?
Well, that was damn enjoyable. Jonathan Martin wonders if this was the conservative caricature debate. Yeah, I think the God, guns, gays, and the Confederate flag combo could have been a little more subtle, though they did save the more “gotcha” questions for the second half.
If we never have another Youtube debate, I’ll be happy. Idiotic. However, one thing: at least the GOP contenders had the cajones to go on a liberal network and answer some tough questions, unlike the softballs the Dem candidates get.
More: Michelle Malkin has a list of tons of plants. Even the Log Cabin Republicans questioner was full of it. He is an Obama supporter.
From a discussion at the forum I frequent:
- Howie: Dems cheated again, huh? Can these libs ever win without cheating?
- Barkcloth: At least NOW they’re getting caught. It must be a shock to their systems. It’s worked so well for so long.
Maybe that is why libs hate tasers.
And more: Powerline has three more plants.
Surprise, surprise, the person who asked about the Confederate flag is a Ronulan. Not a plant, it just figures.
Calciumboy, who asked “Do you believe every word of the Bible,” appears to be a Twoofer.
printess5232, asking “What will you do to reduce crime in the inner cities?,” apparently had a video in the Democrat debates, too, though it has been removed or malformed. Funny how dat happens, eh?
Eh, that’s enough looking. We all know CNN was trying to play games.
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