CNN's You Tube Debate Delivers Questions from the Left
Media Research Center
During Monday night's CNN/You Tube Democratic presidential debate, the candidates were hit with questions from the left over the right by nearly a 3-to-1 margin: 17 liberal questions posed in You Tube clips versus six conservative clips. With CNN's You Tube forum with Republican presidential candidates set for September 17, CNN has eight weeks to ensure an equal approach of of pushing each party from the direction of its base, so Republicans should be pressed from the right by about 3-to-1 over from the left. But if most of the questions to Republicans also come from the left, the CNN/You Tube debates will have served as little more than prime hours dedicated to advancing liberal causes.
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Amongst the questions from the left at Monday night's event,
- one about reparations ("African-Americans ever going to get reparations for slavery?"),
- Katrina ("Do you believe the response in the wake of Hurricane Katrina would have been different if the storm hit an affluent, predominantly white city?"),
- getting out of Iraq ("How many more soldiers must die while these political games continue in our government? Is the reason that we are still in Iraq and seemingly will be for some time due to the Democrats' fear that blame for the loss of the war will be placed on them by the Republican spin machine?"),
- "free" health care ("What would you, as President, do to make low-cost or free preventative medicine available for everybody in this country?") and
- two advocating same-sex marriage.
The MRC's Brad Wilmouth collected some of the clearly liberal questions posed during the two-hour plus (7-9:10pm EDT) July 23 forum live from The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina:
# "Hello, America. Hello, presidential candidates. This is Will from Boston, Massachusetts. And I hope, you know, they put this question on. It's a question in the back of everybody's head, you know, some people further back than others, collecting cob webs, but is African-Americans ever going to get reparations for slavery? I know y'all gonna run around this question, dipping and dodging, so let's see how far y'all can get."
# "Do you believe the response in the wake of Hurricane Katrina would have been different if the storm hit an affluent, predominantly white city? What roles do you believe race and class played in the storm's aftermath? And if you do acknowledge that race and class affected the response efforts, what can you do to ensure that this won't happen in the future? And what can you do to ensure this nation's most needy people in times of crisis and always something will be done to help them, too?"
# "The 2006 election gave the Democrats in office a mandate to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Since that time, 800 of our military service members have died there. As a mother of an American soldier deploying to Iraq for a second time, I would like to know if the perception is true that the Democrats are putting politics before conscience. How many more soldiers must die while these political games continue in our government? Is the reason that we are still in Iraq and seemingly will be for some time due to the Democrats' fear that blame for the loss of the war will be placed on them by the Republican spin machine?"
# Squeaky voice of a snowman: "Hello, Democratic candidates. I have been growing concerned that global warming, the single most important issue to the snowmen of this country, is being neglected. As President, what will you do to ensure that my son will live a full and happy life? Thank you."
# "Hi my name is Kim. I'm 36 years old and hope to be a future breast cancer survivor from Long Island. My chances for survival aren't as good as they might be, however, because, like millions of Americans, I've gone for years without health insurance that would have allowed me to take preventative medicine. What would you, as President, do to make low-cost or free preventative medicine available for everybody in this country? Thank you." Host Anderson Cooper helpfully added: "Senator Obama, 45 million uninsured Americans. Senator Edwards had said your health plan doesn't really provide universal coverage. Does it?"
# "Good evening. My name is Stephen Marsh from Thousand Oaks, California, proud citizen of the United States of America, that does not believe in God. However, the former President Bush said this statement was an oxymoron. Now, I am worried about the amount of time given to evangelical concerns while secular voters are more or less getting snubbed. Faith in politics forum. So my question is this: Am I wrong in fearing a Democratic administration that may pay lip service to the extremely religious as much as the current one? And if so, why? Thank you for your time."
Ken Shepherd, Managing Editor of the MRC's NewsBusters blog, Monday night put together a six-minute compilation of several of the liberal questions (some of the above and others) which will be added to the posted version of this CyberAlert. In the meantime, to watch or listen to the questions, go to: newsbusters.org
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