In the last week, we have learned that CNN intended to use a different strategy for the Democrat debate tonight compared to the Republican one on the same network a month ago. For the Republicans, Jake Tapper and the other CNN moderators did their best to get the candidates to "engage" with each other. Engage in this context was explained by CNN itself as meaning that the GOP candidates would compare and contrast their own views with those of another GOP candidate. Simply put, CNN wanted the GOP candidates to look like they were bickering and argumentative. In tonight's Democrat debate, however, CNN has announced that it will NOT try to have candidates engage. Instead it will ask each of them policy questions. That will make it easier for the candidates to use prescripted responses for each topic. It may make the debate boring, but it will also make it much less likely that Hillary Clinton will make a mistake in what she says. After all, she has switched positions so many times that she might find it difficult under the stress of the debate to remember her current view.
Now we find out that the chief architect of this boring, but Hillary-friendly debate structure on CNN is Anderson Cooper who just happens to have been a member of the Clinton Global Initiative. That's right, Anderson Cooper has actually been a member of the Clinton Family Foundation's main program. He helped Hillary and Bill raise big cash from donors, cash that we know have been used to pay salaries for Hillary's political staff and to cover the costs of the Clintons' lavish travel style. Only 12% of the expenditures went for actual charitable grants; the other 88% was for expenses like private jets for the Clintons. Anderson Cooper is supposedly "neutral" in the race for the nomination.
I wonder why CNN bothered with Cooper. No doubt there would be higher ratings if they had used Bill Clinton as the moderator. Both would be equally "unbiased", although I suspect that Cooper probably likes Hillary better than Bill does.
Now we find out that the chief architect of this boring, but Hillary-friendly debate structure on CNN is Anderson Cooper who just happens to have been a member of the Clinton Global Initiative. That's right, Anderson Cooper has actually been a member of the Clinton Family Foundation's main program. He helped Hillary and Bill raise big cash from donors, cash that we know have been used to pay salaries for Hillary's political staff and to cover the costs of the Clintons' lavish travel style. Only 12% of the expenditures went for actual charitable grants; the other 88% was for expenses like private jets for the Clintons. Anderson Cooper is supposedly "neutral" in the race for the nomination.
I wonder why CNN bothered with Cooper. No doubt there would be higher ratings if they had used Bill Clinton as the moderator. Both would be equally "unbiased", although I suspect that Cooper probably likes Hillary better than Bill does.
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