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Shrillary claims she didn’t know about planted question

We all know how honest those Clintons can be, so she must be telling the truth.  Oddly enough, not everyone is buying it:

I was at the biodiesel plant in Newton, Iowa, when Hillary Clinton was asked the now-famous question that had been set up by her staff. We had just finished a tour of the facility where Clinton nodded, as all candidates do, while officials spoke so that the cameramen wearing hard hats could film her standing among tubes and vats. (This is for B-roll that makes the candidate look engaged in local issues while the television announcer talks about her trip.) Then Clinton gave a nearly hour-long policy speech before taking questions from the audience. Nineteen-year-old Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff asked: “As a young person, I’m worried about the long-term effects of global warming. How does your plan combat climate change?”

Now we know, though, that it was Clinton’s staff that gave Gallo-Chasanoff that question to ask. Which makes the senator’s answer amusing. “It’s usually young people who ask me about global warming,” she said. Perhaps it’s usually young people because in the binder where a staffer showed Gallo-Chasanoff the question for her to ask, it was under the category marked “college student.”
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Did Clinton know what her staff was doing? She says she didn’t. Can that be so? She answered only a handful of questions at the event, and she somehow found her way to the person in the crowd who’d been put up to the task. Either her luck is smashing, or she’s fibbing. Any staffer who prints up audience questions and carries them in a neat little binder doesn’t then leave it to chance whether the candidate finds the one plant in a room of 300. Campaign aides insist that this moment was an act of pure happenstance. That still means that staffers feel it’s OK to freelance at confecting artifice. Shouldn’t someone have hesitated and thought, yikes, this is the kind of campaign where if I get caught doing this, I’m going to get fired? Even if it never winds up on the Jumbo-Tron in Times Square? 

The “smartest woman in the world” sure is looking very intellectually average these days, n’est-ce pas?

November 14, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | Hillary