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When Hillary appeared April 3, 2007, at the Quality Inn/Highlander in Iowa City, she was introduced by County Supervisor Sally Stutsman and Iowa ex-First Lady Christie Vilsack. During her Q & A session, halfway through, Hillary took an obvious prepared question, read laboriously from a page by a schoolgirl who had been conveniently positioned in the center of the front row, to Hillary's left. (Hillary was in the center of a cleared indoor square, with 4 audience quadrants around her).
It was an obvious "don't kids say the darnedest things" maneuver, contrived to be reminiscent of what Art Linkletter did (apparently honestly) half a century ago, and Hillary was making a transparent effort to be a family values/aren't kids wonderful kind of a gal.
After about 10-15 more minutes of adult questions only, i.e. ignoring the precious little kids, Hillary heard from Christie Vilsack, who rose from her chair to announce: "It's time to go, time for only one more question." So, Hillary immediately called on a schoolboy to her right, conveniently at the front center of his quadrant, and Hillary handled the second cute kid scenario in the same gushy way she had with the little girl.
The artificial nature of the children's insertions was very reminiscent of Nixon going to China, and kids being posed to be in his background only to have their hair ribbons and jump-ropes taken away as soon as Nixon left. So, I went to look over the kiddies as the crowd dispersed. The schoolgirl and her mother were being rewarded with a photo alongside Hillary. The boy was wearing a Hillary staff badge on a string around his neck. Just a few days before this, ex-Gov. Vilsack had made a deal with Hillary that he would receive her help in retiring his fundraising debts, which had been incurred in a recently failed presidential bid. –END–

Hillary Clinton be dishonest? Never (Sarcasm)

Here is a short list of her dishonesty in the past.

Took a $100,000 bribe, camouflaged as futures trades, from Tyson Foods Inc.

Speculated in Health Care industry futures while overseeing legislative reform of same.

Failed to correct false testimony by co-defendant Ira Magaziner in Health Care trial.

Obstructed justice by ordering the shredding of Vince Foster's documents in the Rose Law Firm.

Ordered members of the Health Care Task Force to shred documents that were the target of a court probe.

Ordered the removal of documents from Vince Foster's office and told aides to lie about their removal of documents.

Obstructed justice by keeping her billing records, a document sought under subpoena, in the White House residence.

Lied to investigators about her knowledge about billing records.
Lied to investigators about her involvement in the Castle Grande land flip con.

Ordered the use of the FBI to discredit Travel Office employees.
Lied to investigators about her involvement in the firing of Travel Office Employees.

A Federal judge orders a trial on July 25, 1994 to determine if Hillary Clinton's heath care task force illegally operated in secret.

The White House finally releases more than 2,000 documents on June 25, 1996, relating to the travel office firings, originally requested two years prior by congressional investigators.

Over the years Clinton supporters have willingly suspended disbelief to swallow all the garbage Clinton, Inc. offers up. She said she had no idea? Then how did she call on plantgirl in a room when dozens had their hands up to ask a question? She is lying, again.

"The GayOldPartiers don't plant questions? How about planting a REPORTER in the…White House? Sure, why not. Rove and Bush did – Jeff gannon. Do a quick CNN search on his name and then crawl back underneath the rock, GoofyOldPests."

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Typical defense from a Clinton apologist and enabler. Others do it, so what's the big deal.

The GayOldPartiers don't plant questions? How about planting a REPORTER in the...White House? Sure, why not. Rove and Bush did – Jeff gannon. Do a quick CNN search on his name and then crawl back underneath the rock, GoofyOldPests.

Yes, Hillary is despicable, but is she any worse than Osama Obama? As a Jewess in the US, I say America doesn't need another Hussein!

To all of you die hards, how do you tell if a politician is not tell to whole truth and nothin but the truth?

Their lips are moving, does not matter if they are Republicans or Democrates, get over it.

One can not talk about the issue with out being accused of bashing Bush, or being accussed of being a left wing liberal nut.

So politics are dirty, I do not see this election season getting any cleaner.

But if you do want to see a clean campaign, well then, tell the canidates you are tired of them bashing each other, you are not going to vote for them if they continue to bash their rivals. Lets get back to the issues and open up the debate.

By the way a question was planted, several questions were planted, big deal show me politicain that has not used this tactic and I will show you a loser, show me one that claims to have never lower him or her self to such things and I will show you a liar.

'Can it get any more pathetic than this?' Military Wife

What hole have you been in the last 7 years?

this is typical for hillary.Just the one to deal with Putin, terrorists, Iran, N Korea etc.....what a scam....

Why did the twit agree to ask the question in the first place? This is a way that candidates can answer questions in a non-confrontational manner…answer the question and state their position. It's been going on for years. BTW – is she really looking for honesty in politics?²

Thiago Oliveira

Projeto Sonho

This has been around for ages. So what's new? I am sure that every candidate since after Washington has done this.

So what? What is more important is to get our constitution back. Focus on what is important. This isn'nt.

Can any of you prove that the other candidates that didn't get caught yet haven't actually done this? I don't think so.

And while she said she would have rather used her own question, Gallo-Chasanoff said she didn't have a problem asking the campaign's because she "likes to be agreeable," adding that since she told the staffer she'd ask their pre-typed question she "didn't want to go back on my word."

Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Elleithee said, "This is not acceptable campaign process moving forward. We've taken steps to ensure that it never happens again." Elleithee said Clinton had "no idea who she was calling on."

What are the odds?

About 200 hands. 4 questions answered.

Do the math. She knew, and this wasn't likely to be the first (or last) time.

Will all of you please send me $ 500 asap. Because if she's elected, socialism is what you'll get, and she'll take from you and give it to someone else, because that's what socialists do: They believe they know what's best for everyone, and confiscate everything that's not nailed down. Chesterton said much the same about kings: "The problem with tyrants is not that they do not love the people, the problem is they love them too much and trust them too little. So either they wind up on the throne of a king or in an insane asylum." And the Democratic Party has become the insane asylum since I was so registered in the wild flagrant days of my youth.

Not passing the smell test.

Who stopped her from asking her own question, anyway? What prevented her from asking about Vince Foster, if she wanted to make a fool out of herself?

Nothing.

She chose to ask the prefab question as suggested and then, apparently, had buyer's remorse ... maybe felt impotent and decided the best thing for her own self-esteem was to jump on the attack-Clinton bandwagon. Women signing false proffers made a lot of money on that last Clinton bandwagon.

It is Bush's fault that Hillary had to plant questions. It is Bush's fault that she can't give a straight answers on important questions. It is Bush's fault that the young woman must be attacked by Clinton, Inc. It is Bush's fault that Mrs. Clinton has to raise funny money from the Chinese. Man, I hate Bush.

Bush and the Republican party have been doing this for years and years. In fact, one could say that Bush has not been asked publicly an original question, by the public or the press, since he has been president. That this is framed as news is an indictment of the complicity of the press in perpetuating this charade. This is obviously a would-be political hit piece. I question the intelligence, nay, the *sentience* of anyone who would read this article as anything else.

Ron Paul 2008.

Please Lord , we are in deep doo doo here , give the USA a break , any one of the Democrats but Clinton ! LOL

Ok. So she was clearly a double agent, working for one of the other campaigns. Probably Obama's.

Whatever.

Don't let the media and money dictate your choices. Give Biden a look!

Hey Military Wife in FL, Republicans in 2008? Sure.. if you just want to keep watching our soldiers die in Iraq, go ahead and vote republican.

#1- if she didn't think it was moral why did she agree voluntarily to ask the question- or is she a plant by the Republicans- please note she said one of the staffers not Hilary did this-
so who is dishonest- this woman asked a question on her own why didn't she just change it to what she wanted to ask in spite of the staffer at that point there would be little they could have done about it
GO HILLARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This isn't new. When I was in college I interned with ABC News at the Republican Conference in Philly. They were pulling people off the streets, handing them signs and paying them to cheer and wave their signs when their candidate came on stage. It is all for the cameras. I am sure that all the candidates have 'people' to do that for them.

Post Script.....

and if you believe that HRC "didn't know" the question was planted.......I'VE GOT A BRIDGE TO SELL YOU IN BROOKLYN, NYC!!

I cannot believe all the people making excuses for HRC planting a question in the audience!! I can't believe the excuses about "it's a way of getting your message out there"..... People...WAKE UP!! It's not a matter of "planting the question"...it's the principle behind the act.....A town hall meeting is supposed to be a forum where the candidate responds to HONEST QUESTIONS FROM EVERYDAY PEOPLE. If HRC wants to make sure a question is asked.... why not just take a moment out of the questioning and say honestly "Let me ask you all a question"....or "Here something I want to make sure gets mentioned"...... Why make it seem as though someone just "happens" to ask the canned question off-the-cuff....THAT'S what's dishonest about it....

Obama '08

It is very scary that anyone would vote for her.Looks like CNN has taken away free speech .I see my comment will be reviewed.

This is getting good.....Hillary is no mental powerhouse. I expect to see more of this...can't wait.

She was doing a good job fooling americans.To bad she's not as slick as her husband.

Why is this even a story? You have to have a ticket and sware you are a republican to get in to hear the moron president try to read a speech and you think the questions aren't soft?

Does anyone on this post realize that maybe she isn't the only politician who has planted people in the audience? Um yea, like its never happened before....we just didn't hear about it.

This is much to do about nothing. It was a darn good question and I think the girl is just lookin for headlines. The media needs to get some where and have a seat! Ok we all know you media people hate Hillary and Bill. We all know its sweeps week and ya need a headline, but COME ON! GO Hillary! I'm still voting for Biden (Big Smile)

By the way can anyone name me a 100% HONEST politican?

Posted By Salita, SC : November 13, 2007 8:45 am

I can name a 100% DISHONEST candidate...Hillary Clinton

And does anyone proof of any other democratic campaign doing this, or is it all hearsay?

Perhaps the next Billary Administration can give Ms. Gallo-Chasanoff an intership and restore her positive outlook on politics..

Wow, over 300 hundred responses. You do know what this means DON'T YOU? When you talk about Hillary, it is news. If this would have been Edwards or Bama, dead in the water. This chick is in bad need for attention... "see me, hear me, somebody notice me." If this really had any merit to it and I was the one approached to ask the question, I would have agreed and then when John called on me, I would have said,"I was just approached by one of you campain staff to ask you this question. Do you think you will be able to answer it is less than 5 paragraphs?" HAHAHAHAHA

THe day Hilary becomes president is the day we will turn into the USSR, but without the mass murders.

Ironically people hate Bush's patriot act, but it will be ten times worse and we will lose our rights slowly...

but if voters want it... vote away like clowns

With all the issues at hand that affect our everyday lives–health care, the war, the justice dept.–and this girl complains about a planted question??!!!! Get over it!! This doesn't matter a hill of beans to ANYONE!!! Enough with the conspiracy theory. This is the problem with politics–the media covers bogus issues like Howard Dean's yell–and the attention is drawn away from people who are doing REAL harm to our nation like those who expose CIA agent's names or partake in other forms of government corruption. Stick to IMPORTANT issues!!!! PLEASE!!!

To the person who asks above "what about Bush's and FEMA's fake news conferences and q and a sessions...

uh... I think that's the point. Hillary is exactly of the same ilk as Bush is. She's really, really good at manipulating voters and the media.

Haven't we had enough of this b.s. yet?

Obama/Edwards 08!

I can't wait. Stop the Hate. Change our fate. Don't be late.

All canidates do this. Even our on President does this and got caught

Posted By No Name, Alexandria, VA : November 13, 2007 8:56 am

Come on, That doesn't make it right!

Maybe we could coax Ken Star out of retirement to investigate. He did such a bang-up job the last time. Seriously though, is this such a big deal? At least Hillary has to memorize the answers, since she is not wired like Bush.

Honestly people why are we so surprised about this. This is a part of the political no matter planned or casual it was. It's situations like this that other countries can can use in proving how naive we truly are. Mrs.Clinton is a politician and has a staff of people to make sure she wins this election. Here's the main difference between Republicans and Democrats is Democrats get caught doing this kind of thing, Republicans don't. Name the issue Democrats get caught and then later on in someone's book a retired Republican tells his life story and everything is presented out for the world to see. We need to get in our collective heads, we are in control of where this country goes in the present and future. It is our responsibility to not be swayed by popular opinion.

Campaigns having been doing since the trail of Christ. It is unfortunate that candidates are afraid to answer real qustions from real people but not really dishonest. You don't have to agree to do it. If this little thing is what gives you a negative outlook then you really haven't been paying attention have you?

I am seeing an Obama & Edwards ticket

These types of things go on in all the candidates campaigns ... but only of interest when it happens to Hillary, apparently. I was at a Edwards' rally and I watched while his people stood in front of an elderly couple who had signs that stated "Draft Gore". They were acting like goons. Big college students who were staff for the Edwards campaign (I had talked to some of them before Edwards even showed up)followed these two elderly people, a woman and a man, around the event, and stood in front of them, using Edward signs to hide the "Draft Gore" signs. They stood shoulder to shoulder blocking these people and their signs with their own Edward signs, shadowing the Gore supporters every move. I happened to be near them, when I noticed what was going on, and I went up to the students and told them I was ashamed of their behavior and tactics. I could hardly believe my eyes at first. A short time later, I saw a newpaper journalist who was covering the event, and told him about the very obvious incidents of bullying going on, and the journalist couldn't have cared less! Interesting how the journalists are now jumping on this "staff" story! I am so sick of all this salivating and waiting for the frontrunner to fall flat on her face!! Nice going!

I am not American. I cannot vote.

Of course!! They are all doing it.
The problem is that no one can be set apart or aside.
With 20 candidates, at this point, the odds are in favor of those who do it the most; and most blatantly.

Guess what, Ladies and Gentlemen ... this is nothing new. Planting a question at a news conference is standard, quick-and-dirty Public Relations. It happens all the time and those candidates who say they don't do it are blissfully ignorant.

You don't think it happens here on CNN.com? I'm sure there are many campaign staffers that are paid to sit and surf websites like this and post the candidate's talking points on all of these sorts of blogs.

WAKE UP -

HILLARY SHOULD IMMEDIATELY DISMISS THE STAFFERS WHO HAVE GONE AGAINST HER AVOWED WISHES BY ARRANGING AND PLANTING QUESTIONS IN THE AUDIENCE!!! THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS AND HAS BROUGHT DISHONOR TO HER CAMPAIGN. THE STAFFERS SHOULD BE NAMED PUBLICALLY AND FORCED TO TAKE THE BLAME.....of course, if what Hillary says is true!

CNN's Pro Hillary censor is working overtime today. Blocking half the post for no reason then pointing out the fact that she screwed up big for this one. But of course post all the Bush bashing compartisons even though he is not running and it was and is just as wrong to do. And best is that it is a woman that is taking her down. Where are the excuses of it's a conspiracy.

I find you apoligists amazing. If a drunk crew member of a boat runs it ashore the Captain is the one responsible. If Hillary's campaign is planting softball questions for her then she is ultimately responsible.

Reagan did not trade guns to the Iranians but his staff and people under him did. Only he had the guts to take the hit and blame for it.

A democratic presidents motto was the Buck stops here. What's Hillary's excuse if that sentiment is still true today.

So make your excuses all you want they are like a part of your anatomy and they all stink.

Hillary is down and staying down from this hit.

Anybody But Clinton.

Hi. Welcome to politics. Any naive enough to think this isn't standard should vote. Yes, I said should. Our votes for president, honestly, don't matter. Vote local to make change.

Someone needs to shut this trailer trash up! No..., the other trailer trash!!

Now I know why Karl Rove leave, he is
running a underground campaign for
some other non-Hillary democrat. Does
anyone truly believe Senator from
IL or Nc has a chance to win next year?

IN YOUR Dream !

"Hillary Clinton is the ONLY Democratic candidate that can walk into the White House and not miss a beat. We NEED her this time!"

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I'll bet the anyone in the WH staff that was around during the Clinton years is cringing at this prospect. I wonder what they have to say?

"THE ONLY REASON THESE RIGHT WING NUT JOBS ARE HARPING ON THIS GARBAGE IS THAT THEY'RE DESPERATE AND KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE AGAIN NEXT NOVEMBER!!!…GET A LIFE PEOPLE!!!"

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Uh, excuse me for infusing some fact, but it appears members of the Democrat Party and those running in her own Party are harping as well. Hillary's denial seems to be more of an issue than the act itself. Typical Clinton...deny, deny, deny. Dig the hole deeper. So very tiring. Wish she would just go away.

Joyce...you and the rest of the hillary-loving idiots are determined to believe that the Clintons are saints and they are always the victims. Every time you hear about Hillary's corruption( or ANY negative criticism for that matter), all of the Hillary supporters adopt the tatic of closing their ears, screwing up their eyes, and yelling 'I'm not listening!' Unfortunately, it shows your immaturity...seeing as this is a tatic used by most eight year-olds.

Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire!!!!

Is there anything Hillary won't Lie about?????

Liar! Liar! Pants on fire.
Is there anything Hillary won't Lie about??????

Well, if I don't vote for Hillary... I will end-up voting for Mitt Romney (and I'm a Democrat).

Two points:

1. For those who say "so what? Bush/Cheney employ the same tactics" are those who are saying that Hillary is no better than Bush/Cheney and that she and her campaign are using the same tactics as Bush/Cheney and therefore her campaign is a lie if it portrays itself as an alternative to Bush/Cheney.

2. For those who are trying to smear an honest student who is justifiably whistleblowing on the corrupt Hillary campaign you should be ashamed of yourself — we know who, between Hillary and the student, who has a documented history of lying … and it is not the student.

WHAT ABOUT ALL OF W'S FAKE KATRINA, AND IRAQ NEWS CONFERENCES? WHAT ABOUT RUDY'S FAKE CALLS FROM HIS 10th WIFE?
THE ONLY REASON THESE RIGHT WING NUT JOBS ARE HARPING ON THIS GARBAGE IS THAT THEY'RE DESPERATE AND KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO LOSE AGAIN NEXT NOVEMBER!!!...GET A LIFE PEOPLE!!!

A mistake was made by Clinton's aide for doing this. They need to find out who it was and they need to let them go. As for the student that was told to ask the question, if she didn't want to do it, she should have refused. Now that the story came out, she JUST want publicity–what happened, happened–we need to move on. Clinton has said that it will not be tolerated and it won't.

The Hillary campaign just wants easy questions that can be answered as vaguely as possible. Hillary still resists committing herself to concrete policy positions, and thinks she can smile her way to the White House. Democrats, don't let it happen! We don't need 4 to 8 years of triangulation and Republican-lite free trade and deregulation, plus all the scandals (real or imagined). We just don't need it!

Who Cares?!! It was still a legitimate question. Get over it. Is this really news worthy? The media and this chick need to calm down.

How do we even know if this sweet looking young woman isn't an Obama or Edwards plant? I find it hard to believe that Hillary cannot answer ANY question that's asked of her.
The time is getting close for the other candidates to catch up, and they're starting to play dirty!
Hillary Clinton is the ONLY Democratic candidate that can walk into the White House and not miss a beat. We NEED her this time!

I know that most politicians, whether Republican or Dem, have a tendency to be fake, but I've always believed that the Clintons went above and beyond the typical fake political facade. Both of them have a contrived persona and their facades are tailored according to the latest Gallup poll or glamorized social issue. I despise Hillary for thinking that we'd fall for it a SECOND time...

What is the BIG DEAl?????? re plants.
The press has way too much power! and making way too much of this.
We all know that Obama is a great speaker..up there with Bill Clinton. Obama did some waffling of his own on meet the press Sunday. He is so critical of Hillary's vote on the Lieberman amendment, yet he DID NOT VOTE!
We will be voting for the next leader of the free world. Do we really want a brilliant relatively inexperienced, unseasoned great speaker.
Its disturbing to know that most married men will not vote for Hillary (or any other woman),
Lets face it all of the frontrunners are going at each other and the press is not helping.

Compare this to Bush's so called Town Hall meetings, where you had to answer a survey so they could verify that you were a neo-con facist before you entered the building. That way, Bush could be insured that no one would ask him anything difficult or controversial.

Hillary 2009!

This girl is not pretty and should move to Iraq!

If she wanted JUST HONESTY, why did she agree to ask the question, or if when she was called on to ask a question, why didn't she ask HER question instead of the one she was given to ask.
I have no sympathy for anyone who plays both sides of the fence and that is what she did.
She wanted to be called on, but she did not want to be as honest before hand as she is after the fact.
She is no different than someone who breaks the law, they are mostly repentant after the fact, but that is because they got caught.

"Man, why are you democrats such PHONIES? If that happened with a Republican, you'd be all over it spewing your nasty "neocon" venom."

What do you mean, IF? Bush does this all the time. Bush has FAKE REPORTERS at his news conferences. Bush never even speaks unless it's before a crowd of white, corporate or military people. Period.

People lets go and donate at Hillary's website. We are running a donation campaign and we are already 300K in few hrs. Lets make it a great success before the debate.

OK, let's put this into perspective:

1. The student was not paid by the campaign
2. The student was not forced to ask a certain question

This was not a plant, it was merely a suggestion. When the student was called on she could have asked a different question.

As mentioned there have been several staged speeches by Edwards and Obama where no questions were allowed at all or questions were screened.

Can it get any more pathetic than this? She won't make it as president if she can't even answer questions on her own.

ANY REPUBLICAN 2008!!

Have to love it – another Clinton gets caught with their pants down. Now we have her liberal followers and boot licks saying it is another right-wing conspiracy against the Clinton's. What amazes me is that if there were that many conspiracies against her – how come she is still standing. Listen to her speak she isn't that sharp...all she preaches is Marxist Theorem with no solutions just ways to spend my money with non efficient government programs, with track records that have already failed in all the socialist countries of the world, yet it is a conspiracy. Got love when her posse stiffs a waitress, and stumbles to the answer questions unless they are specifically designed and prepared for her.

Hillary says she had no idea what questions were going to be asked...hmmmm, that's funny! Has anyone here watched the video of this question & answer moment? She is clearly looking at her notes!! She knew all along that this question was going to be asked! Why else would she have the answer in her notes???

I lived in Central NY for 6 years and had moved there right when Hillary became Senator. I was very excited because she promised to help Central NY with jobs and education. I voted for her because of this. SHE DID NOTHING FOR CENTRAL NY! Why? Because there was nothing for HER to gain in it. Six years was enough for me to know that NY is not where I wanted to live for the rest of my life especially with the horrid administration we have!

There is NO WAY I'd vote for this woman. She is a liar and all she cares about is what big corporation her next 100 dollar bill is coming from!

So little difference, between George W and Hillary R.

It's clear Hillary is hiding behind planted questions. I think this comes from her wanting to be manically in control. "Let's not be honest about what I really believe." She even sent Charlie Rangel out to announce the trillion dollar tax increase because she can't let people know who she really is.

Anyone but Hillary

To those of you who say things like "Don't you understand politics" and "This is what they do" – I say that may be the way "it is" but that is NOT the way that it should be. We should not justify someones actions if they are wrong just because it is the way it is. This is why our country is in the mess it is in because people are too willing to go with the status quo and not willing enough to stand up and say "Enough".

This is why I will be voting for our next President, Barack Obama. He is change, he is the way, he knows how to unite people and he does what is right – not necessarily what is popular or "the way".

Oh, and Hillary didn't know anything about any questions being planted. Oh, and she just HAPPENED to call on the college student who was a plant. Well, the fun is already beginning. Welcome to "The Clintons" Season 2.

The staffer has a book with suggested questions and the Hillary camp tries to pretend that Hillary did not know that questions were being planted. Anyone naive enough to believe that deserves Clinton as a candidate. I think most Americans are smarter than that. And to all of those Clinton apologists who keep saying it is not a big deal...Honesty is a big deal.

It's amazing just how many people have to be lying in order for the Clinton's to be telling the truth. Who killed Vince Foster? oop that just slipped out...oops that's Bill line. "You might want to put some ice on that".

Hillary will say and do anything to become Pres. It has been her life long goal. She has sold her sole. She is the smartest person she has ever met. I, for one don't need to be taken care of and don't want the government even trying. They don't even take care of the borders correctly, why would I want them taking care of me. With every responsibility you give up, you give up a freedom.

Poor Poor Hillary... in her mind this is just another "bimbo eruption", no doubt.

These comments against Hillary are based on naive, idealistic outlooks that discount the talents this woman will bring to the office. Hillary is smart, tough, and yes, she's crafty (when she needs to be)...but she's also benevolent about it. The GOP has had their way with the Democrats for at least 8 years. Along comes someone cunning enough to destroy them at their own game...and all you can do is accuse her of Bush politics "all over again"...give this woman the credit she has due. She's brilliant.

GO HILLARY!

Would you people take just a few moments and read through the comments that are being posted? If the best explanations we can come up with are "everybody is doing it" and "who believes in honest politicians?" then no wonder our government is such a freaking disaster. By continuing to allow unacceptable behavior to become the norm – we have to take responsibility for this mess we are in. Seriously, think about it! Hold yourselves and ANY potential future leader to a higher standard.

Hillary has shown she can't "perform" as well as her husband. That was obvious last debate. She will win the Democrat nomination, but won't be able to avoid hard questions for the remaining time before next election. She will be exposed for her lack of substance. She is not the smartest woman in the world, as democrats want to believe. She is definitely showing true colors, whining about being put on the spot. What a joke. If she were to win the presidency, we will be back to the Clinton's putting a finger in the air to see how to make a decision. She has no substance, like her husband. She will tell people anything to get elected, or get a campaign donation. Even give China top national secrets. Remember those days?

Hillary won't even let that wonderful integrity she has stand in the way of the White House. And to the college student: Welcome to the Republican party, Democrats hate you now. And if you want to graduate college, go into the witness protection program because you don't stand a chance after slandering conrade Clinton.

I hope that it didn't take this event to show her that the entire "democratic" political process is a joke.

They're all crooks.

YOU KNOW what Hillary's campaign done was stupid and she is suffering from it, rightly so...I do not understand why Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff did not have enought sense to tell them NO that she could ask her own questions.. yet she has enough sense to talk to the news media...sounds fishy to me...

anyone notice how much this girl looks like Monica?

Hillary KNEW they were planting questions. Otherwise, how did she know exactly who to call on? I used to support her but I will never vote for someone who thinks she can get away with such an obvious lie.

Hillary proves herself to be more and more like GWB as the days go by...I wonder if she considers him to be her "mentor"

A plant is someone in your staff or campaign. Suggesting a question similar to the question the student was going to ask is not a plant. She could have ask that question or when called upon asked her original question. She was under no obligation to the Clinton campaign to ask the suggested question.

There was a time when the people of this great country were ashamed to appear stupid.
Now, being stupid and clueless is all the rage because this will get you on TV.
If this student simply declined to ask the questions, who would know about her? I am sure that now she will be invited on all the talk shows.

Sigh. More of the same old-same old. Huckabee for President. He's not afraid of any question from anybody.

And the Hiliary excuses fly

WHO CARES!! I AM FROM THE NEWTON/DES MOINES, IA AREA. EVERY POLITICIAN DOES THE SAME THING. I hope this girl realizes that she has just potentially hurt the best candidate for president by insinuating that she thinks differently of Hillary now because of her campaign tactics when every politician campaign is run the same way. Then you have to wonder if the CNN reporter didnt twist some of her words to make this story more interesting!!

Hillary for President '08

Who really cares? Why is the media making this a criminal offense, isn't the purpose of these events to convey information on the candidates positions? At least the crowd didn't have to be a donor to attend...Do you really think the bush banners, military men and women used as props, a conveniently located, privately funded veterans hospital vistited by our vacationing commander in chief on Veterans day, isn't more agregious, considering the life and death consequences of this administrations incompetance and tightly controlled media propoganda?

This chick is mentally ill or just plain stupid.

She wanted 15 minutes of fame and got it. The problem for her is that this, "I was an unwilling participant" is total crap.

Muriel Gallo-Whatever her name is, promotes the notion that women are weak because, wah wah wah she didn't want to make anyone unhappy...you poor stupid whimp!

My 6 year old has more integrity than this chick.

Yes, the Clinton campaign staffer should have known better, but don't think for a minute the other campaigns don't do the same thing.

The others are just better at choosing good shills.

Hillary is still the strongest and best qualified candidate to lead and unite this country.

(“No one had a problem with Bush packing and prepping his audiences but now it is "dishonest"?. Give me a very large break. By Paul C. Palmetto Bay, FL”)

Sure we care. When did this supposedly happen? There is the problem that GWB is the PRESIDENT and the Secret Service will check out those that may be a threat to the President. There is the fact that is some stupid political activist starts to act up in the middle of a Presidential visit they may be seen as a problem and removed. But when did President Bush plant questions? That is something “the Evil” Bill and Hillary “the Harpy” Clinton have been doing their entire time in national politics.

What's going on here?

HEllo Hunny

Where was your protest at the time of the Canned question?

Not that I agree with Canned questions, but c'mon hunny...I smell a rat here...

Why would any campaign "plant" questions & people, knowning full-well about the Rovian tactic will be pinpointed when it's discovered?

This is awful, I knew this wasn't the first planted question and it won't be the last from Clinton, who absoultely knew about it. This young person is now turned off by politics. It was like a political rape, the big Clinton machine taking advantage of a young voter, and there should be a law against it. And it just baffles me how people are supporting Clinton. If she lands in the white house we're in for another devastating 4 years, or more! Please please please say it ain't so.

Trying to put it back on the republicans is an ad-hominem rhetorical misdirection that undermines our social values of political discourse and is a culturally divisive technique of the ignorant in need of group acceptance.

I feel demographically pigeon-holing a question towards a rehearsed response shows contemptible cowardice whether it comes from republicans or Democrats

Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor who lived in the 1700s, is attributed with writing “A democracy is always temporary in nature: it simple cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority will always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”

Does this sound familiar?

Democracies rarely survive beyond 200 years. The Unites States is at a crucial point in history which will determine whether it falls like every other democracy that has preceded us.

The time has come for a new constitutional convention in the United States with the objective of eliminating politicians, the impact of special interest groups AND the corrupt bureaucracies in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of our government.

With further development in our technologies for instant communication, there is realistically no reason why the burden and responsibility of running our democracy should not be placed back on "We the people of the United States" where it belongs by voting directly on every statewide or nationwide issue. Just watch what happens to taxes and the budget when "We the people" are directly responsible for expenditures. Of course, the professional politicians will fight against such a prospect with lies and every dirty trick in the book– but "We the people" can (and must) prevail if the United States is to exist another 200 years.

The same thing happened with the appearance of Vice President, Dick Cheney at the Cal State Bakersfield Campus in Bakersfield, Ca.. The plant was not just limited to the questions but also to two planted protestors. It was so orchestrated that it was disgusting. I concluded that anything televised in any manner is going to be a fixed agenda. Purpose control and to keep the focus where a Vice President or President for that matter and candidates and STAFF can keep control and focus where they want it.....in other words it NOT a Reality Show. They all do the same thing, unfortunate

This is old news. Everyone knows the Clintons are compulsive liars and Machiavellian manipulators. Why is this even an issue?

the girl asked the question because the staffer pretty much cornered her into asking it. all she wanted to do was ask her OWN question. so she thinks the staffer is giving her an opportunity, only to find out that he/she is expecting her to ask the scripted question. when the staffer pulls out a clipboard, it's obvious he is counting on her to ask the question. like she said, she just wanted to be agreeable. i can identify with that. when you have a high-ranking campaign staffer ask you to do something, in the spur of the moment you are intimidated so you say you will. simple as that folks. she's only 19. stop bashing her. and she's not the only one who claimed hillary plants questions; there was another guy in iowa too. i don't think she is milking this at all. in fact it is courageous of her to speak out about it, knowing that ardent hillary supporters would label her as a phony.

I would have had a hell of a lot more respect for Hillary if she would have just said, "Yeah, I knew it was a pre-planned question. So what! My staff and me thought it was a questions that should be asked". Just tell the truth, that's all I'm looking for. Someone to tell the truth. I would vote the one person that wasn't afraid to admit they didn't have all the answers. Don't insult my intelligence by saying you didn't know it was a planted question. The planting of the question didn’t bother me as much as denying you knew about it.

The Hillary-supporters have called this college student a liar, overweight, and unattractive. WOW! She wanted to do the right thing as a young person interested in presidential politics and now she has been soured by the Hillary campaign camp. If you listen or read her transcript, she have any malice words towards the Hillary camp, but hard-core Hillary supporters blinded defend Hillary at the cost of this young woman. Hillary Campaign has already admitted that this happened. So this allegation is now fact.

I say to the young woman, don't give up hope of politics. Follow the politics of hope. Support Obama.

Obama in '08!

Hm. Next time you mine the crowd for a college student to ask a staged question, make sure they're not a journalism major.

As for the surprise factor - WOW! In an economy dominated by advertising, is anyone REALLY surprised that political candidates would set up their own pins to be knocked down? It's a bi-partisan problem and, quite simply, the effect of politics being a field full of professional liars and thieves.

This is old news. Everyone knows the Clintons are compulsive liars and Machivellian manipulators. Why is this even an issue?

Ron Paul doesn't do this.

"same old crap" did we not get enough of this with bill. i'm tired of the lies lets try someone new no clinton's no bushes

Oh, please. What real difference does it make if someone wants to plant a question to insure that the issues are discussed. The kid only had to say no.

To the person who said "ALL candidates do this"....NO, they DON"T!!!! Barack Obama does NOT do this!!!! Hillary Clinton does not have an honest bone in her body!!! When are people going to open their eyes and SEE that???!!!

Blizter warned he could be another tree in the park like Vince Foster.

klown camp in all out threatening mode to control msm press from asking hardball questions.

will obama moved in for the kill or run with his tail between his legs?

stay tuned the clintion cartoon network runnig next debate ...... will larry king be a surprise questioner?

Lets beat this to death...
If this idiot is turned off politics by this then she surely needs further education. She's supposedly an adult so why didn't she protest at the time but wait to get her 15 minutes of outrage.

No one had a problem with Bush packing and prepping his audiences but now it is "dishonest"?. Give me a very large break.

Are you beginning to see a pattern here? Hillary's aides only let her do sit-down interviews with friendly media (like "The View"), they succeed in keeping Fox News Channel off the debate venue list out of fear of the kind of tough questions FNC would probably ask her, they try to intimidate all journalists to not attempt to ask Hillary tough questions like the one Tim Russert asked at the last debate, they even try to control average citizens' questions at town hall gatherings so Hillary won't be asked a question she isn't already programmed to finesse, etc. This pattern of behavior suggests a Clinton campaign that has no faith in the abilities of its candidate in anything outside of controlled conditions. It suggests the candidate is incompetent and self-destructive when left to her own devices and is not really suited for the Presidency of the United States. It suggests Hillary Rodham Clinton is nothing but an empty pantsuit.

For all of you who want to point fingers and say "well, Bush did it, too" seem to forget that Mrs. Clinton has promised that it WON'T BE politics as ususal from a secretive adminsitration. Oooops.

But be sure to attack the messanger. What does this young student have to gain be putting herself out there for all you Clinton apologists to rip her over her being honest about what happened? She would be stupid to do so.

So the most open and honest woman in the history of American politics is stacking the deck having pat questions asked of her. And you say that you have no problem with it? Do you also have no problem with Mrs. Clinton running on a record of her achievements in the Oval Office (remember, that two for one presidency?) but won't release the records?

Obama is going to take the high ground on this and Hillary is going to come off looking manipulative, scripted and dishonest. This is only going to help Obama.

Go ahead, vote for Hillary.......

Remarkable young girl. She deserves a pat on the back for expecting honesty when many of us are not only willing but eager to settle for something less.

Clinton is just like her old man - a lying, excuse-making, control freak - and how people can miss that is simply amazing. As someone else said, 'You really do have to be delusional to be a Hillary Clinton supporter.'

Hillary is a sleaze ball. She doesn't get out of bed in the morning without a focus group telling her it is politically advantageous. Just another scandal. Bill could pull it off, Hillary is just an intern.

Brett from Santa Monica actually blamed BUSH!!! lol

GET OVER IT GORE LOST! lol

Everyone is such a hater, Hillary is one of the sexiest, smartest minds in our country today. I am already working on her re-election campaign. Hilly I luv U baby!!!

Okay dems. If this is such commmon practice anywhere, why did Clinton said, "This is not acceptable campaign process moving forward. We've taken steps to ensure that it never happens again," in a written response to CNN?

She already acknowledged doing it, why can't some of you stop making excuses for her?

You've ARE the very people you accuse Republicans of: "Sheeple".

The campaign workers had to know that when a planted question was asked, Hillary would have a canned answer. It is that simple. You don't ask planted questions if you don't know what the answer will be. It was a stunt. Muriel should have agreed to ask the question and then, when called upon, ask whatever question she wanted.

Lets see:

1.Clinton's do bad
2.Clinton's get caught
3.Clinton supporters start the everyone does it drum beat
4.Destroy the accuser
5.Play the victim

I think I have read this book before. The sad part is the same people who support Hillary are the same people who use phrases like Bushbots and call our current President dumb. I have watched every debate and Bush is every bit as intelligent as Hillary. She's not Bill, not even close. Hsu, now this and we haven't even hit the first primary. So let me ask you my liberal leaning friends, who are the sheep now?

Hypocrisy is the act of condemning another person for an act of which the critic is guilty.

Baahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

hey folks bush is not running in 2008, Republicans should be printung Hillary for Pres signs. She has no shot against any Repuplican in 08

More evidence of Clinton dishonesty. Wake up, people. This isn't new.

Duncan HUnter 08! for a real leader

Wake up people, if Hillary gets elected its only because of those women who think he's such a heart-throb that voted for the stupid idiot to begin with. We've done had 8 years of those hideous hillbillies in the White House, we sure dont need to put them back in there. When its their time to leave again, they may try to take the furniture like they tried before. I certainly hope people out there, men and women deeply reconsider not voting for Hillary and Slick Willy.

Paul, Jacksonville, FL, your personal attack on this young woman tells us where your head is at. What does her weight have to do with anything? If you're offended because you're a die-hard Clinton fan, why not just admit it?

Truth is – none running for office can afford to answer any candid question. Why? Because the media and the public are too busy looking for flaws in the answers (cracks in the Armor as it were). I only wish they were honest about it. This makes Hillary look just as dirty as everyone else – but apparently that’s what we want, isn’t it? A robotic actor, who ALWAYS ALWAYS say the PC perfect thing. If we step back for a minute its clear that we asked for this.
Its time to open our minds to honesty and conviction in a candidate – once we are willing to do this people like Hillary wouldn’t stand a chance against the real leaders who would step forward.
Ask for honesty not correctness and America will be saved.
-Rob NYC

CNN the mouth piece of democratic talking points will not post this ,but here goes anyway. America will never elect this fake to the white house. people who do not see right through her are in need of help from a doctor.we need a srong leader who will face down our enemies and not waffle. Hillary is a trickster nothing more. and it will all come out in the wash. but people are dumb they will vote for her simply because of slick Willy the skirt chaser. who in his mind believes he is JFK. JFK liked woman but he also was a great man. the Clintons are crooks that fleece America everyday.if you like giving all your money to the govt then by all means vote for her.

Be careful crossing the Clintons, all of their friends that have done that are no longer with us.

The way to stop this picking on hillary is to threaten wolf blitzer! He can't do what tim russert did and ask hard questions. Not fair!

It's Hillary Clinton, honestly, what do you expect? For her to be hoenst? Give me a break.

Why do the Leftists always use the excuse of, "Well, so-and-so did it, so why come down on our fair-haired Wunderkinde for doing the same thing?".

That's the sort of rationale I'm used to hearing from 8 year old children. "Well, Bobby did it too!!", and parents who respond with, "If Bobby jumps off a cliff, are you going to jump too?" is just as valid.

Bottom line is, if the action is questionable, it doesn't matter who did it in the past, it's still questionable. And to anyone, Right or Left, using these juvenile tactics to explain away the poor or unethical behavior of ANY politician; maybe it's time to hold politicians of every stripe to a higher standard of behavior, based on the position of public trust they have attained and the oaths of office they swear.

That sound too 'Pollyanna'? Maybe it is. Maybe decency and honesty have fallen so far out of style that it's inconceivable that the American public can believe in such anachronisms any more, and if so... well, quit your complaining. What you have in office is just a reflection of who you are.

Kyu Reisch please do not speak for ALL American's when you say "Hillary is America's candidate. She certainly is not mine and should not be yours either if you have half a brain. Did you not learn anything from Bill being in office? My motto "Anyone but a Clinton." She is nothing but a whiney woman who can't play with the big boys!

Two points–
1- It alarms me that this young lady who agreed to be part of this set-up (if she is indeed telling the truth) is the future of our country. Being agreeable isn't going to help make the vital decisions that will drive our country forward. She is ending up more dirt on her face than she is helping to spread to Clinton. Get real, Gallo-Chasanoff because you are looking like the brainless one.
(For the record, I am not sure who I will vote for, and I do not vote along party lines.)
2- Politicians make a lot of empty promises–that is a fact. What we must unearth is what promises they MIGHT keep. ALL past Presidents have not kept their words to one extent or another.

If you want an honest person who will defend our Constitution and our monetary system, cast your vote for Ron Paul. If you dont care about our Country and want garbage in, garbage out, continue to not vote or vote for anyone else on the campaign trail. Food for thought see how long it takes to digest.

Hillary was right, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Hillary, it's time for you to leave the house.

I'ld love to ask her what makes her think she'ld be a good president since she has trouble remembering anything. In the investigation of her investments, her only answer was "I cant recall"! And she used that defense countless times.

The significance of HillPlant needs to considered from both the ethics and leadership perspectives. In order to call on this one student Senator Clinton must have been aware of the program and the “appropriate" responses – which at minimum can be labeled deceptive. From the leadership perspective, I am concerned about someone cannot field genuine questions, but instead seeks to control what may be asked in public forums – makes one wonder if our voice as Americans, under her leadership, might be stifled in other ways.

I already had my doubts about Hillary because of the robotlike, scripted answers to questions, the ridiculous giggling each time she's put on the spot by a reporter and now this. Now we have scripted questioners to go along with Hillary's scripted answers. When the heck is she going to come clean and give a straight answer about anything? I'm not a conspiracy nut, but at some point reasonable people have to recognise that scandals like this have followed the Clintons throughout their career. For me personally, I've had enough of this nonsense. If Obama doesn't beat Hillary for the nomination, then I will vote for Rudy in the general election.

The question to ask is whether the Clinton staff planted the question or whether they screened the question. President Bush's staff is widely known to screen questions, rather than plant them, and there is a distinct difference between the two.

If it is true that they are planting (rather than screening) then it is a totally newsworthy story and will haunt Clinton in the next few weeks.

Whoever is right or wrong it's her word against Clinton's, but one things for sure, you just can't trust a Clinton.

Hillary is a liar – just like her husband. The only difference is – she doesn't wag her finger... she just glares.

does this really come as a surprise to anyone? Hillary Clinton is all smoke and mirrors. she has no stance on anything except to make the USA a socialist state. where only the elites like herself will have the money. look at what the dems have to offer. its a joke.

ah come on. we all know clinton can win in any debate.. the democrats should feel lucky that they got both obama and clinton running since both of them actually know how to speak unlike the current president.

Ann Coulter wrote a great book."If people had brains they would vote Republican"(conservitive). But I would add, If people were not congenital liars and degenerate to the point of reprobate,they would vote conservitive.

The political machine in action.

RON PAUL 2008~~!

I cannot believe the Clinton supporters' vile remarks about this young girl and all the while singing the praises of the unethical behavior of Clinton.

If this is an example of who supports the Clintons, I am glad I am very far removed from that group. I hope they are not breeding.

All questions are "softball" if you have time to have your team of advisers come up with a response ahead of time. weasels! the lot of them! Jeb Bush 2016!

Two points:

1. For those who say "so what? Bush/Cheney employ the same tactics" are those who are saying that Hillary is no better than Bush/Cheney and that she and her campaign are using the same tactics as Bush/Cheney and therefore her campaign is a lie if it portrays itself as an alternative to Bush/Cheney.

2. For those who are trying to smear an honest student who is justifiably whistleblowing on the corrupt Hillary campaign you should be ashamed of yourself - we know who, between Hillary and the student, who has a documented history of lying ... and it is not the student.

HILL-BABY = a PATTERN OF LYING & DECEIT. THIS IS THE SMARTEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD? HA! MY DOG IS SMARTER THAN HILLARY! BUT I BET HILLARY BAKS LOUDER!

First all those Clintonites what us to feel sorry for Hillary because men apparantely should not play hardball with a women who wants to be our President. Then when it suits them they all go on full attack mode on this young lady.

Some have brought up that Bush removes certain people from his audiences. That's because they are disruptive, crazed, liberals who are not interested in the truth and would not allow a civilized discourse to take place. Face it. Liberals (which includes most Democrats) are dishonest, disingenuous, uneducated, selfish, self serving, power hungry, sad people willing to sell out anything including this great country's political structure for their own gain. All you down trodden people who think liberals will fill your troughs should look again and realize this country was made great by hard work, freedom and the unfettered pursuit of God and happiness.

If this blog is typical of thinking in the country, then this blog marks the beginning of the end of the Clinton candidacy. All hail the blog!

To all those people that say, "Well Bush/Cheney does/did it." I say, isn't she supposed to be different, i.e. not like Bush/Cheney. If she is not so different than them, why should I vote for her?

Helen, Boston, you just said exactly what I thought, and it is true. Nagative people couldn't figure out what is true or false.
I am very proud of being Hillary's supporter. Cal, Boston, sorry, Hillary is my candidate and American's candidate.

"NAGATIVE"? WELL AREN'T YOU A LIL BEACON OF LITERACY? THE HILDABEAST IS RELYING ON FOLKS LIKE YOU....

STEPHANIE BEKENDAM....Take your caps lock off you ninny! Why so angry? Could it be you've been brain washed @ college? Did your college professor make you memorize this for extra credit? The key word is ENLIGHTEN! Once you use it you've lost all credibility. Fix your lipstick and go outside and take a breath of fresh air for God's sake.

Good story, but no surprise. All of the presidential monkeys plant questions in the audience. I'm not condoning it; it's just an example of how crooked ALL politicians have become.

Are you all serious?? This is a POLITICAL CAMPAIGN!! You really think Hilary is the only one doing this?? I guess we should blame her for trying to find different ways of relaying her own plans and ideas. All she did was have a college student ask her a question. OH NO!!! WHAT A TRAGEDY!!! I feel bad for everyone who makes such a big deal about small stuff like this.

who cares, everyone does it and has...doesn't make it right by any means, but, again, who cares.....
sure wish the people in the audience could ask any question they wanted, but IMO politics are nothing but a reality show, and a bad one at that. Pathetic.
DISCLAIMER : NOT A BILLARY SUPPORTER

I'm surprised this is causing such controversy. I'm also surprised at this, from the story: "No questions were taken at the event. Elleithee said this incident was different than what happened with Gallo-Chasanoff in Newton." This is a quote from the article, not from Elleithee, so the error (should read 'from') appears to be the writers.

Please people wake up...
The Clinton dirty trick machine is building speed again. Haven't we had enough of them already? Two of the most dishonest people on the planet...
Educate yourselves! Research and learn all you can before choosing a candidate. I am tired of the cookie cutter opinions I hear from the American people shamelessly supplied by the media.

OMG !! It must be yet another "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy"..." I did not plant those questions; I never told anyone to lie....my husband did not have sex with that young lady..

.. On second thought Folks, let's face it.. according to Hillary this student was just another W plant and the obvious RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY... Living in Denial as she does it seems to be the ONLY plausible answer...But unfortunately this still makes her too STUPID to be CIC!!!!

EVERY politican plants questions. Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians. It happens on every campaign trail across the country.

To all those of you outraged by this, I suggest you put your head back under that rock.

Not one of these Clinton respondents has acknowledged that it was wrong of Hillary to lie. They have attacked the girl, attacked George Bush (why do they do that? he's not a candidate), made wildly inaccurate claims that every other candidate is doing it, but not one of them has said that it was wrong for Hillary to lie. Guess that says it all for American morality and ethics in another Clinton administration. Just don't say anything about restoring America's standing in the world.

The Woman/cough ! Is a crook just like them all. Why can't we put aside our political agendas and elect some honest people to lead this country ? Oops sorry Honesty and politics don't mix !

Surprise, Surprise. Hillary gets caught in a whopper, and then blames the girl. Whatever happened to women sticking together. Hillary, is such a tool. Are you libs really going to vote for this liar?

American politics are pathetic and shameful - its time for a revolution, but of course they've taken that option away from us, haven't they? Your vote doesn't count, and never has, don't think your questions or opinions are any different.

I am an Obama supporter but even though this practice by the Clinton campaign is utterly manipulative how can it be compared to the deceit, cover ups and open disrespect of the Constitution perpetrated on the american public by the current administration?

Hillary Clinton is the most amoral Democrat in my lifetime, making Marion Barry, Gary Hart, Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy look like saints.

"...My hunch is though that any overweight college student won't dare to come forward for fear of being trashed by Hillary's subservient, unthinking, and callous supporters."

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Well put. The irony is they expect civility, but don't practice it. Just like the Clintons, they're hipocrits.

Talk about a show of truth. Look at all the liberal post. They are so stupid they are all still campaigning against President Bush. Is that a failure of the parents or the non-educational, liberal dominated school systems? No knowledge of history or government. One more time BDS twits, George W. Bush cannot run for president again. Of course you lie and say he lied but we can prove you lie and you can't make one case of him lying. Nuff said, BDS is in full force.

Like the Clinton before her, Hillary is just an overambitious used-car salesman from the giant trailer park called Alabama.

Joe, knoxville, tn – that's all you can come up with? Please – she's a joke – you're a joke. CLINTON 08

Check out STEPHANIE BEKENDAM's long incoherent rant. It is easy to find because it is in ALL CAPS!

Attempted to read it twice but still can't find a single salient point; very humorous though. Stephanie, do yourself a favor and learn how to write.

dont you know... both sides are corrupt? get a clue! the clintons and the bush's golf and vacation together several times a year. everything is staged. even possibly elections. and the media obviously decides who the candidates will be elected. not we the ppl.

It's scary that the strongest argument HRC supporters have in defense of their candidate is "other people do it too". When you were a child didn't you learn two wrongs don't make a right. I agree with you though, Hillary is perfectly willing to subscribe to politics as usual. She and her administration would not do anything to try to make real change. Obama has declared that he has not and would not plant questions. I believe him and you would be wrong to accuse any candidate of such tactics without proof. So for now all we know for a fact is that Hillary does use planted questions, she's afraid to be spontaneous and start a real "conversation" with the voters. Why doesn't she just send out flyers with what she wants to say (or not say) instead of pretending like she wants to answer unique unscripted questions. I'm sick and tired of secretive, manipulative, dishonest presidency's. I want a real change, I want honesty, judgement and integrity. I want Barack Obama. Listen and read about what he says, it's REAL.

"Kool aid, Kool Aid...tastes great...wish I had some....can't wait....Hillary 2008"...Repeat after me. When are the Democrats going to wake up?

Wow!!! The wheels may be coming off.

When will people wake up and see Clinton for what she really is: a dishonest, calculating politician who only has her own ambition in mind. If she can't answer real questions from everyday Americans, how can we expect her to ever be honest with us if elected president?

Okay, this is wrong what Clinton's campaign is doing, but why was Bush able to hand-pick entire audiences and questions as our PRESIDENT – not a candidate – and the "liberal" media remained quiet about it?

Why are people even shocked by this? This has been happening for YEARS on both sides of the political aisle for offices at all levels. Good job to her staff for doing their job.

People act surprised...These are the Clintons afterall. They will stoop to any new low to get themselves ordained, oops, I mean elected.

This girl needs to be honest with herself and join a gym, lose some weight, improve her sense of well-being. Instead being a hog, craving the limelight the second you are offered a scripted question, then once those 3 seconds of fame are over, rolling it over into another 10 minutes of fame, acting like she was somehow forced to ask the question.

Right on Nate — Boston, Mass!

Wow — and we thought that Fred Thompson was the BEST ACTOR in the race for the White House!

Hmmm...

It makes me wonder whether or not Hillary was ACTING when she make her bold "great right-wing conspiracy" comments, as she claimed that she was "unaware" of her husbands sexual exploits.

Hmmm…

Dear Hillary,
It looks like it's time to inhale.
Bubba

Is this a mistake of being honest or a dishonest mistake? Please vote for a person with no question about their honesty.

Hillary is a fraud. Now is the time to expose her for what she is, not when she is in the 'Oval Office'.

Wolf Blitzer would be doing the country a disservice if he didn't bring this up during Thursday's debate. JMO

..and all you Clintonites, you just want to shoot the messenger, she's expendable.

To believe that Hillary was unaware of the plant requires, to quote Hillary herself, a willing suspension of disbelief.

I hope that one of the other Democratic candidates has the balls to make this statement, and throw it right back at her as payback for her attack on General Petraeus. If not, I'm sure Guiliani or Romney will say it – or maybe some questioner at her next openmike forum in Iowa, an ordinary citizen, in front of all the cameras, and then watch Her Thighness react to that.

Message to campaign groupies: If you losers think this stuff is a good way to get get hired or paid more, it's not. Shut up, listen, and learn. Pitiful.

I will be honest. I think Hillary “the Harpy” Clinton and “The Evil Bill” can do more damage to this country then Jimmy “peanut brain” Carter and he is the worst president we have had in 100 years. They, Hillary “the Harpy” Clinton and “The Evil Bill”, should both be in prison for some of the things they have done.

That said, I don’t think she had a hand in coming up with this. This sounds like something the staff would have thought up. She may have been told to expect someone to ask this type of question and so she would have readied an answer, but not the question itself. If it had been me, I would have asked “Why does your staff have to go around and plant questions for you?”.

This should come as no surprise. Hillary is not bright–she's crafty. She cannot handle being asked an unscripted question. Look how she avoids one-on-one TV interviews. Because the minute someone throws in a curve ball, she either folds altogether or says something her handlers have to spin later. Then she whines about being picked on. How lame–there are many women in both parties more capable than she. If she can't handle the heat, she needs to get out of the political kitchen.

I have long suspected there was something definitely fishy about the way she laughs.

Now I know it's just the ol' accent/question trickster.

Anybody But Hillary

To believe that Hillary was unaware of the plant requires a willing suspension of disbelief.

I hope that one of the other Democratic candidates has the balls to make this statement, and throw it right back at her as payback for her attack on General Petraeus. If not, I'm sure Guiliani or Romney will say it – or maybe some questioner at her next openmike forum in Iowa, an ordinary citizen, in front of all the cameras, and then watch Her Thighness react to that.

An honest politician? Try Dr. Tom Coburn, OK. You may not agree with him (I do) but he is 100% honest. A guy who is against the bridge to nowhere in Alaska has to be honest.

As a parent, the "everybody does it" does not fly. If you want to plant questions, fine. Just dont pretend they are not. Planting questions then passing them off as original or spontaneous is dishonest. All you Bush haters claim lying is just the worst thing. But when Bill or Hill do it, its ok because its only about this, or only about that. Dont you get it? A lie taints EVERYTHING a person says and does, including truth. America can do better, and hopefully will.

The second most ethical administration in history, in the making! Illegal money, phony questions and sex, sex, sex! I can hardly wait.

Why is anyone surprised by this? Hillary will do anything to be elected. Every trcik in the book is justified in the pursuit of power. Unless Americans can see this and pick someone else.

Left, Right, or Centter. Anyone.

DenyHillary.com

Billary = Bush lite

Typical Republican hypocrites....Has Bush EVER taken an unscripted question? His handlers don't even allow anybody but dittoheads anywhere near him. Go Hill!

Jeff B., Plano TX

i agree but honestly it will probably rudy vs hillary. what would be great is if all the candidates could run at the same time for president.but instead we need a simple plan because most americans wont bother researching all the candidates we need 2 to keep it simple......i mean alot of this country doesnt even believe in evolution

I too had to ask a prearranged question. "Ms clinton, What color is your turd"? to which she responded, white with grey hair.

Better a planted question than a biased liberal reporter trying to make the news..

I know no one likes to lose even as a supporter however would you rather support a very dishonest person or back someone who will bring strength, integrity and honesty back to our great Nation? This isn't about winning a game; this is about selecting the RIGHT candidate to do the job well without 100 advisors providing bad information and tricky tactics.

To all you competitors out there, this isn't about winning some glorified award, this is about our Freedom!

Yep. She's the candidate with the most experience alright. She's got the most experience lying.

She's looking more and more presidential every day.

Obama 08!

At this point, I am very sketical about any acussation against Mrs. Clinton's campaign given that Right Wing Repucan operatives would stop at nothing to damage her politically, and stop her bid to run for the presidency, and consequently win in 2008.
My meassge for the Republicans is simply this: HILLARY CINTON IS OUR CANDIDATE AND GOD WILLING, SHE WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNTED STATES.

Bill thinks the men are being too hard on Hillary. Looks like even he thinks she's too soft to be president.

Enough of the Clintons and Bushes, time to start all over since neither party will represent the views of the American people. RON PAUL 08, SHAKE IT UP w/ CHANGE!!

The girl went along knowing she was going to expose Hillary? Does that lessen the impact of the attack on honesty and integrity of the campaingners? I suggest not!

Hey its ok its all bill's idea... just ask Hillary and Willie.. He's been a BAD boy AGAIN ! ! and for stepping out of line Hillary is only going to give/take one cigar this week...and i feel real sorry for these students that told on her...your doomed. One at a time you will commit suicide with a gunshot to the back of the head or you will strangle yourselves with piano wire. you kids better get your affairs in order quick !!!

Hillary is lying. It's not credible that her staffers have a clipboard with questions and "college Student" in brackets and Hillary has absolutely no idea what's going on. If she wasn't lying, she'd be incompetent and have incompetent staffers, but I don't believe she's incompetent, she's simply a great liar.

I'm really saddened by this article. I don't want to discredit any of the Democratic candidates, but this furthers the feeling that I've had for years about Hillary, that I simply can't trust her to tell the truth.

I badly, badly want a government that is transparent and that represents all the peoples' interests. I want a real leader in the White House, someone with enough communication skills and integrity that every question doesn't have to be staged.

When you watch the clip of her talking, she's obviously glancing down and looking at her notes as she speaks. It's a canned and heavily rehearsed answer to the question.

I DON'T WANT CANNED ANYMORE! To hell with politics as usual. I want authenticity. I want real answers to unrehearsed questions. I am heart sickened by these empty suits in Washington and their rehearsed soundbites.

What has become of our system? What has become of our government that merely by being the wife of a President someone should be worthy to be President?

I want a real leader. The only real leader I've seen in this race is Barack Obama. When he speaks, I believe it. He's intelligent and passionate both. He doesn't pull punches but he doesn't throw reckless jabs either. He's someone that's pulled himself up by the boot straps, someone that has risen to his current position of potentially being the leader of the free world through hard work, a lot of heart, and good ideas, nothing more.

He's matched her every step of the way and done it without the name value and without the political machine and lies that Hillary has so down pat.

I'm not going to take the status quo anymore. i'm not going to take the political b.s. from Hillary or any other.

I'm working myself like crazy to get Barack Obama elected. I'm knocking on doors. I'm talking to people. I'm making phone calls.

tonight i'm staging a volunteer meeting and Thursday we're having a debate party. I'm taking charge of my government again and I find a lot of people out there ready to do it with me.

All of you out there reading this, get involved in the process, get involved in the real world. It's the only way we'e going to assure a future for ourselves.

Don't let the media pick your candidate from the aisle of empty suits they present you.

Check out Barack Obama. Go to barackobama.com and look at his ideas, look at his speeches, and look at the future of this country.

Give up the pork of Politics. Today's pig is tomorrow's bacon and Barack Obama knows what's cookin'.

Obama 08!

"She's such a phony." I replied:" Why/" The student replied:" Because her smile is fake!" Folks this is a 7 year old student who already can determine a fake smile from a sincere smile. What does this tell you?" Steve

It tells me that she has Republican parents. Get a clue with your clairvoyant students....Steve.

Hillary cannot answer anything other than planted or scripted questions because she may accidently convey how she really feels about many subjects. If people really knew how radical her socialist leanings were she would be rejected. First we have planted questions. Now we have Wolf Blitzer being cautioned not to pull a "Tim Russert" on Hillary at Thursdays debate. Hillary and her staff are weak and pathetic.

If no one is going to vote for a candidate who is asked questions from a supposed "plant", then y'all should stay home on election day.

OMG, not another "BIMBO" eruption! Do we take her out Bill?

Oh please, this is a typical ploy used by ALL politicians since the beginning of politics. Republicans can't say anything about "where's the honesty???" because this administration has proven itself time and again to be anything BUT honest.

I think a good solution to the "problem" is to DEMAND honesty. Not soundbites. Don't tell us what we want to hear. Formulate a transparent & above-board agenda, and give it to us straight. Our leaders have become so paranoid-schizophrenic, we can't read anything anymore or watch it on TV without having to wonder what the REAL truth is?

Where does the Bush Administration come into play on this? Why do the liberals ALWAYS resort to blaming everything on President Bush? If the democrats stuck to the topic at hand then they may get father. The democrats messed up, except it and drive on.

The "everyone does it" defense is pretty lame. You become an apologist at that point. I was a Bush apologist for many years and it became very tiring.

When you have to apologize all the time for your candidate, you'll never notice if they really do screw up. Just look at President Bush. And how many of you were Clinton apologists?

Don't you want someone more worthy to support? A fresh start? Say no to Clinton and Rudy.

Obama, Romney, Edwards, Paul, Biden, or Thompson would be a nice clean start.

Hey, if you really thought it was sleazy, why'd ya do it? Why'd ya ask the question. This sounds like the Craig scandal... I'm guilty...wait, no I'm not. I just have a wide stance... I'm retiring...wait, no I'm not! Gimme a break. This student is just as much a politician as the jokers you all are trashing here. Now that she's had her 15 minutes of fame, let's give her the bum rush she deserves. I agree with earlier comments, the media needs to get a clue and Move On!

So, Mrs. Clinton planted questions? What next, threatening Wolf Blitzer? If Mr. Blitzer folds, we will have proof that the clintons control the media.

Right...because Clinton is the only candidate who does this...who care's...good for her if she is smart enough to make her conference go the way she wants it to. What a newsflash...a less than honest action by a politician...wow...

'Secret combinations' of the Clintons –America don't be fooled by these very dangerous people with an invisible agenda. The very life of the USA is at stake. Dishonesty only scratches their surface. If you only knew.

If you think Clinton's campaign is the only one doing this, you're awfully naive. I'd bet it's standard practice across the board. It's no different than a typical talk show or a FEMA press conference.

After reading this thread, I am once again convinced that the right to vote should be subject to an IQ test.

Blindly defending Hillary at all costs is leading many in this blog to verbally rape this woman as the best way to deflect criticism from Hillary. I've read at least two allusions to this young woman's weight, and another to her name. What does a person's weight or name have to do with their honesty. And why this copout of the use of the term "ALLEGED" in so many postings? The Clinton campaign has already ADMITTED it took place. There is no longer anything ALLEGED about it. The only thing ALLEGED is that the Clinton campaign ALLEGES this is not standard practice to plant questions. Let's see if that claim holds up in the coming days. My hunch is though that any overweight college student won't dare to come forward for fear of being trashed by Hillary's subservient, unthinking, and callous supporters.

Funny how on both sides of the aisles we talk about wanting change, then all we do is support those that pull the same old stuff.

Good on the lass for bringing this to light. I wonder how long it will take the Clinton machine to discredit her and drag her name through the mud.

How do you know when Hillary is lying?
When her lips are moving.

Why does this surprise anyone. Hillary's adjenda is to get what she wants by any means necessary. She can't give a straight answer because she knows the "real Hillary" could never be elected. So, pile on boys, it's going to be an interesting ride.

WHY did she ask the question? Doesn't that make HER a hypocrit???

I am just glad that democrats believe it's ok to once again have a man living in the White House who is an adulterer, probable rapist, and the creator of rendition for the purpose of torture of suspects in third world country. That's right the current despot didn't think that up on his own. Oh and to think they also want the woman who decided to stay married to him to hold the reigns of government......Brilliant.

Who cares? One sophomor got superexcited by the chance to talk to the media and "fight for the the honesty in politics". Every campaing is doing that and will be doing in the future to highlight their candidate. Now, it was stupid from the staffer to do it with the person he couldn't be sure in, but what it all has to do with Hillary? She's still the best possible future President of US from the current pack and, person with the best chances. Look at the polls in the South – Obama doesn't get her nembers even close.

This makes Clinton look scripted, fake.

It also makes me wonder which of the other candidates are doing this, too.

I dare them all, every one of them, to start taking town hall-type meetings - no scripts, no plants in the audience, no one kept out.

TRUTH is vital to a healthy political process. No wonder our politics is in the gutter.

Whoever gets away with the most dishonesty gets elected!!

Hillary get in the back of the line, you're too stupid to get away with it.

Which makes Bush a genius.

Hillary didn't know anything about the questions being planted. Sure, just like she didn't know Bill was messing around with anything in a skirt. Just like the FBI records. Just like the cattle futures. Just like..... Dick Morris (who probably knows Hillary better than anyone) says she is a pathological liar. I concur.

This girl should be ashamed of herself. Is she coming out with this because she found this whole ordeal unethical? If so, then why did she agree to participate in the first place?

Now what will she do when her 15 minutes are over? Become a commentator at Fox?

why should we be surprised, this is that way that the clinton campaign has always worked, even when slick willie was campaigning. if this hillary is elected as president, we are on a steep slope to destroying anything and everything our country stands for.

How does this compare to Bush campaign events where everyone attending had to sign an oath of loyalty to Bush to be admitted and only asked questions which directly praised him? Where was the media when that was happening two campaigns in a row at every event?

How does Clinton's energy plan compare to the other candidates' energy plans?
Why didn't they suggest revising the question instead of substituting another?
Hopefully it is a learning experience for the student and others.
(What next? Speech writers and teleprompters?)

Sounds like Clinton has taken a page from the Bush Whitehouse. Not only are Bush's public meetings and townhall forums filled with plants, but he's even had media plants in the White House press corps.

To buy that Mrs. Bill Clinton didn't know about the plants requires a "willing suspension of disbelief".
Where have I heard that one before?

Exactly how would you know that the "current administration" has done this countless times? I have never seen it mentioned or reported that this is a practice by the Bush administration. It is the epitome of the "clinton" approach to campaigning – direct the dialogue to ensure that she can never be pinned down on any position.

This Woman is simply not qualified to be president. She speaks with forked tongue on every issue that is presented to her. She calculates her answers according to the electorate that she is talking to at the time. A true leader tries to do whats right regardless of the circumstance or whether or not they will lose votes. A true leader understands that you cant please all the people all the time and you should not try. The position of president requires you to diciplined and steadfast not a panderer. The thing that troubles me the most is the wall that the mainstream media puts up evert time she has a mis-step. In grade school we often learned about the propaganda that was present in the Soviet Union and how the media was limited to express only the views of the leader in power A sort of brainwashing.. The major networks ABC, CBS and NBC should be truelly ashamed of themselves. I will continue to vote with my remote..Each time I see a instance of story slanting or blatant inaccuracies strewn with journalistic opinions I block that channel from being viewed in my household..stick to the facts..lets face it it doesnt take a genius to read from a teleprompter. Too prove my point lets see how many negative stories come out about the Clintons..Very few!!! A vote for Hillary is a vote for Hollywood and I see them as a large part of what is so wrong with this country.

Can someone explain why the surprise at anything the Clintons do in this regard? Has everyone forgotten that these are the same people that cut off access by the Washington press corps and stopped White House news conferences when the questions about the daily scandals became to embarrassing.

It amazes me that the fake FEMA new conference gets the attention it did but when that was SOP for the Clinton administration not a peep.

I don't know why anyone is surprised.
Mrs. Clinton will do whatever it takes to get elected.

Not that I'm a Hillary Clinton supporter, but I'm curious how many of the outraged people here were not outraged when, just as the last poster mentioned, the Bush handlers during his election campaigns and even during his presidency do the EXACT same things? Is "Absolutely Horrific" merely a way of saying: "Jeez, not another one" or some kind of indignation in the ignorant belief that this is not a regular occurrence with many presidential candidates, most notably G.W. Bush?

OK, Let's review. Hillary get's askled a question in a debate that she doesn't have a canned answer for. Her campaign suffers bad PR for it. then she goes to Iowa and has planted questins so she can provide rehearsed answers for. Wonder what would have happened if this student had agreed to ask thei question and then asked what whe really wanted to ask in the first place.

Hillary is in trouble. Too scripted. Is afraid to get into situations that she doesn't control. She has had "yes women" working around her for so long she can't handle real questions on real issues.

This is not a plant...this type of "staging" has gone on for a very long time and all candidates over the years have incorporated this method of asking questions. That way they know the answers
Seems to me the girl wants her 15 mintues of fame

Who can really be surprised when a calculating lier, gets caught, being-a calculating lier. Then, there's the lie about the lie (she didn't know). PLEASE!!!

WHEN WILL YOU TWITS COME TO REALIZE THAT HILLARY RODHAM IS A SOCIALIST?

WHAT DID YOU THINK "IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD" REALLY MEANT?

SUBSTITUTE PERSONAL FREEDOMS FOR GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND YOU HAVE RODHAM GOVERNMENT!

How is it possible in a Federal Republic or Democracy that we have a junta running the country? I mean come on – we are approaching 20 years of 2 families running this country. Are you ready for it to be 24 or 28? I am sick of both "ROYAL" families. I will vote for Obama – not because of his politics or that he is a man – but because he actually answers questions. WOW – how refreshing!

Any Clinton supporter that doesn't find anything wrong with this needs to take some serious gut checks. My guess is that many of the campaigns take part in acts like this – yet when Clinton is being scrutinized because she has this sense of ruthlessness surrounding her, it substantiates those ideas. Apparently she can't win on her merits alone.

Hillary is evil. Obama is unelectable.

Viva la Republicans!!

This whole thing should be a non-issue; plants are a time-honored tradition in American politics. In the vein of "man bites dog," this could only be interesting if this were about a politician who never used a plant.

If Billary cannot take a serious debate from the American people, dictators such as Amadenajad, Chavez, Castro, Kim Jong Il are going to eat her for breakfast if she is elected President.

Oh the irony, after seven plus years of having every Bush event tightly scripted and controlled, we get this. If you disagree with that man you can't get within a mile of him. You have prostitutes being allowed into the White House press room to ask softball questions. The media stays silent and complicit about all of it. However if the Hillary staff prompts an attendee on a question, or if John Edwards gets a haircut, its a big deal.

This biggest complaint I have about Hillary is that she is using the Bush playbook.

Can you name one honest politican? Salitin SC
His Name is Henery B Gonzales In Texas
He passed away but he was 100% honest Biden is a punk.

"I'm very glad you asked me that question!" I can hear Hillary now, LOL. What a charlatan, what a fraud.

What..another Clinton Campaign caught being deceitful? OK fellas let's roll out the trash another bimbo brigade or at least claim some sort of right ring conspiracy plant, to discredit what they hoped would be their plant.

I wonder, would this new Clinton Administration be the most ethical of all time, or does Bill still have first dibs?

I think it's disgraceful that some of you Democrats have to put down a 19-year old kid to try and make your side look good. How low can you get? Look, I'm not saying this is Watergate or anything, but come on. This was clearly orchestrated and Hillary probably knew. And, it is dishonest. These are supposed to be questions from private citizens, not from the Clinton camp.

Remember when the Clinton's were first elected and Mrs. Clinton was on Larry King taking calls. The last call was from Tipper Gore (amazing how she got through as the last caller) and they fawned over each other like a couple of 14 year olds.

After they got to really know each other and each others Husband's they now rarely – if at all – speak to each other unless it's for political expediency.

Wrong is wrong. Why do people want to point out what some else does (Bush). If she shouldnt plant a questions who cares what others have done. I thought you wanted someone diffrent then Bush. Why don't people see through her. In some sick way I wish she does become President so people can see what a mess she would make. History will not be kind to her and Bill.

Planting questions by the Hillary campaign doesn't surprise me at all. This is politics at its worst. How can anyone believe or accept anything she says as truthful. Her husband was nearly impeached for lying to Congress. How can anyone with a straight face include the Clintons and the word honesty in the same sentence?
I have no problem with a woman becoming president but please not this one.

Columbus wrote: If that happened with a Republican, you'd be all over it spewing your nasty "neocon" venom.

Well, the current administration did use plants at a FEMA newsconference during the California wildfires.

I'm not shocked by either of those items. Is anyone? It's disappointing, but does anyone expect anything less from either political party anymore?

"the whole incident has given her a negative outlook on politics."

Then why did she do what they told her to? Why not just say no?

Hey time for a joke everyone, courtesy of the Meat and Potatoes Blog!

What's the difference between Hillary and a farmer?

The farmer says "Plant your corn early" while Shrill-ary says "Plant your QUESTIONS early" HAHAHA!

oh please. it simply backfired on the Clinton staffer and Hillary herself. they planted a question and the person talked about it. the Clinton campaign doesn't surprise anyone anymore. they now see the other candidates (mainly Obama and Edwards) catching her. I would not agree to their questions in the first place. I have a mind of my own. these people need to realize they are not sheep. ask her about the CFR, Bilderbergs, Illuminati, etc.

If being asked to ask a question was so distasteful to her, why did she participate in the first place?

DO YOU PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THIS IS POLITICS!!!!! unfortunately these tactics HAVE to be taken. if this was a republican i would say the same thing. this isnt a surprise at all. its business. you have to do whatever it takes to get into office. every single candidate does this. its been going on for centuries grow up!

Senator Clinton is as dishonest as the rest of the bunch. All the candidates will do whatever they feel is necessary to make themselves look good. But, for those of you who really believe Senator Clinton is good for this country, you need to wake up. If she wins and implements her healthcare plan, don't come crying to me when you have to go to another country to get timely medical care.

This girl needs to be honest with herself and join a gym, lose some weight, improve her sense of well-being. Instead being a hog, craving the limelight the second you are offered a scripted question, then once those 3 seconds of fame are over, rolling it over into another 10 minutes of fame, acting like she was somehow forced to ask the question.

Personally I do not agree with staging questions and Hillary will have to suffer with the outcome...but not one right winger can say anything Bush's rally's were with selected republician supporters only...if someone did make any comments against the right wingers they were arrested or removed from the rally... yet the GOP extremests seem to be pleased with GW....

Just reading these comments has convinced me that the "Bush Derangement Syndrome" is alive and well. Hill is perfect. Must find something negative about Bush to justify her actions. Wake up libs!

Are any of the other candidates being checked to see if they have plants in the audience. I doubt seriously if Clinton is the only one. It's very mysterious that the other candidates are so quiet on this, when we know that many appearances that they make, are completely controlled as to who is let in for the very reason of not getting a challenging question or two.
Something to think about.

For all of you that are lambasting the Clinton campaign for this supposed staged questioning strategy, make sure that you complain to all of the political candidates about their speeches, telephone solicitation, and virtually all of their public appearances because they are all carefully choreographed to elicit your support. If you think that anything that a national candidate does is "spontaneous", then you are simply not aware of how all political campaigns function in the modern age.

For the complaining young woman, none of the accounts seem to indicate that someone held a gun to her head while she asked this question. If she did not want to VOLUNTARILY assist the campaign, she certainly did not need to, and I hope she never does again because with "support" like hers, who needs enemies?

Several people have compared this to the current administration. There are some significant differences.
1)A question on Energy policy is not contentious nor is it an attempt to create strife. It is an honest question. Not the same can be said for a heckler screaming at the top of her lungs as she is removed.
2)Bush is not campaigning.

I am not defending the practice in anyway with any politician. Just noting differences. I also do not know of anyone saying what this girl claims. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Just means no one has come forward. Without that, it is not right to assume Bush engages in this practice just because you don't like him.

Mr. AmeriCANadian, excusing bad behavior by referring to other bad behavior is also bad behavior. I bet your mother told you as a child that "Everyone else is doing it" doesn't justify bad behavior. Wrong is wrong. Period. If this is all correct, then it is a reflection of the character of those involved from top to bottomus. From Hillary right on down to the staffer and the girl. Period.

Paul, from Florida – crawl back under your little Clintonista rock with the other pond scum. But before you do, post a photo so we can tell you how you look.

Many are suggesting that “all” of the candidates do this. Somehow I just cannot imagine Ron Paul doing something like this!

OK, folks calm down!!! How many of you have worked in a presidential campaign? Obviously not too many to be so utterly shocked by a common practice used by most campaigns.

Why is it common? It's not to be deceitful, but to get out the message of the day. All campaigns plan a particular "theme", whether it be the economy, healthcare, etc. The questions are suggested to keep the focus on that message. That doesn't mean that a candidate is not bright or capable enough to answer most impromptu questions.

Frankly, this is a very small issue. Someone should go ask Romney about the people, let alone the questions, that he plants in his events. How come no one has brought that up? Ahhhh, the hypocrisy of politics......

It is extremly ingenuious to imply that this kind of manuvering of Q&A audiences in politics is in any way unusual or unique to Sen. Clinton's campaign. The Mother of all manipulators in this arena is President Bush. Give it a break.

I am an independant voter who has not yet decided on any candidate; however, I realize they all lie–some worse than others. I WOULD, however, at least like to think they are telling me the truth. Planting questions is as old as dirt. I could have handled it much better if Hillary fessed up to it. Her propensity to lie out of everything does bother me.

Bush and his cronies have been caught
doing this too..It's not a single
party thing. Remember Bush's phoney
"Q and A" with troops from Iraq? Same
thing. Both parties are now so corrupt
and useless that they arn't even
worth paying attention too..

We need a "None of the Above" option
on the federal level like some states
have on their ballots.

One can't call themselves informed and actually support Hillary.
To me, she comes across as angry, unhappy and just mad. IF she smiled, she doesn't even look genuine.

HOGANS HEROES

I didn't realize until now that hillary and bill's favorite character on the show was Sgt. Schultz ......... "I know nothing"

Doesn't this entire ordeal remind you of an episode from [b][i]The Simpsons[/i][/b], in which gubernatorial candidate "Mr. Burns" has a question prepared in advance for Lisa Simpson to ask. Lisa leaves the room feeling like she "[i]sold her soul to the devil[/i]." Hmmm...I wonder what role Mrs. Clinton would be in that episode?

Save all your time, efforts, and hot air. The next president of the United States will be Mitt Romney...my prediction and I'm stickin' to it!

If she is the "Smartest Woman" in America; why does she have to cheat on off the cuff questions? Perhaps it is time to acknowledge that the whole Clinton era was smoke and mirrors, and their lack of integrity has brought us
to our current mess. So, if they caused
it, how can they solve it?

Hey... Clinton Happens. Free government cheese for everybody.

This is a mirror of what a Hillary Presidency would be like. Constant sly of hand and dishonesty. As far as I'm concerned Hillary is out!

Of course, it's the "Oprah effect". All of them are learning from Oprah who almost scripts her audience. She has people with a certain look sit in camera friendly locations, people are prepped on questions etc.

First off: For all you PRESIDENT BUSH Haters. The blogg is about Hillary Clinton and here pre formed questions. So stop bringing President Bush into it. You can't blame him for Hillary’s mistakes. Hillary Clinton as well as Bill Clinton is notorious for telling lies. This college student has every right to speak up. God bless her for doing so. Lets stop pretending that politians are better than they apper.They can only do so much. I would have rather seen Hillary stumble on an unrehearsed question than lie about the whole incident. She could have told the student (if she didn’t have an answer) that she would look into it. That's what I do with my students. People tend to see through you. They know when you are a phony. Hillary came to my non profit after school center on day when I wasn't there. I asked the children in my group, “So ho is Senator Clinton?" And on student said, "She's such a phony." I replied:" Why/" The student replied:" Because her smile is fake!" Folks this is a 7 year old student who already can determine a fake smile from a sincere smile. What does this tell you?

Remember when Billy promsed us "the most ethical administration ever" ...
the excuse that "everyone does it" doesn't square with that, does it?

Gee, sounds like something Bush would do, oh wait, that's right, it is exactly what Bushy does.

Why does her stoy have so many holes? No one else notices a man in a suit with a binder talking to this woman, who felt uncomfortable about it? No witnesses to help her story, and at a crowded area, no less.

The only college student at the Q&A session? And even though she feels uncomfortable, she still asks the question? Highly unlikely.

And the fact that the story made a next-day appearance in the paper means that she didn't hold back at all, which conflicts with her earlier comments.

It smells like a planted story, another widely used tactic in the political game. And prepping answers for the crowd? That's been around for longer than this generation of voters, people. It's a tried and true tactic, and one that other presidents have used to great effect.

As for all the people who don't like Ms. Clinton, then don't vote for her. Don't detract from those who do support her, and don't criticize other's opinions on the subject. It's childish and simply proves your own stupidity.

Oh, and stop calling her Hillary. She was voted into the Senate, and she is still leading in the candidate polls, so she's doing a lot better than most people. The least she deserves is Ms. Clinton.

Hillary isn't a frontrunner anymore. Don't worry America, mainstream news might have picked thier candidates, but we don't decide til the elections.

OK – they got their hand caught in the cookie jar once again – nothing new here. This incident is relatively innoculous based on their history. Remove the mask that Hillary wears and you will meet the sister of Hugo Chavez. The end justifies the means

Does anyone feel that the caliber of dirty trick perpetrated on the voting public is a reflection of how much credit the candidates give us? I sure do!

This whole thing is exasperating.

Lawmakers cloud issues to the point of non-recognition,, medical practitioners operate businesses rather than practices,,businesses pursue profit to the point of treason,,Good God,, when will this formerly great nation come to it's senses?

Hillary = lies and mistrust

Obama = truth and hope

global warming issue = terror

I don't see much difference between this practice and the Bush/Republican practice of screening and selecting only supporters to allow into their staged "town meetings". Let's face it...it's dog eat dog out there...about time the Democrats have decided to swim with the sharks.

Her mind is "jello jello jello" ......."I don't recall.....I don't recall.....jello jello jello."

I was at a Bill Richardson event in New Hampshire, and the handlers were also giving people in the audience questions to ask – I think all the campaigns do this – it may be the only way to get an intelligent question asked at some of these events

Doesn't surprise me, she'll do what she can to avoid any real questions. What I'd like someone to ask is does she believe all these women from Bill's past are lying or is the champion of women's rights choosing to remain married to a serial molester?

If she get nominated, I plan on voting for "whoever" is running against her. No more Clintons for me, thanks.

"It's amazing to see how quickly the Clinton Kool-Aid drinkers just can't believe anything bad about her. Just the same way they can't possibly say anything good about the President".

Darren I absolutely agree with your first sentence. But your second sentence begs the question on whether you're drinking the White House kool-aid. The reasons Dems can't say anything good is because the Repub kool-aid drinkers actually defend The President's clearly failed policies.

Whoever says that Dems are drinking the kool-aid are right. But the problem with that, Darren, is that it's the 'Repub pot' calling the 'Dem kettle' black.

Planting questions to candidates, is a normal practice, be it republican or democrat. I'm sure Mitt, and Rudy's people, as well as Barack and John Edwards' people have all done the same thing, which is why there is no outcry among them.
But the republican party is at it again, and its party members(who are so easily led like lambs to a slaughter)are once again swayed by their efforts. The republicans know they can't beat Hillary, so they need to take every little thing and blow it way out of proportion. After all they know they can beat Barack.

This is very typical on all sides of the aisle. Don't forget George W. Bush's phony reporter plant who lobbed softballs at the prez.

Astonishing that anyone is surprised or outraged.

She is obviously a GOP mole sent in to cause what trouble she could. It is all part of the "vast right wing conspiracy" we know so much about. Oops, I gotta go, I think someone is following me!

Muriel – Your fancy name can't hide the fact that you're 30 pounds overweight and a limelight seeker. This "fame" is a negative event in you life – go to the library and study science.

Questions should be reviewed so that people don't ask stupid questions like "Do you wear brief or thong underware?"

A review of the tape shows the obvious
fact that Ms. Clinton expected that
question and even read the begining of the answer. Anyone who votes for her is
voting for her husband, and we all know
what a chunk of work he is. So,if you
tell the lie long enough it becomes the
truth. Hail to president Mr. and Ms.
Clintons who have made being a liar acceptable! Because as Democrats we are too stupid to change.

This prpactice is OK as long as foreign leaders will tell us in advance what they will do before they do it, so we can be prepared with teh right response.

How is this any different from the "phony news conference" FEMA held?

What a sad commentary on the lengths unprincipled people will go to to look "credible".

Of course Clinton doesn't know anything about the planted questions...she doesn't know anything about ANY of the numerous scandals she's involved in. Also, it's amazing to see the caliber of her supporters on this blog! No wonder they don't "see" any scandal associated with Clinton!!!

As a lifelong Democrat I am appalled at this dishonesty. She won't release her archived records and the Clinton library has also stalled, now saying her records won't be released until after the election. What a farce. I will still vote Democrat, but I would never vote for her.

Hillary is such a power hungry fraud. Take the polls, promise what the polls say the voters want, get in office and the voters will forget what she said....then she will push her REAL agenda. God help us.

What did Hillary know and when did she know it? Are we to believe the smartest woman in politics knows nothing? I am still waiting for Hillary to appologize for the slanderous accusations she made about a "vast right wing conspiracy" she also knew nothing about that affair. I beleive she is either the dumbest rube in politics or the biggest liar.

I see a lot of people questioning this young woman's honesty. No, not questioning it...attacking it. If she had been raped, would you also be attacking her and saying she deserved it instead of going after the rapist? Next question, what are you going to say if more people come out and admit they too were asked to be plants with specific questions OR if that binder turns up with all the questions in it? Don't any of you who are attacking this young woman not think it a little odd that the Clinton campaign has made no attempt whatsoever to find out who the staffer was that approached this woman, or to find that binder with the questions in it, and have that ONE staffer come forward...unless maybe that staffer has information they don't want the press to hear? Shades of Bill Clinton! I can hear Hillary saying "I did not have a planted question relationship with that woman." Don't you dare smear that young woman just to save Hillary. The Clintons have gotten too many passes on honesty by their supporters, and it has to stop.

Anybody who thinks that this is a unique situation is naive. It's deplorable but not uncommon amongst either party. This girl could have declined to do this or just asked her own question when she was called on.

Obama, with, almost no national experience and tried to dodge his way out of Tim Russert's war question by blaming his 2004 opinions on Kerry-Edwards. Edwards, meanwhile, has been repackaging himself (and his $400 per salon appointment hair) since he moved from Tenn. to N.C. Any thinking person knows why the national media is giving these two free passes while attacking Clinton on something as irrelevant as a canned question. She's smart, articulate, well-funded, and too experienced to bring a knife to a gun fight. Canned questions? We'll see about those in the fall debates.

A page right out of Nixon-Agnew campaign of 1972 where they paid ditzes to shout out questions at press conferences and then had the right wing goon squad beat up the questioners. Made for great T.V.

Is anybody actually LISTENING to what Hillary is saying? Are her supporters so blinded by their hatred of Bush and the "rich" (many of which are liberals, by-the-way), that they can't recognize a socialist when they see it?
When referring to capitalism Nikita Khrushchev once said... "we will bury you". Well, Hillary's carrying a big shovel.

Remember the press secretary at FEMA resigned over this exact same trick. What a low-down career politician tactic. DO NOT EXCUSE IT, even if you're a fan. It's lousy.

This girl just wants attention. If she didn't want to ask the question, she should have excused herself. Only a fool would believe that politics is anything less than a choreographed production.

I think I might vote for OBAMA. He is the only one that comes across genuine. I'm tired of LIARS, that is why I can't vote for the Clintons.

I would not put anything past the Clinton gang along with the poison dwarf Woflson. The woman of many accents, yes, no, maybe is finally getting her due after the media gave her a free ride for the past twenty years.

Can somebody please explain why Hillary is the front-runner? I weep for this nation if it's got enough people that will vote this corrupt phony and socialist into office next November.

I think the more that we find out about the Clintons and the Bush Family we should pass a law that neither family can ever have anyone in the White House again! It is going to take us until HELL freezes over to fix the mess of the last 16 years. GOD help us if we are stupid enough to give them more...

To John In Edison:
I con only respond to your comments by wondering what it must be like to live n a constant state of fear. Fear of Hillary. Fear of Iran. Fear of "socialists". Fear of another terrorist attack. Sounds to me like the neocons have you right where they want you. Perhps you could explain, though, exactly how you will "hold liberals responsible" if there is another attack. And, I also have to ask, what was the "WTS attack you referenced"? World...Trade...Something???

Forget the scary (but impressive) political machine, Chinese money laundering, Socialist playbook, and a lack of executive experience (not to mention the fringey rumors of murder, drugs, and rape)...
Can we stand Hillary's screeching (screaming, nagging) VOICE for four years??? geeezzz – I'm a woman and I can't stand the pitch and delivery...I can only imagine what she sounds like to men! And the content....Her speeches sound like bad term papers - I just want to get out a red pen and write "TOO CLICHE!!" She seems to think if she screams B.S. like a maniacal dictator, people will listen. ??? Howard Dean was ridiculed for his YEEHAW, but Hillary sounds that way every appearance. I can't stomach the condescension that her speeches belie. OH...And how about the Kentucky-fried fake Southern Black accent? Imagine if a Republican did that!!
I don't think a majority of people will vote for her, but that doesn't mean I don't think she will win - the Clintons won't be stopped.

TALK ABOUT PLANTED QUESTIONS. I JUST WATCHED AN INTERVIEW ON CNN WHERE THE SISTER OF A OBAMA STAFF WORKER WAS POSEING QUESTIONS TO OBAMAS WIFE.NOW TELL ME .HMMMMMMMM

Political campaigns on both sides of the aisle have used this method for many years. People, please – where is the outrage over President Bush's so called town meetings and general events? No one is even allowed to enter his events until the staff is assured they're in lock step with this administration.

I can't believe the people blaming the student! She behaved with much more integrity than Hillary. I thought the older generation was supposed to teach morals to the younger generation.. NOT the other way around. And, by the way, saying "everyone does it" does not make it right. A major culprit in this whole fiasco is the press, who lets candidates get away this nonsense. They know the truth and should be reporting it. The press presents Hillary (and Rudy, et al) in much the same way as they present Paris Hilton. The candidates pose and the press snaps photos and reports on how wonderful they are. And we, the voters, are so blinded by party loyalty that we're letting them get away with it. A people deserve the government they get…

Hey, enough already! What's wrong with so-called "plants" asking questions of general interest to the public. Is that any different than George Bush's people furnishing him with a list of journalists to call on during a press conference? Personally, this is the biggest nothing to arise about Hillary Clinton. I want to know how she and all the other candidates feel about the environment, without the question, are we to know how she stands?

Wow, planted questions.....kinda sounds like she wouldnt have to much trouble planting other information to decieve the American people. After all her husband was guilty of pergury and the Clintons have a history of scandle...... Well, at least things are staying consistant. Honesty, that is the true way to win an election and win the hearts of the American people.

More Clinton lies!!! When will America see through the Clinton fog? This is not a Republican/Democrat fight either. Most Dems are tolerable, but the Clinton's give me break! She wants to manage the greatest country on earth when she can't manage her marriage or campaign. Where are all the woman that think she has no back bone for dealing with her cheating husband? So Guilliani's been married a couple times at least he never cheated on any wives! She's a nasty woman running on air for a platform. She has no more right or ability to be the commander and chief then Bozo the clown!

Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff,
I totally understand why you now have a negative outlook on politics. I have been disenchanted with politics (and politicans) for years. This was until I discovered Ron Paul who is running for president. I suggest that you look into Ron Paul's campaign. He would NEVER put a plant in the audience or ask you to do something that you are uncomfortable with. Take a look online. Google him.

It's amazing to see how quickly the Clinton Kool-Aid drinkers just can't believe anything bad about her. Just the same way they can't possibly say anything good about the President. It's like listening to a cultist. "Don't confuse me with the facts." These are the same idiots who still believe the discredited Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame's story. Lemmings.

Please..... plain and simple Clinton was caught red-handed "fixing" the questions and it's plain wrong.

"Oh that's a great question. I get asked that all the time by students" she says. Well that's surprising since you give them the questions.

Stop making excuses for her. She's too stuck in the old political world of trickery to get what she wants.

If Hillary is so honest and forth coming, why are her White House transcripts locked up until after the 2008 elections?
That is what you call controlled press...

Every question asked of this woman in these events are pre-approved and her answers are scripted and tested on focus groups before she utters one syllable. When her opponents criticize her, they are pilling on and are mistreating a woman. If this woman was to be elected and she go up against our nations enemies, she will be eaten alive unless someone else does it for her.

As I read through these comments, I notice some are comparing this situation to what goes on with the current administration, as if to justify this behavior. As a moderate Republican, I abhor how this administration controlls the message and limits the inclusion of dissent. Just because it happens, doesn't make it acceptable. It is wrong, regardless of which party or candidate condones it.

AS FOR THE STUDENT WHO WAS ASKED IF SHE WANTED TO ASK THE CANIDATE A QUESTION, MY REPLY IS THAT SHE IS SO YOUNG AND NAIVE. THIS IS THE SAME AS ROPING OFF THE CANIDATES PROTESTORS DOWN THE STREET. ALL THIS IS NOTHING NEW. I AM GLAD SHE NOW HAS A GRIP ON REALITY

Boy, look at all of the holier than thou Southern Democrats, I mean Republicans getting irrate at something their party has been doing for years. Someones running scared.

Comrades,

We must unite against these attackers who criticize our Lady. We must defeat those that wish to express their negative opinions towards us. And then when we have succeeded and have control of the Politburo we can take their guns, their Gods, and all of their property. And then we will tell them that they are happy and they will be happy.

Fake, fake, and more fake. If you like Hillary you are a very calculating, mentally ill, and unreflecting person.

So the lying scheming control freak is flaming out at the first hurdle. I really thought she would stagger through (on her knees probably) into 2008

Did anyone have any doubt that this is how town hall meetings are conducted, by either party? I'm not gullible enough to believe that the audicence participants aren't vetted beforehand and given scripts to follow.
Kudos to this young woman for outting the process

"By the way can anyone name me a 100% HONEST politican?"

Probably. For sure if you round to the nearest 5%. Ron Paul.

This isn't a surprise. John Kerry came to the University of Houston on Earth Day while campaigning and he himself promised the crowd to have a Q&A session where the audience could ask him questions. He gave a hour long speech outside on a very hot spring day and then was hurried off to his limo. No questions, just posturing for the cameras in Bush's home state. I was planning on voting for him until that moment. So, I voted for Bush. I still believe better to have Bush then a guy that would be that blantantly deceptive.

The Clintons once again weary the country with claims of "everybody does it". We all lie. We all cheat. I'm sick of it. Give us someone who will lead us to a higher standard, not to the gutter!

I am just trying to figure out who is really going to vote for Hillary? I mean we had eight polarized years, why in our right mind would we go back to that? It seems like all these reports bring credibility to the scandals and integrity issues we had weekly with the Clintons...please America, not again...please!!!!

Hillary's need to script her Q&A sessions exposes an insecurity that is the hallmark of a bureaucrat, not a leader. A person directed by polls rather than principles.

Hey, Tony, Tulsa, OK
The only ones that claim that she is being too hawkish and right-wing on some issues is coming from the very same (socialist) media that backs her anyway. I like for you to name just one issue she is to the right and or hawkish.

How is this incident any different than the recent FEMA "conference"?

You have questions asked that you know the answers to so that you appear intelligent.

Unfortunately you end up looking stupid.

You can lead politicians to water, but you can't make them THINK!

Hillary is a farce; Bill was a farce; now the voters are getting the TRUTH before the election-IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!

The fact that Hillary is totally scripted is not a suprise to anyone. Those who think she is 'genuine' are fools. Why do you think she avoids the major talk shows? She is a pure politician. As for the "truth"...the campaign admitted it.

Who cares whether the question was planted? She has the right not to even ask the question but she proceeded anyway. She is dishonest by asking the question only to talk about it to the media who are hell bent on bringing down Senator Clinton.

This lady should shut up now that she has exhausted her fifteen minutes of fame. Let us talk about Iraq, Health care; energy and other issues that affect us all. I am glad that Senator Clinton is running for the office of the President of the United State. The same for Obama. Where are the minority candidates in the GOP?

I think, again, some of you are missing the point. It's not that her husband had an affair in the White House, it's the fact that he lied under oath about it. It's the same with Hillary. It's more than just having the question planted, it's the fact she is lying about planting it.

So what? EVERY candidate does this.. since time imemorial? Look back to 2000, george bush ran "town hall meetings" with ENTIRELY republican STAFF members.. this is NORMAL... its called "tricking you dumb americans into voting" and it works.

Okay, there were some planted questions. One can't assume that all of the questions were planted (only 6 or so were listed on the page the girl was shown). So what does that tell you? Her staff was making sure that certain questions were asked during the event. Does that make it right? Not really but it could be worse. I mean, the questions weren't even softball questions. These were the kind of questions you would never here asked of George W. Bush. During Bush's speeches and campaign events, they wouldn't let you even listen from afar if you weren't a supporter. This isn't the most honest campaign activity but certainly not the most dishonest either. We've seen the worst of these practices from our current president already. What Hillary's campaign did isn't nearly as offensive. A little stupid but not too offensive. Unless of course you're a frustrated conservative who hasn't a candidate with nearly a realisitic shot at getting into the White House.

Doesn't anyone remember the David Letterman show?!? Where Hillary had the questions provided ahead of time? And THEN she had the audacity to pretend to think about the answers. And...I might add that she got them all right...Go figure. She might s well continue her "Listening Tour" cause she can't answer a single question.

Wow! The Clinton campaign even had a list of prepared questions already written out and in a binder. It wasn't even that the staffer thought of a favorable question on his or her own. This really is Bushlike.

Hillary doesn't really answer questions anyway, so what difference does it make if she has some planted.

Congrats to Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff to standing up against the Clinton regime. I personally would go into hiding though. People who get in the way of the Clinton clan generally end up in a body bag.

Does any of this really surprise anybody? People act like it's something new. Every political candidate for centuries has been doing this.

Just once I would like to see in my lifetime an honest, truthful, sincere politic candidate run for office. I don't care what political party the candidate belongs to or if the person is even running has an independent political candidate.

Remember folks, the last true Democracy was in Ancient Greece centuries ago. People keep forgetting our form of government is a Republic, not a Democracy as it was in Ancient Greece.

what i'd like to know is why is this young college student making such a big deal out of it? could it be perhaps because she is in need of attention? it just floors me that a young woman, who has the opportunity to be involved with her first presidential election, chooses to conduct herself in such a manor. the article with her schools newspaper i understand, but granting an exclusive interview with a national media outlet is just crazy. say your peice and move on. i particularly love how she says voters have the right to know what really happened. oh please, she is a 19 year old drama queen looking for the spotlight, and we've given it to her. how sad.

Though this may not be the scandal of the year, and not even close to the worst thing the Clinton people have ever done, and though it may not affect national polls...

It will get a lot of attention in Iowa and will cause her to lose. Iowans and Granite Staters love playing the spoiler, bringing down presumptious, careles, frontrunners.

Clinton just had her Howard Dean moment a little early.

Goes to show – the Clintons run a dictatorship. Wake up America – what do you really know about Hillary. Do you know what she REALLY thinks about our concerns? She does not want us to know – very scary!

Is anyone really shocked come on...Im not shocked at all...

I don't see why people keep questioning why this girl would have asked the question if she was so offended by the planting? Are you kidding!? She has an opportunity to stand up and be on camera in front of a presidential hopeful and ask a question, and you are saying she should simply object? Hindsight may be 20-20, but I'm telling you that at that moment that didn't seem like such a big hurdle. Any of us would do the same, and most of us would probably feel the same afterwards. In addition, while most of you are right that planting goes on at all levels of politics, her disingenuous nature is more than evident.

I'm done with this! It is just one sneaky thing after the next. Planted campaign donations and planted fake questions. You're telling me you don't know anything about these things..come on!!! I just can't do it anymore. Enough! I feel betrayed. I quit. You ruined this Hillary Clinton. Those flags falling down around you were a sign.

Well, that settles it.
With this knowledge, from now on, I have switched from Coca Cola to Pepsi.
For good.
I also now refuse to use Gilette triple blade razors.
I now will only use Schick triple blade razors.
With this knowledge, I will now never ever use a Kleenex again.
I will switch to Puffs.
With my new-found intelligence, I will never again drink Minute Maid brand orange juice.
I have now switched to Tropicana.

If one cannot satisfy me, I will choose the other.
Even if there is absolutely no discernable difference between the two.
I do this because I am an intelligent American.
As an intelligent American, I can recognize that there is a specific class of politicians that tell the truth all the time, while the other class of politician does not.
One class is the "Good Guys" and the other is the "Bad Guys".
My life will be dramatically altered for the better is I choose the "Good Guys".
By voting for them, all of a sudden-my country will be a better place to live, but more importantly, I and my family will prosper like never before.
By voting for the "Good Guys", war will end forever and I will always always have a good job and lots of money and can buy all the Coca Cola I want.
Or wait-didn't I say I had switched to Pepsi?

What is the difference?

Let he who has ears, hear.

" Nevertheless, I don't like this strategy and we've seen it countless times before with the current administration. I wonder if Clinton staffers go as far as barring any obvious republicans from her Q&A sessions, like Bush staffers bar non-supporters from his public appearances?"

AMAZING! You manage to cast aspersions on Bush while pretending to be upset with yet another Klintoonian LIE!

ABH! (Anyone But hiLIARy) '08

It is tragic that the democrats ae going to destroy themselves before the election by choosing Hillary or Barrack as their candidate. Worthy candidates who will make good presidents, especially compared to the current one(who does not). BUT will face a prejudiced campaign, racial,gender and personality that will result a lot of folks voting against them.
It will not be surprising if we do not have one of the stereotype candidates from the Republican side for the president.
Kind of like '04.

Give the Clintons a break. Hillary is having enough problems reciting her rehearsed answers.

This is just another example of the dishonesty and phoniness of the Clintons. How many examples will it take before people accept that this is true, and that the Clintons have always been about power, and nothing else.

For someone who supposedly very smart, organized and in control who claims to be "uniquely qualified" to run the country because she's run things in the White House already, she really has absolutely no idea what is going on around her. She nevers seems to know where any of her money is coming from, where any of her questions are coming from. How can she control the country when she can't even cotrol her staff?

That's what you get with the Clintons...rememmber?

If she didn't want to ask it, then she shouldn't have asked it. Ridiculous.

This is funny. Half the Hillary haters are certain she's a socialist. The other half are mad at her for being too hawkish and right-wing on some issues. That's the best evidence yet for me that she'll win the general election.

First off, WRITING IN CAPS is "shouting". Stop it. Second, this is no worse than the prepared scripts used in TV "hardball" interviews. In fact, with the script writers being on strike, maybe there'll be more honest talk on the air?

Hillary has done this before! She is nothing more then a liar.

How many reporters do you think were coached on which questions were appropriate and which ones are not for Hillary? And more often than not, reporters wanting to get in the good graces of the "next president of the United States" are all too happy to comply.

This is most likely another "VAST RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY".

After all, the Clintons NEVER LIE...

You mean to suggest that campaigns plant people to ask questions in open forums?

I refuse to believe it! Next thing I know you'll tell me they do shady things to get around campaign finance laws.

The fact that this is an issue for Hillary and not any other candidate shows what lengths people will stretch to take her down. And for the record, I'm not a Hillary supporter in the least. I just think it's unfair to hold her to a higher standard than the others running.

This is not a new strategy for the Clinton campaign. Awhile back Hillary CLinton was interviewed here in my home state by NH Public Radio. I was dismayed to read a blog by someone who had called in with the hopes of asking the Senator a question. Apparently, there was a "list" of aceptable questions, and every time the caller suggested something she wanted to ask the Senator about, she was told that Hillary would not take that question. Eventually, she was told she could not ask a question, so her husband tried with similar results. I heard the interview before I read the blog, and what I noticed was that questioners were not given any opportunity for follow up, or "did that answer your question?" follow-up from the moderator. This meant Clinton could provide pat answers that in several instances were sidestepping the question, with no chance for anuyone to call her on it. This makes me uneasy about Clinton. I am a strong Obama supporter, but when I lived in NY supported Hillary's senate campaign- making my first monetary campaign contribution ever. I still have my Hillary coffee mug. I hoped she would some day make a White House bid, and be the first woman president- something I didn't think I would see in my lifetime, and a great example for my three daughters. Now I realize that she is not what I thought she was, and too steeped in the politics-as-usual status quo of covering her a** and duping the public. It is disappointing, and I am instead supporting the candidate with the most promise for the kids' future- Obama. The silver lining in this experience, however, is that we have reached the point where a woman candidate is a viable candidate- so in that sense the victory for my daughters and myself has been had. Now it is up to us to choose the BEST candidate, regardless of gender.

Hillary is nothing more than a non-nappy headed,lying skank ho. Apart from that, she is the dream candidate for most Democrats who don't care about the character of their own peeps and who will go to great lengths to justify bad behavior of their own kind.

It doesn't matter if the questions 'sounds' whether it might be a hard question or not. The idea is to have people as Hillary questions she has thoroughly prepared for and has a canned answer ready.

You might as well go to a carnival machine with 10 fortunes pre-canned, grab a handle and put in your money. You're only going to get one of the prepared answers.

She is completely faithless with the people and will be a disaster for the country if she is elected President, or Vice President, for that matter.

By the way, I don't read entries with a large number of caps in it, so please don't.

Why doesn't Hillary have an ear piece so Bill can feed her the answer?

The only thing I want to know now from Hillary Clintoney is one thing:

"WHAT DID SHE KNOW AND WHEN DID SHE KNOW IT!!!!!!!!!"

I think Hillary has been taking lessons from Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots on how to cheat. Obviuosly neither are very good at it.

Now, this young lady will be accused of being part of the great, right wing conspiracy. Sorry to see her innocence being abused by regressives, who'll go to any extent to defend Sen Clinton and her staff's screw-ups. If you made a mistake, just admit it and move on. But, has anyone ever heard the Clintons apologize for anything?

I love it how all the Clinton supporters try to justify this question planting on the fact that Bush and his admin. do it too. Oh, oh, ok, so if Bush does it then its OK for everyone else to do it... I'm sure all of you Clinton supporters agree with that, right?

Wasn't it Hillary who berated an alleged right wing "plant" just a month or 2 ago? How terrible it was to have someone planted to ask a question of Hillary... until it was Hillary who had the people planted. Hillary is a cry baby, who likes to play dirty and then cry foul when she gets hit back.

Enough of this old-style politics, this garbage that invades our politics.... We need a new type of candidate, and not the old style politician that is Hillary.
Bush-Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton...SCARY.

I agree that this demonstates a lack of integrity by this candidate and her campaign, which is more of the same for the American political system.

I am a die hard democrat and I will probably never vote republican, but lets be fair here. If this was something Bush would have done we would be jumping down his throat. Clinton is no better! For someone who does not know what is going on in her camp surely is not qualified to run the country! When you make a mistake in the White House are you going to say you didn't know about it Hillary?? I don't think the American people can survive another White House scandal. She is a big baby! When her polls are soaring she's the toughest and best qualified to lead the country...when she's slipping Bill takes all the blame or try to explain how it's not her and "the boys are just being touch on her". Maybe you are qualified to lead the country in it's current state, one that's based on lies and deception, but unfortunately for you Hillary, we want our country back. One that reflects equality, honesty, and opportunity!

Obama 08!

Here we go again: 'I Know nothing about it" this coming from Hillary?? how many times can she claim to be smart and yet "know nothing about"... so many issues???
Let's face it either she's too stupid to be CIC or she's the ultimate liar!!!

I am no Hillary guy trust me. She is the worst thing in the world for America, but all politicians do this on both sides of the isle. Is it cowardly, yes. Will it stop, no.

How would Hillary have made it to the White House if JFK Jr had been alive and ran for the open senate seat

The one thing I will say is, having volunteered for the campaign (anything but a Republican for me at this point), a LOT of things are done behind the scenes and I HIGHLY doubt Hillary knows about it. She was there maybe at the MOST once a month, and usually it was to receive a very macro-level vision of the whole campaign. At events, Huma takes her around and they barely have time for themselves. Again, I highly doubt Hillary knows this is going on.

There is no doubt in my mind that Senator Clinton new the question was planted. You can see by her response and the way she looked at her notes for the answer. Young people aren't concerned by global warming. That is the furthest of their concerns!

Don't Vote for Ron Paul.
I don't want to tell you who to vote for,
I would just like to ask you to please listen to Dr. Paul and then decide for yourself.
democratsforpaul.com

Typical of Clinton supporters to smear the girl and imply that she was either paid off or is lying. Have another drink of the Kool-Aid.

THE WHOLE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS ALL ABOUT SOCIALISM , FREEBIES TO THE RICH

Posted By JAMES DUCKWORTH : November 13, 2007 9:18 am

James, are you familiar with the term oxymoron? If not, read the above statement, and for 10 points tell me why it is the most oxy-MORON-ic post on this thread (as yet).

Controlling questions has been a component of politics for a substantial period of time.

However, anyone involved in this behavior is certainly disengenuous

The thought of Clinton in office is like being in the middle of a nightmare. These Hillary supporters must like higher taxes. Then again you love socialism as well.
The thought about leaving IRAN in the hands of LIbEralS frightens the hell out of me. All I can say is we haven't been hit with a terror attack since 9/11 unlike under Bill Clinton where we were hit multiple times which includes the first WTS attack. If we get hit under any LIbEral president I as well as others will hold all LIbEralS responsible.

gawd who cares? plaNTED QUESTIONS OR NOT POLITICIANS WILL NOT listen to the people that voted them in.

Clinton = Bush... Let's get some new blood in the White House.

Oh, yes. I LOVE the excuses that are made for Billary. Of course, the "World's Smartest Woman" once more has NO CLUE what happened, with planted questions.

Stop and think for a moment. This woman, if she's telling the truth about "never" knowing what's going on around her is, to put it mildly...Clueless.

Of course, the Clinton-cronies, and liberal dems – meaning all but Joe Liebermann – try to smear President Bush and say his group did the same thing.

Using their logic, must have been a Bush Member who planted that question. Billary-Hillary just didn't know. Clueless? Riiiiiiiight. More like crooked – just like Bubba.

The extent to which some supporters of Hillary can excuse away even the most repugnant of practices is disheartening. There are followers of other candidates, in both parties, who do expect a higher standard of their candidate. One thing that is heartening about this is that while you can fool some of the people apparently all of the time, you can't fool all ...... and she is losing support.

What a shame. As a Republican, I was hoping she would be against us in the election. But now that normal intelligent democrats are reminded of the darker side of Clinton-style politics, I can't imagine the majority of them buying into it again.

what more proof does everyone need that the clintons and scandals go hand in hand? She's a friggin lawyer. Go ahead and blindly believe that she truly cares about the American working class and not her own interests.

To one a republican yada yadda

Many thanks for the enlightenment about George Bush, but in relation to the 2008 campaign, your point is what exactly?

You can tell that she knew the answer to the question as she has to read the answer. This makes me sick. When is she going to come clean on what SHE will do. The question I would like her to answer or her partner Billy boy is. What did William Bennent mean when he addressed the Press Club after the Impeachment hearings. He said if the people really kneww everything they would not just ask Bill Clinton to resign , but they would ask for his citizenship.
This is what really bothers me about her

I'm sorry, but I'm just not at all surprised that hillary or ANY candidate would have some questions ready to go at this type of event. I don't think it's dishonest for Hillary or any candidate to say, "Hey, I have a position on the environment that I want to get out there, make sure I get a few questions about it." It's politics, folks!

Hillary Clinton is a fraud and this report of her responding to planted questions is just another confirmation of that.

Mike in PA: You are correct. This shouldn't be about Foster. But it should be about anything that pertains to the Clintons' character (yes, both of them) and Foster passes that criterion.

STEPHANIE in WICHITA FALLS: SEEK HELP! SOON!

I begin to understand why Hillary supporters are Hillary supporters. They have so much in common; deny culpability, point fingers, state it never happened or ignore it and hope it will go away.

Certainly the qualities we all want in our Commander in Chief, doesn't everyone agree?

Umm, do some of you posters realize that Bush/Cheney are not running for any office in this election. Why is everything that the Democrat candidates screw-up on compared to George Bush?

If you didn't think it was right ,then you shouldn't have participated by accepting the question. Better yet, just ask another question. Your 15 minutes of fame are up. Move on to important issues.

The world has come to an end, oh my god, a question was planted in the crowd.

Were the participants denied enter to the event even though they held a ticket. Were participants refused entry because they had on a tee shirt on that was not approved by the party. Were people denied entry because they had on a pro-Republican tee shirt. Were attendees prescreened to ensure that they were true blue Democrates. Were the only questions permitted those that had been "preapproved" and "prescreened" by event organizers.

GROW UP, if you the above tactics they were carried out in normal day to day gatherings for George W Bush during his campaigns and then some. If you noted seldom does an event that Bush speaks at not far into the category of private event, sponsored by a private group, that so sorry, make the rules for the crowd.

All I can say, is for this to become a major issue, there are people out there that are really scared that they will wake up in 12 months and discover President elect Clinton preparing for HER term in office with FIRSTMAN Bill.

I fully intend on voting for Clinton, no more right wing fanatics, no more canidates that put the lobbiest of K street above the needs of the nation.

If this planted question gave a college sophmore a negative outlook on the election procress, then I would recommend that she take a few American history classes so she can distinguish between dirty politics and politics.
Posted By Once a Republican (I am sorry), but always an American : November 13, 2007 9:18 am

I'm confused by your response. Yes, Bush does the same thing. That's exactly the point! I don't like Bush, and don't want another Bush in the White House. Also you talk like Hillary won't put lobbyist first – she's the only democrat front runner that takes money from lobbyists! Where on earth do you get the idea she won't put them first?

Bret from Santa Monica

STOP EXCUSING HILLARY'S MISSTEPS BY COMPARING THEM TO BUSH.

News for you all, she is not running against Bush. Besides, why would we want an administration with similiar morals and ethics? Let's get beyond this political administration.

THAT MEANS NO MORE BUSH'S OR CLINTONS!

Stay tuned for Hollywoood's next poliflick titled "The Stepford Candidate", followed by "The Stepford Bimbo's." You can rest assured that Slick Willy is behind all this manipulation. Hillary is America's most subservient wife. Think about it!

I'm shocked, shocked to learn the Clinton campaign controls access to their candidate and would even go so far as planting questions. However, more disturbing to me is what looks like a teleprompter embedded in Ms. Clinton's podium. I can't say with authority that such a devise is there, but I would direct your attention to Senator Clinton eye movements as she answers the question, it seems she has already rehearsed. It does appear someone is feeding her answers to questions, whether they're planted or not.

Jimenez, your comment below, is complete stupid, you must be a socialist, dumbass.

I wonder how much they paid her off to talk? And who is to say this girl is even saying the actual truth. There is her side – their side and truth. Clinton doesn't need questions to be planted. She is exceptional! She's gonna win. She will be our next president. And, she will make history.

Posted By Jimenez – San Antonio – Texas : November 13, 2007 7:17 am

Not surprised at all, if she is elected we will deserve what we get.

Don't say any negative Hillary, in fact, express some Motherly support for Gallo-Chasanoff, we'll take of the rest.... wink, wink.

This is common practice. I live in Iowa and had the Edwards campaign give me a question to ask. As an Edwards supporter, I happily asked the question. I didn't run to the media or anything. Something tells me this girl wants her 15 minutes of fame.

Yet more evidence that Hilary is a corrupt, deceitful human being that will become a complete tyrant when her time is due. A suitable alternative to Bush she is not.

Presumably the guy in the Clinton campaign who admitted planting questions was part of the right wing conspiracy as well.

Look at her eyes in the clip, she's reading the answer from a piece of paper on the podium! Sure, she didn't know.

Although I might be "piling on" with this comment, I should add that in January, Mrs. Clinton held an online "conversation" with voters.

Frank Rich of the New York Times wrote that the scripted format and easy questions that went right along with her campaign talking points were similar to the "Ask President Bush" events in 2004.

Oh boy! Now we get to watch Hillary and her corrupt media cronies destroy a sophomore college student. Poor Muriel, how naive of her to just want to know "how Hillary's energy plan compares to the other candidates energy plans".

Looks to me that Hillary got caught doing something that is common in all of politics. It's also one of the reasons I don't really pay attention to these types of speaches. The real test is the one-on-one debates between the candidates where they need to show that they know their own platform, not just the pre-prepared talking points.

Any of folks that think ANY of the mainstream candidates are going to improve anything in this country are kidding yourselves. Hillary (or Romney, or Giuliani, or Obama) 2008? Please, don't make yourself look foolish. They are ALL political hacks that are part of the problem.

It's really sad that people are willing to settle for planted questions. WHO CARES WHO ELSE DOES IT?? Nobody should do it. When any of these people become president, don't you want them answering to the people, instead of some canned hack like the current President. People, take your country back and quit settling for people whose only pursuit is power (aka Clinton).

Edwards/Obama or Obama/Edwards '08

The really sad part is that Hillary was unable to answer even the questions that she had planted in the audience. What a joke.

How honest can she be, she was at a Hillary Clinton rally.

News Flash!!! No one is honestly representing you!! These are politians... you pick the one with the best resume and that tells you what you want to hear and has the best chance of getting that done... People who think that honesty has anything to do with this is delusional... History has proved this over and over... If you do not like Clinton, that is ok.. BUT your canidate has lied about Something.. Don't be naive....

Is anyone suprised?

You have seen what Hillary does when real questions are asked. She folds !!!

She has no experience in anything. She has never ran a city, state, company or anything. How could she answer anything but planted questions?

Why shouldn't Vince Foster come up? He's just one of many questionable deaths close to the Clintons. Hillary was the first person in his office after he died.
If they want to plant questions, that's fine – just don't lie about it. And you can be sure they won't plant any questions about Vince Foster or the Rose Law Firm, or Jennifer Flowers, or Monica, or the White House Travel Agency, or.....

The funny part about this whole debacle is the people who are questioning Senator Clinton's honesty were not going to vote for her anyway. They already had their mind made up last year when rumors were circulating that Hillary would actually run. I personally don't see what the big deal is with this practice. People want to say this whole event that Hillary attended was fake–but what about all the other Iowans that attended the event? All of their questions clearly could not have been staged. Are they fake too? The answer is no.

I really question the young lady who "agreed" to ask the Senator from New York the question anyway. If she felt it was so wrong, in a show of defiance since she knew she was going to be called on–she could have asked Hillary the question she originally intended to ask her. Instead she chose to go along with it only so she could have a story to tell. This is what people should really be looking at.

This is nothing new and something that every other campaign does and has done for decades. Bill Clinton was answering planted questions back in 1994 at the 50th anniversary of D-Day ceremonies onboard the USS George Washington. Same binder, same sort of staffer briefing.

ALL politicians do this. don't act surprised.

frankly, i don't believe this girl, because if she had such moral opposition to asking a "plant" question, then why did she do it anyways?

also, i don't believe the clinton campaign would be this sloppy... carrying around a binder with questions in it. please.

Yup. Just like Nixon all over again.

For the smartest woman in the world, she's pretty stupid.

It's simple fellow Democrats:

-Do you want think the country is on the right track and you want more of the same, vote Hillary.

-Do you think the country is on the wrong track and want to see real change that puts your priorities ahead of lobbyists and the military machine, vote Edwards or Obama.

This is as bad as the fake FEMA press conference. She does realize she's way in front and just needs to keep from tripping herself, right?

Why am I not surprised about Hillary? Maybe she should run with George Bush as her VP because they are birds of a feather! Glad some people are finally coming out and speaking the truth.

HILLARY CLINTON IS THE SMARTEST AND ONLY CHOICE IN 2008, we are tired of these old men!

CLINTON FOR FOR PRESIDENT

TYPICAL POLITICAL MUMBO JUMBO
TELL THEM WHAT THEY WAN'T TO HEAR
THEN SCREW THEM
THE WHOLE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS ALL ABOUT SOCIALISM , FREEBIES TO THE RICH

The world has come to an end, oh my god, a question was planted in the crowd.

Were the participants denied enter to the event even though they held a ticket. Were participants refused entry because they had on a tee shirt on that was not approved by the party. Were people denied entry because they had on a pro-Republican tee shirt. Were attendees prescreened to ensure that they were true blue Democrates. Were the only questions permitted those that had been "preapproved" and "prescreened" by event organizers.

GROW UP, if you the above tactics they were carried out in normal day to day gatherings for George W Bush during his campaigns and then some. If you noted seldom does an event that Bush speaks at not far into the category of private event, sponsored by a private group, that so sorry, make the rules for the crowd.

All I can say, is for this to become a major issue, there are people out there that are really scared that they will wake up in 12 months and discover President elect Clinton preparing for HER term in office with FIRSTMAN Bill.

I fully intend on voting for Clinton, no more right wing fanatics, no more canidates that put the lobbiest of K street above the needs of the nation.

If this planted question gave a college sophmore a negative outlook on the election procress, then I would recommend that she take a few American history classes so she can distinguish between dirty politics and politics.

Isn't it just like the Clinton robots to blame the whistleblower and call her names. The poor Clintons are always the victims. We had 8 years of these 2 "victims" and their soap opera lives.

There are important things that need to be done to straighten out the mess we're in and the Clintons spend way too much time on their own problems which they create through their dishonest, self-serving actions.

I thank the young lady for bringing this to the attention of the citizens of this country. She may have made a mistake by accepting their offer, but she corrected it. Thank you again.

Wow, this campaign certainly is centering around a "poor Hillary" approach taken by her supporters whenever she's criticized. If a college sophomore is someone causing her great concern, I'd hate to see her dealing with opponents from a hostile nation, etc. For a woman who is trying to run as the toughest candidate, try given the victim approach the boot.

They all do it! Hillary just got caught. Politics is a dirty business. Vote on candidates on what they've done, not what they say they will do or how many statistics they've memorized.

So she disagreed with being told what to ask, did it anyway, and NOW she's whining? Please. If you had a chance to ask a question, why wouldn't you ask your own question? And where is the evidence that there were other planted questions? No one else has come forward. This is stupid, and I do believe Hillary did not know-she would not approve of this tactic because she plays the game well enough to know it would be found out. And it isn't even like it was some easy question to begin with...this is not news, CNN, per usual.

Yes, all politicians do this type of thing....it just reinforces the fact that most of them will do anything to get elected, or maintain their position.
Hillary comes across as disingenuous and slimy...much like her husband. We obviously don't know what actually happened in this particular situation, but I would certainly tend to believe the questioner more than anyone associated with Hillary's campaign.
The REAL question is: What does Hillary bring to the table? What are her qualifications to be president, other than just wanting to be the first female president? How will she be better than anyone else in the field? To date, she hasn't answered any of those questions. She is appealing only to those knee-jerk far left and feminist supporters who aren't really able to analyze beyond the surface. If elected, she will be a disaster for this country, not because she is democrat or female, but because of the type of person she is....

Helen, Boston, you just said exactly what I thought, and it is true. Nagative people couldn't figure out what is true or false.
I am very proud of being Hillary's supporter. Cal, Boston, sorry, Hillary is my candidate and American's candidate.

WHY DID THEY NEED TO PLANT QUESTIONS? WAS CHRIS MATHEWS NOT AVAILABLE ?

She's looking more presidential every day. Fielding softball questions and staging every aspect of meetings with the public is exactly what our current president does!

Typical Clinton politics:
1) Do something shifty
2) Deny and deflect
3) Destory the evidence, take the fifth, or flee the country
4) Attack the accuser (like the hillary workers on this forum are doing!)

Did we learn nothing from Bill's presidency? Hillary sure did!

Maybe the girl was a plant, but a republican plant. Doesnt this lady have reports to write? college classes to attend? Does she want to run for pres?

Oh, my, this is shocking, just shocking, isn't it? Using some of the posts on here as a guide to the intelligence of the average voter, I imagine they planted a question so that a sensible question could be asked for her to answer.
They all do it–it isn't that big of a deal. It was a sensible question, and the aide probably thought it was one of the only ways to get a sensible question asked.
Hillary is who we need, and all this made-up hype about the lies she tells– I am sure she is the only candidate who does this. (yeah, right!)
Get a grip, folks. The Clintons are spending their lives trying to make the country better. Do you think they would work this hard to do a poor job for the US? They are wanting to make history by getting this mess straightened up–not make it worse, and they are a couple of the best minds in the world. Let's let them work on it, and get the US back to the great shape it was in when Bill was president, if it can still be done after this mess that has been made of it in the last 7 years.
GO, HILLARY!!!

The Truth about Hillary is coming out and it's not pretty....

Well, at least we know that Hillary would run FEMA just as effectively as Bush, what with their fake press conferences and all.

This is exactly why I do not support another Clinton. I can see straight through her, and see that she is nothing but B.S. I hope one day everyone else will be able to view her as I do. In the meantime, keep researching Obama.... I'm sure you'll be impressed.

OBAMA '08!

Surely anyone can see Karl Rove in Gallo-Chasanoff's clothing,right?Though I'm a Biden supporter,I can tell you,by experience Hillary would never trust a twit or an intern.C'mon people,she's a plant.Or a liar.Or both

I agree with a previous post. The story here evolved from a dishonest practice of planting questions, to how the Clintons handled the scandal. The idea that Hillary, known to be a control freak, was unaware of this practice is not believeable. It is disturbing to me just how easy it was for her to deny...I could not help but believe she is a very seasoned liar.

Man, why are you democrats such PHONIES? If that happened with a Republican, you'd be all over it spewing your nasty "neocon" venom. Instead some of you are suspicious that that victim in all of this was planted. Grow up and realize that your little Hillery just might be a PHONY. Oh yeah, now I see the connection you have.

Slick Willy and Slimmy Hillary, you people who vote for this idiot are idiots!

. . . As if many others don't do the same thing! Let's not forget that the White House inserted at least one reporter to lob softball questions to President Bush in press conferences. How many other candidates are doing the same thing? My bet is – most of them. The temptation is just too great. Let's either condemn the practice for all or shrug it off and not focus on any particular candidate. Journalists – do your job: investigate and report on other candidates' use of this practice.

wait- this girl agreed to ask a pre-planned question, and now she's suddenly all shocked and disenchanted? why did she agree to ask it? it sounds like Ms. Gallo-Chasanoff is milking this for all its worth.

this kind of stuff might be distasteful, but it's not any different from what any other campaign team does, and certainly not "horrific." and no, this campaign shouldn't be about vince foster.

This woman quite honestly makes me sick. Its a real shame that the first female front-runner is this woman. I would have hoped for someone more respectable.

I would take Obama over her any day. If the ticket winds up being Clinton or Giuliani, I'm submitting a write in vote for Perot.

All canidates do this. Even our on President does this and got caught

Several years ago – during the last Presidential Election – I was able to attend a rally by Senator Edwards at a liberal arts college. College students were present but the focus of this "town hall" meeting was prescription drugs. Out of the several hundred members of the audience (primarily college students) none were able to ask him a question. Instead, pre-chosen people from the audience asked specific questions, while the students were silenced. I think that this is not only in Clinton's camp – but more an issue across all of politics.

"This is a way that candidates can answer questions in a non-confrontational manner."

Wow, thankfully we have scripted events like these to ensure that the lines between truth and reality are continually blurred. She is asking for our votes, the LEAST she can do is answer real questions.

I understand that this is how the game is played and am not surprised in the least that the Clinton campaign may have plants. It's funny, though, when you look at how rattled she got when someone asked her a REAL question about her Iran vote at one of her campaign stops. She accused the guy of being a plant!

To the person who questioned whether this was a softball question - any question the candidate is prepared for IS a softball question, especially when the campaign is using audience members as its mouthpiece.

Hillary is going down. She just lost Iowa on this story alone and there is no chance that she will comeback from it. All this talk of honesty and her character is coming into the light. In her next debate she will have to change her whole style just to combat the fact that she is not ever going to be completely truthful with the American people.

Shame on those of you who are attacking that student for reporting what the TRUTH.

This is ANY different than the pre-approved audiences for any given Bush/Cheney administration members' speeches how?? If anything, at least it's being constructive, instead of the recent forcible removal of Code Pink anti-war mothers from the Condaleezza Rice congressional testimony toward US Middle East Policy on Oct 24. 4 out of the 5 people arrested had done nothing asides wear shirts contesting the war. Nice job Washington.

This is much to do about nothing. It was a darn good question and I think the girl is just lookin for headlines. The media needs to get some where and have a seat! Ok we all know you media people hate Hillary and Bill. We all know its sweeps week and ya need a headline, but COME ON! GO Hillary! I'm still voting for Biden (Big Smile)

By the way can anyone name me a 100% HONEST politican?

Great posts some of you. "Who Paid Her Off", "Twit", go to bed Bill, you're grumpy. Typical Clinton crap. Now she's accusing John Edwards of acting like Bush just because he had the guts to call her out on honesty, integrity and chararcter. We'll have a Democract in the White House, but it won't be "the Madam".

Wow, I was right. You really do have to be delusional to be a Hillary Clinton supporter.

Why did the twit agree to ask the question in the first place? This is a way that candidates can answer questions in a non-confrontational manner...answer the question and state their position. It's been going on for years. BTW – is she really looking for honesty in politics?

We've all heard the Clinton camp is one of the tightest, if not the tightest, most organized run political machines out there. No one argues that, but for Hillary to say she did not know anything about planted questions in her campaign...well it is not far fetched to believe she is lying. What is very troubling is the ease at which she does it, like she has had a lot of practice.

I wonder how much they paid her off to talk? And who is to say this girl is even saying the actual truth. There is her side – their side and truth. Clinton doesn't need questions to be planted. She is exceptional! She's gonna win. She will be our next president. And, she will make history.

Hillary 2008!

Were these "softball" questions? Asking what a candidate is going to do about global warming does not sound like a soft question to me. Nevertheless, I don't like this strategy and we've seen it countless times before with the current administration. I wonder if Clinton staffers go as far as barring any obvious republicans from her Q&A sessions, like Bush staffers bar non-supporters from his public appearances?