Clinton Aide Plants Student's Question to Clinton

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Friday November 09, 2007 · 3:51 PM PST

2007/11/09 · 15:51

Wow!! What does this remind you of? Afraid to answer real questions from the crowd?

But according to Grinnell College student Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff ’, some of the questions from the audience were planned in advance. "They were canned," she said. Before the event began, a Clinton staff member approached Gallo-Chasanoff to ask a specific question after Clinton’s speech. "One of the senior staffers told me what [to ask]," she said.

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More after the fold.

You all remember this. An Iowan asked Clinton why she voted for Kyl-Lieberman and she verbally berated him as a "plant" from another campaign. She apparently only likes questions from her own plants:

Now, she is planting her own questions:

On Tuesday Nov. 6, the Clinton campaign stopped at a biodiesel plant in Newton as part of a weeklong series of events to introduce her new energy plan. The event was clearly intended to be as much about the press as the Iowa voters in attendance, as a large press core helped fill the small venue. Reporters from many major national news outlets came to the small Iowa town, from such media giants as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and CNN.

But Senator Doubletalk must have been afraid of real questions from the audience.

Clinton called on Gallo-Chasanoff after her speech to ask a question: what Clinton would do to stop the effects of global warming. Clinton began her response by noting that young people often pose this question to her before delving into the benefits of her plan.

But the source of the question was no coincidence—at this event "they wanted a question from a college student," Gallo-Chasanoff said. She also noted that staffers prompted Clinton to call on her and another who had been approached before the event

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John Edwards takes any questions:

When asked if the John Edwards campaign employed such practices, Jenni Lee, Edwards’s Iowa Press Secretary said, "No, they ask whatever they want."

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John Edwards has some questions for Senator Clinton on Iraq:

In Newmarket New Hampshire on November 6, 2007 John encouraged voters to ask every candidate these three questions on their plans for getting out of Iraq

I don't expect Senator Clinton to plant these questions for herself to answer.

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