The “Gotcha” in the GOP Debate - Was CNN Punked?
Let’s play a game - what doesn’t belong in a YouTube question that was asked tonight in the CNN/YouTube GOP presidential debate?
I was watching the GOP debate, and was struck by one particular question submitted via YouTube. If I recall correctly, the question was answered by Romney and Grandpa Fred Thompson, but that’s really irrelevant. Actually, the question itself was largely irrelevant.
Watch the 20 second question below, and ask yourself: What element of this video simply has no place in a GOP debate? After CNN’s “gotcha” experience with the Dem debate, you’d think they’d be more careful. You’d be wrong.
Was CNN sandbagged? Or did Anderson Cooper pick this video on purpose? Either way, it was no accident that this eminently forgettable question was plucked out of the thousands submitted via YouTube. I’ll wait a few moments to see if anyone saw the same weird thing that I picked out, then I’ll post the answer in the comments…
Update: A quick observation on the debate itself - when Mike Huckabee comes across as the sanest, most articulate banana in the GOP bunch (granted, the bar has been set pretty low in the past seven years), and the only candidate who has actual convictions, you know the Republican Party is in a heap ‘o trouble. He was the only one of the candidates who was truly speaking from the heart and not faking it or putting on a facade. [[Sorry, supporters of Ron Paul, but your guy was exceptionally shrill tonight and seemed to get lost in his answer on Iraq. He should have had that one down pat.]]
The difference between Huckabee’s presentation and the rest of the crowd was absolutely striking.
Hmm…I’ll say the flag on he left, considering that the Republican Party began in direct response to combatting to ending the shameful thing that the men who fought under that flag fought to maintain.
However, I’m going to guess that you picked out the Guy Fawkes mask on the right that looks like it is a piece of “V for Vendetta” memorabilia.
Jimmie, you picked out both of the non-congruent things that I did about the video - but it was the Guy Fawkes mask that really didn’t belong, IMO.
Unless, that is, the guy who asked the question was a Ron Paul supporter…
The guy’s YouTube profile indicates that he’s a Ron Paul supporter:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheHoustonKid
I don’t think the Guy Fawkes mask is as incendiary as you seem to think. Four hundred years takes the edge off atrocities. Pirates are a Disney ride today. In the sixteenth century not so much.
rogers - haven’t seen the flim V for Vendetta? watch and and you’ll get what Richard’s talking about.
I too saw the V mask. I loved that movie. It seemed so timely. It makes sense the graphic novel was written during Maggie Thatcher’s and St Ronnie’s time in office, but it was even more perfect for the last 7 years in both the US and Britain.