The female student who came forward about being a plant for the Hillary Campaign at an event spoke to CNN:The college student who was told what question to ask at one of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign events says "voters have the right to know what happened" and she wasn't the only one who was planted.
Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, a 19-year-old sophomore at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, said that giving anyone specific questions to ask is "dishonest," and the whole incident has given her a negative outlook on politics.
Gallo-Chasanoff, whose story was first reported in the campus newspaper, said what happened was really pretty simple: She says a senior Clinton staffer asked if she'd like to ask the senator a question after an energy speech the Democratic presidential hopeful gave in Newton, Iowa, on November 6.
"I sort of thought about it, and I said 'Yeah, can I ask how her energy plan compares to the other candidates' energy plans?'" Gallo-Chasanoff said Monday night.
"'I don't think that's a good idea," the staffer said, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, "because I don't know how familiar she is with their plans."
He then opened a binder to a page that, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, had about eight questions on it.
"The top one was planned specifically for a college student," she added. " It said 'college student' in brackets and then the question."
Topping that sheet of paper was the following: "As a young person, I'm worried about the long-term effects of global warming. How does your plan combat climate change?"
And while she said she would have rather used her own question, Gallo-Chasanoff said she generally 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 [her] word."
Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Elleithee said Clinton had "no idea who she was calling on."
"This is not acceptable campaign process moving forward. We've taken steps to ensure that it never happens again," she said in a written response to CNN.
Gallo-Chasanoff wasn't so sure.
"I don't know whether Hillary knew what my question was going to be, but it seemed like she knew to call on me because there were so many people, and ... I was the only college student in that area," she said.
Hillary in a statement denied knowing about it, but isn't it funny that she by a miracle called on the girl who had been planted. Seems kind of fishy to me, but typical. Look back to her Senate campaign, and look back to her husband's years. People think this media bullying began with Bush, but wrong again. Here are some video clips involving the student. She seems articulate and sincere. Hopefully she will realize that the Dems are the party of lies and misdirection and will look for something else.
Video of student talking about how she was approached
Video of student asking planted question and Hillary's rather canned response
I guess CNN did not get the Wolf Warning in time not to air the story, because Team Clinton is putting the word out to Blitzer...gang up on Hillary and you might end up in a national park.
The Clinton campaign, according to info received by Matt Drudge, has warned Wolf Blitzer--don't do a Russert...you know, ask like questions that matter, where Hillary 2.0 has to think and overload her lame programming:
CNN's Wolf Blitzer has been warned not to focus Thursday's Dem debate on Hillary. 'This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy,' top Clinton insider explains. 'Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack and pull 'a Russert.'' Blitzer is set to moderate debate from Vegas, with questions also being posed by Suzanne Malveaux... Blitzer says he is not being pressured by any campaign.
You know, where is the liberal repudiation of this woman? All we hear is about how bad Bush is for having free speech zones, etc., but where is the condemnation for the Shah of Sham, Mrs. Clinton? She plants questions, threatens reporters, and all we hear is, Bush did it first... Go back at look at that New Republic article (the one I cited in Hillary is Paranoid like Nixon...yesterday's post)and you will see Team Clinton was doing this in term 1 of the Debacle years, well before W. So nice try, but not buying it.
Hillary's tactics remind me of other people who like to wear monocolor pantsuits: Mao and Stalin. So much for a free press.
