Sunday, July 29, 2007

YouTubeGoogleCNN Calls GOP Candidates' Bluff



Since Jester-candidates Ron Paul, John McCain (yep, he's off the major candidate speed dial) and Tommy Thompson had agreed to the September GOP version of the CNN/YouTube debate, the organizers are pledging to reschedule it.

The main candidates primarily cited "scheduling conflicts" so if that's the case, surely an agreeable time can be found.

This is an only-mildly bit of interesting theater.  Everyone knows that it was not really a scheduling conflict that kept them out of it.  While I don't think the format was all that wildly-innovative or different (CNN still filtered the questions, so who 
cares who actually verbalizes the questions!),  it was clever for CNN to try and toy around with them a bit.

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