So, CNN Has Blamed a Black Man For Passing the Death Penalty Debate Question to Hillary.
Why Can't They Tell Us Who Passed Her the Flint Water Question?

As far as I know, there is no Convenient Black Man Working for a Different Organization around to racistly frame for this particular crime.

But CNN is pumping out the story -- sotto voce -- without actually publishing it (and thus inviting fact-checking) that Donna Brazile got this question in advance on her own: by talking to the women at the site of the debate, pumping them for information, finding out what questions they were going to ask.

Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller has done what no other media has bothered itself to do -- he sought out the women in question and, get this, asked them if Donna Brazile had chatted them up and drew their intended questions out of them.

They say they didn't talk to Brazile -- but they did give their question to a CNN producer.

Both of the Flint, Mich. women who asked questions about the city’s lead-poisoned water during a March 6 Democratic debate hosted by CNN tell The Daily Caller that they did not talk to interim Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile ahead of the event.

That confirmation undermines CNN's theory -- floated to reporters on background -- that Brazile, a network contributor at the time, may have learned of the debate question from one of the women at a charity event organized by the network the day before the debate.

CNN has also denied that a producer who coordinated logistics with the two women knew of the questions before the debate. But both of the women, Mikki Ward and LeeAnne Walters, tell TheDC that they indeed did provide their questions to the producer, Danelle Garcia. Further undercutting CNN’s claim is a news report published earlier this year which identified Garcia as handling questions for another Flint debate participant.

The new evidence raises questions over whether Brazile was leaked the question from someone at CNN.

Ward, a public housing supervisor, asked Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders the first question at the Flint.debate. She told TheDC on Tuesday that she has "never met or spoken to Donna Brazile."

CNN must stop floating this self-interested, self-exonerating claim -- which appears to be flatly false -- to people by private (unpublished) channels and actually publish a story explaining this lapse, so that things are verified and on the record and not just whispered to shut people up about it.

But that would of course require they actually investigate the matter first -- and I doubt very much they'll do that.

Some threads mustn't be tugged, else they unravel the whole nasty cloth.

BTW, here's Don Lemon just flat-out lying and silencing Scottie Nell Hughes from asking perfectly reasonable question about this incident these several incidents.

In fact, his whole panel, stacked 4:1 against the sole conservative voice, swore up and down to vouch for the integrity of not just CNN - which is very much in doubt -- but also Donna Brazile, whose integrity is not in doubt at all, as it demonstrably does not exist at all.

Why is Don Lemon telling obvious lies on TV -- claiming a CNN Contributor did not give Hillary Clinton debate questions in advance (Donna Brazile was a CNN contributor) -- and why does not one else in the media note this?

I'm told that CNN's Dylan Byers and Brian Stelter, both useless liberal shills, are the right people to ask about this, as it's "their beat."

But I've noticed that low-competence people are the most ruthless defenders of the corporation giving them a check, because they're the ones with the least wiggle room to cross the corporation.

So I don't expect either of these useless, craven Company Men to go anywhere near this story.

posted by Ace at 03:19 PM

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