Hillary Staffers - Planting Questions

[sorrowmonkey]

Sorry to keep spamming your friends page, but I thought this was an interesting story about how political staffers plant questions in the audience:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/13/clinton.planted/index.html

Pretty slick, especially if you think about the psychology of the situation.

Comments

[laurensa.livejournal.com]

Yep. Almost as slick as planting FEMA staffers at a press conference, isn't it?

All pols are slimy cretins who don't give us credit for having the brains God gave a doorknob. I say we give them ALL the bum's rush and start over. And include term limits this time.

[nrawling.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think the mistake is indulging in full-time legislators. I think by doing so you create a class of professional politicians. I think we would be much better off if these people had to work for a living rather than just cementing their positions through graft and crooked dealing.

[laurensa.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant! They don't actually work full time anyway, so it's not like we'd actually be changing much of anything. Except maybe their pay scale. :-)