Audio: YouTube questioner says Anderson Cooper knew Hillary plant by name
posted at 9:01 pm on December 4, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Someone e-mailed about this the other day after it first aired on Rush’s show but I don’t see anything suspicious about it. Cooper personally reviewed some of the submitted questions; Keith Kerr was probably the only general in the whole bunch of 5,000, so his name and face may have stuck in Cooper’s mind. Rush notes at one point that Kerr had appeared on CNN previously and that it might even have been on Cooper’s show — but it wasn’t.
Here’s the video of the caller, Gordon Bloyer, boarding the bus, where he claims you can hear some of the CNN employees greet Kerr by calling him “general.” I hear someone say it at about 16 seconds in, but again, what’s the significance? It may well be that they were planning to call on Kerr because they thought a gay officer asking a question about “don’t ask don’t tell” would make for high (liberal) drama but that doesn’t prove they knew he was a Hillary plant. Much ado about nothing without further proof.
What he says about a Kucinich operative being with them at some point might be another matter, though. Click the image to watch.
Update: Incidentally, here’s the question that won Bloyer his ticker to the debate.
Update: This is fun, too. Again, video by Bloyer — this time of Anderson Cooper explaining why they don’t let YouTube users vote on the questions CNN will ask. May I quote? “You’d basically have all these campaigns trying to jerry-rig it.”
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Maybe the Reagan poster fooled them.
bnelson44 on December 4, 2007 at 9:08 PM
“Knows” him in the biblical sense? Either way…he should have said so.
SouthernGent on December 4, 2007 at 9:08 PM
I’m shocked. Oh wait – that’s my finger in the light socket
Ugly on December 4, 2007 at 9:13 PM
I mean, this is incredible, I can’t believe it…
Wait, actually…no, I can…
You can see when Cooper is called on this by Bill bennett that he knows exactly what was going on, how the hell could he not. He’s a terrible liar. We’re they NOT going to call on this guy? CNN? They picked the questions…
Just as Wolf said that the people at the Democrat debate were simply undecided, undecided, normal, everyday, just regular people…
Hell, CNN planted the guy…
benrand on December 4, 2007 at 9:20 PM
Well the guy is not even a real general anyways. Colonel is still a respectable rank, without putting forth Gen pretense from some state organization.
firepilot on December 4, 2007 at 9:28 PM
That entire entry was veddy interesting, indeed. Slightly OT, I wish people would not do blogs with black backgrounds. I get a headache trying to read.
Connie on December 4, 2007 at 9:33 PM
Wesley Clark is a General and I and I would imagine most military men have little respect for that Nancy.
TheSitRep on December 4, 2007 at 9:33 PM
General Nuisance?
Zorro on December 4, 2007 at 9:36 PM
One thing is readily apparent: David Bohrman is a jackass.
Why would Bohrman joke about CNN being a “cabal” unless he assumed that everyone on the bus would find it funny? Because it never occurs to media
elitesslobs like himself that everyone doesn’t think alike?Beyond that, I’m confused about this post. Why wouldn’t they know who the You Tube questioners were? They (including Cooper) reviewed the videos, CNN bought flew them in to the debate, and so forth.
Whether they knew that Kerr was a Hillary plant cannot be determined from this footage.
Buy Danish on December 4, 2007 at 9:40 PM
Hello,Hello.Mr Cooper,MR.Anderson Cooper.
Ya,thats me.
Good,Good ,I represent a tin horn dictator,past Mexico.
Sounds warm down there.
Yes,it is,we need you down here to jerry-rig his election.
well let me check my schedule,yup I’m free to fraud,I mean go.
Please Mr Cooper,we need this quiet,not like the debacle
of the U-Tube debate,we can’t have you,how do you say,
Billy getting caught with hand in jar,
No problems,nobody will suspect us,were DEMOCRATS!
And the beat goes on and on! HAHA
canopfor on December 4, 2007 at 9:43 PM
Jerry rigging,CNN,well folks,lets take a walk down
dirt lane,so it’s coming to this,the ends will justify
the means,it’s not the charge,but the seriousness of the
allegation,they take names of the deceased,now their
Liberal voters,they pay people to fraud,and multiple vote,
they slash tires,so Republican shut-ins can’t vote,you
have Liberals going to court,trying to stop the United
States Military from counting their absentee votes,
Republican’s in University,have to constantly look over
their shoulder’s checking there surroundings,and the list
just keeps going, like I said,the Lib media,are going
to do whatever it takes,now we have proof,–let the facts
speak for themselves,and I’ll keep saying it,they can still
ues more rope.
canopfor on December 4, 2007 at 10:06 PM
oops,ues should be use,sorry!
canopfor on December 4, 2007 at 10:09 PM
Lol, he goes on to explain that he means that the (GOP) candidates would have basically planted question that they had canned answers for, so they could knock them out of the park. At least ya dodged that bullet, huh A-Coop? You sly silver fox bastard! BTW, Shep said he’ll meet you at the manhole right after work.
At any rate, I think everyone missed the most important part of that bus video – the tour guide. First, why would such a gigantic man EVER climb aboard a bus, where he knows he’s bound to look even larger. Second, why would he make it even worse by going no jacket but proudly displaying suspenders? Either Larry King is a trend setter, or the guy was trying out for role of “sleazy lawyer” in any movie about the deep south, probably set in the early 1900s.
RightWinged on December 4, 2007 at 10:14 PM
Gee whiz, another representative example of the mainstream undecided Republican voters in the eyes of CNN. Out. Of. Touch.
Free Constitution on December 4, 2007 at 10:31 PM
The “tour guide” is David Bohrman, the CNN uber-executive who was in charge of putting this debate together and is higher up the chain than Anderson Cooper.
He probably didn’t expect to be photographed, and no doubt he never imagined that he and Anderson would be the story.
Buy Danish on December 4, 2007 at 10:54 PM
I am still amazed at the conservatives who continue to defend CNN and Cooper and suggest that their obvious Jarry-rigging of this event is something else — like simple incompetance.
Democrat activists dominate the Democrat debate, and then infiltrate the GOP debate, and guys like this Portage, IN Republican get flown down and then shelved so they can take cover by having him there and Cooper somehow is the victim?
He’s dirty. He’s a liar. There is no evidence to the contrary.
Jaibones on December 4, 2007 at 11:37 PM
With machete in hand, let me try to hack my way through this clutter of liberal BS and get to the clearing. Hilary Clinton’s husband, Bill Clinton, instituted this policy of don’t ask don’t tell. So don’t ask don’t tell is a Democrat policy. But CNN decided that it was inappropriate (or too much of a hot button issue?) to ask Hilary and the rest of her Democrat cohorts their opinion on don’t ask don’t tell. So they decided to toss that question to the Republicans instead.
Guys, great work on exposing the plants. But it’s time to put pressure on Hilary and the rest of the Democrat candidates for their answer on don’t ask don’t tell.
Force them to stand with, or against their master Bill Clinton. They can’t have it both ways.
RMR on December 4, 2007 at 11:45 PM
That still doesn’t excuse the suspenders.
RightWinged on December 5, 2007 at 12:38 AM
Remember kids, when wealthy leftist New England WASP heirs to the vast Vanderbilt fortune to use racial hate speech like “jerry rig” (a term used to disparage Germans during the early to mid 20th Century) and in front an audience and recorded on camera, it’s okay.
Satire is the usual excuse…
ScottMcC on December 5, 2007 at 12:42 AM
So now we have Gordon Bloyer stating he witnessed Anderson Coopers personal greeting of the faux general …”And so here we all come up there, and Anderson Cooper comes out, and he immediately recognizes the general. He says, “Oh, General Kerr. I’m glad you’re here.” He didn’t recognize any of the rest of us, but he recognized him real easy.”, yet we are to believe they didn’t fully check this guy out? Every excuse put out by CNN has been a Clintonian lie. Shades of Dan Rather!
I AM surprised at the lengths the Clinton News Network went to in their attempt to commit this blatant fraud of a republican debate, supposedly designed to assist Americans in their efforts to choose the best person suited to run the Most Powerfull Office in the World. An investigation is called for by ME, a registered republican, to answer these questions …
1) Who was behind this obvious conspiracy?
2) How much did the CNN/GooTube employees who put together this debate really know?
3) Which political campaigns took part in this conspiracy?
4) How much money changed hands?
5) How much in in-kind campaign contributions changed hands?
This sort of blatant fraud, designed to undermine America’s democracy, must not go unanswered. Contact your congress critters today and demand that they start their investigations into this. Since the Democrat Congress investigates everything else under the Sun, this should prove to be no great burden, and if they need direction they can always call Michelle. Perhaps the employees of the FCC can earn their pay for a change.
DannoJyd on December 5, 2007 at 12:59 AM
You’re joking right? The FCC handles the PUBLIC airwaves. CNN is cable. And as much as it would be nice to have this thing exposed, it won’t (nor should it be) done by the government.
RightWinged on December 5, 2007 at 1:10 AM
Actually, the FCC does some regulation of cable outlets.
DannoJyd on December 5, 2007 at 1:50 AM
The jurisdiction for this is not the FCC, but the FEC.
And is any of us surprised that Cooper lied when he said he was blindsided like the rest of us?
georgej on December 5, 2007 at 2:37 AM
Really why should any of this debate subterfuge surprise us when Anderson Cooper’s first big prime-time break was as host of ABC’s “The Mole?”
Captain Scarlet on December 5, 2007 at 6:26 AM
When you’re that obese, suspenders are probably the only option.
Buy Danish on December 5, 2007 at 8:22 AM
What is surprising that CNN would lie and deceive to present their agenda? Is there anyone on the face of the earth still that naive?
volsense on December 5, 2007 at 10:53 AM
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