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Save the Debate group thanks Republican candidates
By punch bowl | November 29, 2007
From a press release –
The Save the Debate coalition would like to thank the Republican candidates for participating in the YouTube debate, which reached an estimated 4.5 million Americans, a record for this primary cycle. We are hopeful that the candidates will consider future opportunities to use technology to reach new participants in the political process.
“Further, we applaud the YouTube community for the quality of the questions submitted that sparked informative and substantive exchanges among the Republican candidates. With nearly 5,000 YouTube user-submitted questions — 2,000 more than for the Democratic debate ‹ Americans are increasingly taking advantage of the opportunity to participate in the democratic process.
“Unfortunately, CNN’s flawed editorial process in choosing the questions asked of the candidates marred an otherwise lively debate and betrayed the trust of the Republican candidates and the YouTube user community. In the most glaring example, a questioner affiliated with the Hillary Clinton campaign was given a soapbox to berate the Republican candidates at the debate — when even a cursory web search of the individual would have revealed his clear conflict of interest.
“A YouTube debate should strive to minimize the media filter rather than highlight it. Instead the selection of questions for the Republican CNN/YouTube debate highlighted CNN’s selection bias.
“We strongly encourage YouTube and other new media platforms to refrain fromworking with CNN on future debates.”
The Save The Debate Coalition was founded earlier this year to help encourage Republican candidates to participate in the YouTube CNN Debate. Its co-founders include Patrick Ruffini of PatrickRuffini.com and Townhall.com, David All of TechRepublican.com, Soren Dayton of Redstate.com and EyeOn08.com, and Robert Bluey of RobertBluey.com and Redstate.com. For more information, visit www.savethedebate.com.
Topics: save the debate |
November 30th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I was very disappointed that there weren’t any questions from CRs asked at the debate. This kind of debate is supposed to be an outreach to the younger generation, and yet young conservatives were not well represented in the questions asked.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
I agree, Ashley. I feel that there should have been a College Republican question since we are the largest youth Republican organization!