Reply #14: Oh puh-leeze. Koppel's posing of that question was a pro-Dean strategy

[Myra]

As blatant as the one used repeatedly on DU.
(Post threads demanding to know if non-Dean supporters will
*vote for Dean* and discussing *Dean's* running mate.
Then we're supposed to strategically be programed with the
inevitabilty of *Dean's* campaign success and just give
up on the better candidates.)

Koppel was using the same strategy.

Perhaps it would have been less heavy handed and obvious
if Koppel had done the same thing for (against actually)
each candidate, and not just the annointed one.
By asking the "question" only about *the annointed one*,
he just underscored what a heavy handed strategy it was.

And thank god most of the candidates recognized it as
heavy handed Dean boosting, and objected.

I rather liked Kerry's remark that if he was a less polite person
he'd tell Ted what to do with his question.