No conspiracy with the questions on #DemtownHall last night.....

[riversedge]

Last edited Tue Jan 26, 2016, 08:40 AM - Edit history (1)

Look at about 1:30 on this video transcript--gives details on who the audience is, how questions were screened and the fact that NO candidate knew what the questions would be.

[bvf]

1. Well, if they said it on CNN,

golly, it must be true!

(And the word is "audience," btw. That's no typo, and you can't blame auto-correct.)

[DanTex]

2. LOL. Someone's a little spiteful. Gotta police that spelling!

[NurseJackie]

3. People who do such things ...

... know that they are arguing from a position of weakness, and resort to those tactics as a way of claiming an "intellectual superiority" over someone. It's meant to belittle and ridicule their adversary, and to make themselves appear to be more authoritarian.

I always see it as a big FAIL.

[bvf]

11. Some people simply beg for belittlement and ridicule

by misusing words like "authoritarian."

Others do it by putting phrases in quotes for absolutely no reason.

Looks like a twofer here, at least!

[riversedge]

4. You are one saying I can not blame auto-correct. I did not say it.

[DanTex]

6. It's about the misspelling in the OP. When they've got nothing else, they play spelling police.

[riversedge]

7. I will correct it before they send in the National Guard. Yes, they have nothing but nit picking.

[DanTex]

8. Or maybe leave it. If you spell everything right, maybe you're a counter-revolutionary.

It's kinda hard keeping track of what the thought police wants.

[bvf]

14. If you spell everything right, maybe you know how to spell.

"Thought police"? That's rich.

And start with elementary subject/verb agreement before tackling cultural abstractions, OK? Someone might take you seriously then.

[bvf]

12. I never said you did

but you're welcome, just the same.

[riversedge]

5. BTW--it was the moderator of the Town Hall saying how the questions were picked and who

the audience was and a few other points.

[synergie]

9. Yes, but they think it's a conspiracy on a greater order, from the server hosting the

live stream, to the moderator themselves, they were all in the tank for Hillary, and Bernie bravely shined anyway, despite being shackled to his chair by that "establishment hitman" Chris Cuomo.

[riversedge]

15. Living in a bubble makes so many posters like silly when they post.

[bvf]

13. Yes, I understand spoken English.

You?

[NCTraveler]

10. The beauty of conspiracy theorists.

Their preconceived notions trump your facts.

Then again, I don't give a shit about planted questions at a town hall. I think they serve their own importance and purpose.