According to Time's ace reporterette, Ana Marie Cox, writing in the Swampland blog:
The Ron Paul campaign announced, and other campaigns have confirmed, that CNN is moving the YouTube debate to another date, possibly in December.
Evidently Republicans have wised up, thanks in large part to the heroic warning efforts of Hugh Hewitt, who has been warning his readers and listeners about the questions that CNN picked out from the YouTubers:
They are full of lunatic assumptions and hard left fevers. Which is why Josh Marshall, Andrew Sullivan and bunches of other pundits unfriendly to the GOP want the Republicans to drive up to the debate in Michael Dukakis' tank wearing John Kerry's Teletubby HazMat suit and take questions culled by CNN's lefties for two hours...
Love of the new technology shouldn't trump political common sense, and for either of the front runners to agree to this looney format is to risk a great deal of hard work and the contributions of thousands of supporters for very little upside. Listen to today's show when it is posted tonight and you'll get a sense of the questions piling up in the YouTube in box. The moonbat brigades are just beginning to assemble, and the question queue is already beyond bizarre.
So much for "the most trusted name in news"--maybe CNN will need a new "gimmick" now, as Jon Klein put it so memorably once.
