Marc Ambinder is one of those smart journalists making a name for himself as a reporter/blogger on the 2008 campaign trail; in his case, for a venerable title enjoying its own kind of surge: The Atlantic.com. He's got a helluva scoop here about the CNN debate in Las Vegas: CNN muscling a student at UNLV into asking one question, and not another. So as a result, Hillary Rodham Clinton got a puffball question, allowing her to exit the debate on a jokey, Q Rating-raising high note of levity.
First CNN takes a dive on the debate itself, and now this.
The fix is in--or was in. Or maybe still is in.
CNN sure had better hope that Hillary wins the presidency next year. Of course, if the Clintonians can flex this sort of media muscle, she probably will win.
