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SEIFFE:  The $64,000 Debate

Friday, November 30, 2007

By Ralf Seiffe

What’s the difference between CNN’s behavior this week and the quiz show scandals of the 1950’s?  Not much from this vantage because both appear to be designed to purposely mislead the public for an organizational advantage.  When the producers of  “The $64,000 Question” or “Twenty One” fed answers to the contestant they favored, they did so to dislodge one contestant in favor of a more “attractive” one.  In that way they stood to get better ratings and higher rates for their commercials. 

At this week’s debate in Florida, it appears CNN packed the forum with videos having the same objective--to dislodge the Republicans’ chances to win the 2008 Election in favor of their preferred, Democrat contestant. 

When the duplicity behind the game shows was discovered so long ago, Grand Juries were convened and Congress investigated. Americans felt violated because the game shows were fixed.  The same thing has happened at the debates but the stakes are infinitely higher and, therefore, the perfidy all the greater. 

The candidates were induced to participate with the expectation that the YouTube questions would come from ordinary Americans.  The preponderance of questions posed by Democrat operatives, employees and volunteers, proves that presumption wrong and the essence of a fraud.  At least, CNN should offer to refund the candidates’ time in the form of two prime time hours to rerun a real debate at the Republican’s option and under their design.  Better, CNN’s behavior seems to be probable cause for Florida’s Attorney General to impanel a Grand Jury to investigate this apparent fraud on the nation’s voters.

Ralf Seiffe advises business start-ups and product launches from Chicago, Illinois and is a political analyst and columnist for the Illinois Leader and Illinois Review.

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