CNN adopts Canadian media tactics

While the Ottawa press gallery chose to fellate Liberal P.M.s Chretien and Martin, their mouths have been engaged somewhat differently with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative government: critical, pointed questions and, on occasion, insightful analysis.
Bravo!
In The U.S., it appears CNN has torn a page from Ottawa’s Parliamentary press gallery Liberal playbook and have assumed a prostrate position before the Democratic National Committee.
The Nov. 15 Las Vegas Democrat debate was apparently stage-managed by CNN to benefit Hillary Clinton, the candidate the network most wants in the White House come 2008.
Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred "diamonds or pearls" at the debate, wrote on her MySpace page that CNN forced her to ask the frilly question instead of a pre-approved query about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
"Every single question asked during the debate by the audience had to be approved by CNN," Luisa writes. "I was asked to submit questions including "lighthearted/fun" questions. I submitted more than five questions on issues important to me. I did a policy memo on Yucca Mountain a year ago and was the finalist for the Truman Scholarship. For sure, I thought I would get to ask the Yucca question that was APPROVED by CNN days in advance."
The debate was analyzed by James Carville (a Clinton supporter) and David Gergen (guy worked for the Bill Clinton Whitehouse). Of course they did what CNN brought them in to do: praise the Democratic vision, praise Hillary.
Almost as ridiculous as looking to the Ottawa press gallery for critical analysis of the Chretien and Martin governments.

Canada's former Prime Minister Jean Chretien dazzles with a touch of eloquent brilliance: