# CNN's collusion with Clinton campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 14, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-collusion-with-clinton-campaign/771981 "2016-11-14T18:52:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-collusion-with-clinton-campaign/771981/1 "2016-11-14T18:52:39Z")
I see stories of town-hall questions being released to Clinton’s campaign before the debate and supposedly wikileaks has shown that the DNC helped write some questions. Is there anything there? If so then why isn’t there more of a big deal being made? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-collusion-with-clinton-campaign/771981/2 "2016-11-14T18:54:38Z")
I see stories about shape-shifting lizard people taking over key positions in government and industry… Yet the liberal media do not talk about it. On a serious note - I believe that this occurred during the PRIMARY debates between Clinton and Sanders. Do you have any links to the stories? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-collusion-with-clinton-campaign/771981/3 "2016-11-14T18:59:34Z")
Hard to believe that CNN has a viewpoint, much less a political bias. I think they only exist any more because they are the default position for news in lunch and break rooms. Somebody tuned them to CNN years ago and just left them there. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-collusion-with-clinton-campaign/771981/4 "2016-11-14T19:05:18Z")
Yeah, I remember hearing about CNN hiring blatant Hillary shills like Corey Lewandowski. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-collusion-with-clinton-campaign/771981/5 "2016-11-14T19:10:55Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > I see stories of town-hall questions being released to Clinton’s campaign before the debate and supposedly wikileaks has shown that the DNC helped write some questions. Is there anything there? If so then why isn’t there more of a big deal being made? It was during her debates with Sanders, IIRC, and since she lost, it will probably be dropped. It isn’t much of a secret that the Democratic establishment wanted Hillary to get the nom, nor that their allies in the MSM thought the same. They didn’t help Hillary during her debates with Trump because they didn’t think she needed the help, and the polls confirmed them. It isn’t like Obama’s first debate with Romney - it was pretty clear from the polls that Romney won, and thus they jumped in to assist Obama in the second debate and things went better for him. It wasn’t clear from the polls that Hillary needed their help. But it isn’t a big thing now, because she lost. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-collusion-with-clinton-campaign/771981/6 "2016-11-14T19:18:12Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > supposedly wikileaks has shown that the DNC helped write some questions. Is there anything there? Read it for yourself: > **[WikiLeaks - Search the DNC email database](https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/27526)** ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-collusion-with-clinton-campaign/771981/7 "2016-11-14T22:40:20Z")
Some of the improprieties of the Clinton-media relationship are a bit pearl clutchy, since this is how elections have gone for years. The camps talk to the media, tries to get them to ask certain questions, avoid others, agreements are made. But yeah, people don’t call it the Clinton News Network for a lark. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Quatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@Mr\_Quatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Quatro)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-collusion-with-clinton-campaign/771981/8 "2016-11-15T12:53:21Z")
Did CNN interview the rowdies that the DNC hired to be at the Trump campaign rally’s? Did anyone cover that story before the election? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnns-collusion-with-clinton-campaign/771981/9 "2016-11-15T13:27:03Z")
And here I was thinking that you guys didn’t have a sense of humor. That’s some droll shit, right there.