A couple of weeks ago former CNN contributor and current DNC co-chair, Donna Brazile, was nabbed, courtesy of Wikileaks, leaking information she had acquired by virtue of her CNN gig to the Clinton campaign.
Now we see that this was not the only instance.
This is before the town hall in Flint and sure enough:
COOPER: I want to go to Lee-Anne Walters. This is Lee-Anne Walters. She was one of the first people to report problems with the water in Flint. One of her twin boys stopped growing. Her daughter lost her hair.
She says she’s undecided, and has a question for both of you to answer, but we’ll start with Senator Sanders. Ms. Walters?
QUESTION: After my family, the city of Flint and the children in D.C. were poisoned by lead, will you make a personal promise to me right now that, as president, in your first 100 days in office, you will make it a requirement that all public water systems must remove all lead service lines throughout the entire United States, and notification made to the — the citizens that have said service lines.
And it looks like CNN may have run out of patience with this asshattery:
COOPER: I want to go to Lee-Anne Walters. This is Lee-Anne Walters. She was one of the first people to report problems with the water in Flint. One of her twin boys stopped growing. Her daughter lost her hair.
She says she’s undecided, and has a question for both of you to answer, but we’ll start with Senator Sanders. Ms. Walters?
QUESTION: After my family, the city of Flint and the children in D.C. were poisoned by lead, will you make a personal promise to me right now that, as president, in your first 100 days in office, you will make it a requirement that all public water systems must remove all lead service lines throughout the entire United States, and notification made to the — the citizens that have said service lines.
And if you haven’t followed the whole Flint saga, and you’ll be excused for not having done so, Lee-Ann Walters has become the face of the lead-in-the-water crisis.
Now, though, it seems like CNN has had enough of the asshattery:
CNN "completely uncomfortable" with activities of Donna Brazile in forwarding questions to Clinton campaign: pic.twitter.com/AutfYHR91W
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) October 31, 2016
It is hard to believe that Brazile is alone among the legion of paid “contributors” who have day jobs as political consultants and it is not difficult to see the same thing happening there with the actual presidential debates.
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