The Republican candidates should avoid CNN, MessNBC and CBS like the plague.

If these networks want to shill for the Democrats, let the Democrats be the only ones who will talk to them.

Ridiculous.

Thanks for covering this story. CNN really screwed up. Now it turns out that NINE of the YOU TUBE shown were connected to Democrats.

Thanks again.

j Baytos

The thing that bothers me most about the CNN screwup is that I don't think there's any way that it could have been a mistake. I can't believe that they didn't vett these questioners better than this. They flew this general out there from California, put him up in a hotel, and gave him a microphone so that he could lecture the candidates on his pet issue.

Furthermore, the questions asked were designed to make Republicans look bad. A perfect example is the Confederate flag question. That was designed to make Republicans look like hayseed chomping racists, and the candidates got it dead right. We've got too many important issues that we're facing right now to be discussing that.

CNN should be ashamed of itself. Unfortunately, they won't be.

While plying a smarmy, condescending treatment of their guests as the night's entertainment, CNN has apparently neglected to consider the demographics of the large audience they attracted. People who normally do not watch CNN tuned in, expecting a serious debate of issues that are important to them.

What to do with this newfound large audience? Ambush them (and the candidates) with seedy partisan hecklers, insult them with garish animations and moronic home video sound bites. Sounds like a great plan!

This kind of self-righteous contempt for their subject and audience not only discredits them as a news agency, it implies some sort of derangement at CNN, bordering on a religious fervor eclipsing all other considerations.