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The student wanted to ask her own question, about how Hillary Clinton's energy plan compared to her rivals', and was told not to because Clinton wasn't prepared to answer that question (see CNN article; link below). This isn't just a matter of salting the audience with people ready to lob some softball questions that lead into a nicely prepared speech. This practice serves to replace legitimate questioning, even coopting the questioner herself in this case.
If Bush did it, we'd all be (rightly) thinking that it underscores his inability to think on his feet and general inarticulateness. When Clinton does it, it underscores her deviousness, her mania for control, her highhandedness, her risk aversion. Or at least her top staffers' perceptions of same. I don't want to tell you how to write your article, but I think this sort of "everybody knows pro wrestling is fake" analysis serves only to distract voters from what might be legitimate questions about this candidate's character and fitness for office.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/13/clinton.planted/index.html?iref=newssearch
Dodd and Clinton said that national security is more important than human rights?!
