CNN PROMPTED CLINTON-FRIENDLY CROWD TO APPLAUD AT TOWNHALL

Washington Post media reporter Erik Wemple attended CNN's Townhall event with Hillary Clinton Tuesday and reports that the network not only brought in a Clinton-friendly crowd but at various times a stage handler taught and directed the crowd to applaud.

CNN later told Wemple no partisan fishing was used to bring in the townhall audience. But as Wemple points out, when you send invitations out for an event in Washington DC (a district where 91% of residents voted for Obama), it's pretty obvious who is going to show up.

Why CNN didn't use its considerable financial resources to fly in a politically diverse audience or hold the townnhall in a nearby part of Virginia more representative of our politically diverse electorate, can only be answered one way: The network chose not to.

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