Student describes how she was a plant for Hillary

Hillary needs to let people ask the questions they want. What is she afraid of?

College student Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff – who was persuaded to ask a planted question at one of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign events – later said "voters have the right to know what happened" and she wasn't the only one who was a plant. Check out the underhanded details below:

• Gallo-Chasanoff, whose story was first reported in a college newspaper, said what happened was simple: a senior Clinton staffer asked her if she'd like to ask the senator a question after an energy speech the Democratic presidential hopeful gave in Newton, Iowa, on November 6.
• "I sort of thought about it, and I said 'Yeah, can I ask how her energy plan compares to the other candidates' energy plans?'" Gallo-Chasanoff said Monday night.
• According to Gallo-Chasanoff, the staffer said, “‘I don't think that's a good idea, because I don't know how familiar she is with their plans.'"
• The staffer opened a binder to a page that, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, had about eight questions on it.
• "The top one was planned specifically for a college student," she added. "It said 'college student' in brackets and then this question: "As a young person, I'm worried about the long-term effects of global warming. How does your plan combat climate change?"
• And while she said she would have rather used her own question, Gallo-Chasanoff said she didn't have a problem asking the campaign's because she "likes to be agreeable," adding that since she told the staffer she'd ask their pre-typed question she "didn't want to go back on my word."
• "I don't know whether Hillary knew what my question was going to be, but it seemed like she knew to call on me because there were so many people, and ... I was the only college student in that area," she said. Watch a video of the full interview with Gallo-Chasanoff.
• The Clinton campaign's acknowledgment that it planted a question reinforces a widely held criticism of the senator – that she’s not honest, said Bill Schneider, CNN's senior political analyst.
• "It's the same criticism often made of her husband," Schneider said. "Most Americans never felt Bill Clinton was honest and trustworthy, even when he got elected in 1992 – with only 43 percent of the vote.

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Our Take

Shame on Hillary for rigging an open forum. This is sadly just another case of the ambitious wife of Bill Clinton fooling the masses with unethical campaign skullduggery. When will America wake up and realize this is Bill Clinton in High Heels?