The question CNN was GOING to ask Dr. Paul from social media before the crowd spoke up....

[BrittanySligar]

King ended the pro-life discussion with, "congressman Paul, we'll get you in on this one"

At this point, the camera panned to the disappointed audience, BUT the question that they were GOING to ask Dr. Paul was visible on the screen when they were panning through the crowd.

The question on the screen was:
"How do you plan to deal with the growing Iran issue while balancing avoidance of another war"

Sure, they wanted to get Dr. Paul in on THAT one.

 

[unknown]

You aint kiddin'.

Did they hammer him on foreign policy?

 

[libertythor]

Wow! I give Ron Paul and the supporters in the crowd an A+ instead of an A- now for successfully preventing being railroaded by selective questions by CNN.

 

[nano1895]

Ron Paul was so on the answers tonight that I'm going to assume that he had a homerun answer already prepared. And the way that question is worded actually works to his benefit. If he was going to get grilled on foreign policy, I would've taken that question.

 

[freeforall]

He would have owned it either way.

 

[libertythor]

You aint kiddin'.

Did they hammer him on foreign policy?

Not in this debate. The crowd forcing the moderator to allow Ron Paul to answer the abortion question prevented it.

 

[archangel689]

Not in this debate. The crowd forcing the moderator to allow Ron Paul to answer the abortion question prevented it.

PWNED They wanted him to end on a bad note.

 

[freeforall]

If you think about it, the fact that the audience shouted to hear him answer that question shows that they were educated on his positions and wanted them to be heard. That is pretty cool!

 

[doronster195]

Lol that's awesome!

 

[Constitutional Paulicy]

The crowd demanding Ron Paul speaking time on the topic was phenomenal. It may change the way the average person observes the media in the coming debates etc..

 

[BrittanySligar]

screenshot added

 

[J_White]

wow ! audience forced the mod to give him time !! amazing !

 

[idiom]

The booing was epic. Moderator got called out for blatant shilling. It was the second time RP got to attack the mod for avoiding RP's strong points.

 

[bluesc]

Thank god for that audience.

 

[MrGoose]

Huge

 

[brushfire]

LOL!!! I was wondering that myself!

+REP The crowd foils CNN's evil plan! AWESOME!.

 

[Dreamer]

Wow... say what you wish on how well Paul would have answered, but you can't say Abortion answers gave him boos while Foreign Policy answers got only applause in the past.

The audience may have very well just saved Ron Paul the praise he have this time versus the negativity we found here last time.

 

[J_White]

what possible reason could there be for not asking a question to a candidate, when there are only 4 of them on the stage ?
why, except for bias ?

 

[toast]

I would absolutely not be surprised at all if at the next debate they institute a policy from here on out of no audience reactions allowed. Or, of course, Mitt might just "grow weary" of doing the whole debate thing, as his campaign has hinted this, saying they haven't responded yet to the Florida debate invitations. He is looking WEAK (well, he always has, but now even more so after the past 2 debates). I imagine if that did happen they would just end the debates altogether.

 

[Tyler_Durden]

This audience was open to the public, unlike the Fox debate...