At a campaign stop in Iowa last Tuesday, one Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton-Rodham was visiting a biodiesel plant. Naturally, there were more reporters than actual Iowa voters in attendance, and there were reporters from CNN, the AP, NY Times, LA Times, and others.

During a Q&A session, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, a student at Grinnell College, asked Senator Clinton what she would do to stop the effects of global warming (I guess she's fucking Super Woman?)

Well, as it turns out, Clinton's campaign actually PLANTED this questioner and her "spontaneous question." Ms. Gallo-Chasanoff came forward and admitted as much.

This act in and of itself doesn't bother me. I'm sure campaigns have planted questions in the "audience" at their campaign stops all the time. But there are two things about this that DO bother me:

1) This happened a week ago. It wasn't "widely" reported until this weekend. And by "widely," I mean, "reported by FOX News and the blogging community" mainly. But there was virtually no attention paid to this nationally. There was no outcry at all. Imagine, just imagine, if this had been done by Fred Thompson, or America's Mayor, or even those guys at the bottom of the "Insert Republican Here for President" tier. It would have been worse than the Jena Six. It would have been Nixon all over again. Corngate!! But no, it was the Woman Who Will Be President, and thus the free pass was granted.

2) When asked if the question was planted, the Clinton campaign replied in typical Clinton-ese (or Clintonspeak, if you prefer) "It is not a practice of our campaign to ask people to ask specific questions." Notice, if you will, that the Clinton campaign did not DENY this specific incident, just that it is "not a practice of their campaign." If When this woman becomes president, you can expect a lot more of this. And no one will call her on it, either.