During an appearance at a Jon Huntsman “No Labels” event, a female audience member named Lauren Batchelder played the role of a female antagonist toward candidate Donald Trump.
.@JebBush on life support after employee Lauren Batchelder sent as plant for #NoLabels conf WHAT A FRAUD! pic.twitter.com/JYUaJCw3uz
— Wayne Dupree™ (@WayneDupreeShow) October 13, 2015
However, Ms. Batchelder is not just an average audience member. She’s a paid political operative of the GOP and a paid staff member of Team Jeb Bush:
Within minutes of her scripted performance at the event, the producers of CNN were quickly editing soundbites and framing a narrative. That story was pushed into the media stream within hours. CNN’s Jeanne Moos was the delivery vehicle for the a hit piece.
Here’s the CNN narrative as presented yesterday:
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