I wrote on this issue on Saturday. It seems that the Grinnell student newspaper, breaking a story that the MSM reporters who cover the Clinton campaign in such laudatory terms "missed," found this out:

[A]ccording to Grinnell College student Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff ', some of the questions from the audience were planned in advance. "They were canned," she said. Before the event began, a Clinton staff member approached Gallo-Chasanoff to ask a specific question after Clinton's speech. "One of the senior staffers told me what [to ask]," she said.

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At first the Clinton campaign denied it to the Grinnell newspaper:

But the Clinton campaign also denied the practice of planting. "It’s not a practice of our campaign to ask people to ask specific questions," said Mark Daley, Clinton’s Iowa Communications Director. Daley said that when an event is focusing on a specific topic, such as health care or Iraq, "people are encouraged to ask questions in these regards," but denied that they are given specific questions.

Grinnell Scarlet and Black

Faced with overwhelming evidence, the Clinton Campaign later came clean to the national media:

The Clinton campaign has admitted to planting questions in Iowa. They have confirmed that a campaign staffer approached a student to ask Sen. Clinton a question about global warming during a campaign stop at a biodiesel plant in Newton, Iowa, on Nov. 6. snip Clinton Campaign spokesperson Mo Elleithee tells ABC News that "on this occasion a member of our staff did discuss a possible question about Sen. Clinton's energy plan at a forum. However, Sen. Clinton did not know which questioners she was calling on during the event. This is not standard policy and will not be repeated again."

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Then came reports of other planting attempts:

Geoffrey Mitchell told NBC/NJ in a telephone interview that a Clinton campaign staffer approached him at an event in Fort Madison, Iowa, to suggest he ask a question about the senator standing up to President Bush on Iraq war funding at an event. Mitchell, a 32-year-old minister, said he was not and had never been a Clinton supporter and stressed that he had moved to Illinois since the April 2nd event and, so, could not participate in the caucuses. He said being asked to ask a certain question was not the way things were supposed to go. snip The Clinton campaign's Mo Elleithee said earlier in the day that Mitchell and the staffer, Chris Hayler, were acquaintances. "They knew each other and bumped into each other at the event," Elleithee had said. "During the course of their conversation, the topic of Iraq came up. Our staffer suggested he ask a question. That's all." Mitchell disputes Elleithee’s account. "That is incorrect," Mitchell said. "I did not know him. I met him that day."

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Now, the Grinnell college student told CNN that "she wasn't the only one at the event who was a plant".... .

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How did the MSM miss the story right in front of their faces? Oh yeah, Clinton is inevitable.

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. "'I don't think that's a good idea," the staffer said, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, "because I don't know how familiar she is with their plans." He then 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 the question."

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John Edwards is right about this tactic:

John Edwards ripped Hillary Clinton Saturday for planting questions at campaign events, saying it's the kind of thing George Bush does. Clinton's team admitted Friday to asking a Grinnell College student to pose a question about global warming during a recent Iowa campaign stop. "George Bush goes to events that are staged, where people are screened, where they're only allowed to ask questions if the questions are favorable to George Bush," Edwards told reporters after speaking to the National Farmers Union. "That's not the way democracy works in Iowa and that's not the way it works in New Hampshire," he said. "We don't stage questions. We go in and answer the questions that are asked."

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As bugscuffle said in a comment in my diary on Saturday, "it takes a Potemkin village" to keep up inevitability.

Who knew the conversation she wanted to have was with plants? That ain't being green, Senator Clinton.

And a BIG HAT TIP to Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff, a 19-year-old sophomore at Grinnell College in Iowa, for her honesty.

Update I: CNN has links to the video interview up now. Here's some extra info.

"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.

CNN: Student describes how she became a Clinton plant

"After the event," she said, "I heard another man ... talking about the question he asked, and he said that the campaign had asked him to ask that question."

CNN: Student describes how she became a Clinton plant

And my favorite. She asked the school paper to tell the Clinton campaign about the story:

She said the "head of publicity for the campaign," a man whose name she could not recall, had no factual disputes with the story. But, she added, a Clinton intern spoke to her to say the campaign requests she "not talk about" the story to any more media outlets and that if she did she should inform a staffer.

CNN: Student describes how she became a Clinton plant

It's worth checking out cnn.com. We need to reward the MSM when they do their job. Better late than never:

CNN: Student describes how she became a Clinton plant

Update II: From smitha07 in the comments. Video of the CNN interview: