Democrats vs. Macs

In last week's Democratic Presidential Debate, the candidates were asked the following vital question:

QUESTION: I'm a freshman at Brown University. And going to college this year, I was confused with an important decision. My mom advised me one way; my dad the other. And so my question for you all is -- and it's not quite boxers or briefs, but Macs or PCs?

COOPER: Congressman Kucinich, Mac or PCs?

MOSELEY BRAUN: Macs or PCs? I'll answer.

I like them -- my son has a Mac, he loves it. I use a PC.

COOPER: The question was actually to all of you.

So, Governor Dean, Mac or PC?

DEAN: PC. PC.

LIEBERMAN: Hand-held wireless. That's what I have.

(LAUGHTER)

COOPER: Somehow I knew you were going to say that.

SHARPTON: Mac.

KUCINICH: PC.

(APPLAUSE)

SHARPTON: A politically correct Mac.

KUCINICH: PC.

UPDATE: in a wacky and disturbing development, CNN now admits it planted the question. This doesn't seem like a question that anybody but a Mac user would care about, so I wonder exactly who planted it and why. Hello, Fox Mulder? (Thanks to Marshall Clow for this info.)

And it looks like the debate was even more scripted than that.

Full debate transcript in the Washington Post.