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   On Oct 23, 2024 at 9:39:35 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous"  wrote:   
      
   > Vice President Kamala Harris held an event in Michigan on Monday that was   
   > billed as a "town hall"-- but when attendees asked if their questions were   
   > going to be answered, host Maria Shriver admitted that all of the questions   
   > had already been pre-determined.   
   >   
   > The video showed Shriver, who is the niece of former President John F.   
   > Kennedy, responding to an audience member who asked whether anyone present   
   > would be allowed to ask a question of the Democratic presidential nominee--   
   > which traditionally is the point of the town hall format in the first place--   
   >   
   > and she told them that they would just have to rely on her to ask the   
   > questions that they would most want to have answered.   
   >   
   > "You're not, unfortunately, we have some pre-determined questions and I   
   > hopefully will be able to ask some of the questions that might be in your   
   > head, I hope so," Shriver said.   
   >   
   > "And this woman-- Maria Shriver, no less-- cosplays as a journalist at NBC   
   > News!" Curtis Houck, managing editor of NewsBusters, responded.   
   >   
   > "Nothing says 'town hall' like predetermined questions," another social media   
   >   
   > user said.   
      
   Wasn't it Shawn that was castigating Trump for his performative politics just   
   a few says ago? Well, here you go. Kammie's no better.   
      
   > A number also argued that if the questions were pre-determined, it was likely   
   >   
   > that Harris and her campaign team had access to them and had prepared their   
   > responses prior to the event. Still more noted that, after nearly 48 hours of   
   >   
   > Democrats and media complaining about how "scripted" former President Donald   
   > Trump’s visit to McDonald's had been, it seemed a little on the nose for   
   > Harris to do a "town hall" without a single surprise question.   
      
   Yep. All those bitching about Trump's staged appearance-- even those on this   
   newsgroup-- are strangely silent when Kammie pulls the same sort of stunt.   
      
   What was the audience even there for? If it's not really a town hall format   
   and no one gets to ask questions, Shriver could have just done an in-studio   
   interview with Kammie and left it at that. But no, instead Kammie's people go   
   to all the trouble to bring in an audience under the ruse of it being a town   
   hall when all they really wanted was a room full of people to act as   
   background props for her campaign.   
      
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