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   On 2024-10-23 6:40 PM, moviePig wrote:   
   > On 10/23/2024 3:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > 'Ruse'?  You think the audience showed up to ask questions?   
      
   Read the original post: clearly, at least one person thought they'd be   
   able to ask their own questions - as is traditional at town halls.   
   >   
   > Seems it was a live interview conducted before an audience (...without   
   > whom we'd be again hearing the Right's claims of "malicious editing").   
   > If that's not a 'town hall' in your lexicon, then what is it?   
   >   
   >   
   An interview with an audience is exactly that: an interview with an   
   audience, just as if she was on Colbert or Kimmel or whoever. A town   
   hall is a place where (some of) the audience is able to ask questions of   
   their own, like when Joe Biden accused that woman of being a "lying   
   dog-faced pony soldier" in 2020.   
      
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