XPost: rec.arts.tv   
   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   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?   
      
   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?   
      
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