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   On Oct 23, 2024 at 3:40:35 PM PDT, "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?   
      
   Sounds like at least some of them did.   
      
   > Seems it was a live interview conducted before an audience   
      
   Yes, but that's not what a town hall is.   
      
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