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   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 10/23/2024 8:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Please cite your definitive definition.   
      
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