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   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 10/24/2024 2:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > On Oct 24, 2024 at 11:24:55 AM PDT, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 10/24/2024 12:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>   On Oct 24, 2024 at 8:45:25 AM PDT, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   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.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> 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   
   >>>>>>>   n-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.   
   >>>   
   >>>   No, I'm not playing your games. Everyone knows the difference between a   
   town   
   >>>   hall event and a press interview.   
   >>   
   >> And I'm not playing the "everyone knows" game.   
   >   
   > Fine. But I'm not parsing the definitions of common and commonly understood   
   > terms in the English language so that you can obfuscate Kammie's political   
   > games.   
   >   
   >> The issue here (pretty clearly) is how/whether a 'town hall' must include   
   >> audience questions.   
   >   
   > That's what a town hall has always been.   
      
   I don't know that that's true.  E.g., while some town halls might invite   
   dialogue directly with attendees, others might have questions submitted   
   on index cards to be selected from ...and the latter instance seems to   
   me little different or more impromptu than the present one.   
      
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