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From: weberm@polaris.net
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:
>>>> "moviePig" wrote:
>>>>> On 10/23/2024 3:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
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