Re: Kamala Town Hall Attendees Barred From Asking Questions: "All Pre-Determined"

On Oct 23, 2024 at 9:39:35 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <[email protected]> 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.