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

On 10/23/2024 3:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> 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.

'Ruse'?  You think the audience showed up to ask questions?

Seems it was a live interview conducted before an audience (...without 
whom we'd be again hearing the Right's claims of "malicious editing"). 
If that's not a 'town hall' in your lexicon, then what is it?