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

On Oct 23, 2024 at 3:40:35 PM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?

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.