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

moviepig wrote:
> On 10/24/2024 2:59 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>> On Oct 24, 2024 at 11:24:55 AM PDT, "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 10/24/2024 12:01 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>> "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>  On 10/23/2024 8:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>  "moviePig" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>  On 10/23/2024 3:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>>>>  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.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.

Give it up. You do this _every_ time you've lost a debate!
Frankly, it's beyond tedious.

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Let's go Brandon!