Helen Thomas Questions Gibbs About Obama’s Controlled Town Hall Meeting
The below photo sums it all up:
CBS’ Chip Reid and Helen Thomas double teamed Robert Gibbs today at the daily press briefing on the “tightly controlled” town hall meeting President Obama will hold on health care. Gibbs kept saying lets have this discussion AFTER the meeting. Helen Thomas accused the White House of “controlling the press.” She said almost all White House/Obama events are “prepackaged.” She accused the White House of not “having any answers.”
Obama’s Town Hall Questioners were his Supporters
This should not come as a surprise to any of us on this website, since everything this man has ever done has been staged. His speechwriter is a 27 yr. old male, he uses a teleprompter for every event, the MSM backed him completely and gave him a free ride, he has a history of corruption and fraud, he has attended other town hall events where there were “plants,” and his is the most inexperienced president in history…
President Obama has promised to change the way the government does business, but in at least one respect he is taking a page from the Bush playbook, stocking his town hall Thursday with supporters whose soft — though far from planted — questions provided openings to discuss his preferred message of the day.
Obama has said, “I think it’s important to engage your critics … because not only will you occasionally change their mind but, more importantly, sometimes they will change your mind,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs recounted to The Post’s Lois Romano in an interview Wednesday.
But while the online question portion of the White House town hall was open to any member of the public with an Internet connection, the five fully identified questioners called on randomly by the president in the East Room were anything but a diverse lot. They included: a member of the pro-Obama Service Employees International Union, a member of the Democratic National Committee who campaigned for Obama among Hispanics during the primary; a former Democratic candidate for Virginia state delegate who endorsed Obama last fall in an op-ed in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star; and a Virginia businessman who was a donor to Obama’s campaign in 2008.
I find it amusing that the Washington Post still needs to jab Bush in their first paragraph. I think the MSM would have been all over Bush if he truly lied as much as Obama has in his first two months or if Bush had tons of plants at all his scheduled events…
At any rate here is the rest of the article:
