You Go, Helen Thomas!!! - Page 3

Esther · #21 07-03-2009, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I'm not as concerned with plants as I am controlling who is there and what is asked. This deal with Obama is not open as is custom for a Townhall. Chip is saying that Obama's staff gave them information that the audience and questions are being selected. The questions will be coming from someone invited or screened before hand. I think that is much different than having a few plants.

Same thing happened with Kerry. You had to be invited to come and then the plants asked the questions they were asssigned to ask.

Pressing-On · #22 07-03-2009, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Esther

Same thing happened with Kerry. You had to be invited to come and then the plants asked the questions they were asssigned to ask.

Okay, I have always viewed a "plant" as someone among all those that attend a meeting that is not a controlled and selected audience.

I wasn't aware that Kerry had done that, but I wasn't paying much attention to him at the time. LOL!

Jermyn Davidson · #23 07-06-2009, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Pressing-On

He was so obviously skirting the issue! And, Jermyn, the whole thing is that we saw this coming before it was happening with Obama, but no one would listen to us.

Whenever a political candidate runs on transparency and then screens all questions at press conferences, it makes me shake my head.

When President Obama does well, I will say so.

When he doesn't, I will still say so.

Lately, I am not impresed or enthused with some of his latest decisions and interactions.

Had McCain won, maybe much sooner than now, I would have typed I am not that impressed or enthused with some of his latest decisions and interactions.

But he didn't. Obama did. I was glad. I still am glad. I don't like everything that is happening, but he beats the alternative.

MissBrattified · #24 07-06-2009, 11:04 AM

1. Robert Gibbs is a first class IDIOT.
2. Helen Thomas still has a steel spine at age 88--kudos to her!!!

Personal politics aside, I AGREE with her--and my country--about the freedom of the press/free speech. Dictators who are afraid of losing power and/or having their true motives discovered FEAR the free press.

Pressing-On · #25 07-06-2009, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

Whenever a political candidate runs on transparency and then screens all questions at press conferences, it makes me shake my head.

When President Obama does well, I will say so.

When he doesn't, I will still say so.

Lately, I am not impresed or enthused with some of his latest decisions and interactions.

Had McCain won, maybe much sooner than now, I would have typed I am not that impressed or enthused with some of his latest decisions and interactions.

But he didn't. Obama did. I was glad. I still am glad. I don't like everything that is happening, but he beats the alternative.

Jermyn,
I don't believe that Obama was ever the best alternative.

When "The" Helen Thomas can say - Shocking, Shocking and we have never seen this in the White House before.......

That is something!

The Helen Thomas - Every theater-style seat in the White House briefing room, now closed for renovation, had a brass plaque inscribed with the name of a news organization. Only one, in the middle of the front row, had a name: “HELEN THOMAS,” it said. The unique assigned seat between the chairs for CBS News and ABC News was reserved for the legendary United Press International correspondent who is now a columnist for Hearst Newspapers.

She was seeing and telling more than some will acknowledge.