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Helen Thomas bitches about town hall and HuffPo question
« on: July 01, 2009, 05:06:26 PM »
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SpartanDem  (816 posts) Wed Jul-01-09 04:35 PM

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Helen Thomas bitches about town hall and HuffPo question
   
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Seriously did anyone have problem with how either of these were run? The fact that Helen, Dana Milbank and Chip Reid didn't like sure doesn't convince me that something wrong happened.



Helen Thomas hits White House for lack of transparency

At the White House presser on Wednesday, several correspondents questioned the way the Oval Office selected questions from the public for today’s virtual town hall.

President Barack Obama answered pre-selected questions Wednesday afternoon about health care sent in from emails, Facebook and Twitter. CBS’ Chip Reid and columnist Helen Thomas thought this reflected a lack of transparency at the White House.

“It feels like the concept of a town hall, I think, is to have an open public forum. And this sounds like a very tightly controlled audience and list of questions. Why do it that way?” asked Reid.

White House press secretary Richard Gibbs deflected the question, but that only raised the ire of Helen Thomas, UPI’s veteran correspondent who has long been at the top of the White House press corps totem pole.


Calling reporters the night before, telling them they’re going to be called on — that’s shocking,” Thomas said, referring to an incident last week when Huffington Post blogger Nico Pitney was given advance warning that he would be called on to ask a question on behalf of the Iranian public

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/01/helen-thomas-hits-white-house-for-lack-of-transparency

but it gets better -

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Wed Jul-01-09 04:42 PM
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5. Except she's right. It's not a real townhall if the whole thing is staged.
   
I remember Bush getting plenty of criticism in this forum for doing exactly the same thing.

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Re: Helen Thomas bitches about town hall and HuffPo question
« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2009, 05:20:27 PM »
OH NO SHE DI'INT!!!

I Lol'd at that.  :lmao:
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Re: Helen Thomas bitches about town hall and HuffPo question
« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2009, 05:35:54 PM »
This is actually pretty significant.  If Helen Thomas is getting riled at the lack of transparency in the Obamination (Chip Reid of NBC asked the original question, blasting Robert Gibbs), the honeymoon is over at the reporting level.   :-) :-) :-)
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Re: Helen Thomas bitches about town hall and HuffPo question
« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2009, 05:41:38 PM »
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Sebass1271  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jul-01-09 04:42 PM
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8. she has become nauseous
 
What about asking the good questions on health care and bitch about stupid shit like this? so-called "liberals" man, they eat their won ALL THE TIME.. that's why we never succeed

Yes, that's the ticket.  Eat your won, man, that way there'll be less of you.  She has become nauseous, indeed. 

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Re: Helen Thomas bitches about town hall and HuffPo question
« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2009, 05:44:15 PM »
Yes, that's the ticket.  Eat your won, man, that way there'll be less of you.  She has become nauseous, indeed. 

She set us up the bomb.

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Re: Helen Thomas bitches about town hall and HuffPo question
« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2009, 05:47:56 PM »
I guess she was bound to be right at least once before she became extinct.
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Re: Helen Thomas bitches about town hall and HuffPo question
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2009, 05:57:42 PM »
Yes, that's the ticket.  Eat your won, man, that way there'll be less of you.  She has become nauseous, indeed. 
I dunno - seems as though she should add some "ton" to her won.
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Re: Helen Thomas bitches about town hall and HuffPo question
« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2009, 06:05:47 PM »
Is the bloom coming off the rose?
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Re: Helen Thomas bitches about town hall and HuffPo question
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2009, 03:28:54 AM »
Maybe we should fundraise to send roses to Helen.... meh.... nevermind.