Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Inside the Garden of Political Town Hall Plants | RealClearPolitics
Everything political and everything seen on TV is scripted.
Skeptical me thinks there are NO exceptions...
Skeptical me thinks there are NO exceptions...
Michelle Malkin identifies them in her Townhall.com post. She begins with:
"On Thursday, CNN will host a town hall with President Obama as part of his 'final-year push to make gun control part of his legacy.' In addition to sitting down with liberal anchor Anderson Cooper, the network says Obama will 'take questions from the audience.'
Uh-oh. Get out your best pruning shears and trowels. In an age of micromanaged partisan stagecraft and left-wing media enablers, there is no such thing as a spontaneous question.
CNN has a long history of allowing political plants to flourish in its public forums."
