On Monday, CNBC will host a town hall on the difficult state of the economy with President Obama in the Washington area. But finding suitable audience members to ask questions of the president is apparently proving difficult.
According to an e-mail sent to an Ivy Leaguer (who also happens to be a big-time Republican), the network is reaching out to members of the Princeton Club for town hall participants. Here’s the e-mail, helpfully forwarded to Power Play:
Dear XXXXX, AN ALUMNI ALERT ….
The Princeton Club of Washington has received a TIME-SENSITIVE INVITATION to participate in a TOWN HALL with President Obama on Sept. 20. A special group will be selected for this, and it will be held in the Washington, D.C. area…. On Monday September 20, CNBC will be holding a special live town hall event from Washington D.C., featuring President Barack Obama.
We would like to invite you to be a member of the audience. We want your voice to be heard. We are looking to capture the sentiment of the nation ahead of the midterm elections. Audience members will have the opportunity to ask their questions directly to the president during the live event.
REQUIRED: That you be available from 10:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. on Monday, September 20. If this fits with your schedule, please e-mail the required information listed below to our producer: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx This information if for security purposes, since the White House requires all audience members to be screened 72-hours in advance.
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"This information if for security purposes, since the White House requires all audience members to be screened 72-hours in advance"
Hahahaha. I believe that stuff about "security" like I believe the tooth fairy.
They need to make sure the questions Obambi gets are soft and mushy and easy to answer. No hardball with the Commander in Chief!!!
Did anyone expect them to let ordinary people who disagree with the current administration in?
I remember years ago CNN was busted stacking an interactive group with democratic plants after debates.
The toughest questions Obama will get is How can we help make our planet green fake global warming mushy garbage. What a joke Obama has become! Obama will repeat what is told of him in an ear pice for his answers in between the ahhhhhhhhh ummms let me be clear it is all Bushes and Boener's fault comments.
So I am not the only one who thinks Obama is listening to someone tell him the answer! I was watching him on TV the other day and asked my husband if he had heard anything about Obama having some type of cochlear implant of some kind, because he appeared to be speaking as though someone were feeding him parts of sentences at a time.
You mean Mr. Teleprompter has to stack a meeting? Whom would have thought?
Surprise, surprise!! The only way this sob can get a sizeable audience and soft questions is to stack where ever he is reading from his teleprompter!!
Obamacommie should have taken a page from Al Sharpton, and just Bussed in Welfare Recipients from the DC Projects! For a Feild trip, a Free lunch, and a couple hundred bucks, they'll say or do anything he wants and He wouldn't have to Cator the event, they could just send out for Jimmy Johns!
This guy is Elitest to the Core, I always go to Princeton, to find out what the Nation is Thinking!
What a Joke is The Usurper in Cheif and His Gangland Band, of Merry Men, "Check Please"!
Not a real "town hall," obviously–though the practice actually began under George W. Bush. The Bush folks would even have participants come out a day early to "practice" (and be coached on) their seemingly impromptu questions. Sadly, most viewers never knew the difference–and most media never bothered to tell them.
Please post your documentation of this. I was at two Bush town halls and I happen to know that at least some of the questioners were NOT prepped ahead of time as they were friends and neighbors of mine.
I had a student (a conservative Republican) whose father and brother went, and who relayed the story in class.
OMG! LMAO!
You did just as i said you would do! LOL! You are such a fake! No one really believes this BS!
Read more carefully, slowly if necessary–and look at the times they were posted. Mine came before yours, not in reaction to it. But I suppose anyone who cares and who isn't too lazy or stupid can check for themselves.
James! Dumb Ass!
I was responding to your post! It did not matter whether it was a hour ago or 12 hours ago!
You are so stupid! Why do you continue to take the embarassing abuse which i dish out daily to you?
In other words you lied and made up a bunch of B.S. Typical liberals, full of lies.
Yeah, sure. You might want to read the linked articles, and do a little research before making silly allegations that just make you look even less informed than usual.
James i agree with Craig! You even admitted so in your own comments that your student did no such thing!
Read it again, more slowly if necessary–I said she MAY have got it wrong. She also may have got it right.
Make up your mind James?
How would I (or you) know for sure what happened to someone in her family?
Wow! What A Merry Go Round!
James why did you make the comment which you made then only to have amended that comment with yet another comment to only
recend your amended comment in the end?
Read it all again, more slowly if necessary. Life is too short for me to try to explain things to you.
Boy, I have researched enough to see you lie out your arse, just like all liberal douchebags do. A know nothing from nothing like you calling me uninformed is hilarious. Keep babbling retard yo do as disservice to all humans every time you open your ignorant mouth.
Craig this is exactly what i am saying & James is now denying it.
Perhaps both of you should read it again, more slowly if necessary–I said she MAY have got it wrong. She also may have got it right
It's not exactly the same (perhaps the student misremembered), but this is close, and shows that Bush did pretty much what Obama is doing. I wouldn't be surprised, by the way, if Clinton did the same. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28…
James!
One would be naive to not believe that this went on to some extent in every administration!
But with you it is Bush's fault for everything Obama flubs up at!
Read it again, more slowly if necessary. I didn't blame Bush for what I clearly wrote was "not a real 'town hall,' obviously"–I merely pointed out that Obama didn't start the practice.
James what is it exactly that you are trying to convey? Gosh you are the presumed News Reporter/Journalist here?
Sorry, I trust that most people are smart enough to get it.
Not with your writting skills James!
Here's another article referring to the "rehearsed" Bush gatherings: http://www.slate.com/id/2115141/
Get over it James !
Do you really think that any one really cares!
Quit blaming Bush!
Obama's administration needs to man up!
All administrations play this game!
First you say , "no such thing happened under the Bush Administration." Then when I prove that you're wrong (yet again), you say no one cares.
Regardless, I'm not "blaming Bush"–just point out that Obama's actions are hardly unique.
James Please read what i have posted!
The episode which you noted did not occur!
In fact it is a fabricated story!
I stand by my statement to you which was "Do you really thing any one cares"
I further stand by my statement that"All administrations play this game"
"The episode which you noted did not occur!"
Based on what, besides your imagination?
James you even commented so in your post! Lol! You are so disengenuous!
If "they" want to capture the sentiment of the election coming, then watch FOX. DUH!!!
James no such thing happened under the Bush Administration!
But i am sure that you will come up with some spin or lie in order to try & convince everyone otherwise. Most likely you will refer to some friends grandmothers second cousins wife's brother who attended.
Wrong again. Maybe once in a while you should do 30 seconds of research before spouting off, if you don't know the facts. Or not–some of us enjoy the show you put on.
James what exactly are you relating to wrong again?
There is nothing to be researched here!
I stand by what i have said that your story of your student is ficticious!
Which you even stated "perhaps the student misremembered"
These are the facts which it is quite obvious you do not know or you miscomprehended as usual!
It is in fact you who is spouting off here without knowing or comprehending the facts & putting on the show & not me!
Gosh you are truly a Ignoramus!
Note: James this is exactly why your being a past News Reporter & Journalist is suspect!
A expearienced News reporter & Journalist would not make such a obvious mistake
as you have.
"your story … is ficticious"
Wrong again, as usual. I know what the student said. Neither of us knows if she remembered things exactly right. And the main point remains obviously correct–that Bush did the same thing that Obama is doing (but which WorldNutsDaily and Western "Journalism" now suddenly think is a big deal).
James! Lol! Yeah really! If you expect anyone here to believe this BS then i have a Lear Jet i want to sell as well!
World News Daily & "Western Journalism" are reporting the News! Whether it is a big deal or not depends on the readers viewpoint.
The only issue which we have both agreed upon is that all Administrations play this game in the Media from time to time.
An idiot like you, who has never researched jack in his pathetic life telling others to research is priceless.
I could not agree more with you Craig.
I guess you won't be buying my books.
Lol!
Sure James & i have a oil well i want to sell you!
I submit there will be no "unpleasant questions allowed.
Obama ain't smart enough to answer real questions.
Craig i would have to say that most definitely i agree with your assessment of Obama's mental capacity to answer real questions.
Thats because he would not last 5 minutes in a REAL town hall meeting w/REAL American people!!!!! c'mon down to the south Mr. President , I dare ya, I would love to ask you some one on one questions for the world to view.
What a joke! Screen each member of the audience?? That's the White House doing that and not for security reasons either. They want to make sure they've got the "right" (left) people in the audience. They want to "capture the sentiment of the nation" with an audience filled with Obama supporters.
Only deluded proessors can be trusted NOT to represent the American public who hate Obama's guts.
Hey, you can tell, I'm not a prof. I mispelled 'professor.' But then only an elitist professor would care. And who cares about elitist professors? NOBODY!
Since the American public began waking up, Obama has shipped in stooges to applaud at his so-called town halls. He must be running out of stooges.
"who cares about elitist professors?"
Those who make most of our public policy, their students, and parents who want kids who are smart enough not to turn into birthers, among others.
That in fact is a Elitist comment James!
I see your infatuation with Birthers continues! You really should seek some help to overcome that problem.
Mental retardation cannot be fixed. James is beyond help as are all liberals.
Ditto craig!
Loser!
I agree that the media should be pointing this out with Obama, as well.
Lol I doubt you can get it right James!
James you truly must get over it!