If Obama’s questiosn aren’t screened and known before hand, how can they tell him thru the teleprompter what to say?

At least Scott McLellan honestly tried to face the press, this administration won’t even let the press function.

Isn’t that the “hear no evil” monkey?

Now That’s entertainment!

When you give the public direct access, you get the crazies standing up, like the woman who said Obama is a terrorist.

That hurt McCain, and it was not useful or helpful. Then you had people asking stupid questions where it was not beneficial.

Fox News takes questions for its members via the internet and of course they pre-select and screen for good questions that allow the president to inform the public.

What you are responsible for proving is that Obama is sheltering himself from tough questions, and displaying that he does not want to talk about certain things.

If you can do that, you have an argument.

Right now, you are just a bunch of babies.

The good news is that the press is starting to actually catch on:

“Nixon didn’t try to do that,” Thomas said. “They couldn’t control (the media). They didn’t try.

“What the hell do they think we are, puppets?” Thomas said. “They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them.”

Thomas said she was especially concerned about the arrangement between the Obama Administration and a writer from the liberal Huffington Post Web site. The writer was invited by the White House to President Obama’s press conference last week on the understanding that he would ask Obama a question about Iran from among questions that had been sent to him by people in Iran.

“When you call the reporter the night before you know damn well what they are going to ask to control you,” Thomas said.

“I’m not saying there has never been managed news before, but this is carried to fare-thee-well–for the town halls, for the press conferences,” she said. “It’s blatant. They don’t give a damn if you know it or not. They ought to be hanging their heads in shame.”

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Gibbsy…you can always tell when he is in over his head, he pounds on the podium. That and that ridiculous girly giggle are his tells.

When you give the public direct access, you get the crazies standing up, like the woman who said Obama is a terrorist.

I remember that, and the woman was a whack job to even ask that, but the beauty of our system is supposed to be that we actually get to speak to, and ask questions of, politicians we may or may not agree with, particularly during a campaign when you are trying to decide, whether we are morons asking moronic questions or not

That hurt McCain, and it was not useful or helpful. Then you had people asking stupid questions where it was not beneficial.

Maybe so, but who decides what questions are beneficial? Does the politician get to decide if my question is beneficial, or do I get to at least ask it?

Fox News takes questions for its members via the internet and of course they pre-select and screen for good questions that allow the president to inform the public.
Hold on, this isn’t a campaign stop(like it was with the terrorist lady question), this is the President, and not just the president for those that agree with him, but the president for ALL, which means that you should have to take questions from those that disagree, OR, are troubled, not just those that think you are spot on. Speeches are for the President to get his information out to the public. A town hall is not. A town hall, is for the people to question the speaker

What you are responsible for proving is that Obama is sheltering himself from tough questions, and displaying that he does not want to talk about certain things.
To be honest, I rarely see him take truly tough questions, and I mean just questions from the press, let alone just questions from regular people. I could agree, but unless I can get a real conversation I won’t know that. Being smooth doesn’t mean you have the mind power, and being inarticulate doesn’t mean you are lacking brain cells. Plenty of smooth talkers are mind void and plenty of people who have foot in mouth disease have gargantuan brains. It is okay to go off the pre-packaged and just “talk”, even if there is hemming and hawing, etc, as long as you can get to what you really believe and intend and I know you believe it enough to defend it.

If you can do that, you have an argument.

Right now, you are just a bunch of babies.

No, not a baby I am not an R or D party person, in fact I am not a member of either party, nor would I join either party if I lived in a state that required you to do so to vote. If I had to pick a party , I would pick an Independent with Libertarian leanings, but I can also be very conservative on some things and liberal on others. I am a person who doesn’t like spin. I want to have conversations and make up my OWN mind, so, I guess if that makes me a baby, then okay, but I would rather think of myself as somebody who wants a real conversation about HUGE policy shifts that will affect ALL of us, not be spoon fed managed questions and managed answers.

Gibbs is an idiot. When he’s at a loss he giggles and becomes sarcastic.