I was able to attend the MSNBC town hall last week, held at Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria (where Dr. Jill Biden has taught for several years).
Televised town halls are completely staged. It makes perfect sense, of course, when every minute of an hour of TV must be planned in advance. I'm sure everyone here already knew it, but I can at least provide first-hand confirmation. For example, I was not given an opportunity to ask a question. As we were being signed in, those given blue wrist bands had been pre-selected to ask a question, I later discovered. I was given a red wristband. None of us knew what the blue bands meant until the show started. In fact, a non-picked person was on his way to the mic when he was shooed back to his seat! I did get to say something to Lawrence O'Donnell afterward. When I told him that I loved *Mr. Sterling* and mentioned the similarity between Senator Sterling and Senator Manchin, he said: "I love hearing that!" It was also cool to hear President Biden, in the pre-taped interview that was shown before the town hall, talk about the data I used to help produce. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CA%2B_fQPz3PeTZNa80VevaG27ayHcFDypAJNsNP60NqvbBrakknw%40mail.gmail.com.
