If the American press had testicles, they’d refuse to cover:
– carefully scripted “debates” in which candidates refuse to address each other
– “town hall meetings” populated with hand-picked toadies who sign loyalty agreements and mouth the questions given them by politicians
– “political rallies” where dissenting voices are forcefully removed from the audience by official screeners.
Kudos, then, to the Germans, who declined an opportunity to allow The American President to address a phony town hall meeting. When Bush insisted on the opportunity to pre-screen all questions, the event was quietly cancelled without comment.
It’s been replaced, by the way, by a lovely chat with a dozen or so carefully screened, highly-paid young executives … behind closed dors … with no members of the press present.
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