Wednesday, July 01, 2009
BARACK OBAMA
When You've Lost Helen Thomas, You've Lost . . . Something
Chip Reid and Helen Thomas gave White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs a great deal of grief over the White House's methods of pre-selecting questions for today's town-hall meeting on health care. Gibbs scoffed, saying that the question was premature, and that the reporters should see what questions were asked at the event.
Of course, at the town-hall meeting, three early questions came from a single-payer advocate, a representative of the liberal activist group Health Care for America Now, and a member of the Service Employees International Union, who essentially asked, "What can I do to help you?"
07/01 03:55 PM
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