13:57 Before we get to the labeling and the swine flu, and the swine flu will probably take up quite a majority of this show. Something happened yesterday which I got a clip from C-SPAN and this is about the town hall meetings that President Obama is doing. Yes, I saw one of them he's going from place to place to place with his pitch it's a sales pitch in the... Right! Now of course our problem with these town hall by the way I've got a lot of kind of boomy echoing here I apologize I gotta set something up differently It doesn't sound that bad Okay so what we've been harping on here on NOA Agenda
14:34 is that these town hall meetings are completely set up, the audience are all shills. The questions are all pre-produced and it's always about 13 questions which fits perfectly in an hour. It's not a town hall meeting there is no one standing up saying hey yo dude I got a different opinion here so yesterday uh... to reporters at a white house of press conference start really late into robert gibbs the uh... white house press secretary about exactly this and one of the two is helen thomas which of course you rarely hear her anymore all i think she's just been completely russi still sits up front but she's relegated to not speaking or whatever they threatened her with two-to-the head you know i don't know what they've done but you do really here anymore and i just want to play a little bit of robert gibbs m
15:22 I'll give you the name of the reporter in a second. At today's town hall meeting, questions coming in on YouTube and Twitter and such who decides what questions will be asked? I think a group over at New Media is shuffling through questions. If you go on our website you'll see some of those questions. And I think Chip at the end of the day... That's Chip do we know who Chip is? Yeah, I've seen him talk before. I can't remember his last name So he's gonna so first of all the answer or the new media group But this is a town hall meeting right and that's in it and they're supposed to be taking questions through email and Twitter
16:00 Yes, Twitter. Let's be really hip and take questions from Twitter because that is really cool! Have you noticed that Robert Gibbs has some kind of an abnormal problem? No, I have not. Because he is snorting too much coke probably. I can't seem to breathe. It's probably cause he has swine flu will be read to the president, obviously he'll take some questions from the audience there. I think it will be a representative sample of the issues in this debate that we're dealing with. The audience is all pre-selected right? Oh see now i like that you say and the audience is all pre-selected You can hear this okay John? Yeah!
16:38 Okay, no we usually just generally hand out tickets on a first-come first serve basis in this case that people were invited either by the White House or by the university If the University is feels very tightly controlled it feels I mean the concept of a town hall I think is to have an open public forum and this sounds like a very tightly controlled so finally there's someone saying we've been getting for all along but now he's out yahoo is that guy and him out well here he's in the hot seat next to helen thomas so you know it's fucked now alright listen listen this gets good though because gives really starts to be into mess up audience and was the questions why do it uh... my son how about we don't have a new you can ask me that question more based on what questions were asked rather than
17:28 uh... pre selecting your question uh... based on some of the last year he's such a douche bag but i think it was horrible. It gets better, it gets better. Why pre-select? Why not just open up to people and allow any questions to come in? Well I.. Chip if you get on your computer from your email address have you sent in your question? I don't think that would be inappropriate this is for the public. I'm sorry I am confused are you not a member of the public get you were going to a lot of questions from the press you have us in a prominent position over there and allow us to ask questions not do you have enough time to get into the notion of where you'd be sitting at the issue and then on listen all these other jibbering israelis will be made a funny yeah that's just a media that's today ago that's the media reporting on the real news let's talk about it i think what's in bedside well-off shouting right but if you could email
18:23 Will you put my question in there? I don't think so. Maybe, have you emailed it? This is a town hall! This is an open forum for the public to ask questions but its not really open. Based on what? Based on the information that your staff gave us about how the audience and questions are being selected The questions are being selected by people who email on Facebook or Twitter. I love that. Who email...this guy's so hip. Who email on Facebook and Twitter Hey Gibbs Hello 2009 calling dude. But again, will there be dissenting views? I think that's a very safe bet. Oh sure! Of course we'll have someone ask something really controversial. How about we do this...I promise We will interrupt the AP tradition of asking the first question. I'l let you ask me a question tomorrow as to whether you thought questions at the town hall meeting that the president conducted in Annandale
19:32 Okay, here comes Helen. Now she's really laying into it. yeah I was gonna say, i'll let you amend her question. Yeah. Okay, let's... I just want you to hear Helen and who by the way I predict now will have a heart attack any day. Even if there is tough question it's a question coming from somebody who was invited or has screamed or the question was screamed.
20:26 it's a very high-end and uh... let's have this discussion at the conclusion of the town hall meeting about that i don't know if you're going to help me out now what happened there in the past which was rejected listen to our meeting held it is important to have and controlling the press yes so he said any evidence currently going on but i'm controlled by the press orally abided All engagements are pre-packaged. How so? Well, and controlling the public. How so? By calling reporters the night before to tell them they're going to be called on? That is shocking! Anyway... So you can watch the entire YouTube video
21:07 The links will be in the show notes at noagenda.mevo.com or curry.com or dvorak.org and I'm so happy to see Helen Thomas speak up, it may not be really easy to hear but she's laying into a man and she's pointing at him, she got that bony finger and she's so right! Well she has been around forever so she would know what the patterns are, i guess she is fed-up Yeah, but she's been shown... But the rest of these people they apparently aren't not they're probably just pleased as punch to be in the room. Yeah exactly. No it's a pathetic group of people generally speaking. We can be near greatness we can be near greatness it's so wonderful
21:43 Well, you know the dam may be breaking. I mean a lot of people believe if you watch the TV pundits there's kind of a meme going around that the press is... they've dropped their gloves are off! Oh right yeah oh yeah the press is not really laying into them and I think they maybe premature on that because these guys aren't gonna put up with that crap so she's gonna beat to the problem is you know she's so visible this is like now they have a real issue because you know they're having a meeting, you've been in meetings yes. The meeting goes like this what are we going to do about this old battle axe? I'm saying... Oh man why don't we just move her to the back man just move her to the back where she belongs No no let's MJ her We can't move her to the back because everyone will notice that we moved it to a back you bonehead What else can we do? We're gonna give her an MJ