Drudge Report stirred up the latest right wing outrage fire today with this headline:
ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE
ABC responded here.
The ABC program in question is called: “Questions for the President: Prescription for America.”
Stay tuned…
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“ABC News alone will select those who will be in the audience asking questions of the president. Like any programs we broadcast, ABC News will have complete editorial control. To suggest otherwise is quite unfair to both our journalists and our audience.”
Call me paranoid but I highly doubt that the final word on any of those things will belong to ABC especially since the entire episode is taking place within the White House.
And that is another thing I don’t agree with. This town hall should be taking place in a town hall not the WH. By having it in the White House, the President’s turf so to speak, ABC has opened themselves up for the cries of favoritism and exclusion that the GOP has been and will continue to use like a sledgehammer.