>>>>Victor,
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>>>>>Do you remember seeing Bush do a press conference where the questions were submitted BEFORE the press conference? He had reviewed all the questions (well, I'm sure he had someone that could read do it for him) and had all the answers prepaired ahead of time (again, sure he had someone answer them for him too), so when he did the press conference, he'd just call a reporters name out, they'd ask their question (that they'd submitted) - then he'd respond with his prepaired answer. It was one of the most ridicilious things I'd ever seen.
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>>>>When and where was this? Can you please provide a link to the stories about this incident? I really can't imagine the press corps going along with such a scheme. Was this an isolated incident or are you suggesting that all his press conferences are done this way? Where is the documentation that this happened? I'm very interested in reading more about it.
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>>>It was Bush's press conference of 2003.03.06
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>>>http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-03-09-media-mix_x.htm
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>>I believe David's point is the issue that reporter questions are submitted in advance, which i dont see in the link. I too would find that hard to believe. There's a note (from Bush) about the presser being "scripted" but that doesnt mean pre-submitted questions. Granted there's a lot of peculiarities with Bush q&a sessions (Gannon, fake town-hall questions, the square thing on his back ;), people getting thrown out of meetings).
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>Yeah, I guess I read too much into 'scripted'. Several bloggers imply that the questions were submitted ahead of time, but I can't find any main-stream references.


For the press conference that I'm talking about, I assure you the questions were submitted ahead of time - hense Bush pointed to reports and saying "you had a question about blah blah" - the reporter asking the question about blah blah - then Bush responding, then pointing to the next reporter and doing the same thing. All the news outlets covered it and the anchors on CNN and MSNBC talked about it for two days. I'm suprised more of the people out here don't recall this. What Bush SHOULD of done is just make a speach because that's pretty much what it amounted too.


>>Regarding Plant's question to Bush about Rove, it was rude and stupid. It was simply a snide taunt.
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>Agreed.
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>He could have asked Rove/Bush some real questions like his take on his ex-assistant Ralston working with the Feds re the Abramoff case, or his apparent violations of the Hatch Act & the Presidential Records Act, or the affidavit by a Repub attorney in Alabama that names him as being involved in the Siegelman case, or why Bush didnt fire him for leaking Plame to Cooper, or was the reason that Bush changed his position from 'firing anyone involved in the leak' to 'firing if convicted of a crime' because he learned that Rove leaked to Cooper. Not that they would answer, but worth asking.

Yeah it was rude but I'm not going to say it was uncalled for - far as I'm concerned the lying war-mongul has it comming to him - he's been a LOT more rude to the American people than that!