2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Iowa Student Tells CNN How Hillary Planted Question in Crowd [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... when they call in to his weekly town hall session with Thom Hartmann on his radio show for the last decade?
NO! Bernie is prepared for spontaneous questioning and thinks on his feet, and answers honestly with his heart. He has gotten used to spontaneous conversations on a very frequent basis that has not only a local but national audience.
Now, obviously call screeners are trying to make sure that someone isn't trying to do something crazy like curse on the air or things like that, but I don't think they are saying "here are the list of questions you can choose from to ask Bernie." There might be a topic of the day that they try to have thematic questions for and encourage people to call about even on the air, but the caller I believe is free to ask their own question.
If Hillary wants to show that she can be as spontaneous and honest responding to people's questions, then maybe she should agree to doing a special session or two with Thom Hartmann a certain week. Hartmann has issued challenges and a welcome for other candidates to share an hour with him on his show like he does Bernie.
And for those that feel Bernie avoids BLM people that they feel they can't just ask normal questions but need to protest him instead, maybe some should try calling in on the Brunch with Bernie segments that Hartmann has. Not sure how many Bernie has in the coming weeks with his busy campaign schedule, but I'm guessing they'll be fitting a few in, usually on Friday morning the first hour of Hartmann's show at noon eastern time.