WP: Selective Questions For Rice

[kskiska]

Paris School Speech Mostly Student-Free

PARIS, Feb. 8 -- It had all the trappings of a modern-day Daniel in the Lion's Den: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice venturing bravely into the heart of French intellectual opposition to America, the Institute of Political Sciences, an elite school in the heart of Paris's trendy Left Bank.

But if the roar from the audience was mostly polite and restrained, that was partly because only a handful of the school's 5,500 students were allowed near the auditorium where Rice spoke, and the questions were vetted in advance by the school and the State Department.

The first student chosen to question Rice was 24-year-old Benjamin Barnier, the son of Foreign Minister Michel Barnier. He asked Rice about the possibility that Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority might opt to form a theocratic government, allowing Rice to expound on the evolution of Iraqi democracy as a process of negotiation.

But that was not the question Barnier had wanted to ask most, he said later…

(snip)

Meanwhile, scores of students from the school, which is also called Sciences Po, were kept well away from the session. Several complained of being pushed back by police. And some students who did manage to secure a ticket left disappointed.

"There was a lot of 'liberty,' " said Jennifer Brett, 26, an American from Columbia University who was at Sciences Po on an exchange program. "It was liberty, liberty, liberty, and freedom. . . . I find their justifications about the war for the liberation of the Iraqi people to be a little lame, when before it was all about weapons of mass destruction."

more…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9164-2005Feb8.html

[Newsjock]

1. Another fake event

for a fake president.

[TahitiNut]

2. GOP kapuki

:puke:

[Fridays Child]

3. Superb theater, brilliant illusion...

The illusion of freedom in America will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre.--Frank Zappa, 1977

[Kimber Scott]

4. Liberty, my ass. Real liberty would have allowed these students

to ask real questions.

[w4rma]

5. Ignorance is freedom in Republican fantasyland. (nt)

[CoffeeCat]

6. Was Mr. Gannon there? Did he ask a question?

I wouldn't be surprised if our friend Mr. Gannon had been there--incognito--with a French accent and a beret.

[Erika]

7. She's a Prima Donna

a real showpiece used by this corrupt administration. Her lies and her decptions are ignored. Bush is using her and she him bigtime. May they rot in hell together.

[dbt]

8. Secretary of State Olive Oyl

I wonder if they ringed the school with buses in which the windows were blacked out. This happened in Little Rock, Arkansas, a few years back when bu$h appeared at high school. Like Paris, most students were kept from the Imperial Presence. Guess Reisssssss's handlers have taken a page from her husb's playbook.

:freak:
dbt

[cthrumatrix]

9. A Scripted Follow-Up For Rice - State Dept., School Vetted Questions (WP)

A Scripted Follow-Up For Rice
State Dept., School Vetted Questions

By Keith B. Richburg
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, February 9, 2005; Page A16

PARIS, Feb. 8 -- It had all the trappings of a modern-day Daniel in the Lion's Den: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice venturing bravely into the heart of French intellectual opposition to America, the Institute of Political Sciences, an elite school in the heart of Paris's trendy Left Bank.

But if the roar from the audience was mostly polite and restrained, that was partly because only a handful of the school's 5,500 students were allowed near the auditorium where Rice spoke, and the initial questions were vetted in advance by the school and the State Department.

snip

But that was not the question Barnier had wanted to ask most, he said later. That one, submitted to the school on Monday as required under the ground rules, was: "George Bush is not particularly well perceived in the world, particularly in the Middle East. Can you do something to change that?" That question was rejected, but he was told he could ask about the Shiites.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9164-2005Feb8.html


Why would you need a damn script if you are telling people the truth !!!!!

[MSgt213]

10. Why would you need a script? Simple your lying through your buck teeth.

[applegrove]

11. The Whole Presidency is scripted!

The Whole Presidency is scripted! It is all show. No reality.

[oasis]

12. Condi's advance team is in a dress rehearsal. The Chimperor's upcoming

visit must be flawless.

[cthrumatrix]

13. it's all a damn facade.... propaganda to keep up the illusion

of competency and that US has illegally invaded a country of no threat to them.

[primavera]

14. Drat, so why did the Institute of Political Science go along with it?

Why didn't they just tell Kindasleezy that if she wanted to stage a propaganda piece, she could do it elsewhere? Now people who don't know any better are going to see this kind of stock film footage and think it somehow reflects a softening of Europeans' views toward US policy. Seems to me it wasn't only Kindasleezy's lack of integrity that was demonstrated here.

[ernstbass]

15. I can't beleive they can get away with this in other countries