posted October 11, 2010 08:31 AM         

"This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger ... take more of your money ... give you more orders from Washington ... and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy ... our opponent is against producing it."

I guess I wasn't the only one who had O'Bomber pegged as an empty suit, a phony persona, a creation of fiction....while he was candidate O'Bomber.

So now, O'Bomber is reduced to holding auditions for his town hall meetings.

Don't need no "real Americans" there who might ask O'Bomber some tough questions...like....Where the hell are the jobs you promised 19 months and 3 Trillion dollars ago?

Instead, O'Bomber wants a scripted town hall meeting with role playing actors comprising the audience.

That's taking "Show Biz" to a new low.

10/7/2010
PRESIDENT OBAMA TOWN HALL, DC
PRESIDENT OBAMA TOWN HALL, DC MTV, BET, and CMT (prods.) are casting the audience for a town hall meeting with President Obama. Shooting Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. in Washington, DC. Seeking—Audience Members: males and females, 18+. To apply, email townhallaudience@mtvnmix.com and put "Town Hall" in the subject line. To ensure that the audience represents diverse interests and political views, include your name, phone number, hometown, school attending, your job and what issues, if any, you are ...[more]

-Multiple- Submissions only

Submission deadline is Oct. 14

Entertainment Jobs, Nonunion TV/Video,

posted October 11, 2010 05:17 PM         

a more complete version included in the piece below, which indicates that there is NO PAY involved...

some rejectees already!

Five rejected applications to Obama's MTV town hall
Backstage.com offered the following listing for a town-hall meeting with President Obama.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/roughsketch/2010/10/rejected_applicants_to_mtv.html

PRESIDENT OBAMA TOWN HALL, MTV MTV, BET and CMT are casting the audience for town hall meeting with President Obama. Shooting Oct. 14, 4 p.m. in Washington, D.C. Seeking--Audience Members: males & females, 18+. To apply, email townhallaudience@mtvnmix.com and put "Town Hall" in the subject line. To ensure that the audience represents diverse interests and political views, include your name, phone number, hometown, school attending, your job and what issues, if any, you are interested in or passionate about. Also, provide a recent photo and short description of your political views. Submission deadline: Oct. 14. No pay.
Sure, this seems sort of a strange way to sort town hall attendees, but they had to do it after what happened last time. I managed to get hold of some of the rejected entries. Here are the top five:

Name: Nyctimene
Phone Number: ###
Hometown: Muller Range Mountains of Papua New Guinea
School attending: No school, just hangin'
Job: I'm an important seed disperser in tropical regions.
Issues: Conservation. Seed dispersion. Making signs that are legible when upside-down.

Political Views: I believe in intelligent design. And discovery! An expedition just took some great headshots of me at no cost, and while they were doing it they discovered 200 new species. I am in favor of more things like that.

Name: Christine
Phone Number: ###
Hometown: Wilmington, DE
School attending: Oxford Claremont Graduate University -- I will get back to you on this one. Who answered this?
Job: What do you do? I'm you.
Issues: Self-restraint. Government-restraint. Sorcery.

Political Views: I'm opposed to back-room deals! And to Bad Things generally.

Name: Barack
Phone Number: ###
Hometown: I WAS NEVER BORN! Kidding! Gosh. Hawaii. Geez, you people.
School attending: Occidental, Columbia, Harvard
Job: Being president, campaigning to be president next time
Issues: I'm not saying the economy is hopeless, but I tackle issues in increasing order of difficulty, and I'm trying to bring peace to the Middle East now.

Political Views: Progressive? Yes? Let's go with that.

Name: Karen Owen
Phone Number: Unlisted
Hometown: Unlisted
School attending: Duke University
Job: Uh, I'm fluent in powerpoint but currently looking for work.
Issues: Oversharing. Having too much time on my hands.

Political Views: Pro-online privacy. I'm also against Duke athletes -- but not as often as I'd like to be.

Name: Jerry Brown
Phone Number: (click)
Hometown: San Francisco, Calif.
School attending: Jesuit Seminary, U.C. Berkeley, Yale
Job: Attorney general of California
Issues: Call me back? Thanks....
(mumble) (mumble) (mumble) What about saying she's a ***** ? (mumble) Is this thing on? No, it's not on.

Political views: Sometimes the language my aides and I use around the office can get kind of salty, but what can I say? We feel very strongly about pension reform. Look, who hasn't had a bad pocket-dial at some point that really damaged his, her, or its relationship? Right? I'm right.
...
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Bunch of ****** .
Is this thing still on? Dang.

posted October 11, 2010 05:44 PM         

It's clear O'Bomber wants an audience of the young and stupid...who will already have chosen the script for the questions they will ask....and already have turned them in for review.... so O'Bomber can dream up some bullshiiit to spout to them....in advance.

Political Punch
Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper

Political coverage and musings on pop culture from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper and the ABC News White House team.

ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports:

When President Obama sits down for his MTV town hall this Thursday, the audience of young people who will ask him questions will have been gathered by a casting call.

According to the casting call for the event from talent agency Backstage.com, first reported by National Review Online, the company requests applications for the event, asking what issues the person is “passionate about,” requiring a “short description of your political views,” and also asks for a recent photo.

“MTV, BET and CMT are casting the audience for town hall meeting with President Obama. Shooting Oct. 14, 4 p.m. in Washington, D.C. Seeking—Audience Members: males & females, 18+,” the casting call says, “To ensure that the audience represents diverse interests and political views, include your name, phone number, hometown, school attending, your job and what issues, if any, you are interested in or passionate about. Also, provide a recent photo and short description of your political views.”

The casting call says that there is no pay for the appearance at the town hall.

Dubbed “A Conversation with President Obama”, MTV touted that the town hall will bring the president before 250 young people that represent a “broad cross-section of backgrounds, interests and political viewpoints,” who will ask questions of the president and over Twitter.

The town hall will be hosted by MTV personality Sway Calloway, BET’s April Woodard, and CMT’s Katie Cook.

During the 2008 presidential campaign candidate Obama took pains to express that his town halls across the country were entirely authentic...(including the phony fainters) , given reports then of the Hillary Clinton campaign planting two questions at her town halls events.

“By the way, these questions have not been pre-screened or pre-selected. Don’t know what’s coming up,’ then-Senator Obama said in November of 2007 at a town hall in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

The White House did not immediately respond to questions about Thursday’s town hall.

--Sunlen Miller