This Thursday, MTV, BET, CMT, Tr3s, mtvU and Centric will air "A Conversation With President Obama," an hour-long, commercial-free town hall, held before an audience of 250 young people in Washington, D.C.
He's going to be taking questions from the live audience, as well as questions submitted via twitter:
Twitter users can submit questions for the town hall by using the hashtag "#ask" plus any specific issue of interest to them. So, if you'd like to ask President Obama about how he plans to create jobs, you'd tweet "#askjobs" and then your question. If it's a question about education, you'd tweet "#askeducation." The same can be done for comments about the event, using the hashtag "#comment," followed by your thoughts.
Some behind-the-scenes info in this article on MTV: http://www.mtv.com/...
There's already some controversy stirring about this event:
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.
Oh well, if it has to do with President Obama, there'll always be controversy - right?
Update: For those of you who missed the town hall, here is the video:
The response from the MSM was fast and swift. From Hardball with Chris Matthews:
Tweety: Was there something new or fascinating to what the President had to say to the young people today?
Alex Wagner, WH Correspondent for PoliticsDaily: Ah, no! is the short answer on that Chris [she snickers].
Tweety: Ok.
Alex: You know, I was looking back through some of the old 2008 Presidential campaign messages that he had out there and it was really poetry in motion, you know. Just the language, the rhetoric, the sense of soaring possibility, and, you know, he's trying to gin up the youth base at this point and there's just a dirth of that, to say the least. The MTV town hall today was very long on legislative accomplishments that the President has succeeded in winning in the last 20 months, but it was short on enthusiasm and definitely short on that momentum and that enthusiasm that he had as a candidate in '08.
So there you have it folks. The President has, once again, failed miserably, and we're doooomed I tell ya! Doooomed!