I hope that you got the chance to see the exchange yesterday at White House press briefing. Robert Gibbs starts to get really flustered when a CBS reporter continues to hound him over the fact that Obama town hall events are completely staged. There are no "random" questions from the audience. Everything is pre-selected, every question is screened, etc. So this reporter calls him out on it, and then Helen Thomas gets involved. She says that she has never seen this level of control in the White House before. And if anyone should know, Helen Thomas would.

I just LOVE that woman!

On the campaign trail, we quickly spotted two Barack Obamas: one with a teleprompter and one without. One man with an excellent ability to deliver one helluva speech and one man that hmmms his way through a jumble of thoughts that lead to nowhere.

So now we have the next step: staged press conferences. The president-elect has already had several press conferences and he will have another one today. But it seems that when it comes time for him to take questions from reporters, Obama already had a "game plan" of who exactly he was going to call on. Does that mean he is taking staged questions and has prepared answers? Well .........