Allahpundit
HotAir.com
4/16/2010
Wish I could say that a Republican president would never pull something like this, especially when the speech touches on potential cuts that affect the workers in question, but this sort of audience-rigging is often par for the course for presidential stagecraft. I don’t know what he was afraid of — he’s been heckled before and has righties like me offering him political cover to scale the agency back — but I guess it makes sense that a guy who’s enough of a control freak to bring a teleprompter to a school is also enough of a control freak to handpick the people who get to listen to him talk about asteroids.
The article continues at HotAir.com and links to this article at NewsBusters.org
