Bush to Take Unscripted Audience Questions

From ABC News:

WASHINGTON Jan 23, 2006 — Move over, Oprah. President Bush is making himself into television's newest talk show host by making audience participation a feature of his appearances.

Bush has been taking questions from audience members in recent speeches, and the White House says none has been prescreened. It's a throwback to the folksy style on the campaign trail that helped him win re-election and a departure from the heavily scripted speeches that were the norm last year...

So low has the bar been set for this President that it's a big story when he decides to take unscripted questions. Let's not forget that the people doing the questioning are pre-screened before hand so these are all loyal Bush supporters. It's just like when he did those campaign speeches last year. I'd like to see him take some questions from people who strongly disagree with his policies. Of course that will never happen. Instead we get the usual dog and pony show from President Bush and the press eats it up.