{"id":1495757,"date":"2024-10-12T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T19:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1495757"},"modified":"2024-10-12T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T19:05:00","slug":"shills-for-harris-kamala-townhall-for-undecided-latino-voters-curated-with-avowed-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/shills-for-harris-kamala-townhall-for-undecided-latino-voters-curated-with-avowed-supporters\/1495757\/","title":{"rendered":"Shills For Harris: Kamala Townhall For “Undecided Latino Voters” Curated With Avowed Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shills For Harris: Kamala Townhall For “Undecided Latino Voters” Curated With Avowed Supporters<\/span><\/p>\n

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Indepedent journalist Michael Tracey, working with Glenn Greenwald, has uncovered a remarkable scandal at a recent Kamala Harris townhall hosted by Univision, one of the largest hispanic news organizations in the world. The event was ostensibly for “undecided latino voters” but Tracey quickly revealed that to be fradulent…<\/strong> The following is from his Substack (subcribe here<\/a><\/strong>):<\/p>\n

Authored by Michael Tracey<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

Hapless media side-area for the Kamala Harris\/Univision \u201ctown hall\u201d at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas \u2014 October 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Last night\u2019s Univision \u201ctown hall\u201d with Kamala Harris was billed as an exciting opportunity for \u201cundecided Latino voters\u201d to question and evaluate the potential next President of the United States<\/strong>. The corporate press release from Univision advertises it explicitly as such:<\/p>\n

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But viewers at home would have been wholly unaware that this billing was false.<\/strong> As I discovered, having been granted the sacred opportunity to view the event from an adjacent room on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus, the carefully curated \u201ctown hall\u201d audience was actually comprised of avowed Harris supporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI already knew I was going to go for Kamala,<\/strong>\u201d one town hall participant\u00a0told me<\/a>. \u201cPart of the reason why I wanted to go was just, like, to also fully support her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you were already decided, before you came?<\/strong>\u201d I asked another. \u201cYes,\u201d she replied, declaring her support for Kamala.<\/p>\n

The audience members I spoke to were selected with the help of a company called\u00a0FansOnQ<\/a><\/strong>, according to the company\u2019s founder, Conny Quintanilla, whose title for yesterday\u2019s event was \u201cAudience Manager.\u201d The company puts out \u201ccasting calls\u201d for events like the Latin Grammy Awards, which have been previously held in Las Vegas. It\u2019s a type of company that you might not be consciously aware exists, but once you\u2019re told of its existence, it makes perfect intuitive sense: people who want to dance at award shows are \u201cvetted\u201d by this particular company, perhaps for good looks and rhythmic skills. That\u2019s the same company which filled the seats at Kamala\u2019s town hall.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another person told me he was able to attend because he \u201cknows people\u201d at an unnamed \u201cprogressive organization,\u201d<\/strong> which somehow granted him the ability to get in the town hall audience. The person said he works as an intern for Rep. Steven Horsford, Democrat of Nevada. I\u2019m not naming the person because he was wary of attribution. Others quoted here also didn\u2019t want to be identified.<\/p>\n

These aforementioned attendees were essentially just \u201cseat fillers\u201d \u2014 they were not the audience members who were called on to ask pre-selected questions<\/strong>. Those audience members were flown in from around the country at Univision\u2019s expense. <\/strong>Which is a bit odd, because there would certainly have been plenty of genuine \u201cundecided Latino voters\u201d in Clark County, Nevada who I\u2019m sure would\u2019ve been more than happy to ask Kamala Harris a question.<\/p>\n

The \u201cseat-fillers\u201d in action<\/a><\/p>\n

NOTE: The non-question-asking attendees were still integral to the televisual production of the event, hence their recruitment. <\/strong>Uninformed viewers at home were under the false impression that the people they were watching react to Kamala\u2019s answers were \u201cundecided voters,\u201d when numerous of them were in fact pre-committed Harris voters who sought to attend for the specific purpose of demonstrating their support for Kamala.<\/p>\n

Naturally, I wanted to interview the actual question-asking attendees. However, a corporate dictate apparently came down prohibiting this. <\/strong>\u201cWe won\u2019t be making them available,\u201d Anna Negron, Director of Corporate Communications at TelevisaUnivision, told me when I asked if there would be an opportunity to interview said audience members. She would not elaborate on the reason for this strange secrecy. <\/strong>Reporter Mark Kellner of the\u00a0New York Post<\/em>\u00a0asked Negron the same question, and was similarly dismissed.<\/p>\n

So the sum total of the authorized journalistic acts<\/strong> that we were permitted to carry out at this event was to sit in a side room and politely view a generously provided video feed of the \u201ctown hall,\u201d\u00a0which was taped several hours before it aired yesterday. For the record, I don\u2019t think she actually used a teleprompter<\/strong>, despite social media allegations to that effect. I can verify that the event was already contrived enough as it is \u2014 no need to embellish any phony stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, most journalists covering the event simply repeated the conceit that Kamala was empathetically taking questions from \u201cundecided Latino voters.\u201d<\/strong> In other words, they simply regurgitated the corporate press release:<\/p>\n

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Her actual remarks were bereft of any real substance. <\/strong>The only amusing part was when she name-dropped Alberto Gonzales, the former Attorney General under George W. Bush, as one of her cherished Republican endorsements \u2014 adding him to the esteemed roster of Dick and Liz Cheney and myriad \u201cnational security officials\u201d affiliated with Mitt Romney and John McCain. Perhaps Kamala calculated that the surname \u201cGonzales\u201d would be extraordinarily appealing to these allegedly \u201cundecided Latino voters.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s worth briefly reminiscing about what the purpose of a \u201ctown hall\u201d has traditionally been: for \u2018townspeople\u2019 to gather and air their concerns about issues that most affect them. (\u201cTown halls\u201d are actually how some small New England towns are\u00a0governed<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 the town halls effectively become temporary\u00a0citizen-led legislatures<\/a>\u00a0to decide questions around zoning and so forth.) Now, though, they\u2019re just glitzy TV productions that accomplish the polar opposite of the free-flowing dialogue and debate with which the term was once associated. Indeed, these events now more resemble the production values of the Latin Grammy Awards \u2014 literally \u2014 than a forum to scrutinize candidates for public office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 10\/12\/2024 – 11:05<\/span><\/p>\n

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