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It's interesting looking at the expressions on the faces in this video.

RealClearPolitics - Video - CBS, Helen Thomas Challenge Gibbs On "Controlled" Town Hall Meeting

CBS' Chip Reid and Helen Thomas double teamed Robert Gibbs today at the daily press briefing on the "tightly controlled" town hall meeting President Obama will hold on health care. Gibbs kept saying lets have this discussion AFTER the meeting. Helen Thomas accused the White House of "controlling the press." She said almost all White House/Obama events are "prepackaged." She accused the White House of not "having any answers."

Chip Reid was getting a bit exasperated at the stonewalling by Robert Gibbs. Gibbs was treating it all as a joke. Helen Thomas was, by my estimation, getting pretty annoyed at how Gibbs was dancing around the question.

I think she'd better be careful, though. Puppets are replaceable - and I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear she's 'retired' in the next couple of months. She's asking question that aren't in the script.

This video is an interesting look at what we're not being told. I'm wondering if the press corps is starting to think they've grabbed the wrong end of the rope...

J.