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townhall.com - 12/11/2008
Matt Lewis: New Web Site Takes Questions From Public
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From TPM: An Obama aide points out to us that the Obama transition team has just rolled out an innovative new feature on its Web site, hoping to carry through on the President-elect's campaign promises of greater...
politico.com - 12/11/2008
Blagojevich questions censored on Transition site
— politico.com — President-elect Barack Obama's Transition today launched " Open for Questions ," a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to... submit questions, and to vote on one another's questions, bringing favored inquiries to the top of the list. It was ... (more) Blagojevich questions censored on Transition site

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politico.com - 12/11/2008
7 Blago questions for Obama
— politico.com — The stinging criminal complaint against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris raises... lots of questions for President-elect Barack Obama. (more) 7 Blago questions for Obama

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Is Blago nuts? The experts speak
powerlineblog.com - 12/11/2008
Is Blago nuts? The experts speak
— powerlineblog.com — Reflecting on the question "Is Blago nuts?," -- retired clinical psychologist Judith Lown writes: I read your... column with particular interest this morning because it echoed a conversation I had with a friend last night. My reaction then, as to ... (more) Is Blago nuts? The experts speak

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Balloon Juice:  Ben Smith Can’t Define Censorship

Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog:  Matt Lewis: TH Readers Being Edited by Obama?

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Ben Smith Can’t Define Censorship
Balloon Juice — Ben Smith, who really ran a solid blog (as well as Jonathon Martin) during the election, is usually better than this: President-elect Barack Obama’s Transition today launched “Open for Questions,” a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on one another’s questions, bringing favored inquiries to the top of the list. It was suggested when it launched that the tool would bring uncomfortable questions to the fore, but the results so far are the opposite: Obama’s supporters appear to be using—and abusing—a tool allowing them to “flag” ...

Matt Lewis: TH Readers Being Edited by Obama?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Remember yesterday, when I urged you to submit Blago questions to Obama's transition website ??? ... Well, apparently, some of you did! ... From ABC : Fifty-six questions have come in from people across the country dealing with Blagojevich. Most of them, however, are not readily visible -- one has to use the "search" function to find them. Why? Because users of the Transition website are allowed to "flag as inappropriate" any question they don't like. Apparently, Obama supporters (one presumes that's who's voting this way) think that any question that might make the president-elect uncomfortable is "inappropriate."

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