[JimRed]

with the MSM there on hand to try to play “gotcha” with anything she might have miss-stated). :-)

You mean, they let the MSM IN??? That's like letting the fox guard the henhouse! Unless they restricted it to one paticular FOX, that is!

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

I believe it was a last-minute thing to let the media in. (Of course) the MSM was accusing the Tea Party of being a “closed society/group” (the usual rhetoric from the MSM) and all, so the Tea Party people decided to throw it right back in the face of the MSM. :-)