"The point is the control from here. We have never had that in the White House. And we have had some control but not this control. I mean I'm amazed, I'm amazed at you people who call for openness and transparency and have controlled..." veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas said Wednesday.The whole idea of a town hall forum is for candid opinions and questions to arise, but they set up easy prescreened﻿ questions, which gives a false generalization of the public consensus.