White House solicited question on Iran from writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House officials phoned a blogger from a popular left-leaning Web site on Monday evening to tell him that President Barack Obama had been impressed with his online reporting about Iran. Could the writer pass along a question from an Iranian during the president's news conference on Tuesday?...

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Does this surprise anyone.

I think this has been happening since the HuffPo has been in the WH pressers, and it's obvious that plants with pre-designed questions were at the "townhall" meetings on policy issues.