Thursday, April 30, 2009

Darth Evader Refuses To Call On Fox. Again.

Obama gets back at Fox brass for refusing to run his news conference on Fox TV last night. Fox News WH correpondent Major Garrett was the only network news guy not fingered for a question.

But some nerdy orgasmic scribe at the NYT got to query Obama on what has "enchanted" him since his 100 days in the WH.

Obama didn't tell the truth. His first orgasm as Commander-In-Chief:



Wash Post's Tom Shales on Obama's prime-time news conference #3: The TV networks always get a little jealous when a president, or any news figure, turns out to be a great communicator. They start looking for ways to distract viewers. During the early minutes of the news conference, ABC ran little poll questions and news squibs at the bottom of the screen. That was just video gingerbread, and wildly unnecessary at that. Meanwhile, CNN, in what looked an awful lot like desperation, embedded the news conference in a day-long (or is it week-long) gimmicky "National Report Card" routine, as hired experts and members of Congress rated the president on this and that. Graphically speaking, it was a mess, and one sympathized with Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer and other CNN talents caught up in one of those Producers' Brainstorms that didn't work. Fox stations, meanwhile, chose not to carry the news conference at all. One of the regularly scheduled shows that did air: a series called "Lie to Me." MSNBC showed its strengths -- at least two of them, anyway -- by going to ravaging Keith Olbermann and ravishing Rachel Maddow. Two smart people are a lot better than an arsenal of computerly contraptions. Some industry sources were heard to grumble in recent days about the advertising revenue being lost because of the presidential news conferences. Oh, boohoo! What's a president going to have to do: Start programming networks, too?

Rachel Maddow "ravishing?"

6 comments:

  1. you could have made book on the Fox snub. this guy is just a petty narcissist. if it's not already available we might see a new betting line with odds in vegas.

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  2. Who else finds it funny that Fox was running "Lie to Me" at the same time Obama's press conference was being aired by the other networks...It appears that Fox ran the press conference after all.

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  3. I noted the "Lie To Me" Fox TV show straight away. Fox ran the news conference but on Fox News and FBN - not, as indicated, on Fox-owned TV stations. A big diff...

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  4. The networks only lose ad money if they continue to cover cream-puff conferences.

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  5. yeah, bobcat, and this is his third in 100 days...

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  6. tom shales fawning is puke inducing. what hog jowled chickenshit.

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