Posted on 08/31/2016 2:59:03 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kerry: Governing Is Hard When You Have to Go on 'The View'
5:06 PM, Aug 31, 2016 | By Chris Deaton
The way John Kerry sees it, there is no joy when the president goes on The View.
The secretary of state lamented the difficulty of governing in the modern media age during a visit to India Wednesday, nostalgically recalling the days "the big three" television networks owned the airwaves and assessing the burden of communicating the White House's message across a variety of media.
"If a president wants to talk to the nation, he or she has to go out and fight to find all kinds of different venues, which is why the President of the United States goes on The View and goes on David Letterman and goes on the night show and goes on whatever, in order to be able to talk to people in segments," Kerry said. "And it takes a lot longer to build it up, and you still have trouble getting people to be able assimilate and process facts."
The former presidential nominee said the diversified press made governing, including consensus-building, "harder". He took a particular shot at the "nanosecond" nature of Twitter—a much more rapid way of communicating than chatting during a coffee break the morning after the president delivered a speech.
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They call it the bully pulpit. The president reads a book, the entire world knows the title and the author the next day. There is no problem getting whatever he wants to say out. This president, so much lauded for his great oratory gift, has little to say and he says it badly. He thinks because things are not going the way he wants that we have a reception problem. Nope. It’s an outgoing problem, not a reception problem.
Obama and Kerry wouldn't know a "fact" if it bit them on their @$$.
I’m sorry John F’n, what does the Secretary of State
have to do with “Governing”??
I’m nostalgic for the days when the President of the United States loved our country, thought it was the greatest country in the world, and would never knowingly do anything to hurt us or to give comfort to our enemies.
What he is really complaining about is that there is a little bit of opposition media that is not controlled by his “progressive” teammates.
What an a**hole.
Luckily, my generation is about to die off!
How did this doofus avoid getting fragged by his own troops???
it’s harder when you’re stupid
The thought of matching wits with Joy Behar scares the crap out of Kerry.
Photo from Barney Frank's colonoscopy.
[and goes on David Letterman]
David Letterman has a show?
Nobody has to go on the View. And how’s Hilliary gonna do with any interviews - which, perhaps due to her all-too-obvious medical frailty, she’s avoided for 280 days already and counting
The incredible shrinking moron.
I still can’t find the Kerry pic with him “Hiking the Football” while his SS guys are asking “WTF is he doing”?
That one is a classic.
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