White House hits TV networks for skipping immigration address

politico ^ | Nov. 19, 2014 | HADAS GOLD

[PROCON]

The White House is exasperated with the major broadcast networks – ABC, CBS and NBC -- for skipping out on President Barack Obama’s Thursday primetime address on his executive actions on immigration.

“In 2006, Bush gave a 17 minute speech that was televised by all three networks that was about deploying 6000 national guard troops to the border. Obama is making a 10 minute speech that will have a vastly greater impact on the issue. And none of the networks are doing it. We can’t believe they were aggrieved that we announced this on Facebook,” a senior administration official told POLITICO.

When the president wants to make a primetime address, White House officials will reach out to the big networks like ABC, NBC, and CBS, to gauge whether they would consider running the speech live before putting in a formal request for airtime.

[matt1234]

Wise up, white house drones. Obama is a has been.

[nascarnation]

Why would Baraq care? It’s not like anybody in govt is going to do anything to stop him. And there’s no elections for two years.

He’s learned from Putin and Iran...just go for it.

[jetson]

How about just telling little Barry to go get scr*wed and that he is out numbered in the congress and the American tax payer.

[TMSuchman]

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

[Nervous Tick]

>> I’d rather watch “Stalker”.

I’d rather watch buzzards gut a small mammal.

[PROCON]

The Declaration of Independence? Come on man, your so 1776, get with it, this is George Orwell's 1984, get used to serving the emperor...OR NOT!

[SevenofNine]

I know my mom tick off she want watch her Univison novelea LOL!

[SevenofNine]

Yeah Big Bang theory I rather watch that

PENNY PENNY PENNY LOL!

Or CW Reign getting good Spanish inquisition going be on that show this week

[Slyfox]

You should hear the uproar when Obummer cuts into the last five minutes of General Hospital.

[Steve_Seattle]

Is it true that only Fox is airing it? If true, very odd. There must be a reason . . . Is it so they can say, “Any controversy over this decision can be attributed to the wacko Tea Baggers who watch Fox. This announcement is really so minor and procedural that most networks didn’t think it was even worth covering”?

[Dqban22]

Obama has declared a merciless war against the American workers and the middle class of America.

OBAMA’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL AMNESTY TO MIGRANTS THAT ARE LIVING ILLEGALLY IN THE U.S.A.

After destroying the best health care system in the world, Obama is determined to grant wide amnesty to foreigners living illegally in U.S. If Obama wants to make the U.S. into another banana republic, it seems he is well underway to reaching his goal.

The Republicans must make it perfectly clear that Obama has declared a merciless war against the American workers and the middle class of America. There are 92 million of able Americans out of the work force because they cannot find employment and Obama wants to legalize and give work permits to over 11 million illegal aliens allowing them to bring here the rest of their families. In other words, another 25 or 30 million that either will compete with Americans and legal immigrants searching for scarce jobs or are going to be added to welfare, bankrupting Medicaid and the food stamp system as well as ruining even more the quality of the public schools with the massive infuse of hundreds of thousands of children without speaking English to already overburdened schools systems.

Blacks are going to be the main collateral victims of Obama's ill conceived amnesty.

[onyx]

Oh yeah.
I agree.

[dead]

[SoFloFreeper]

Aw, poor Obamugabe isn't being sufficiently worshipped by the network media?

[SoFloFreeper]

Aw, poor Obamugabe isn't being sufficiently worshipped by the network media?

[jazusamo]

Hey 0BamBam, the honeymoon is over.

[eyedigress]

That is 100% correct. The sheeple at the mall don’t need this.

Let them be, fighting over their shoes.

This is disinformation at its finest. The MSM will not cover it because the low information voter will not like it.

[Captain Compassion]

The major media will be busy covering the “Gentle Giant” riots in most major urban areas. I’m just sayin.

[eyedigress]

That is SPOT on!

[eyedigress]

Gives a whole new meaning to Friday news DUMP.