Bah.
1000 excuses.. no action.
How many of these make it to the Big Three newscasts? Zip, zero, nada.
During the 2000 election, a few of us made a series of threads called "The Bush/Cheney 2000 Victory Tour." Why did we do that? Because after the convention the media shut down coverage of Bush. People on this forum were griping that he wasn't making appearances, when in fact the media was shutting down coverage.
If you think that a speech will automatically get coverage, you are being naive. The networks only allow his speches to be shown when they are dealing with a possible declaration of war, or when (in the case of a press conference) they think there will be an opportunity to trash him with "gotcha" questions.