Posted on 08/02/2009 1:50:19 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
The president's media blitz may be wearing us out.
President Barack Obama appears to be breaking every record kept on U.S. presidential press coverage. Over the first six months of this year, he was cited in a staggering 1.1 million stories across mainstream, Internet and social media--an average of 6,100 references a day. That's more than triple what Obama's last two predecessors, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, got in the mainstream press during their first six months.
The president is tagged on 216,000 YouTube videos and mentioned in an average 15,000 blog posts a week, according to Icerocket.com.
Mark Knoller, a CBS News White House correspondent who has covered every president since Gerald Ford, says Obama's ubiquity is unprecedented. In the first half of the year, says Knoller, the president delivered 281 speeches, gave 88 interviews to journalists, hosted 30 news conferences and emceed 14 town hall meetings. He gave an entire day's worth of access to ABC's Nightline and has held conference calls with bloggers.
Obama-centric government has given the presidential press corps more face time too. The networks gave White House correspondents 19% more air time in the first six months of 2009 compared with the same period for George W. Bush's first year, says news tracker Andrew Tyndall.
The urgency of Wall Street's meltdown and revamping health care dominated many of Obama's media appearances, of course. But by hogging the news-hole, the president has become de facto salesman for everything. In the first half of this year, the number of references to administration figures like Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner--combined--don't even approach 10% the number of Obama's media appearances.
A good chunk of Obama's exposure has nothing to do with public policy, like sharing bowling tips with Jay Leno
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A really good con man always has a few cons going on. What is a con man’s most powerful weapon? Persuasive talk. This is why Obama is everywhere in every media. His commie handlers such as Axelrod also like the Obama cult of personality they are creating
Obama is always out there selling, persuading and conning. Instead of letting his deeds and accomplishments speak for themselves (he can’t because he has very few) he is always talking. Like a chatty Cathy doll
To paraphrase Ross Perot -
Someday that giant sucking sound we hear will be the mainstream media’s lips being forcefully torn loose from Obama’s arse.
The tale of the birth certificate may be solved by Dr. Orly Taitz in time for Obama’s birthday Aug 4th.
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This is a train crash in the making. Bobo is addicted to being noticed and the public has seen too much.
Here’s my take: the one thing Clinton succeeded at was being the first two term Dem prez since FDR. How? BJ was in campaign mode the whole time.
I think Obama’s trying to do the same thing.
This is what caused that 79-year-old lady in Iowa? Idaho? to sell BOTH her television sets.
“bama is always out there selling, persuading and conning.”
- - - and hypnotizing.
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I suspect he bowls with every bit as much skill as he throws a baseball.
To paraphrase Ross Perot -I’m all ears Larry.
It’s tiresome, and even his fans will get burned out on him if he keeps it up. Which I suspect he will since he’s a narcissist.
There’s a term for this: attention whore. Somebody make a motivational poster out of this, please.
Obongo’s weak minded followers are more easily hypnotozed. Definitely Obongo is sending out some light hypnosis. I see his constant hand gestures, facial expressions and the steady cadence of his low voice as ...All these hook the weak willed and weak minded
BTTT!
O’Who? Isn’t he Irish or something?
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