Obama should hold a prime time news conference every day until the whole country is sick of him.
I think it's been tried before...
Posted on 08/03/2009 9:45:13 AM PDT by reaganaut1
In the days before President Obama's last news conference, as the networks weighed whether to give up a chunk of their precious prime time, Rahm Emanuel went straight to the top.
Rather than calling ABC, the White House chief of staff phoned Bob Iger, chief executive of parent company Disney. Instead of contacting NBC, Emanuel went to Jeffrey Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric. He also spoke with Les Moonves, the chief executive of CBS Corp., the company spun off from Viacom.
Whether this amounted to undue pressure or plain old Chicago arm-twisting, Emanuel got results: the fourth hour of lucrative network time for his boss in six months. But network executives have been privately complaining to White House officials that they cannot afford to keep airing these sessions in the economic downturn.
The networks "absolutely" feel pressured, says Paul Friedman, CBS's senior vice president: "It's an enormous financial cost when the president replaces one of those prime-time hours. The news divisions also have mixed feelings about whether they are being used."
While it is interesting to see how a president handles questions, Friedman says, "there was nothing" at the July 22 session, which was dominated by health-care questions. "There hardly ever is these days, because there's so much coverage all the time."
Had Obama not answered the last question that evening -- declaring that the Cambridge police had acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home -- the news conference would have been almost totally devoid of news. And that raises questions about whether the sessions have become mainly a vehicle for Obama to repeat familiar messages.
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Mark Whitaker, NBC's Washington bureau chief, says Obama "is at risk of overexposure" and suggests the sessions are losing their novelty.
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I hope Rupert Murdoch left a shoe in Rahm's backside.
I hope Rupert Murdoch left a shoe in Rahm’s backside.
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If my suspicions about Rahm are correct.....he probably loved it. ;-)
Did America know that they were electing Max Headroom last November?
Obama should hold a prime time news conference every day until the whole country is sick of him.
I think it's been tried before...
-12bama pre-empting Idol, Survivor, etc. to show his face so people are reminded to "OBEY" or be racist, doesn't sit well.
The nets could stop all the WH pressure by taking Nancy Reagan’s advice: “JUST SAY NO!”
Emanuel got results---So did Myer Lansky--- Great tradition Rahmbo carries on !
Thank you, Rahm for setting a good time to go for a walk.
Well, networks, you buttered your bread so now go sleep in it.
Are they saying they can't persuade advertisers to sponsor Barack Alias Obama's propaganda sessions?
I don’t like political intimidation, but it could not happen to a more deserving set of people. Obama should hold a prime time news conference every day until the whole country is sick of him.””
Perhaps when the MSM gets less revenue from NObama’s commandeering of prime time, they will get a clue about how business REALLY works.
Separated at birth?
I think the mediaPUKES are in a CYA mode after the pressers didn’t generate the ratings they thought they would get!! Someone here said just say NO, well they did that A LOT to W but they worship the ground their “I WON” walks on so they will NEVER say NO to the Stupid Socialist JOKER....Stupid PUKES!!
Ping
Obama’s Racial Blunder – Most Revealing of His Character
Obama: “I don’t know all the facts but that the Cambridge Police acted stupidly.”
Give him all the air time he wants, please.
The saying “$hit rolls downhill” comes to mind and may come back to haunt these little nazis. Even your best dog will eventually get tired of you kicking him.
Rahm should schedule another one immediately so Obama can take an hour of primetime and explain to people why higher taxes for all wage earners are good for them and also not against any promises he made.
We need another network destroyed right now.
Rahm should schedule another one immediately so Obama can take an hour of primetime and explain to people why higher taxes for all wage earners are good for them and also not against any promises he made.
We need another network destroyed right now.
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