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Primetime interrupted: Osama bin Laden dead
EW.com ^ | 5/1/11 | James Hibberd

Posted on 05/01/2011 8:57:46 PM PDT by Nachum

President Obama has endured entertainment industry criticism over the last few years for requesting premium broadcast air time for making speeches. But Sunday night’s abrupt and unexpected interruption is unlikely to draw any complaints.

Multiple news organizations are reporting that the White House is set to announce that, at last, Osama bin Laden is dead. ABC, CBS and NBC have cut away from scheduled programming to cover this enormous news.

With all the back and forth between President Obama and Donald Trump in recent weeks, Twitter flared up with amused conspiracy theories when NBC News cut away from Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice on the East Coast to carry the announcement.

(Excerpt) Read more at insidetv.ew.com ...


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To: hstacey
I expect that bases all over the world are affected.
21 posted on 05/01/2011 9:14:10 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Nachum

Good then it will be time to get the hell out of Afghanistan,because we’re all done out there.About time too,9/11 is done and the Taliban are either now our declared enemies or we’re done with our mandate.

God bless Obama and God bless us all.


22 posted on 05/01/2011 9:14:20 PM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
Got to admit, Obama sounded like a real president.. sounded good President Obama did. (On radio)

On television, O'Bambi had that trademark smirk plastered across his mug. He stumbled and fumbled several times. Of course, the _resident used the non-standard pronunciation of POK-ee-stahn when referring to Pakistan. He tried to appeal like royalty by walking a red carpet to the podium.

There's was nothing even remotely Presidential in tonight's address.

23 posted on 05/01/2011 9:16:05 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: Kansas58

ust reading the news.... now it is said on CNN that it wasn’t a bombing a week ago it was a firefight this AM in Pakistan with a combined effort of US and Paki forces....

Who the hell knows now as it’s all gonna be BS’d anyway.

Obama says the US in custody of the body according to CNN....

I’m going to bed.....:o)

Stay Safe an get ready for the moo’s sh*tstorm to start.

Nite Ya’ll !


24 posted on 05/01/2011 9:16:43 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Kansas58

Not sure but I seem to recall when the hunt began oh so many years ago now that the question of confirmation came up and that there were dna samples from his family that were going to be used.


25 posted on 05/01/2011 9:16:57 PM PDT by xp38
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To: Brimack34

I know. It’s all about BO.


26 posted on 05/01/2011 9:17:37 PM PDT by La Lydia ("California: When the parasites outnumber the hosts, it's all over.")
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To: Nachum

NBC News cut away from Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice on the East Coast to carry the announcement.

You can’t make this stuff up

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One TV news goober also made the comment that today was indeed an historical day.

Obama only played nine holes of golf today, instead of the usual eighteen.

You can’t make this stuff up


27 posted on 05/01/2011 9:19:03 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (What other people think of you is none of your business.)
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To: Nachum

The TV news talking heads had to stall us for 30 minutes as Omama waited for his writers to do and put up his announcement on acting-President TelaPrompter. The stall dribbled out the relevant facts which were going around the Internet on Twitter, so by the time Omama came out and took credit for the event, we had heard the details now available.


28 posted on 05/01/2011 9:19:06 PM PDT by RicocheT
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To: stansblugrassgrl

Obama could have waited till Monday night because OBL has been supposedly dead for a week, but he purposely interrupted the Donald’s show.


29 posted on 05/01/2011 9:19:42 PM PDT by brwnsuga (Go Navy!)
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To: Nachum

Well its a heck of an Obama campaign kick off. He is going to get brownie points up the wazoo for this. Lets hope it wears off before the election. Barry will run on this night and day.


30 posted on 05/01/2011 9:20:14 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: TNCMAXQ

That’s exactly how it was when they got Saddam. It was treated as a “Oh? They got him? That’s nice” moment. If Saddam had been captured during Obama’s mis-administration, the story would have been bigger.


31 posted on 05/01/2011 9:20:41 PM PDT by christx30
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

Thanks so much for the post...


32 posted on 05/01/2011 9:23:20 PM PDT by hstacey (Army Mom...)
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To: Kansas58

Bin Laden has (or had) 50 brothers and sisters and all kinds of relatives who stopped talking to him.


33 posted on 05/01/2011 9:25:15 PM PDT by Aglooka ("I was out numbered 5-to-1, I got 4.")
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To: Nachum

Good news and good riddance. Brag all you want, 0bama. At every step you’ve confirmed the Bush-Cheney policy and anti-terrorism infrastructure.


34 posted on 05/01/2011 9:26:20 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

Eyes out. They aint gonna sit still.


35 posted on 05/01/2011 9:26:30 PM PDT by crz
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To: brwnsuga; snidely whiplash III

This shows how much Trump is getting under Obama’s skin. He bashed Trump at the media thing the other night, then interrupts The Donald’s highly rated TV show. He’s showing The Donald who’s boss.


36 posted on 05/01/2011 9:27:54 PM PDT by stansblugrassgrl (PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION!!! YEEEEEHAW!)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

This couldnt have come at a better time. The American people have a short memory and this will lose its importance in a few weeks. What they wont forget though, is what is left in their wallets after they fill up at the gas stations.

This story is an end game..there will be nothing left to report after a while. He is dead...end of story.

I expect a spike in his ratings, then they will drop again. Now if this had happened a couple months before the elections? That would have been another thing.


37 posted on 05/01/2011 9:34:54 PM PDT by crz
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To: Squantos
Thanks for the link. Someone is off here. From the Fox report at your link:

was killed a week ago

Obama said specifically he was killed today.

38 posted on 05/01/2011 9:42:43 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: stansblugrassgrl

He knows Trump is going to destroy him.


39 posted on 05/01/2011 9:43:28 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: Nachum

Who’s gonna play him in the TV movie then?


40 posted on 05/01/2011 9:44:18 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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