Obama is screwing with prime time -- AGAIN!
He's scheduled another news conference. He's seizing the airwaves again and preempting regularly scheduled programming.
What's the occasion?
The news conference marks Obama's first 100 Days.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama will hold his third prime-time news conference on Wednesday, his 100th day in office.
Obama will answer questions from reporters in the East Room beginning at 8 p.m. EDT, the White House said.
Officials insist that holding the news conference on the 100th day of Obama's presidency has no special significance. But the 100th day has become one of those milestones by which a new president and his accomplishments are judged.
"It's an arbitrary day in which presidents are measured. We get that. We're playing along," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday.
Gibbs said Obama and almost everyone in the White House agrees with "a huge majority" of the American people "that the 100th day is not a ton different than the 99th, the 101st or the 123rd."
Wednesday's news conference will be Obama's third. At the current pace, he is on track to hold one a month.
The president held his first news conference in February, and his second in March.
The rate of one news conference a month seems to sit well with the public, which likes to see Obama on TV, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released this week.
More than half of the public, or 59 percent, say the president is on television about the right amount of time. Just 28 percent say he's on too much, and only 10 percent would like to see him on the tube more often.
Apparently, at least according to this AP poll, I am in the minority.
Obama is on TV way, WAY too much.
It's so incredibly self-serving for Obama to take over prime time on Day 100 of his presidency. It's such a lame stunt.
Rather than a news conference, why not mark Day 100 with a national holiday, have parades and fireworks?
I think it would be a good idea to have an official Obama cable channel, to augment the unofficial Obama outlets, like CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, etc.
Yes, if Obama had his own channel, he could be on TV whenever he'd like without messing with the schedules of stations offering the public their favorite programs.
When the channel wouldn't be airing Obama's every word live, the remaining time could be filled with reruns of his greatest hits -- speeches, apologies and bows to foreign leaders, inauguration coverage, boarding and deplaning Air Force One and Marine One, that sort of stuff.
More ideas for the Obama channel-- An Obama reality show, Obama Uncut, Obama Gone Wild, Obama the Explorer.
The possibilities are endless.
5 comments:
You could go round and round with this one.
IMHO she got the massive buzz and exposure already. So she went to a local salon and got her hair done. You cannot say she sold out, as she went local.
So more power to her.
You're not talking about Obama's news conference, Lee.
You're talking about Susan Boyle, right?
Or did Helen Thomas get a makeover and I missed it? :)
ugh! posted on the wrong item.
yes this was on the Susan topic.
As far as the first 100 days of Obama. He has shown embarrassing incompetence and inexperience.
Sounds like someone takes LOST a little too seriously.
I predict that Obama will say nothing newsworthy during his "news" conference.
His ego is out of control. Soon he may start giving 4-hour televised speeches, a la Castro, and blow into late night programming as well.
I admit I am Obama "news" conference weary. Enough already.
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