Fox not granted a question at Obama’s press conference.
By on Apr 29th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Fox not granted a question at Obama’s press conference.
In tonight’s press conference, Obama spent nearly a full hour answering questions from reporters, who represented media organizations such as the Detroit News, the Associated Press, BET, and all three cable networks — ABC, NBC, and CBS. One outlet that didn’t get a question? Fox News, whose affiliate was the only network station that decided not to air the prime-time news conference. Obama called on Fox News White House Correspondent Major Garrett in his previous two press conferences.
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I hate Fox News.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:11 pmGood – let the ratbastardz at Fake News sit and spin.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:12 pmObviously faux news will claim Obama is afraid of their questions. But who cares, f*%$ em!
April 29th, 2009 at 9:14 pmYeah, well, he didn’t grant a question to Entertainment Tonight either. Seems entirely appropriate to me not to grant questions to the fringe “entertainment” media.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:15 pmJust what they deserve.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:18 pmAnd rightfully so.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:19 pmSince Faux wasn’t airing the press conference, IMO they should have been ignored. Of course, with the limited time and the numerous reporters there, not to mention the President’s thoughtful manner of speaking, the majority of reporters were effectively ignored, too.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:19 pmI recall Perino doing the same thing…except it wasnt KOX News
April 29th, 2009 at 9:24 pmgarret will simply have to retire a major.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:25 pmThe only thing worse than fox news is the average fox news viewer
April 29th, 2009 at 9:26 pmWhy would they even be allowed there?
April 29th, 2009 at 9:26 pmIf Obama is asked about this tomorrow, I hope he says, “Fox who?”. LOL
April 29th, 2009 at 9:28 pmteleprompter! teleprompter!
April 29th, 2009 at 9:28 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
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but who ever accused him of being smart?
….Harvard? Anyone with a working brain? Fox isnt a real news network so ratings is a moot point.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:33 pmW’s daddy sent him to yale and harvard, where he barely got anything past a C-. Obama is a smart man, thats why he’s a progressive.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:37 pmHe’s done nothing to show he can do anything except read.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:38 pm—
Well other than getting elected President of the “greatest nation” on Earth without being a legacy kid…
a volcano of anger there. look, do you examine your own claims? legacy admissions has done more damage to society (up to the presidency) than affirmative action can even shake a stick at. good lord.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:39 pmIf Faux happens to whine…I’ve got two names for them.
Helen Thomas
James Guckert aka Jeff Gannon
April 29th, 2009 at 9:41 pmif the harvard mba worked out so well for george, why did he turn this country into a deficit wasteland?
April 29th, 2009 at 9:42 pmConservativeForProgress Says: I’m just a contradiction of terms. Confused? With the high marks from “We the People” Fake New’s opinion is meaningless.
You’ve got nothing else on our intelligent President except to Bytche about the use of a damn teleprompter. Sad! Dumbya Bush could barely read from a teleprompter and probably went to Yale because his daddy had connections – not because he was smart. President Obama had to earn his way and use his intelligence.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:42 pmneoparody Says:
teleprompter! teleprompter!
April 29th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
ConservativeForProgress Says:
read from a teleprompter that is.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
What the hell is wrong with you? This is the dumbest, most childish criticism I’ve ever heard from so-called adults.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:44 pmMycelium Says:
Good point – but wouldn’t that be three names? ;)
April 29th, 2009 at 9:47 pmJane E. Schneider Says:
?
April 29th, 2009 at 9:49 pmTelepromoters are getting boring. Wanna look stupid talking about birth certificates? Face it, the dude is brighter than you, me, the goofy chick from Alaska, that I can’t get it together to be a grown up wannabe plumber, and the drop out druggie adjustable bed hawker…
April 29th, 2009 at 9:50 pmMaybe the cocaine fried his brain
April 29th, 2009 at 9:52 pm—-
Nah, W’s brain was already problematic long before the coke…
Republics are such idiots they don’t know anything about legacy admissions. CFP, that’s when the idiot kid gets in because his daddy got in not because he qualified for entrance. You idiots are so manipulated you have no idea how you’re being screwed. First of all you don’t know that Obama got into Harvard through affirmative action you’re just guessing. And he certainly didn’t get the job as the Editor of the Harvard Law Review through affirmative action. That goes to the student with the highest grades.
All kinds of idiot rich kids get into schools because their parents went there first. And if that isn’t enough then they give donations so the school looks the other way. But you think you’re being cheated by affirmative action students who are still smarter than the average legacy admission.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:54 pmGee I don’t know why Obama ignored Fox “news”. Perhaps because they would have asked him if he was a socialist or a fascist. No point in answering asinine questions.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:55 pmYou think Fox has better ratings than ABC, CBS or NBC News? Are you insane?
April 29th, 2009 at 9:55 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
“Anybody who uh um can’t uh um put an uh um coherent uh um sentence together with uh out uhum a teleprompter — is an um moron.”
Is this an impersonation of Bush? I dont get it.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:56 pmCRAP republican you beat me to it =D funny how many of us immediately went there.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:56 pmConservativeISNOTforProgress:
Who are you talking about Dumbya Bush? Not only did he have a coke problem, he was an alcoholic too.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:56 pmrepublicans hate facts Says:
Ya beat me to it.
http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#cocaine
April 29th, 2009 at 9:57 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
W went to Yale and Harvard. Simply going to Harvard, especially as an affirmative action candidate, doesn’t make you smart. He’s done nothing to show he can do anything except read.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:57 pm============
Stop hating on President Obama and thuggish repugs have proven that they aren’t about common sense.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
neoparody Says:
teleprompter! teleprompter!
April 29th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
April 29th, 2009 at 9:58 pm~~~
Extemporaneous speaker ~!~ Extemporaneous speaker ~!~
And CFP, President Obama didn’t use any teleprompter when he answered questions tonight but I’m sure his answers were too sophisticated for a sh#t kicking troglodyte like you to understand what he was saying.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:00 pmDoodlebug Shayne Says:
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You think Fox has better ratings than ABC, CBS or NBC News? Are you insane?
Sadly I think hes right, Fox always has higher ratings than its counter parts.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:00 pmsir, i never once cared for a presidential press conference other than post-9/11 events over the last eight years. that has changed. now we have a president who speaks to the citizenry through the press as opposed to speaking to his special interests while looking down on the press. the “uh” complaints indicates a preference for sizzle while the rest of us enjoy the steak.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:00 pmDoodlebug Shayne Says:
You think Fox has better ratings than ABC, CBS or NBC News? Are you insane?
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Yes. The strain of the last few years has clearly been too much for so many of the trolls, Shayne. They’ve cleaved off from reality and taken refuge in a fantasy land of their own making. Hence the endless nonsensical comments they expect to be taken as the gospel truth w/out a trace of validation.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:01 pmMycelium Says:
?
April 29th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Never mind, it was a poor attempt at a joke.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:01 pmI already said that the wealthy donate money to get their kids in. Of course his father was head of the CIA but that wouldn’t give him any power. Idiot. Oh, where did Jeb go?
April 29th, 2009 at 10:02 pmHow does getting elected president of the US not indicate one can do more than read? Hmmmmm?
Selective assclownisms amuses me….
April 29th, 2009 at 10:02 pmBets on when this one will engage rather than obfuscate?
Frickin’pussies…
Can I get a “‘t” on 54????
April 29th, 2009 at 10:03 pmRepublicans pride themselves for being, stupid, ignorant and smegma!
April 29th, 2009 at 10:04 pmvery probing, incisive questioning. i’m sure it matters to be right on defending george bush’s method of admission to college decades ago when in the year 2009 we’re dealing with the piling evidence that college was never something george took seriously. hmmmmm?
April 29th, 2009 at 10:05 pmIt is a known fact that intellectually inferior game players get admissions to big time schools to throw balls around but you only hear b itching about the students ofcolor. Weird isn’t it…
April 29th, 2009 at 10:05 pmGee, I didn’t know W was a legacy admission, I thought he went to Yale on a cheerleading scholarship!
The wingnuttery has nothing… nothing at all, so they must grasp as straws.
Just reading the troll posts, they’re so funny it’s hard not to see it all as parody or snark. I guess they’re having a hard time adjusting to a coherent, thoughtful, intelligent, considerate and competent president for a change.
PEACE
April 29th, 2009 at 10:06 pmProgressive Republican Says:
Sadly I think hes right, Fox always has higher ratings than its counter parts.
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Actually, Fox’s numbers trail the free networks.
As for cable, Fox is part of the basic package, whilst the other cable news outfits charge a premium, which could explain why Fox out-polls them… the cost factor alone.
And when you take into account the way Fox bills itself as THE ALTERNATIVE to all other news outlets, Fox’ total audience is rather small, compared to the whole.
I’m not sure why trolls always claim Fox is THE NUMBER ONE NETWORK, when clearly it’s not, and why that even matters for so many issues.
However, we do know Fox is the ONLY “news outfit” to ever defend itself in court by claiming it has a Constitutionally protected right to lie… they can just flat-out make up sh*t and call it “news”… quite an accomplishment!!!
April 29th, 2009 at 10:06 pmHi Jane…
April 29th, 2009 at 10:06 pmWhat up?
He went to Yale first, get it? LEGACY AND CLOUT. You people are suckers.
WHERE? Do you have a link other than rumors? No you just think all black people got in through affirmative action. Racist idiot.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:09 pmJane E. Schneider Says @ 52
(I got it the first time Jane…hence the eloquent question mark)
April 29th, 2009 at 10:09 pmDo you know what the word DEARTH means? And the fact that he say undoubtedly means that there is no documented proof of such you moron.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:11 pmWell, Prescott Bush, HW Bush, And Dubya Bush were all members of the Skull and Bones frat…
April 29th, 2009 at 10:11 pmYou are wrong. Fox is the HIGHEST RATED CABLE NEWS program but it doesn’t compete with the networks.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:14 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
Pretty stupid to snub the network with the #1 rating, but who ever accused him of being smart?
April 29th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Pretty stupid of the cable news network with the #1 rating to snub the 100th day press conference of an enormously popular President. But who ever accused them of being smart?
April 29th, 2009 at 10:14 pmYay, stick it to Fux Noise, Mr. President!
April 29th, 2009 at 10:14 pmFox decided not to air the prime-time news conference…
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False: Fox ran on both channels in all time zones except the east….HELLO!
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April 29th, 2009 at 10:14 pmI am sure the Fox reporter will be called on once Obama is up to speed and can handle a tough question (re: the metro sexual reporter and his neutered question from the NYT is even to much for most progressives) Simple soft ball questions makes the anointed one look like a girlie man.
Here it is again, idiot.
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Might you be willing to explain the thinking you employed when you keyboarded the last word?
Frustration, Teen Angst, Alienation… Please explain…
April 29th, 2009 at 10:15 pmYes, I read and UNDERSTOOD what his intent was. He was arguing to keep affirmative action programs. You see there’s hundreds of years of of legacy admissions that minorities have to compete with.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:15 pmSo you don’t understand what DEARTH or UNDOUBTEDLY mean.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:16 pmobama graduated summa cum laude. put that in your pipe.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:16 pmHe [Obama Sr.] graduated from the University of Hawaii in June 1962 (and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa[17]), leaving shortly thereafter to travel to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he would begin graduate study at Harvard University in the fall.[
April 29th, 2009 at 10:18 pmI couldn’t help but notice another shutout for Helen Thomas. What’s up with that? Am I missing something?
April 29th, 2009 at 10:18 pmHeavy is the Archie’s head that wears the Jughead’s crown…
April 29th, 2009 at 10:19 pmI wonder how much Obamas education cost him “out of pocket” and how much the tax payers paid? What a country!
April 29th, 2009 at 10:20 pmHave you forgotten that FOX is a broadcast network as well?
– Well sort of as I could careless what with have not tv and all. I notice you are real selective to avoid engaging in conversations with others. Is it that you are afraid you might be made to look foolish?
Just wondering…
April 29th, 2009 at 10:21 pmI posted a piece about rethugs and a chicken a couple of days ago.
Peck…play the race card.
Sound like our friend ConservativeForProgress?
In case ya missed it
http://www.counterpunch.org/green04242009.html
“Today’s conservatives remind me of nothing so much as an elderly lab chicken, used in countless undergrad psychology experiments, but now abandoned in its dotage. Over and over again, it keeps pecking the red bar, even though the last time a food pellet actually appeared was in 2004. Peck! Let’s play the race card! Peck! Let’s play the taxes card! Peck! Let’s play the deficits card! Peck! Let’s play the gay card! Peck! Let’s play the foreign bogeyman card! Peck! Peck! Peck!
Shit! No food pellets! The red bar is in tatters, the chicken’s beak is worn down to a nub, but still it pecks, and still no food pellets.”
David Michael Green
April 29th, 2009 at 10:22 pmmy mistake – he graduated magna cum laude , still very good.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:22 pmHi, dbadass, nothin’ much. What’s cooking?
Mycelium, sorry, I’m tired and a bit glazed, your eloquence went right over my head. (”I feel so stupid!”)
April 29th, 2009 at 10:22 pmSlappyBastinado, idiots like you who were impressed by Sarah Palin calling President Obama “not up to speed” is hilarious. You racist, trailer trash ignoramuses are an embarrassment to all normal Americans.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:22 pmSo you believe that Fox News gets as many viewers as the ABC, CBS and NBC news right?
April 29th, 2009 at 10:23 pmSlappyBastinado Says:
Simple soft ball questions makes the anointed one look like a girlie man.
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You seem to be out of step.
Bush left office months ago.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:24 pmslappy, obama stated that his college funding came from a combo of scholarships, loans and odd jobs.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:24 pmObserve classic wingnut behavior… the wingnut ponders a question that occurs to him but for which he has no answer…
then wingnut makes a judgment based on what he insinuates the answer to be.
What an ideolgy!
April 29th, 2009 at 10:24 pmAmerican Idol is hardly news but does raise FOX ratings..Doesnt anyone find it odd that a supposedly ‘conservative’ outlet relies on such shows as the Simpsons and the Family Guy?
April 29th, 2009 at 10:25 pmThat will really piss off every advertiser in the country because they have to pay way more money for ABC, CBS and NBC than any cable program. But you’d know better.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:26 pmShayne, whats with the hate? Those lines in your forehead are getting larger….FYI I am not an American….. I am a Cascadian Yeti thank you very much.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:26 pmHomer Simpson…the new conservative…
April 29th, 2009 at 10:26 pmOh I guess we ‘Miunderestimated’ Dubya. Being the President of the USA is not a job for fu(kups like Bush.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:27 pmThey’re whores haggling over price. Remember that Fox comes from 20th Century Fox. They were around a long time before this group of losers.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:28 pmFox was broadcasting “Lie to Me” on the East Coast.
So, same general theme as Obama.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:28 pmHE GRADUATED FIRST IN HIS CLASS FROM HARVARD LAW SCHOOL. STFU.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:29 pmYou must have mistaken me for somebody who gives a sh#t.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:30 pmYo ralph my locust…
April 29th, 2009 at 10:30 pmCheck it….
ConservativeForProgress is already doing the avoid game….
Obamas mother was a white American CFP.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:31 pmYou mean… same general theme as Faux News coverage of Obama.
But we get your point.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:31 pmShayne, you are hard to miss……………..it was you!
April 29th, 2009 at 10:31 pmdbadass, you’re a formidable force, dude. trolls know better than to tangle with you.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:31 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
The point is that he is not smart just because he went to Harvard, given the fact that but for his race, he may have never gotten into Harvard — in his own words. You can only get so far playing the race card.
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Wow… this doesn’t make the least bit of sense. Talk about incoherent nonsense.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:32 pmLOL, thats why I find FOX to be a conservative fraud.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:32 pmTaxpayers paid my college. Well not really, they paid only the interest on my loans for 60 months. However I know make enough to pay back way more than that interest in taxes taken out of my wages. Whats your point? Should we not pay for anyone’s college and just pay for jails instead? What a country!
April 29th, 2009 at 10:33 pmAnd you ignorant Republics (I’ll start calling you Republicans when you people start calling it the Democratic Party) believe the black man is keeping you down. Here’s a clue. It’s your own ignorance keeping you down. That and the fact that you let the powerful manipulate you because you’re chumps. Pathetic.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:33 pmFake News is part of a packaged deal – like Rush Lamebaugh’s show. Everytime I go to my gym, Fake News is on the TVs. I complained and the folks behind the front desk said there was nothing they could do.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:33 pmThat’s why we grade the trolls on a curve, TRoHS.
A very g e n e r o u s curve.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:34 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
Pretty stupid to snub the network with the #1 rating, but who ever accused him of being smart?
It was my understanding they weren’t airing the news conference anyways?
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ConservativeForProgress Says:
Anybody who uh um can’t uh um put an uh um coherent uh um sentence together with uh out uhum a teleprompter — is an um moron.
If you listen to the words Obama says that aren’t “um” instead of just listening to the “um’s” then you might find that he’s actually making some really smart points. But you are only capable of hearing the parts that benefit your side, so it doesn’t matter anyways.
Also, if “um” is the stupidest thing he’s ever said, then he’s already light-years beyond Bush. That’s the mark of somebody who’s actually thinking about what they’re saying.
And what he’s saying rocks.
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Doodlebug Shayne Says:
You think Fox has better ratings than ABC, CBS or NBC News? Are you insane?
No, they mean #1 if you combine FAUX News with the list of actual cable news channels. Sure, that’s a limited set, and sure, FAUX News isn’t a cable news channel but it’s #1 in some arbitrary limited set of channels as defined by them, so that’s got to account for something, yes?
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ConservativeForProgress Says:
Doodlebug, it is well documented that he was given preference on admissions for being part African-American. Please try to keep up.
Probably. And look at how well America benefited from it!
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ConservativeForProgress Says:
Now, where is it documented that W was a “legacy” admission to Harvard when neither of his parents went to Harvard?
Yale.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:35 pmJane:
April 29th, 2009 at 10:35 pmI have been having a littlebit of an unpset stomach.It is tragic what with the foods I have about been doing just some consommes till I pull it togehter…
Hey you stupid effing trolls, this thread is about how Obama didn’t call on FOX’s boy. If you’ve got a problem with that then address it.
It’s not about his grades or how he got into Harvard. Nor is it about how stupid effin Bush paid others to take his tests for him.
Get a clue. Your mindless, stupid and increasingly irrelevent.
Hallelujah!
April 29th, 2009 at 10:36 pmGO BO!!! Stick it to fake noise. Fcuk em! Obama should ban those clowns from ALL press conferences.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:36 pmhormiga brava chavez #113,
Get them to change the channel. If they can’t, you need to go to another gym.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:37 pmYou are too kind ralph. The problem seems that the number of fish has grown so small that by the time they hit the deck there are so many hooks that it is hard to decide who caught what.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:39 pmIt may be that FOX offered to install the cable service at no charge and this affects the way ratings are derived [CUME] The same thing was done with cable isntalled into traders offices which show financial guru Cramer. =)
April 29th, 2009 at 10:39 pmralph the wonder locust Says:
That’s why we grade the trolls on a curve, TRoHS.
A very g e n e r o u s curve.
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A little TOO generous, IMO, ralphie.
Saaay… is this some sort of affirmative action for trolls here?
April 29th, 2009 at 10:40 pmYou’re right, they didn’t give him these positions because he was bright. Idiot.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Really, think about it, suppose I was wanting to make a great profit while pushing my ideology, I offer many clubs, gyms, busniesses, eateries free cable if they agree to watch my cable channel. So what If I lose a little money on the installation of some cable and a TV when I am really looking for Nielsen ratings. And the longer a cable TV stays on my station the higher my Nielsen ratings go because of the way CUME is figured it appears I have many more viewers than there actually are..
April 29th, 2009 at 10:43 pmEeeeeggZAKlee.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:44 pmYeah, I’M the liar here, dumbass.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:44 pmI used to think you didn’t HAVE to be stupid to be a Repube but I’ve changed my mind.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:46 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
Good post, ElBruce. Now why can’t the rest of the libs be more like you?
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ConservativeForProgress Says:
Anybody who uh um can’t uh um put an uh um coherent uh um sentence together with uh out uhum a teleprompter — is an um moron.
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ConservativeForProgress Says:
Maybe the cocaine fried his brain.
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Oh… the irony.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:46 pmBINGO, BINGO, BINGO
April 29th, 2009 at 10:46 pmwho needs to call on fox when they’ve got that little byatch-boy from the WSJ there?
btw, does today shatter Dubbie’s record of time spent answering questions from the press, ’cause it sure seems like it must’ve.
that vacation day record, however, will probably stand for generations to come. righty presidents sure are a lazy bunch.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:50 pmNow, Shayne, don’t go jumping to unsupportable conclusions just to make a rhetorical point.
There are surely some Republics who are not stupid. For instance… Erik Prince, the guy who owns what used to be Blackwater. Being a Republic has worked out great for him. Made him rich. That may be a lot of things, but stupid ain’t one of ‘em.
An there must be thousands of guys like that. People who aren’t members of the Republic Party because they’re stupid, but because they know where their bread is buttered.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:50 pmXisithrus Says:
Really, think about it, suppose I was wanting to make a great profit while pushing my ideology, I offer many clubs, gyms, busniesses, eateries free cable if they agree to watch my cable channel.
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Hmmm…
***tap… tap…***
Sounds suspiciously similar to the way Limbaugh’s radio show is handed out FOR FREE in return for the advertising slots…
April 29th, 2009 at 10:51 pmJesus H. Christ on Pony on a Pogoball. I only reg’d on this site to point out to the rest of you that either ConservativeForProgress and dbadass work for thinkprogress.org to get you all fired up or they are merely loser Trolls trying to get you all fired up.
Why would anyone who would consider Fox News to be a reasonable source even visit this web site (and identify themselves as “progressive”) if it weren’t to cause a stir in the forum?
Ignore these clowns, please. This is just the age-old political tactic of changing the subject instead of answering the question or addressing the subject at hand. Perhaps we should thank Faux News for being so obvious about it that Smart Progs can recognize it when we see it.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:52 pmConservativeForProgress, I’m sure took your deserved spot at Harvard Law.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:54 pm*Im sure Obama took your spot–oops
April 29th, 2009 at 10:55 pmSkrambled
April 29th, 2009 at 10:55 pmFeel free to ignore….
Yes. Lets take AM for instance. It has much more coverage area because its AM. Therefore one can say I have X amount of listeners demographically. Of course not every republican in that area is listening to Limbaugh or the station he is on in that area.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:56 pmZingers lose their sting if key words are dropped.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:56 pmFOX NEWS. The most ignored news source in America.
FUTURE NEW SLOGAN. HAHAHAHAHAHA
April 29th, 2009 at 10:58 pmSkrambled
Feel free to ignore….
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April 29th, 2009 at 10:58 pmActually f uck that. Ask anything you wish and we can talk about it. What do you say Skrambled?
I doubt that CFP works for TP.
And dbadass? Please. Trolls avoid him like he was handing out clues.
But I do suspect troll jay of working for TP. And maybe Tracist_5.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:59 pmWhat the heck is a pogoball anyway,,,
April 29th, 2009 at 11:00 pmI’m sure my friends here will indulge me….
NEENER, NEENER, NEENER!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
~ A :o)
p.s. I *really* enjoyed that!!
April 29th, 2009 at 11:02 pmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolo_ball
April 29th, 2009 at 11:07 pm“It consists of a seamless figure-8 rubber ball locked into a structurally supported, sturdy plastic platform.”
And this fellow Jesus H. Christ would be on one of these things why?
April 29th, 2009 at 11:10 pmWatch faux s0il their h0ley, stretched-0ut, rubber-stamped panties.
HAHAHAHA
This will be bigger news on faux than tortured.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:10 pmOT but worth the space.
Some “Princeton” broad was on Rachel’s showing tonight, laughing about how no one shot at President Obama in his first 100 days.
WTF!
She also said some other pretty stupid shit.
I decided not to smashed my tv.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:37 pmTo the Concervative hung up on President Obama’s smarts, he never put his race on the Harvard application. So your assumption that he only got into Harvard based on affirmative action is false. As noted on this board Obama graduated at the top of his class he could not do that without smarts. On another note President Obama just finished paying off his college loans a couple of years ago so that shuts down another one of your false assumptions.
Just a brief word on affirmative action, it only gets you in the door. If you do not have the smarts you will not be able to keep up the grades therefore you are out. So equating affirmative action with smarts is not a valid argument. By the way,women have been the biggest beneficiaries of AF. As for the teleprompter, he only uses it on prepared statements. You conservatives need to remember that the Bushies and Ronnie Reagan all used teleprompters. Therefore, I am not sure what your dig is here. President Obama has done more Q&A sessions then GWB did in his whole term.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:48 pmNo doubt the President knows of Faux’s vitriolic attackes. And still Faux has been called on 2 out of 3 times.
Sounds to me like they’re getting positive preferential attention over all the other reporters in the room.
Can’t wait to hear them whine that they haven’t been called on 3 out of 3 times.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:20 amGood. I hope this is a trend that begins now and continues throughout the remainder of Barack’s first term and through the entirety of his second term.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:25 amObama called on Major Garrett the last two(2) press conferences and what does Garrett do he shows up at the White House in his underwear, those people have no respect for this president, they don’t deserve to be called on. They are a political commentary network anyway, they are not a news channel.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:32 amDon’t feed the trolls! Why respond to people who’s biggest argument against Obama is that he reads from a teleprompter and went to Harvard.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:54 amVfunkymofo Says:
Don’t feed the trolls! Why respond to people who’s biggest argument against Obama is that he reads from a teleprompter and went to Harvard.
Because it’s easy?
April 30th, 2009 at 1:14 amNO QUESTIONS>>>>> GUESS THEY WILL HAVE TO GO WITH PLAN B —> FOX NEWS ALERT “PARIS HILTON GETS NEW SHOES”
April 30th, 2009 at 2:01 amYou know who else wasn’t granted a question at Obama’s press conference?
Nickelodeon.
Stop the presses!
April 30th, 2009 at 2:22 amConservativeForProgress Says:
You can only get so far playing the race card
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Have you told the Rethugs that yet?
Fix News will probably send Ambusher O’Reilly’s Goon Squad out, now that Fix News was not granted a question?
April 30th, 2009 at 5:32 amConservativeForProgress Says:
Another lie from Doodle Brain. Obama did not graduate first in his class. Why lie?
Obama entered Harvard Law School in late 1988. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,[34] and president of the journal in his second year.[35] During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as a summer associate at the law firms of Sidley & Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.[36] After graduating with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) magna cum laude[37][38] from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.[34] Obama’s election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review gained national media attention[35] and led to a publishing contract and advance for a book about race relations,[39] though it evolved into a personal memoir. The manuscript was published in mid-1995 as Dreams from My Father.[39]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama#Early_life_and_career
Moron. I bet you don’t know what a magna cum laude is. Don’t you. Get an education…. Oh wait….
April 30th, 2009 at 5:43 am“Some Enchanted Evening….”
The mainstream press served up 13 softballs to Barry (B.O.)…and it took an hour for the Teleprompter to answer them!
…and why would a President want the power to push a button to get a Bank…to do what HE WANTS?
Absolute power. Zig Heil
April 30th, 2009 at 7:31 amFAUX = Imitation Nooz
April 30th, 2009 at 7:48 amGood morning Dummy! You do realize the “bailout” was really a loan and that money has to be paid back, right? And you do realize that GM is now owned mainly by the Union at @ 55% and the US government owns the rest, right? Once GM gets back on it’s feet, it will most likely buy out America’s portion. How does that sound?
And remember when Ronnie Raygun yelled at the air traffic controller Union members to get back to work back in the 1980’s? Say wha? ABSOLUTE ABUSER OF POWER! How dare he tell US citizens to get back to work! Who the hell did he think he was, huh?!!!!
Oh wait! You’re part of the 21% of republicans in America! You’re stupid. Nevermind.
Still concerned about the use of a teleprompter? Wow neocon, you’re reaching! Of course, George Bush used a teleprompter for 8 years, Sarah Palin used a teleprompter to campaign and as Governor of Alaska, McCain can’t function even with a teleprompter, and Rush Limbaugh because of years of snorting OXYCONTIN up his nose has to rely on a teleprompter because his ears are shot!
Did you understand President Obama’s responses to his questions last night? Oh wait! They were too intellectual for the republican party to understand! You ninnies are used to hearing cowboy jokes as an answer to deflect the truth away! Nevermind.
April 30th, 2009 at 8:03 amRC,
Your pain = our gain.
Stupid chump.
April 30th, 2009 at 8:07 amRe: 158- “Intrepid”-
Somebody tell ConTURD for progress- though it’s Wikipedia-
April 30th, 2009 at 8:09 amThose little numbers- the ones after a sentence, in BRACKETS- those are called citations- what you, uh- READ- to uh, verify where someone gets their FACTS from.
I know the concept is difficult for shit- for brains CONTURDS who’d rather ‘lissin ther news, or look at it on FoKKKs. “Reading” to them is Ann Coulter or Jerome Corsi, and the few who do are factually challenged.
Teleprompters? The Chimp still bungled every other word, butchered the English language and erred in content, grammer and syntax, and context, every time he opened his mouth.
April 30th, 2009 at 8:15 amAnd THAT was when he wasn’t being plain STUPID, like “Bring ‘em on”, “Wher’s them pesky WMD’s” while searching the dais, or Re: bin Laden- “I really don’t know where he is, and really don’t think much about him”
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April 30th, 2009 at 8:30 amIf anyone was an affirmative action student, it was George W. Bush. He got into Yale through the oldest affirmative action program in the country, the legacy program where sons and daughters of alumni are admitted despite less-than-stellar grades. How he got into Harvard graduate business school with a C- average is not clear, but he obviously learned nothing at Harvard because he ran every business save one but including the U.S. into the ground. That one was the Texas Rangers, where he managed to have a stadium built on the backs of taxpayers. And as for the teleprompter issue, you can’t use a teleprompter at a press conference because you have no idea what the questions will be. (Silly of posters to even bring that up.) It was such a pleasure to listen to Obama answer questions last night. He spoke in complete sentences and actually answered each question! I could never listen to Bush’s press conferences without wincing in pain the whole way through his attempts to answer questions other than the ones asked.
There would be no difference between Obama taking a question from Fox or taking a question from the Boner. It would be the same Republican talking point crap and not productive anyway.
April 30th, 2009 at 8:42 amGood! THE HELL WITH FOX NEWS! Most pathetic excuse for a cable news network ever! Hell, even conservatives know FOX News is biased!
April 30th, 2009 at 8:47 amThe Repuglicons have nothing positive to say about President Obama, so they attack him relentlessly with their trivia, hate, and mindlessness. Seriously, does anyone really believe the American public will oppose Obama simply because he uses a teleprompter during his delivery of prepared speeches? I think not. You Repugs out there are achieving your leadership goals; reduction of your party to a small group of hard-core fascists we’ll be able to drown in a cement pond. The Repugs’ chickens are, indeed, coming home to roost. Where’s your “permanent major” Mr. Turd Blossom?
Since Faux has been identified as the propaganda arm of the Repuglicon (National Socialist) Party, it’s incumbent on liberals to ignore them, totally. Why should they be legitimized and treated with respect by Liberals when they’ve demonstrated their hate and disrespect for anything sane.
I agree with the sentiment that Faux should be banned from the White House, period.
April 30th, 2009 at 9:02 amRealityCheck Says:
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“Some Enchanted Evening….”
The mainstream press served up 13 softballs to Barry (B.O.)…and it took an hour for the Teleprompter to answer them!
April 30th, 2009 at 9:27 am=======================================================
If you ever become inquisitive enough to wonder why your party is going out of business, look in the mirror.
Of course he didn’t. It was a pressconference, not a tabloid Q&A. Hell, even the National Enquirer has more journalistic integrity than Faux. They shouldn’t even be allowed at the events, because they aren’t a news network. They’re legally allowed to lie without telling anyone they’re lying. The President should ignore them completely. It would have been better had he actually mentioned precisely why he wasn’t going to take a question from them at the very beginning of the conference. It would have been hilarious. But alas, he’s too classy and diplomatic to do something like that.
April 30th, 2009 at 9:41 amRealityCheck Says:
…and it took an hour for the Teleprompter to answer them!
But he didn’t use a teleprompter to answer them. That wouldn’t have been possible. In fact, bringing up the already-ridiculous “teleprompter” thing in reference to a conference where he spoke extemporaneously at length would be a bad idea even if you did have some sort of actual point.
The reason it took him a long time was because he had a lot to say. Didn’t you hear any of the many things he said? You lot are profoundly, staggeringly, stupid.
You are never going to regain political relevance until you start admitting some basic, blatantly obvious facts of reality. As long as you hoot and jeer that somebody like Barack Obama is unintelligent or uneloquent, nobody – not just libs but nobody – is going to listen to a word any of you say about anything else. That means fewer votes every election cycle.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:17 amIt’s just politics… you don’t want to air my speech, you won’t be aloud to ask a question.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:19 amI’m enchanted by the shrinking size of the irrelevant GOP as of late.
Watching FAUX today and they are LIVID about Obama “dissing” teabaggers. LOL! I’m watching FAUX with my tin foil hat on so I’m not affected by their crap.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:22 amWhy legitimize the most un-American fake news broadcast anyway?
April 30th, 2009 at 10:26 amI can imagine the heads of Hannity, Cavuto, O’Reilly, and Beck spinning right about now. Delicious.
April 30th, 2009 at 10:29 amEarlier this year, Comcast changed the channel line up here by moving E! next to FNC, replacing TRU, hmmm!
April 30th, 2009 at 10:36 amSeems fair….
Now how are we going to get Jake Tapper to actually cry…..?
April 30th, 2009 at 11:24 amralph the wonder locust Says:
dbadass, you’re a formidable force, dude. trolls know better than to tangle with you.
Oh yea…he’s a regular “King of the Keyboards” he is…just watch him cuss out anyone who doesn’t believe in his narrow minded liberal causes! He is a TOOL…plain and simple…just like Barry O.
I find it so humorous that the Great New York Times…who prides itself on asking the TOUGH questions…actually asked B.O. how enchanted he was with his new job? Wow…now that was powerful folks! Hard hitting…big time news!
The reason why he didn’t call on Major Garrett of Fox…was because he just might have been asked an actual question on the economy…which has actually shrunk 6%…for the first time in 51 years…UNDER HIS WATCH!
So much for his projected growth…for the repayment on the DemocRATic packages they forced through in his first 50 days! After he totally bankrupts the economy during his 4 years in office…another Republican will have to come in and fix it for sure.
But you go Teleprompter…George Soro’s I mean? Look how old George was able to grow his wealth another 12% this last year while most regular people lost their shirts and retirements. Yep…you liberals keep drinking G.S.’s & B.O.’s kool-aid…ya bunch of retards!
April 30th, 2009 at 11:42 amI know you are, RC, but what am I?
Fox is the Special Ed of cable news, and you are it’s #1 helmeted, shortbus-riding fan.
Please try not to go off and shoot some innocents, wouldja?
April 30th, 2009 at 11:56 amp.s. – Man up, and join us on some of today’s threads, ya big sissy.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:58 amRealityChick, How’s that “lying” thing working for you? Are you one of those “dito heads”?
April 30th, 2009 at 12:07 pmOh, and RealityChick, it’s Barak Obama the Messiah to you. Now go put your tin foil hat back on and turn off FAUX Noise and Slush Rimjob.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:14 pmYou never did respond to my comment about B.O. having to answer the tough…hard hitting…NY Times question? No wonder that Rag is going broke!
April 30th, 2009 at 12:20 pmGood for him, he’s finally realizing that if you reach out to a Conservative, you are just gonna’ get bit.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:21 pmY’know RC, there is a daily “ThinkFast” thread, but there is no special status to gain in hanging out on these stale ones trying to “StinkLast”.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:26 pmWe’re sorry, RealityChick, for not answering your irrelevant question. Our teleprompter broke. Please wait here and we’ll answer it as soon as we repair the problem.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:33 pmThere’s nothing wrong about not giving a News Organization the opportunity for question if they are not carrying the News Conference.
April 30th, 2009 at 1:19 pmThe producers of News at Fox have always been under the Doctrine to “Foxify” the news. That used to mean writing their copy to present the topic as happening now as opposed to having happened already.
Now they just blatantly sensationalize or add elements to the copy to support the story they want it to be as opposes to what it is. For example. Take a non-news item. Some poor little kid ate too much cake at the birthday party and got sick. Not news.
Fox it up: (Graphics in RED and File tape of Ambulances)
No word from authorities if this youngster is a victim of the the fast-spreading and deadly swine flu pandemic … but, this afternoon the youngster was caught blowing lunch at a gathering of young people worshiping a Circus Clown who made graven images out of all things … balloons. The violently ill youngster is recovering and the other children placed in quarantine until its certain they aren’t infected with the dedly virus that will kill all of us.” (Ad-lib) ,,, and, you see Mary Beth, I have my own personal face mask that I’m putting on right now … and I’m not taking it off for 72 Hours or these Caged Canary’s I bought fall-off the perch on to the New York Times at the bottom of the cage … sho says newspapers are dying”?
Hey dstinkass…how is your Anti-American self doing?
April 30th, 2009 at 2:55 pmHas Major Garrett said what he would have asked Obama had he been called on? I’m guessing it would have to do with teabagging, but who knows…
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May 1st, 2009 at 8:50 amYou know, I’ve read most of what you dim-witted lefties have written about Fox News, but two things are obvious: Obama simply didn’t call on the Fox News reporter because Fox News turned down his request to air the THIRD orchestrated speech (this was no press conference) in THREE months, and Oblunder was simply pouting. That’s one a month, which is totally unprecedented, and WAY too much from ANY president. My God, the guy has a case of diarrhea of the mouth for pete-sake! The other thing that’s patently obvious is that while you sit there and wring your hands over your hatred for Fox News, you never mention the fact that they are the NUMBER ONE cable news show, and their ratings supremely kick the butts of NBC, CBS, ABC, CNBC, MSNBC and probably a couple of others COMBINED! The mainstream media’s ratings are in the toilet! O’Reilly has the most popular cable news program and has been number one for an unprecedented 101 months straight! I actually think it was pretty generous that Fox news broadcast this “Obama 100 Day Media Love Fest” (How Enchanting!) live on their news channel. If it were up to me, I wouldn’t have wasted the time.
May 1st, 2009 at 5:58 pmHatred for news stations is wrong. A very immature, arrogant and undemocratic stance against Americans says that any one news station should be denied questions. As Americans, we all have a right to hold our government accountable, whether we totally agree or not.
May 3rd, 2009 at 9:32 pmHas Major Garrett said what he would have asked Obama had he been called on? I’m guessing it would have to do with teabagging, but who knows…
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