This is a great speech, but - yet again - President Bush is speaking during the day while most people are at work, school, doctor appointments, etc.
Geesh, why not give these fabulous speeches during prime time, the best he can across the eastern, central, mountain and Pacific time zones?
'cause the sheeple get pi$$ed when he pre-empts Lost or 24 or whatever is on this season.
Shalom.
This would have been an excellent speech to give during prime time this evening.
Even worse, here in Dallas all the local network affiliates and talk radio stations cut away from the speech less than 15 minutes into it, before he got to the most important parts, before the discussion of specific terror attacks that had been thwarted. Just loved how the supposed news station, KRLD, cut it off by saying "You've been listening to the President discussing changes to the Guantanamo program" before it had even been discussed. I was livid, and fired off several phone calls just now to these stations, but one would hope that Tony Snow learns a lesson and puts these on prime time from now on, where such dispicable acts by the Treasonous Media (to try and stifle unfiltered/unspun facts and damning refutations of their created myths) will be on full display.
Geesh, why not give these fabulous speeches during prime time, the best he can across the eastern, central, mountain and Pacific time zones?
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President Bush is energized by talking to People, not TV cameras. Remember how stiff he was years ago when he sat at his Oval Office desk or stood at a podium in a hallway of the White House, to deliver important prime-time messages. So many viewers who were not his voters, saw little to recommend him (and thus his words) to them.
A venue like today, in a room packed with involved people, brings all his passion into view. His team have obviously decided that this packs more punch than the deer-in-the-headlights-teleprompter-reader look.