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Why President Obama Skipped 'Meet the Press'(T-E-L-E-P-R-O-M-P-T-E-R!)
Newsday.com ^ | March 19, 2009 | Verne Gay | Off Camera

Posted on 03/19/2009 5:12:14 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay

THE SHOW "Meet the Press," hosted by David Gregory.

WHEN|WHERE Sundays at 10:30 a.m. on WNBC/4

REASON TO WATCH That is the question, and one President Barack Obama apparently asked himself, too, as he bypassed TV's venerable Sunday news institution for another show on the very same network - "The Tonight Show" - where he'll appear tonight to talk about the stimulus package.

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The president's decision to slip past "Meet the Press" would seem like a massive diss of new host Gregory - in the job three months - but this is politics, and politics is to a certain degree about expediency. The expedient choice for Obama was "Tonight," where he'll talk about an enormously complex plan that will affect every man, woman and child in the country until the day they die - while cracking a few jokes in the process. Still begs the question, though: Why Jay Leno instead of Gregory?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; gregory; leno; meetthepress; teleprompter
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To: fight_truth_decay
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41 posted on 03/19/2009 6:29:05 AM PDT by halfright (My presidents picture is in the dictionary, next to the word, "rectum".)
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To: Eroteme
If people start turning from him because he comes off as incompetent boob without his teleprompter, that works too.

This is why he has teleprompters in EVERY venue, and refuses to speak without one. ALL he has is image.

42 posted on 03/19/2009 6:29:11 AM PDT by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Mygirlsmom

Obama IS the American Idol. Now fall to the floor and worship your Messiah!

(/Leno)


43 posted on 03/19/2009 7:51:28 AM PDT by dangus
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To: sausageseller

**Bam is taking Idol’s time slot next week**

And all the starry-eyed ‘o’ cultists ooh and ahh.

I won’t be watching.


44 posted on 03/19/2009 9:10:23 AM PDT by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: Neverforget01

LOL! Not at all! Enjoy! :o)


45 posted on 03/19/2009 9:10:31 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: fight_truth_decay
[Eventually, the snubbing of the press will come back to haunt the Great One. . .]

What is also coming into play in this arena is the stark recognition by the U.S. news media that Barack Obama’s reckless economic experiment is undermining the news industry's own shaky financial foundation.

46 posted on 03/19/2009 9:49:29 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: McGruff

Bump


47 posted on 03/19/2009 11:40:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin (Mornie` utulie`. Mornie` alantie`.)
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To: fight_truth_decay
reaganobama

Wish we had a real leader again? At least you can still (for the moment) mock the current one. Click on the picture to view the teleprompter graphic thread.

48 posted on 03/19/2009 12:19:37 PM PDT by Nateman (Could he pour piss out of a boot with teleprompter directions on the heel?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
"...reckless economic experiment is undermining the news"

Riots in Marseilles France as rioters are demanding the Obama stimulus package implemented - they want theirs like those getting their mortgages paid for and car payments made - while Président Nicolas Sarkozy is giving tax credits to business to achieve more jobs etc The rioters are saying Sarkozy is rewarding the rich. They want what Obama is doing in the US. The media has become so biased in their reporting on Obama that these people think Obama is a hero and is solving the world financial problems and that Sarkozy who is conservative only giving breaks to his rich friends. Président is trying to bring his country out of full blown socialism. It may be too late to achieve with a dangerous man (because of his inexperience) like Obama in office preaching America's socialism plan by the give-a-way of "free money" and the financial castration of all the rich.

49 posted on 03/19/2009 6:32:46 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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To: Neverforget01

LOL!!!!!!!!!!


50 posted on 03/19/2009 6:54:39 PM PDT by Lizavetta (Politicians: When they're not lying, they're stealing.)
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To: Nateman

Check out post 21.


51 posted on 03/19/2009 9:45:40 PM PDT by Lizavetta (Politicians: When they're not lying, they're stealing.)
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