From the Mouths of Total Babes
March 19th, 2009 - 9:14 pm
My bride comments on the President’s primetime press conference next Tuesday pushing the new episode of “Bones” back a week:
I think the President should only be allowed to interrupt my television when he’s doing something right.
Amen, honey.
I’m still upset at Carter for pre-empting the pilot of the original Battlestar Galactica…
and I didn’t even watch the show.
If Carter had pre-empted the entire original Galactica, he’d have two terms and his sweater would be in the Smithsonian rather than Fred Rodgers’.
Daggit!
Given his recent stint on Leno, why doesn’t he just appear as a guest star?
Primetime press conferences serve what purpose again? Yeah I know fodder for us to write about. But what else> I hate to sound like a kook conspiracy monger, but it seems, the President understands that making the media more prominent by having primetime pressers helps him spread his narrative via the appeased media gods.
I’d much rather him, you know, hire a freakin Treasury department, than interrupt my non political hours.
I still wonder what compels the networks to feel the need to run with it, since anyone who wants to watch can find it on C-Span, PBS, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, Telemundo, CNBC, BBC, the internet, the local Hopeychangeyhemanwomanhaters Clubhouse, and just about everyplace else. It’s not like there will be any shocking developments anyhow.
When it was a Republican president, they were often very strict in applying their standard of “newsworthiness” and deciding not to run with it.
I do believe Obama could go on primetime to recite the lyrics to “Doo-Wakka-Doo” all night long, and the networks would pre-empt their highest-rated programming to run it.
Bones is on Thursdays, right? Or is Fox moving next Tuesday’s line-up to Thursday?
At least he had enough sense not to do it to “24″