Friday, May 1, 2009

-Is America Less "Enchanted" With Obama?

According to Nielson's ratings, President Obama's latest prime time press conference held to celebrate the 100 days since his Coronation was viewed by 29 percent less people than his last. It should be mentioned that Fox carried its drama "Lie to Me", which made a mere ten networks carrying the speech as opposed to eleven. To steal a joke, how would Fox viewers know the difference? They pretty much lucked out. Between the President talking circles around a select few legitimate questions, viewers were subjected to such hardballs as the question asked by the New York Times reporter that went as follows: "During these first 100 days, what has surprised you the most about this office, enchanted you the most about serving in this office, humbled you the most and troubled you the most?"

Instead of asking questions about, oh, I don't know, an international pandemic or the possibility of a nuclear armed, powerful terrorist organization, we get this question that could have been written by his mother. That's the New York Times, and that's why they're begging for a bailout from their buddy Barack. To be fair, the press on the whole did a little better with their questions, but that only caused The Great Orator to put his ability to not answer questions in 6000 words to less to greater use.

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