GWB Presser Tonight - Thursday, April 28, 2005, 8 pm EDT

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Ought to be "interesting".

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/28/bush.prime.time/index.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

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[Kennedy 0]

Not exactly going to be a defining moment of his administration. Blah.

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Not exactly going to be a defining moment of his administration. Blah.

You're right.

However, in light of the fact that his approval rating is at the lowest it's -ever- been (45%) it's still "interesting" to see how he handled questions regarding a number of issues. At the end of last November he said he had political capital to spend . . . looks like his pocketbook is empty now.

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[kallend 2,148]

Funny that:

1. He talks over and over of increasing America's energy independence, when we don't have an energy independence to increase. We have a serious DEPENDENCE.

2. None of his suggestions on energy address any fuel economy requirements. No reason for anyone to give up their gas guzzling Hummer.

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It was funny and sad all at the same time, although the plot was weak and the character even weaker. His message was the same rhetoric he has been spewing from day one. Reality TV.

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It was funny and sad all at the same time, although the plot was weak and the character even weaker. His message was the same rhetoric he has been spewing from day one. Reality TV.

Although I didn't watch it, I thought it ironic that the major networks had to be "convinced" to air the press conference. Apparently it's the start of "sweeps week" and the networks thought that was more important

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. . . and the networks thought that was more important.

It's an interesting and "difficult" decision. Imagine a store being told it had to close down for a couple of hours during the Christmas season, which is essentially what "sweeps" is to television. It's where they "make" their money (set their ad rates).

This was -not- a Presidential announcement, it was a Presidential press conference. Since it was never implied that there was a "timeliness" to the information, mearly question taking and answers of relatively known positions, it could be logically argued that all of the information certainly -could- wait until the 11 o'clock news.

Had the press conference actually been about something substantive, for instance an announcement the U.S. was going to invade Korea, rest assured there wouldn't have been even a moment where ther networks would have considered not covering it.

As it was, the networks gave GWB a "freebie" to promote his agenda. Yeah, the "liberal" controlled media -gave- GWB an hour of programming so that he could promote his views of his programs. None of which were in question. He didn't really say anything new.

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