Network Executives Get No Pity
August 3, 2009 / 10:26 am • By Dr. Melissa ClouthierLosing $40 million to host the Obama gab-fests? Turning into a big propaganda arm for the Leftist government? Selling your soul and your credibility to be pals with your ideological hero? Poor, poor television networks.
If the major networks go over the economic edge because their lips are forever locked on the President’s butt, may they all go down in a ball of flames together. That network executives said yes for fear of being out of favor with this administration speaks volumes about not only the President’s tactics but about their own ideological bent.
Like I said way back, he conducts press conferences like he’s daring any reporter to ask a tough question. They will comply or they will be cut off. He holds the power and the reporters better acknowledge it by obsequious behavior….or else. There is always a threat inferred or implied when dealing with Barack Obama.
In short, spare me the crocodile tears. The networks essentially told President Bush to Eff Off for eight years and coverage was anything but fair–it was nearly always hostile. Ironically, President Bush respected the networks’ profit needs. And now, Obama acts, surprise!, entitled to network time whenever he wants it. And the networks do not deny him. They dare not–as if they want deny him anyway. They desire to please the master, so they comply, willingly.
3 Responses to “Network Executives Get No Pity”
August 3 2009 / 1:18 pm
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Oooooo! I get a “tingle down my leg” when you go medieval on the enemy(MSM, The ‘Bamster, etc…)
I know you have a lot of different(too many?) things going on, but I, for one would LOVE to see some in-depth commentary on M. Malkin’s and Ann Coulter’s latest books. I want to see, like, “Top Ten Totally Nails Them” lists, and/or dissection of specific sub-themes, or the expansion on points immediate appropriate in the news, or whatever. They are both my “White Knights” and are constantly spilling pearls of wisdom from lips and print. Maybe you have done some that my 50+ hour work week is causing me to miss.
I am SERIOUSLY toying with the idea of dropping internet service for an indefinite period(as a non-vital monthly expense)and I need some reasons to change my mind…
August 3 2009 / 3:40 pm
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George W. Bush and press conferences?
All I’ve got to say is Jeff Gannon.
I don’t think Obama will be able to top that!
August 3 2009 / 11:43 pm
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J, you would probably love listening to Orly Taitz, too.
You might, howver, be a bit mistaken in thnking those pearls before Malkin or Coulter came from them. Those things are just cast there as a reminder of what those idiots represent.