Big Four to pass on Bush speech

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/television/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000517325

The broadcast networks are not expected to carry President Bush's primetime speech tonight, in which he will lay out a "clear strategy" for the future of Iraq.

... NBC, Fox and ABC will proceed with their scheduled programming for the 8-9 p.m. hour -- an episode of "Fear Factor," the finale of "The Swan" and the broadcast premiere of Oscar-winning "A Beautiful Mind," respectively.

that no one wants to watch the lying bastard any more. Everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie.

"The lying Bastard," perfect!:)

FILTHY AND DISGUSTING

Junior is irrelevant.

...the weatherman who prerecorded his forecasts.

All they have to do is just show one of his past speeches - they're all exactly the same. In fact now that I think of it, they may already be doing that.

...are they? The major networks have been burnt too many times by junior.

I don't think the majors see even a sparkle of anything that could be seriously new.

fucking looney.....

Why have the networks stopped playing along? Strange.

If Chimp "answered" questions they'd cover it, it may come to that.

His ratings have fallen so low, the continuing prison abuse scandal, his face so messed up, the wedding party video, Gen. Zinni's interview on 60 minutes last night, and much, much more that people will probably be laughing at Dumya tonite and turning the channel...

Major news networks are all about money, so they are choosing what will get them the most business or maybe they truly are trying to "help" Bush by "just not showing him"....

I am tuning in just for good laughs and lots of :puke: :puke: :puke:

"arm-twisting", and we may end up seeing one or two of the majors carrying the speech. If that doesn't happen, it will be an indication of just how serious the erosion of power is for the Bushies, so much so, it truly could herald the end of this mis-administration.

Come on networks!!! Hold your ground! We don't need to see more recycled lies and propaganda!!

iow- you want your son's speech televised..
we need to get paid because of the fall in ratings..

The broadcast networks would be crazy to send viewers to cable/satellite stations.....

even though this is not a news event, but just more of the same lies

As someone pointed out above, it's May sweeps. The time when the networks go for their big hits so they can set higher advertising rates based on viewership. Chimpy stumbling and fumbling through a clueless speech with his marked-up face just doesn't translate into hard viewer numbers. And those pretty boys and girls gots to get paid. So, Chimpy and his "new clear vision" are off the menu tonight.

Who wants to watch Boy George prevaricate anyway?

Ewwwww. He's even grosser looking now than he usually is.

The Chimp is being relegated to the diaper dump of history...

I'd drop them all a line to thank them but it would be too obvious.

I'll sure record this speech, though. Can't wait to learn new syntax.

This is odd.

Was Bush planning on taking questions after he layed out his plan?

If not, I could see why the networks would bail on it.

and maybe that has come to me "proganda rightwing"?

Maybe he's afraid of the "vomiting on the foreign dignitary" - physical weakness stigma of Bush I

I'd guess that it's about having him not seen in his condition. I believe that's how trite these foolish beings are.

Funny thing is- his condition isn't physical.

they don't want to show his face looking like it is...i'm sure it's something shallow like that.

If nobody watches the speech, the pundits can all go on afterwards and tell everybody how brilliant, masterful, authoritative, resolute, whatever AWOL was, and that will become the standard description of his speech, even if he actually spends the entire time sweating, blinking his eyes into the camera, and telling stupid pointless "jokes" and repeating meaningless tag lines.

Not that this scenario has actually ever HAPPENED, of course. I'm just guessing . . . x(

the networks are saving * from having to face dismal ratings, or worse.

:spank: I'd love to see whether he will continue to give these planned speeches now that the networks won't be carrying them.

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http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war34.html
(The link has the whole much too funny there)

Hahaha. That's got me lauging.

Um, no. That's got me really pissed, now that I think about it.

What's worse, is I'll never see the word strategy the same way. For the rest of my life, it's strategery. God DAMNIT!!!

:)

The trick is it just one removed of the affable salesman. One of the best things about Humor can get to look at things different than you would otherwise be able to do.

If you can get past the hate and look at * as just a tool of the grippers of power use to screw the rest of us, then it could all make much more sense. (see bag of hammers)

bwa-HAAAAAH!

that the disease from which Stephen Hawking suffers -- ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a.k.a. Lou Gehrig's Disease) -- does not affect one's mental capacities. Other than that, he is dead on.

That seemed to be the point he was making: that if Bush's speech was physically impaired (like Hawking's is), few people would be picking on him for it -- but when he's more or less healthy, and still talks like he has some kind of medical handicap, you have to wonder about the mind picking out the words.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/24/opinion/polls/main619122.sht...

Mr. Bush's overall job approval rating has continued to decline. Forty-one percent approve of the job he is doing as president, while 52 percent disapprove — the lowest overall job rating of his presidency. Two weeks ago, 44 percent approved. A year ago, two-thirds did.

Sixty-one percent of Americans now disapprove of the way Mr. Bush is handling the situation in Iraq, while just 34 percent approve.


People are also angry about the rising gas prices.

Let's hope Bush's corporate sponsors start dumping him too.

Guess they figure he'll shoot himself in the foot again and won't cover it cause it'll just make him look worse, if that's possible.

"We lie. You decide."

The Bush Administration hasn't even requested the speech to be carried. They will push the same banal BS tonight and then FoxNews, Rush, et. al. will declare how it was the most groundbreaking brilliant speech ever and since a vast majority of America won't have seen it, they will all begin to nod their head and say "Wow, Bush really clarified his position, FoxNews is saying he did."

That is what the chimp-people want because he looks really bad on TV.

What they want is for live broadcast blanked so all his mispronounciations and murderous syntax/diction not shown to the public.

Then only the text of his speech makes news and he looks eloquent and cogent to the sheeple. They can also spin it the way they want as opposed to Dan Rather and Peter Jennings telling it like it is.

If Faux has gone along, it is a damn setup.

no questions - no coverage. They aren't going to cut nto their sweeps programming to carry a campaign speech. And after Bush's last disasterous attempt at answering questions, we can be sure there will be no questions tonight.

As well as his forked tongue. Clear strategy.

And look, the BIG FOUR have colluded to prevent our seeing his incompetence....

Gosh ... such a tough choice. :eyes:

... hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Maybe his banged-up face looks too gory for primetime!

Faux will cover it ... the cable news channels are covering. I'll be watching ... cuz I want to know the secret to the magic trick. Cuz it's going to take David Copperfield, Penn, Teller, the Amazing Kreskin, Harry Blackstone Jr. and the late Doug Henning and Harry Houdini to effect this Iraqi power turnover by June 30. It's all a grand illusion.

Why should they give him any air time?

This isn't a matter of the networks not running it because it won't get ratings. This is a Rove decision. How is Bush going to defend the recent scandals and the continuing failure in Iraq? It's just going to be more bogus BS propaganda. And of course, no questions = no entertainment. And if Rove hadn't already made the decision not to have it run on the networks, I'll bet Bush's recent spill on his bicycle was the determining factor.

These speeches were meant for propaganda purposes only - what else could they be good for? Bush doesn't give six speeches on prime time for nothing.

While it's only a beginning, the Mighty Wurlitzer will no longer play 'Hail to the Chief' on command in deference to public trauma from 9/11.

Now if we can get 'M.A.S.H.' back on TV, maybe Americans will reconsider the lessons learned in Vietnam.

Maybe. For about 3 years before the next great adventure.

:toast:

Just sayin'

-as

That was the only reason it got on and stayed on the air
from 9/72 through 1982(?). The Vietnam War was going on for the first three years it was on the air. Nam was already considered a syndrome and was becoming a nickname for theology-based slaughter, quagmire, mismanagment, and profiteering.

One re-run deserves another.

Now there are many TV shows portraying the military and CIA as the good guys doing noble things against faceless evil. James Bond is back without the Austin Powers satire. Cold War II is now successfully injected into the public mind and linquistics.

Coming this fall: 'Homeland Security' to continue the brainwashing and re-militarization of our culture. Created with the helpful advice of Homeland Security, Inc., of course.

Can you say "product placement"? I knew you could...

That would be sure to grab the interest of the majors...or, he could try stand-up, juggling, or maybe sprinkle his repartie with a bit of song.

Imagine, only six more months of having this POS as our CIC.

FUGW

-sorry, how often do you get to use the word 'drub' in a pun?

there is nothing he can say short of "I resign" that would get my attention. I will rely on my good friends here at DU to give the highligts of his speech...if there are any.

especially nbc..
outside of cnn, they have been his stauchest media supporters by far.

Whats up with this?

What does ol Bar think about this, I wonder? How does it register in HER "beautiful mind"?

Beautiful Irony, I think.

If so, that is a load of crap! Randi Rhodes gets twice as many listeners as O'Reilly gets viewers, and the big three totally cream Fox News.

More people watch HBO, for gawd's sake.

is the fourth. I wonder if w* fucked his face up on purpose, consciencely or not. This makes me wonder if the boy king* is just getting I'll take my ball and go home blues again.

When was the last time PBS carried a president's speech live?

I think you're mistaken.

Carry major speeches & (rare) press conferences--just like the Big 3.

Tonight, they've got "Colonial House".

Fox is now indeed considered to be the fourth major network. In fact, their overall ratings puts them ahead of ABC and just behind CBS & NBC, thanks to American Idol and the rest of their reality show lineup. Meanwhile, Fox News scores more viewers in its primetime lineup than either CNN or MSNBC and claims to have more viewers in the daytime than its other two competitors.

Strictly entertainment with very little truth, if any!

Come to think of it, someone might want to record this. If he's going to throw something out there that he doesn't want most of the country to hear, he's going to say it on a night when none of the networks are carrying him.

I'm setting my DishPVR as soon as I post this.

Read the article. ;) Not Fox the TV station, but Fox news is...and the fourth is CBS, who supposedly hadn't made up their mind but is included in the four.

Thanks.

for the time specifically. So who knows? (If they ask, do they say, yes siree boss, anything you say?) Or is SWEEPS bigger than any damn war or what?

And if they are not asking for the time, what's the point of the speech? Just a CYA-hey we had a plan this time, but it failed, but we had a plan, dammit, don't blame us!

they just ran something about it my wife told me, so, I guess mickey caved.

if you think it through.

We have every right to see/hear what Mr. Bush has to say and we are more than capable of deciding for ourselves whether we wish to view the speech or not. It is not up to media corporations to make these decisions for us. Free speech? Anyone?

...not a bit surprised that the main-streamers passed.

all his stupid speech is going to be and if all the networks showed it then Kerry should be able to demand equal time.

Sure, they go for some fiction, if the characters are good and there's some form of plot.

This is fantasy programming, and although there's some interest, what with "Joan of Arcadia" and the other odd supernatural shows, there's just no room for it.

Kinda like Elmer Fudd...

pretty well outlined Bush's 'clear strategy' speech during his press conference. Looks like nothing new, same old same same bull. Colonial House will be more informative.

Everytime he gives one of these speeches the public recognizes just how full of it he is. The more they see of this the lower he will go.