Reply #88: hmm. interesting

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Haven't found out exactly when it was announced, but here's a bit on the timing:

CNN’s Woodruff Frets About Bush Speech
Overshadowing Democrats

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After quizzing Frist about the challenge of not knowing who Bush’s opponent will be, Woodruff returned to the timing of Bush’s address: “A Republican close to the White House quoted in the New York Times this morning is saying the State of the Union was timed to come after the night of the Iowa caucuses to take attention off of the Democrats. I mean, you are the one who's involved in setting the time of the President's State of the Union. What about that? Why do that?”
Frist answered: “Well, I think it makes for sort of good talk and good conversation. The President's speech really isn't a political speech. It's political in the sense that he is commander-in-chief.”
Undeterred, Woodruff demanded: “But I'm talking about the timing of it?”
Frist: “No, I know. But the timing really doesn't matter. We always do it sometime between a couple of days ago and say five or six days from now. The specific timing, if it were a political speech, I think would make sense. You can say that's the strategy itself. But this is not a political speech. It's a policy speech. In fact, I think the President will go to great effort not to throw politics into this speech at all.”
Woodruff came at him once more: “But again, it's a sign the Republicans worried the Democrats getting too much air time, is that what we're talking about here?”
http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040120.asp

sorry about the snarky link - proclaims they've been "Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996". Asking a valid question, trying to get an answer, falls under the category of 'fretting'?