Fox not granted a question at Obama’s press conference.

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

Fox not granted a question at Obama’s press conference.

In tonight's press conference, Obama spent nearly a full hour answering questions from reporters, who represented media organizations such as the Detroit News, the Associated Press, BET, and all three cable networks -- ABC, NBC, and CBS. One outlet that didn't get a question? Fox News, whose affiliate was the only network station that decided not to air the prime-time news conference. Obama called on Fox News White House Correspondent Major Garrett in his previous two press conferences.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/29/fox-question-obama/

[madeline_con]

1. It was on Fox News

[mr11]

12. ??

You mean Fox did air the President's Conference?
Just asking because I didn't watch it.

[aggiesal]

39. Fox News Channel (FNC) did air the press conference ...

FNC is considered a Cable Channel.
FOX affiliates are over the air FREE channels
While ABC, NBC & CBS all broke away from their regularly
scheduled programming, FOX decided not to show the press
conference over the FREE Fox affiliates, and continued to
broadcast their regularly scheduled programming.

They're scum bags, and not calling they rep. is little payback.
Some of the FOX affiliates should have their FCC license revoked
for knowingly lying over OUR airwaves.

[Cha]

14. Right.."fauxn00ze" but not

on the fox channel..they went with their regularly scheduled program of "Lie To Me".

[dem mba]

63. my understanding is that it was a financial decision

not political (not that anyone at DU will believe me).

Fox's "Lie to Me" is fairly successful compared to whatever junk was on ABC, NBC or CBS for that time period. So Fox had more to lose by ditching the show and broadcasting the press conference. It's also Obama's 3rd in 100 days.

Fox also showed it on Fox News Cable, so if it was a political move why did they air it at all?

[w4rma]

69. Fox is a primarily political entity. It was definitely a political decision. (nt)

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

20. If "Fox" were "News" they would be acknowledged as such; but, "Fox" is NOT NEWS.

Hell, even THEY admit they are "views" rather than news,...in a coy sorta' way.

They should be beaming from pride at being so focused at a "view" they are not acknowledged as "news".

What's their problem?

Oh! The recession is hitting them, too,...huh.

[saigon68]

56. They are the Right Wing Repuke spin machine

With brain dead vapid looking blonde women and the deer caught in the headlights looking men, mouthing platitudes for the most extreme right wing philosophies.

[JerseygirlCT]

2. Oh dear, now how did that happen?

Can't imagine why they might have been overlooked...

[kestrel91316]

3. Good. I hope he overlooks them for FOUR YEARS.

[Optical.Catalyst]

6. Surely you mean the next EIGHT years.

[kestrel91316]

8. Yes. You are correct.

[Jefferson23]

4. LOL, too funny, I love it.

[L0oniX]

5. Cheers

:evilgrin:

[Historic NY]

7. Flush Faux News.

[Lena inRI]

9. BONNE TOUCHE, Mr. President !

:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin:

[Edweird]

10. Awesome.

[WestSeattle2]

11. Well they've demonstrated for years that they're

not a real news organization, so why bother? I wouldn't waste my time or breath on them either.

Good on you, Mr. President.

:fistbump: :fistbump:

[bulloney]

52. That was my thought. If you give Fox credentials, you may as well give them to a freak show circus.

[northofdenali]

13. YES!! YES!! YES!!

BWAAAAAHAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAA

FUCK YOU FAUX!!!!!!!!!

Sorry. I'm just a leetle tickled about this. :rofl::rofl::thumbsup::rofl::rofl:

[Amonester]

15. The President knows these stooges just want him to fail.

And he knows if he fails because of them not only not wanting to help him, but just to destroy everything he does, the country will fail too.

He also knows they don't give a f about the country.

Why bother ?

[kegler14]

16. Gosh, I'm sure Bush would never have done anything similar

Oh wait, he never gave press conferences. And then he shunned Helen Thomas when he did.

[bluedigger]

17. Interesting!

Almost as interesting as the fact that ABC, NBC, and CBS are now cable networks. Crackerjack reporting from what now has apparently assumed the role of MSM, I guess. You go, Think Progress!:rofl:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. I'll bet National Enquirer didn't get any questions either...

...and they're a more reputable news source than FUX.

[LynneSin]

19. I think if Obama had to choose between the National Enquirer and Faux News....

National Enquirer would win hands down.

[LiberalFighter]

21. At least Major Garrett works for FOX. With a name like MAJOR Garrett

he is the right fit for a network lacking credibility.

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[calimary]

66. Maybe this news conf was above his pay grade?

Everyone else was at least a Colonel if not a General of some derivation. No mere "Majors" are entitled to be so elevated this time around.

[smoogatz]

22. Why take questions from the RNC's propaganda organ?

Seriously--why bother?

[AnnieBW]

23. Well, he ignored Helen again, too

YMMV.

[Liberal_Christian]

24. Almost like "not negotiating with terrorists"

you give validity to their argument.

When you like guys like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'rielly represent your pool of thought; what do you expect?

Say what you want about the liberal media; at least liberal pundits don't make prediction after prediction after prediction. They may have been overtly critical but at least it's been on issues and events that have already happened; have already become reality.

Conservative pundits have nothing to stand on, which is why they will use a talking point to project fear and imaginative future scenarios that will rile their base ie. Fema Concentration Camps, Banning Guns, Government turning into fascist/communist/socialist regime.

In all fairness, Liberals (like myself) equated the Bush administration with fascism but we are doing so in it's, at the time, present-state. We never trumped a nightmare scenario but merely pointed out what it had already become.

[MetaTrope]

25. Did Jeff Gannon ask anything?

[HughMoran]

26. Really, why should he?

1. they're not real news anyway
2. they refused to run his news conference anyway.

Fuck 'em

[sandrakae]

27. Poor babies

[Laura PourMeADrink]

31. love that pic !!

[pitchforksandtorches]

28. At least THESE GUYS get it right every time:

http://weeklyworldnews.com/politics/7971/arlen-specter-switches-parties/

ARLEN SPECTER SWITCHES PARTIES
Posted on Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
By Samuel T. Westbrook


WASHINGTON, DC - The Hill was shocked as Pennsylvania’s senior Senator, Republican Arlen Specter, announced he was switching parties - because of the babes!

With rumors mounting for weeks about a likely showdown in the Republican Primary, Specter has in recent weeks made moves to seemingly reestablish his place as a traditional Republican politician. His rejection of the Employee Free Choice Act is the most recent example.

Specter, along with the other moderate Republican Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, have found themselves very popular thus far in the Obama Presidency, as their votes are frequently courted to break fillibuster threats over populist and progressive legislation such as the 2009 Bail Out.

However, Specter’s recent and frequent siding with the Democratic majority was surprisingly not his primary reason for abandoning the party he has been a part of for nearly three decades.

“I love the Republican Party and what it stands for,” Specter told reporters during a news conference Wednesday. “However, the Republican Party we see today is not the same Party I joined when I first ran for Congress in 1980. The face has changed and so have the ideals.”

“I mean, c’mon, seriously, where are the babes? What kind of Party have we become when Bachmann is considered our top tier?”

Specter was referring to Minnesota Representative and supposed “hottie to the max” Michelle Bachmann, who gained notoriety just before the 2008 Election for inflammatory rhetoric on the campaign trail.

“You can’t tell me that’s the best we can do. She looks like the Nanny. Worse, she sounds like her,” Specter continued. “I’ll take a cool, laid back babe like Sebelius over a dolled-up trollop like Palin any day.”

Specter’s about-face and critique of the Party did not go over well with many of his former colleagues. Republican demagogue and talk show host, Rush Limbaugh, was quick to criticize the move.

“Who does this guy think he is?” Limbaugh bellowed on his daily radio show program shortly after the announcement. “Who is he to say that the Republican Party doesn’t know how to attract babes? Have you seen Cindy McCain? Have you seen Sarah Palin? These broads are stone cold foxes.”

“What does the Democratic Party have? Hillary Clinton? Ruth Bader Ginsberg? Just the thought of those women makes me think I’ll never pitch a tent again, if you know what I mean.”

“You know what?! I say good riddance! Take Meghan McCain with you. She’d fit right in and we don’t want her!”

But not all of Specter’s former Republican Colleagues were so immediate in their dismissal. Maine Senator Olympia Snowe showed her usual middle of the road Independence and restraint. “When I heard the news, it was not easy to prevent myself from jumping to conclusions,” Snowe responded.

“How could I not take this decision personally? Arlen and I have been friends and colleagues for over twenty years. I know we’re not as young as we used to be, but I certainly think I’m still pretty good looking.”

When reached for comment, Senator Specter said, “Oh I never meant for Olympia to take this decision personally. I certainly was not including her in my early comments or during my personal deliberations. Olympia is a babe, for sure. She is the definition of Cougar.”

“I know that many high ranking Democrats have reached out to her hoping she would consider switching Parties. Let me say clearly and on the record: Olympia, babe, you would fit right in!”

[destes]

51. That was spot on

[Wizard777]

29. Participatory government at it's finest!

You actually have to participate in broadcasting the press conference to participate in the press conference. What's the sense in talking to a reporter no one is watching?

[burning rain]

30. I certainly hope Fox don't complain.

Few things are more distasteful than conservatives with a sense of entitlement.

[elleng]

32. 'all three cable networks -- ABC, NBC, and CBS.'

???? They AIN'T cable networks!

He also got NYT, WSJ, WaPo, all the majors, and Telemundo.

[BluePatriot21]

33. Faux is Newzertainment

He needs to ask News Organizations and journalists questions, not clowns and mimes.

[InfiniteThoughts]

34. just three words - THEY DESERVE IT ...

:)

[rpannier]

35. They should have sent O'Lielly's producer

He'd have followed Obama around the podium until he got answers -- or arrested

[Gamey]

36. Let them ask then give them answer they want to hear...

then when Fux calls him on it, BO can claim it wasn't serious in the first place, that he just wanted to help out their entertainment value.

[ColbertWatcher]

37. If Helen Thomas doesn't get to ask one, FOX shouldn't either. n/t

[MessiahRp]

40. Helen Thomas really should get the first question at every presser...

It bothers me that even Obama ignores her.

Rp

[ColbertWatcher]

44. Agreed. n/t

[No Elephants]

54. Thomas is an American institution. Why does he ignore her?

[crikkett]

58. Maybe because she asks questions like "is Israel a nuclear power?" n/t

[MessiahRp]

59. That's a legitimate question...

After all if we're going to point fingers at Iran and accuse them of nuclear tyranny before they even get the bomb then it's fair to ask questions of the Israelis who have been run by a not so mentally stable right wing cabal for quite some time and have been attempting to provoke war at any chance they can get.

Rp

[crikkett]

64. I agree.

But it's not a question he was willing to answer. He danced and danced.

[ConcernedCanuk]

61. As crikkett suggests - she broached the Israel/Nukes debate

.
.
.

Dodging the question doesn't look good, it lends credence to some claims that Israel has a choke-hold on the WhiteHouse.


This has been a contentious debate for decades,

and NO administration has answered World concerns over Israels' actions for decades.

Sooner or later, ONE administration will have to satisfy the World's concerns.

Hopefully, this will happen before Israel includes it's nuclear weapons in it's aggression on its neighbors.

I think Israel is more danger to the stability of the Middle East than Iran.

Of course, do NOT negate the instability that the USA has created there.

Even Israel would be hard pressed to "catch up" with the USA's "accomplishments" of invasion, occupation, death, destruction and genocide in the Middle East . .

(sigh)

[bc3000]

38. In Fox's defense

Lie To Me is a really good show. I watch it on Hulu.

and does the president really need to be on all networks?

[Name removed]

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[No Elephants]

55. That would describe every night at FR, wouldn't it?

[happygoluckytoyou]

42. FOX HEADLINE---> "PARIS HILTON BUYS NEW SHOES"

FOX HAS MADE THEMSELVES A JOKE..... MAYBE THEY COULD COMPLAIN ABOUT THE TELEPROMPTER....

[4lbs]

43. The local ABC affiliate here in San Diego (KGTV 10) did not air the press conference.

Instead, they had a one hour News special on the Swine Flu.

Lame.

[Mari333]

45. who cares, the questions the reporters asked were faux anyway nt

[Downtown Hound]

46. I say let 'em stew in silence

They have made it abundantly clear that their mission is to destroy Obama. Let them do it the way all opposition media does it-from the outside.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

48. Too bad this wasn't the time The Daily Show's John Oliver was there

About a month ago Oliver (I think) did a send up on the White House Press Corps, which included being present at one of the daily press briefings. It would have been great this time to have him there, be called on, ask a pertinent question is a humorous way (Obama has a good sense of humor), and be given a sensible answer. Of course, Obama would be given a head's up about Oliver's presence and who he represented.

Meanwhile, Faux News is ignored.

[Vidar]

49. Good way of handling the assholes.

[jmowreader]

50. Paybacks are a bitch, ain't they?

They were the media sponsors of the Tea Parties. They have been openly rooting for the failure of America, and they decided to show their regularly scheduled programming instead of the news conference. Besides, a group of Faux's finest writers probably spent all night creating the most negative leading question they possibly could. They deserved to lose the opportunity to ask a question.

[No Elephants]

53. What's all the fuss? I'm sure it was unintentional. It's just the way things worked out.

:evilgrin:

[FudaFuda]

68. lol. you almost had me there. nt

[harun]

57. Good.

[classysassy]

60. How sweet it is

Faux snooz the silent minorty.

[jmondine]

62. Press conferences are for reporters who work for news agencies. Fox doesn't qualify.

[Hepburn]

65. Gee, I wonder if Helen Thomas's Bush WH seat is still available?

:evilgrin:

[jazzjunkysue]

67. If Faux ever opens a news department, I'm sure he'll recognize it appropriately.

I'm not holding my breath. Until then, Barack is smart to avoid the propaganda machine.
If they continue to ignore him, they'll lose viewers.

Awwwwww......