haha BUSH BUMPED FOR TRUMP; PARIS HILTON

[cal04]

BUSH BUMPED FOR TRUMP; PARIS HILTON

The White House learned a painful media lesson Thursday: Do not launch a press conference on the first night of May Sweeps!

CBS, NBC and FOX cut off President Bush, mid-sentence, in several time zones, after sacrificing one hour of prime.

The president was left standing on the stage as NBC rushed to Donald Trump, FOX to Paris Hilton and CBS to SURVIVOR: PALAU.

ABC and PBS stayed with talkative Bush until he left reporters in the East Room of the White House.

Sensing he was running into trouble, Bush joked, "We better finish this up, there are TV programs to show. And I want to help the economy."

But it was too late.
They had already pulled away.


http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3bpc.htm

[Erika]

1. Just another sign that Bush has total disconnect with the U.S.

people. He has very little drawing power. We've all heard the GOP line before.

[xray s]

2. "And now...go watch the people I have made REALLY richer"

Donald Trump and Paris Hilton.

"May their spawn never pay a dollar of inheritance tax."

Republican credo

[fryguy]

3. Only network here NOT to switch right away was Fox

CBS, NBC and ABC all switched mid-sentence (before 9pm) to give their announcer's time to comment and then go to regular programing . . . but - shock of shocks - faux stayed with the chimp

[jayctravis]

10. Rare high five to Fox.

For staying in ... actually got me to turn over there cause I wanted to see what the heck was going to be asked next.

Some reporter *could* have lobbed a flaming coal of a question for all we knew.

The network of THAT 70'S SHOW and THE SIMPSONS and FAMILY GUY isn't all bad.

[bufffbison]

4. OT: Is trump a repuke? nt

[LTR]

6. I think he's politically ambiguous

Flirted with the Perot gang in the late '90's. I heard something that he supported Kerry in the last election.

As far as I know, The Donald is an independent.

[global1]

5. Then They All Missed * Saying - Thank You For Your Answers!!! n/t

[chaska]

7. geez, talk about a rock and a hard place...

I don't know which is worse.

[Bill219]

9. a bunch of hate for the prez...

my daughter told me that there is a bunch of hate flowing over at the official The O.C. board on the fox site

I checked it out and true enough..people were cussing him out..then a bunch of freepers must have taken note and have taken over the conversations


http://forums.prospero.com/foxoc/messages

[cal04]

8. Advertising wins out over Bush

US President George W. Bush brought forward the start of a prime time news conference by 30 minutes today to avoid upsetting the lucrative advertising plans of America's television networks. A White House statement said the change to an 8pm Thursday (10am today AEST) news conference was made "due to the complications of networking programming".

Officials had been in negotiations with network executives trying to get as many television networks as possible to show the news conference live. The timing of the event, called by Mr Bush amid falling poll ratings, confronted the networks with a dilemma since Thursday is the first night of the May "sweeps" period in which advertising rates are set for local affiliates. Thursday is also traditionally the most lucrative night of the week for advertising and features a line-up of highly-rated programs, especially for CBS, the leading network in total viewers.

All four major US broadcast networks said they would air the White House news conference live after the event was shifted to start half an hour earlier. CBS initially said it would air its hit shows Survivor: Palau and CSI instead of the Bush news conference, but then changed course and allocated an hour of valuable prime-time to the White House.

CBS, owned by Viacom Inc said it would air the two shows, its most highly rated, after the news conference, beginning at 9pm on the East Coast. Fox, which also initially baulked at airing the news conference, also reversed course. The network, which is in a close race with CBS for viewers in the 18-49 age range most valued by advertisers, opted to shift the regularly scheduled episode of The OC to next week. Although the US broadcast networks have traditionally carried presidential speeches and news conferences, the growth of cable channels is widely seen as having chipped away at the necessity for them to do so.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15122489%255E1702,00.html

[Straight Shooter]

11. Rove must be off his game, scheduling the conference tonight.

Either that, or the schedule for bush's meds conflict with the need to do a conference pronto before they lose any more momentum. From what I've read, he was a wee bit non compos mentis tonight. He'll be on full IV drip to get his neurons back up to *cough* speed.

I can't wait to see the next polls.

[underthedome]

12. I thought everyone knew Paris shaved down there?

ohhhhh you mean that Bush.

[paineinthearse]

13. Drudge will be on CSPAN Friday monring

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1751863

[gauguin57]

14. In a Democracy that supposedly depends on its news media ...

... this is pretty damned sad. Embarrassing for the United States. Can't even keep the rare presidential news conference on the air because of SWEEPS? That's just lame. I hate Bush, but that's just lame.