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Subscribe to RSSIt's not uncommon for the president to do quick interviews with local news stations as he's traveling around the country. But yesterday’s setup at the White House was a little unusual, NBC’s Shawna Thomas reported. The White House invited 10 stations, including three NBC affiliates, WAVY, KUSA and KGW, to send anchors to interview the president and then report live from the White House South Lawn. While the local stations had questions specific to their areas, the president used the time to further push the components of the American Jobs Act.
The president in an interview with WAVY harkened back to the Clinton years: "One way of looking at it is we tried this experiment in the 90s under Bill Clinton. We had slightly higher tax rates. Everybody was paying their fair share. Twenty-two million jobs created and by the way businesses did better than ever. Between 200 and 2010 we lowered those rates for people at the very top and we had very little job growth. So we've tried both approaches."
Tom Schaad from WAVY said in a lunch with White House Senior Advisor David Plouffe, Plouffe explained how stations were chosen. “They selected certain stations, No. 1 TV stations, in certain markets in certain states,” Schaad said. “One from each state that they thought was very important to get this message out about the jobs bill.”
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I think it's great the President is able to communicate directly with Americans through their local TV station. Every Republican-leaning Independent I know is brainwashed by FOX, and the broadcast news who pick up their stories from FOX. The so-called liberal media has been documented as giving President Obama more negative coverage than other politicians.
Last night, on NBC News with Brian Williams, they kept showing a picture of Corzine with President Obama, as if tying the story of a Wall Street investment company collapse to the President was the most important aspect of the situation. Somebody at NBC needs to explain why they thought this was an important message to send to voters, however sublimely.
Amy B.
Good observation. You can never see Fox News do such a thing. The whacking Obama get from MSNBC and NBC is unprecedented when considering how the far right try to tie both stations as Obama's station.
The President gives interviews to local stations; that is the story, straight from the White House press office, no editing needed. More hard hitting journalism from MSNBC, the official buttkisser of the Obama administration (even more than Amy, if that is possible).
Amy, not to worry about Brian Williams, he is deep in the tank ; the NBC story on Corzine amazingly didnt even mention Corzine was a Democrat , former Senator and Governor until 2009, bundler of half a mill for the President's reelection campaign, on the short list for Treasury Secretary, and frequent visitor to the White House; NBC just vaguely alluded to Wall Street "greed" , and left it at that.
yeah, and Jeb Bush had an office and sat on the board at Lehman Brother's, did you see Jeb Bush's photo on the screen when NBC reported that collapse, what's your point?
Amy,
What about the 12.8 million in bonuses for the exec's at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?
Can't put a bush in this one.
And your point is MRWSR? Except for the one on the top of your tin foil hat. You're against the 12.8 million bonuses for these exec's, but you defend the million dollar bonuses for CEO"S of other corporation. No exec deserves a million dollar bonuses. Nobody is that good.
Mo,
This group is $128 billion in dept, even after the bailouts, so who pays for these. These two groups are government run. Show me how many other exec's in the private sector are receiving tax payer bonuses?
The tin hat thing is not helping you.
Show me how many other exec's in the private sector are receiving tax payer bonuses
You're kidding, right? That's why Wall Street turned on Obama, he questioned executive compensation issues at bailed out companies and called them "fat cats."
Amy,
Name them. Make sure you double check. I have only found 2. They were also paid back. All of them had paid thier bailout amount back, before yearly bonuses were given.
Bob doesn't have a point Amy, just the one on the top of his tin foil hat.
Bob, Mo can't answer the question because he's been drinking the cool-aid for a very long time.