AIG Lessons

Jay Newton-Small:
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As somebody who will no doubt be responsible for "more criticism", and who will demand that the Administration "make more adjustments", and who has serious questions about the rightness of direction with respect to important issues, I must say that Ed Henry is an assclown.
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That question was beneath Obama to answer; it was tabloid and silly, like CNN.

Tonight was a very good sell that continues to pin down Republicans as marginalized members of the "party of no."

And Ed Henry must be fired immediately.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

...and Jake "Block Me Amadeus" Tapper's questions were typical of the priorities and perspective of Beltway Media Stars: all process, conflict-mongering and irrelevant to the concerns of most Americans.
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TAPPER: Thank you, Mr. President. Right now on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats are writing a budget, and according to press accounts and their own statements, they're not including the middle-class tax cut that you include in the stimulus. They're talking about phasing that out. They're not including the cap-and-trade that you have in your budget, and they're not including other measures. I know when you outlined your four priorities over the weekend, a number of these things were not in there. Will you sign a budget if it does not contain a middle-class tax cut, does not contain cap-and- trade?*

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The most pressing issue of the day is not what Obama and the Congress disagree over during the legislative process, Jake Tapper, you pompous, blow-dried tool.
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TAPPER: So is that a yes, sir? You're willing to sign a budget that doesn't have those two provisions?

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Nice of you to waste everyone's time acting out your own "hard-boiled reporter" fantasies of yourself at a prime-time presidential press conference about real things in a national crisis, you self-aggrandizing Just-For-Men model.
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F*cking pompous tool.

Not exactly a hero or anything, but Ed Henry was one of the rare MSM sheeple that actually made at least a little effort to catch the Bush Cabal in mid-lies during the second term, such as this example:
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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/14/cnns-ed-henry-presses-bush-on-contradictions-in-iran-intelligence/
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And his question to Obama is actually with some merit, IMHO.

sweet. anyone has a link to the full newser? totally missed it and i can only find snippets.

Ed Henry
Jake Tapper
Chuck Todd
Chip Reid
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One more uselss than the other. The deterioration in the quality of network correspondents is disturbing. Sam Donaldson certainly had moments of jackassery, but wasn't trying to play some silly "I outsmarted the President" game. He asked questions about issues and policy, not process and photo ops.
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Chuck Todd's question had to set some kind of record for Teh Stoopit.

Maybe media companies are collapsing because there are so many stupid people working in it. Stupid is no longer a winning business model. Why don't they try smart for the new business model? It would be unique.

awesome JNS! ur the best

is this some sort of contractual thing (aig anyone?) that keeps people from just putting the vid online or is it just because of technicalities?

The Ed Henry smack-down - highlight of the press conference. Loved It!

I ask again, why is Time magazine paying Mikey Scherer to go to pressers and sit on his hands? I don't think he has asked a question yet, even of Robert Gibbs. Hell I could do better reporting on the White House just from watching CSPAN every day.

I actually preferred the Republican smackdown about not having their own alternative budget because they know the CBO will show the same or worse deficit projections for anything they come up with too.

Where were all the outraged pundits and politicians when they were deregulating the financial markets in the first place? They have reserved their outrage for the people who get to clean up the mess, and can't do it in 5 weeks. They missed the formation of the mess, just like they missed the fact that Iraq didn't have any WMD.

take it easy on mikey dude. if it depended on his liking of long posts, i'd prolly get a full working video link to the full newser. now im just getting POLITICO-length snippets lol.

JNS, thank you for actually reading and responding to our comments. Ed Henry needs to think thru his questions before he asks them. MS needs to think of some questions and then ask them.

TPM's banner photo made me want to make my first lol pic of POTUS. This one's for you, Ed.
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http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=3758291
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SZ...lol @ Just for Men model....so true!

Sen. Grassley had a good idea a few days ago, but he had the wrong subjects. After tonight's uniformly miserable performance it's the broadcast contingent of the WH press corps who should consider seppuku as a career-capper.

I've got my problems with Obama, but when I hear or read things like this:
Well, it took us a couple of days because I like to know what I'm talking about before I speak.
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I can't help but yell YEAH BOY!

iwasindependent
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That. Was. AWESOME!

Don't Mess with Malia & Sasha...Didn't Ed Henry mention the Obama daughters in his question? I think that was what pissed off Obama. So he shut Ed Henry down, it was such a shut down, that even the other members of the press corps laughed at Ed too. Go back and re-watch the tape, they laughed at him

And you know it hit home since after the press conference, CNN was hating on POTUS: "He looked tired" "He seemed angry", etc...

Whatevah CNN! Is it any wonder CNN is 4th in the ratings

What made Ed question so bad was that he tried to name drops the Obama daughters, that whole "what about your daughters" crap. If there is one thing we've learned, do not mess with the Obama daughters. Haven't anyone noticed yet, that all the vulgar criticism have been directed to Obama or Michelle, not Malia or Sasha.

That is where the line was drawn, and that was what made Ed Hengy's question rude, he was trying to get a rise of POTUS by mentioning the daughters. Well he poke the lion, and the lion bit his head off.

Some said on DKOS, wouldn't it have been just as rude to ask Bush a question like "what if it was your daughters..." in reference to 9/11 or Katrina.

That's where Ed's question went wrong. Plus, he asked once and POTUS answered, but the mofo asked the same question again?

don't hate on CNN. i don't watch msnbc because it's too childish for my personal liking. (Anyone watches Rachel Maddow?) I only watch Foxnews for entertainment value. nothing like a slice of pizza with a couple of friends, jamming and watching O'reilly or Hannity or Beck's eyes. so that leaves only CNN as a high value production and less than doctrinaire and ideological reporting.
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love tapper todd and henry but hey dude he asked for it lol