RSSBlogging of the Presidents Speech on SS and Energy; aka We report the Networks Leave
President Bush looks to clarify social security and energy plans in his address.
Now for the questions from the media:
AP - Mr. President, “Why do you beaten Laura”?
Reuters – Mr. President, “How long have you beat your wife”?
CNN – “Yeah, I thought you said you took anger management course, how long do you plan on beating Laura”?
CBS - “We have documents Sir of you admitting to beating Laura while you were in the National Guard, what is your response”?
Fox News - “How is Laura“?
UPDATE I: (Drudge) I wonder if the Networks would have done this and left early on Clinton?
UPDATE II: Wizbang has a good idea on how the White House should react to the networks. Personally, those that watched on the networks that cut away early and didn’t switch the the cable networks are just the “uniformed” anyhow.
Tell me this isn’t the best comic out there!
then
Chris had to be thinking of the new Florida Law!
Just Outstanding Chris, Just Outstanding!
Now go to read the rest over at Day by Day. The best comic on and Off the Web!
This is one person I can not wait to meet at BlogNashville!
Another One Bites the Dust
As the heat in the kitchen increases on accountability in the mainstream media, the old guard is running for the exits, and to begin writing their memoirs. Today it was Judy Woodruff’s turn. I would love to say I was disappointed, but I really am not.
As we continue to clear out the dead wood who spent their careers unaccountable to the public, the next generation of reporters and anchors will understand the power of the citizen media. They will not lecture and will understand the trust they have, not as a weapon to wield against those who do not share their opinions, but as a platform to get a full compliment of opinions.
So Judy, see ya, and I hope your replacement is not as biased as you were.
Anchor Judy Woodruff Leaving CNN in June
Judy Woodruff, the anchor of CNN’s “Inside Politics,” is leaving the network when her contract expires in June.
Woodruff, 58, said Thursday that she hoped to teach, write and work on long-form documentaries. She’ll also be a consultant and occasional contributor to CNN.
“This gives me the opportunity to sit back, take a deep breath and think about what I want to do,” Woodruff told The Associated Press. “I do want to stay in journalism. I’m not leaving journalism. I’m just leaving daily journalism.”
CNN offered Woodruff a new contract, but she had decided to leave before those discussions began.
Woodruff was chief White House correspondent for NBC News from 1977 to 1982, and covered Washington for the “Today” show. She left NBC for the PBS documentary series “Frontline with Judy Woodruff” and reported for the “MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour.”
She joined CNN in 1993, and was a frequent anchor for breaking stories such as the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
“We’re sorry to see her go,” said Jonathan Klein, CNN/U.S. president. “She’s one of the most brilliant and consistent and respected Washington journalists that there has ever been.”
Klein said CNN is re-examining all of its political coverage and that it’s not certain whether “Inside Politics,” an hourlong program that airs each weekday at 3:30 p.m. Eastern, would continue without Woodruff.
“Everything is in play,” he said.
Last winter, Klein canceled “Crossfire” as a regular program and said he had less interest in political debate shows.
Earlier this month, CNN said John King, its senior White House correspondent since 1999, would become chief national correspondent, covering stories that will take him out of Washington.
Hat Tip Dirty Harry at Jackson’s Junction
Rusty has a rumor of a dead terrorist.
I am not going to ruin the surprise, you have to go visit Rusty.
The Newest Defense – Pregnancy Rage
In the final stages of both of my wife’s pregnancies, I was very careful and polite. You do not mess with a woman about to give birth. A Policeman down in St. Thomas learned the lesson, and the court’s did not prosecute. I do not know if this attributed to wisdom or fear?
The woman allegedly aimed her car at a uniformed officer on a police motorcycle Wednesday morning and tried to run him off busy Main Street in downtown Charlotte Amalie, Police Chief Novelle Francis said.
The officer evaded the car without injury and stopped the woman, who is in her mid-30s, police said.
It was not clear why she tried to run the officer over, telling police she thought the officer was “a friend,” Francis said.
Police plan to charge the woman with attempted vehicular assault, but declined to arrest her right away because she was expecting to give birth so soon.
“She’s probably giving birth right now,” Francis said Thursday morning. “She was very pregnant.”
Charlotte Amalie is the capital of the U.S. Caribbean territory of 110,000.
