White House Spokesman Gives Networks Permission to Reschedule Debate (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 12:16 PM
Barack Obama has been talking about his new and improved jobs spending plan for a month now. He put it off until after his vacation to Martha’s Vineyard. Today he announced that he will deliver his new spending jobs plan to a joint session of Congress on the same day as the GOP presidential primary debate at the Reagan Library.
Later today the White House granted MSNBC and the Politico an opportunity to move the debate. How nice.
What a swell guy.
The Politico reported:
The White House suggested Wednesday that the hosts of next week’s GOP presidential debate can change the time by an hour so it doesn’t interfere with President Obama’s planned jobs speech to Congress.
POLITICO and NBC are hosting a Republican debate Sept. 7 at 8 p.m., the same time the White House said Obama asked Congress to make an address.
Asked about the timing on Wednesday, press secretary Jay Carney said, “It is coincidental.”
“There are a lot of factors that go into scheduling a speech before Congress, a joint session,” he said. “You can never find a perfect time. … There are many channels, there are many opportunities for people to watch the president, and obviously for people to watch the debate.”
Asked later if the interruption is then an “added bonus” for the White House, Carney suggested that isn’t the case. “There’s one president, there’s 20-some-odd debates,” he said.
“There are many opportunities for the American people. There’s a choice they can make to watch the president, to watch the debate,” he said. “A network could make a decision to alter the timing of the debate by an hour.”
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NeoKong commented:
Coincidental my ass.
I support the GOP but they can’t be suckers for this nonsense.
Hugh commented:
Lame. Transparent. A tactic only a loser would use . . .
MrGoodWench commented:
So thats what the Comcast CEO cooked up with Hussein in during his ramadan break ?
chuck in st paul commented:
Well… Emperor Osama bin Bama the First issued his fiat, so there ya are.
Ipso Facto commented:
This is a stunt, pure and simple. There is absolutely no reason his speech had to be on that day. This is a clear attempt to grab the political spotlight away from the Republicans, which I do not believe has ever been done before. This is shows that Obama’s is a world-class narcissist.
The Republicans should stick it right back to him and say, NO, we are not going to postpone the debate and NO, we are not going to attend any joint session of congress under such circumstances.
If Obama had any class, professionalism or sense of decorum, he would NEVER have done this. I hope he receives every bit of animosity he has cultivated by pulling this stunt.
Missy8s commented:
The way I see it, participating in the debate is a negative for every candidate.
It gives PMSLSD the opportunity to exploit elitist lies, propaganda narratives and ask horrendously biased questions to gin up ratings for their failed so called “news” network.
When President Downgrade comes on, change channels, there’s always something better to watch than his endless droning on and on and on about how great he thinks he is…
Please do not feed his narcissism, the man is extremely mentally ill and feeding his ego anymore means he will undoubtedly hurt even more innocent people.
Gideon Reed commented:
Kid Carney is both a punk and a putz.
garrettc commented:
Wow. Total incompetance on display again. And less than a week after the three minute two telepompter speech. Purposely set up a test of voter interest between the GOP contenders and another ho hum jobs pivot by the President, and then trying to weasel out of the consequences. Didn’t they teach how to think two steps ahead in Political Intrigue 101 at Hawvard?
MrGoodWench commented:
My suggestion :
GOP/RNC should refuse to deal with anything NBC from now on.
Republicans do not need NBC.
NBC needs Republicans.
Just THIS ONE incident should be enough for Rs to stop giving any business to NBC. And Politico.
I don’t remember any Dems who wanted to go on debates conducted by FOX
vsatt commented:
“A network could make a decision to alter the timing of the debate by an hour.”
Or they could alter the timing of the President’s speech until after the debate. But there’s really no need for the GOP or the networks to change anything. 5-10 minutes into Obama’s speech, most people will be changing the channel anyway.
#1AMERICAN commented:
and if you believe that crap…you probably believe in global warming too
Ausonius commented:
Mr Carney reminds me of the guys who would get picked last in gradeschool for the games during phys ed class, perhaps because they alligned more with mom than dad. As they grew up, they became the quiet bookworms, probably driven by the hope of one day exacting their revenge upon others. Quietly scheming. Waiting. Ready to make them all pay.
I think this sums up most of the administration.
I remember feeling kinda sorry for them at the time.
I have little sympathy for them as adults, though.
Bad Actor commented:
It’s no coincidence. It’s just another way Obama can say “I won.” I say go ahead with the debate as planned. Videotape Obama’s speech and show it later. I’m sure Michelle Bachman and the other congressmen who are running for the GOP nomination won’t mind missing the Zero’s speech in person. The other networks who weren’t going to show the debate can go ahead and televise the president’s speech. Everyone’s happy. Then we can compare Neilson ratings and find out that more people watched reruns of CSI or something.
jerrylud commented:
the repubs are dumb to do the debate for nbc first off and like others here obamao did this on purpose
bg commented:
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Obama owns the media,
Soros owns Obama & the Dems,
who owns Soros??
(if nothing else, be sure to scroll down
for a list of companies owned by Soros)
and do not doubt that he is owned for one iota of a second..
(much more @ link..)
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Bunni commented:
Those weasely maggots, coincidence my foot. That drunken bum was flying around partying for the last month, and all of a sudden he has an “urgent” speech.
He should just go lock himself in a port-a-potty, and give his speech there, for all the crap that will flow out of his ugly yap.
I sure hope the (R)’s don’t cave on this, let us know, Jim.
Mark1957 commented:
The Boy-King is acting like a small child yet again. Fine, Republicans should not complain or say one word about the arrangement, just ignore it. That is how you deal with spoiled little brats.
daryl commented:
Hey obama!
I haven’t listened to you bellow a speech since ted (cross over the bridge) kennedy introduced you to the dim convention in ’04 if I could keep from hearing you at all. what makes you think this will be any different?
thescribbler commented:
How nice it would be to find someone who would knock this clown off of his high horse. Unfortunately, I’ve yet to see anyone that is willing to just tell it like it is. Obama is an incompetent narcissist who played the main stream media and millions of Americans as fools. Nothing more…nothing less.
How many toes can this guy step on before someone is ready to put him in his place?
daryl commented:
For those who do have the guts to watch and listen, notice the ear buds in at least half of the poor bastards who have to make a show of hearing him read his telepromter. They know how to drown out that wildebeast bleat of his.
justa commented:
Just shows (again) how immature the current generation Dems are.
daryl commented:
Does soros buildduhbergers for the cfr and the trilateralists?
no, but mcdonald’s probably does. only his banker knows for sure.
click, click, scroll, and click.
malclave commented:
Of course it’s coincidental. That’s the problem… Obama in his pettiness chose the times to coincide.
dnb commented:
There is only one president, but there are so, so, so many speeches.
Marie commented:
This is pure passive aggressive behavior on the part of the President.
Gini commented:
Simply BHO showing how much power he has. What a bully! I for one turn off the tlevision whenever his face appears. The man is pathetic.
Victor Laszlo commented:
The President is petty little man. This will be his Kanye moment. The world recognized Kanye for what he is when he took the mike from Taylor Swift and stole her moment. As I recall Kanye Obama called Kanye West a “jackass” after this happened. I guess all these Democrats are asses!
STLHawkeye commented:
Obama is such a little prick.
Steve commented:
Why must Congress sit thru a campaign speech – because that’s all this little stunt is!
Granny commented:
The Networks can make the decision not to provide the “president” with air time. and the Republicans can make the decision to attend the event at the Reagan Ranch and boycott IWonWTF’s “jobs speech.”
I surely won’t be listening to it.
Freddy commented:
Boehner should tell Obama that since Obama refused to even bother with Congress regarding his attack on Libya, there is no reason for a joint session for his political speach.
Kenny Solomon commented:
Ruling by fiat, lesson 1.
Tell those you wish to subjugate that they have official permission to do something they don’t need any permission to do in the first place.
Make them guilty for scheduling to do whatever it is, because that’s when you wanted to do your own thing, even though they were set to go long before you realized they would interfere with your agenda.
Kenny Solomon
Typical bitterly clinging terrorist Hobbit hissing with feral cattiness.
Buster commented:
I see some lemonade from this lemon. If the Republicans delay the debate until after the speech they each get an opportunity to shoot it down and get the last word. Throw in a Republican congressional response later for good measure.
Francesca commented:
Our president is a jerk. Isn’t that disgusting?
MrGoodWench commented:
Freddy commented:
Boehner should tell Obama that since Obama refused to even bother with Congress regarding his attack on Libya, there is no reason for a joint session for his political speach.
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THIS
Redwine commented:
It’s not the WH’s place to “give permission” to Congress. The president serves at the pleasure of Congress and must ask the Speaker to address a joint session. Joint sessions are used for occasions of major national importance, not campaign speeches, which this will be. If Comrade Barry’s “jobs” speech was of such great urgency, he should have put off his fancy vacation and dozens of rounds of golf on Martha’s Vineyard and made the speech then.
Cutlers bad knee commented:
Don’t matter, who the he!! is gonna watch a rehashed speech that will be no different than the last 3 or 4 speeches he’s given in the last 3 months, then all of a sudden will turn into a re-election speech 2 minutes in anyway.
Let him do it let’s see who wins the ratings race, the GOP or King Putt, I’ll bet the house on the GOP.
Otherwise there’s Three’s Company reruns on tv land the same time as King Putts speech,that’s where you’ll find me !
Corky Boyd commented:
Republicans should continue the debate at the precise time they scheduled it AND HOLD NBC TO ITS CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION TO BROADCAST IT LIVE. That would give the public the opton of not being four walled into watching the President.
This is petty partican politcs and the press and the public know it. At a time Obama is preaching cooperation he can’t resist stooping to childish behavior. He deserves to be defeated.
Ipso Facto commented:
4:45 EST
Boehner just told Obama NO!
http://www.speaker.gov/UploadedFiles/8-31-11_Speaker_Letter_to_POTUS_on_Joint_Session_Request.pdf
Thank God the Republicans are beginning to act in a forthright manner!
Cutlers bad knee commented:
Check that, i’ll be watching the Packers / Saints that night……
Redwine commented:
Thanks, Ipso (#39) – Boehner occasionally shows that he has a spine. Kudos to Boehner for his well-worded letter!
exceller commented:
do these people think that we don’t know that they are rank partisan hacks? do they think this night was chosen without regard to the Republican debate? Republicans should not share the night with maobama. they don’t need to shift an hour, they need to shift to another night. don’t let the narcissist rain on their parade.
bg commented:
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Republicans act?? fortheight?? spines??
especially over this??
too late, you made me laugh..
they will lower the boom on US just as fast as the Dhimmis, else we
would neither have nor have need for a TEA Party, and if there is one
thing America/ns need more than anything else right her & now, it is
the TP!!
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Taqiyyotomist commented:
JIM
UPDATE, #39 Ipso Facto
Boenher says “I don’t think so, Mr. President.”
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Why must Congress sit thru a campaign speech – because that’s all this little stunt is!
I’m willing to bet Obie slams the Republicans at some point during this speech.
cee commented:
The President should have given the speech last month. What was he doing; waiting for more unemployed people to become more desperate? He waited this long, he could wait another day. He knowingly is trying to disenfranchise the American voter by his conduct. His arrogance about his supposed importance seems to know no bounds.
Redwine commented:
Let’s thank Boehner and tell him to stick to his guns:
DC Phone: 202-225-6205
Contact Form: http://johnboehner.house.gov/Contact/
Twitter: @SpeakerBoehner
Mick commented:
I wonder if Obama even realizes that this political stunt only undermines his new jobs plan? If he is this petty in presenting his plan, rather than treating it with utmost sincerity and seriousness, one can obviously conclude there is nothing serious about the plan. The Idiot in Chief just cut his own plan off at the knees, and he doesn’t know it! Incredible tomfoolery!
Rush is right in calling this president a “man-child.” This is so junior highshool-ish!
Gothguy commented:
“YOU LIE!”
big L commented:
No joint session with H of R until the junta provides the missing two years on the Budget.
And It has to reflect what these plicks are doing to the country not a Trojan Horse.
No budget, no H of R resolutions. speeches, anything.
Meanwhile at the Reagan Ranch, put an empty suit over a chair, complete with shirt tie and shoes. Drape it over the chair and say “Obama” scrawled on a sign.
RR: ” We’re from the government. We’re here to help…” America’s nightmare!!!
daryl commented:
#43
“Republicans act?? fortheight?? spines??
especially over this??
too late, you made me laugh..”
Looks as though the Speaker Boenhner has the last laugh, though!
Give ‘im hell Speaker!
Check the next thread up for the details. click,scroll, repeat,etc.,etc.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Besides, the “debate” will be a Junior High School circus, as planned by NBC.
As usual, the debate will offer nothing of value at all, thanks to the moderators, the questions, and the entire overall design of the format and style.
As planned.
Then most of the “conservative” American people, having stupidly not thrown their televisions away three damn years ago, will (deservedly) have their “favorite” candidate chosen for them, just like last time. He or she will “take a dive”, just like last time, out of fear of nationwide riots and an open season for hood-rats to go wild.
And you know what’s going to be really, REALLY funny? When Obama wins again after the opposition takes it’s habitual dive, THEY WILL STILL RIOT! Like when the Raiders win, or when they lose. RIOT TIME! I will laugh uproariously when this happens. And it will.
Win or lose, we’ll get riots in the hood. Even though Obama, the supposed Savior of the Poor Black “Gangsta’s Paradise” Resident, has done more to damage this Democrat-Made segment of America since the Democrats made it.
—
God wake up the blacks in America, please.
MAY THEY TURN THEIR DESERVED RAGE UPON THOSE WHO RE-ENSLAVED THEM, DE-EDUCATED THEM, AND DEHUMANIZED THEM. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
In Christ Jesus’ holy name, Amen.
gosh! commented:
Of couse this was cooked up by Obummer and his boot-lickers at NBC.
bg commented:
OT..
Petraeus retiring from Military today, set to be chief of CIA..
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AuntieMadder commented:
The A$$hole Administration: Jan 2009 – Jan 2013.
Fuquay Steve commented:
Do I have permission not to watch the campaign speech – my bunko group meets that night, I think.
Steve in SoCal commented:
“There are many opportunities for the American people. There’s a choice they can make to watch the president, to watch the debate,” he said. “A network could make a decision to alter the timing of the debate by an hour.”
Good grief. . . .he’s going to speak for a freakin hour?
Dave Feld commented:
Dude is nuts.
bg commented:
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daryl #51 August 31, 2011 at 4:18 pm
oh yeah, he sure got the upper upper hand, uh, lip on that “CRISIS”..
expecting ObamaCare to be repealed any day now.. /s/
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MaryW commented:
Stopped listening to his speeches years ago. I can’t stand his preaching to the American people, his disregard for the laws of the land, his race-baiting, his name-calling ( Bush is evil, anyone who disagrees with him is evil), and especially the supercillious tone in which he delivers said speeches. Instead, I’ll be at the Nixon Library on Wednesday listening to “Darth Vader.”
Rose commented:
I’d think a whole lot better of Boehner if he’d give NBC permission to reschedule the President.
Rose commented:
Obama is sick – plain sick.
Hedgehog commented:
If I were the Speaker of the House, I would show Obama the same respect that he has shown Congress through his Executive Orders. I would schedule Obama’s speech for Saturday afternoon and I would make attendance optional. Obama sticks his thumb in our eye and still expects to be treated with the deference thatbis due the office that he disgraces every day. Screw him.
bg commented:
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Rose #62 August 31, 2011 at 6:46 pm
thumbsup..
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Mac in NM commented:
Pompous asses.
Valerie commented:
#47 August 31, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Redwine commented:
done, and thanks for the link.
Liz commented:
Shoot. Obama could run through the streets of downtown D.C. naked throwing out wads of newly minted cash and I wouldn’t tune in for it.
Patty commented:
Carney is a squirrel. He was lying like the all do when he said the White House didn’t do this on Purpose.
The facial movement and his eyes proved it to me. The laughter behind the words couldn’t more evident.
Obama and his lackeys will do anything to anyone in the Republican Party and to Americans to get what he wants. I won’t watch him if you paid me. I made my mind up 3 1/2 years ago and I will stick to how I feel. Phony, inexperience, ego maniac and he wanted another I got Ya moment.
Black Sabbath commented:
Hysterical – if I read my schedules right, now Obama’s speech will be up against the first game of the regular season – Green Bay Packers nonetheless!
If this is true, what a huge win for Boehner!
Tom63010 commented:
Does he remind anyone else of Sherman fro the cartoon Mr. Sherman and Peabody? I think it’s the glasses.