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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (305717)10/8/2002 12:19:22 PM
From: Just_Observing  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Re: Bush speaks and the market tanks

The Dow was up 100 when Bush opened his mouth. Now it's down 70.

But now even the White House handlers are reacting to this Bush effect. First they did not ask the major networks to carry his speech yesterday. Then at 4 pm when the markets are closed, White House officials are calling the networks asking them to carry the speech and offering to "beef up" the speech.

I suppose that Bush has lost so much credibility that White House officials have to offer a beefed up speech?

An interesting quote:

A senior administration official said the White House did not ask for time because it wanted to avoid alarming the public

It is clear that the White House knows that Bush is alarming to the population at large.

Here are the details of the jockeying to get the major networks to carry Bush's speech yesterday:

Bush Talks, But Networks Speechless

By Lisa de Moraes
Tuesday, October 8, 2002; Page C01

If the president of the United States gives a speech but the broadcast networks do not carry it live for their tens of millions of viewers to see, did the president actually give the speech?

ABC, CBS and NBC all decided not to carry President Bush's speech live at 8 last night. They said yesterday that they made this call because the White House never asked them to carry the speech live.

But the White House said it did not put in the usual formal request because it wanted to keep the American public from thinking we were going to war.

Yesterday around 4 p.m., the White House was rethinking that strategy. Aides called the networks' Washington bureau chiefs to get them to reconsider and offered to beef up the speech, but still they made no formal request for coverage.

washingtonpost.com
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