President Bush has asked the networks to give him fifteen minutes of prime-time air on Thursday night to give a farewell address to the nation. The networks were non-committal at first, but the odds are in favor them granting the request. As a warning, this will likely delay the start of all your favorite Thursday shows.Great, now among his other failings Bush has to preempt the first Smallville since November. The series was finally getting interesting again with the departure of Lana as a steady character and now the President is delaying the very special Legion of Super Heroes episode written by Geoff Johns. How dare he!
Seriously, he is the President and even with only days left in his administration, the office does deserve respect. I admit some curiosity about what he'll say on Thursday. Perhaps he'll declare martial law or start a coup d'état. Or perhaps it's all a big promotional scheme by Will Ferrell.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
1-13-2009 @ 11:32AM
LordPaul said...
surely he will have had around 4207680 too many already?
*cough*
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1-13-2009 @ 11:40AM
RadioScott said...
Maybe it's different where you live, but generally CW stations don't air live news events like this. So, I think Smallville will be unaffected. I'm sure that Bush will be on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, PBS and the cable new outlets.
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1-13-2009 @ 11:55AM
Sy said...
Great, now TVsquad now hires not just liberals, but liberals who have no idea about the history of broadcast stations they are covering. Just like someone said above, CW DO NOT have a national news department. Moist CW stations will be unaffected by any Presidential address.
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1-13-2009 @ 12:30PM
Dan said...
Calm down there, Frenchie - the post was 95% joke.
1-13-2009 @ 2:08PM
Wii60 said...
Yeah, I'm a conservative and think it was mostly in jest. Usually there is a liberal bias in the media, but it's much more subtle than this. That is what makes it so bad.
I'm not gonna get worked up over it.
1-13-2009 @ 4:35PM
E1984 said...
"Moist CW stations will be unaffected by any Presidential address."
Anyone know how many of the CW networks are moist? This is need to know information!
1-14-2009 @ 8:33PM
Jussup said...
Not only moist, but how about CW DOES not rather than CW DO not... Ignorance is bliss though, right?
1-13-2009 @ 11:57AM
Josh Emerson said...
As long as this doesn't affect the 9PM shows, whatever. Delaying Ugly Betty couldn't make me any more disgusted by him than I already am. Now if it were 30 Rock or The Office...
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1-13-2009 @ 12:19PM
Scott said...
Do we know for sure that it won't delay "The Office" and "30 Rock"? I know they're 9-10, but will NBC cut something in the 8-9 hour, or just push everything 15 minutes?
One more middle finger from Bush to the country.
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1-13-2009 @ 12:24PM
Barbara A said...
As for Bush wanting 15mins of air-time what can he say to the People of the United States that will have anyone willing to lesten he never wanted to address the People before just because!!!
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1-13-2009 @ 12:36PM
Barbara A said...
Loo what the "Prez" has doneto the Country, i really doubt that anybody with comon sence wants to hear a 15min. farewell! Unless it goes something like, "Farewell" the end.
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1-13-2009 @ 6:41PM
Cincinnati Mike said...
Barb, did you forget your meds again?
1-14-2009 @ 1:06PM
Jennifer said...
Hear, hear. I'm sure they can't really "deny" him, but who wants to hear him speak any more? God, even the Republicans must be sick of him by now. I highly doubt he has anything to say that any of us would want to hear (apologies? never!).
Happily for me, I have to work that night and won't have to hear any of it.
1-13-2009 @ 12:34PM
R-Bro said...
If he's going to use the first 14 minutes to apologize profusely and the last one to fall on his sword (metaphorically, of course), I'll tune in.
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1-14-2009 @ 1:06PM
Jennifer said...
Hahahahahahahah. Yeah, RIGHT.
1-13-2009 @ 1:38PM
Elf said...
Bush never listened to the public, so why would he expect the public to listen to him?
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1-13-2009 @ 2:24PM
ac said...
It will probably go along the lines of: "My fellow Americans, SUCK IT! Heh heh heh..."
But I wont be watching cause Smallville isn't affected by this stuff. So I wont know about the declaration of martial law till after the show is over and i switch to The Office.
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1-13-2009 @ 2:47PM
fowak said...
I'll gladly tune in. Love that ole Dub-Yah.
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1-13-2009 @ 3:33PM
Paul said...
There's going to be a whole lot of angry people missing the last Grissom episode of "CSI" if their PVRs don't properly pick this up on Thursday!
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1-13-2009 @ 4:15PM
MacGuffin said...
Good Riddance.
THE worst president ever.
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