Television networks to skip Barack Obama’s immigration reform speech

 Barack Obama is going to address the nation in prime time tonight about his plans to use Executive Action on immigration reform/amnesty and ABC, NBC, and CBS have just one thing to say to him: Thanks but no thanks, we will stick to our regularly scheduled programming.

  According to this article the three major networks have decided not to air Barack Obama’s big speech and the President is not happy.

   Here is more:

The White House is exasperated with the major broadcast networks – ABC, CBS and NBC — for skipping out on President Barack Obama’s Thursday primetime address on his executive actions on immigration.

“In 2006, Bush gave a 17 minute speech that was televised by all three networks that was about deploying 6000 national guard troops to the border. Obama is making a 10 minute speech that will have a vastly greater impact on the issue. And none of the networks are doing it. We can’t believe they were aggrieved that we announced this on Facebook,” a senior administration official told POLITICO.

   We will put aside the whiny nature of these comments and continue:

    When I read about this I intended to write about how this story shows us how far Barack Obama has fallen in so quickly a period of time but is there something else at play here?

  I cannot take credit for coming up with this idea because I read this basic premise in one of the comments on the article I linked to but I will build upon it:

  While the three major networks are not going to cover the speech it goes without saying that Univision and Telemundo will be covering it and this is of course the target audience.

  So while the target audience will be tuned in the average American probably will be watching something else and with amnesty being unpopular you have to wonder if this move is being done to protect the President rather than to snub him. Meanwhile they put on the appearance of being upset with each other but the beat goes on and the predetermined result is realized.

  Need I say it? Hegelian Dialectic 101…