Boehner Stunt Backfires As NBC, CBS and ABC Don’t Televise Netanyahu Speech To Congress

[Purveyor]

Jason Easley
Tuesday, March, 3rd, 2015, 12:06 pm

Speaker of the House John Boehner and Prime Minister Netanyahu’s conspiracy to humiliate President Obama and dominate the news backfired as the U.S. broadcast networks ignored the speech and refused to televise it live.

Netanyahu’s speech has contained nothing new that the American people haven’t heard from neo-cons for decades. Netanyahu broke out various scare tactics with the purpose of frightening the American people into opposing President Obama’s negotiations with Iran on a nuclear deal.

Republicans were hoping that they could divide Democrats and garner massive mainstream media attention by inviting Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress, but Boehner’s handling of the invitation has proven to be wildly unpopular with the American people. Television networks were also scared off by liberal and progressive Democrats who refused to attend the speech.

Speaker Boehner tried to use a traditionally bipartisan platform to pull off a partisan political stunt, and for once the mainstream media didn’t play along. Boehner’s big gambit to assert his power failed, and Netanyahu delivered a stump speech for the voters back in Israel.

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http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/03/boehner-stunt-backfires-nbc-cbs-abc-televise-netanyahu-speech-congress.html

[riversedge]

1. umm.. well well...

I did not see that coming.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. It's, it's, almost as if the world is returning back to its proper axis.

[Quackers]

18. Nope. It's just that time of day when the broken clock is right. nt

[riversedge]

35. Would not that far. chuckle

[unblock]

2. well cnbc showed the whole thing, so that probably trumps everything in boner's book.

[still_one]

33. CNBs is cable, also mostly an Obama bashing enterprise pushing

Some financial bs

[cilla4progress]

3. Hahaha...Karma

From Bibi's point of view, of course, why WOULDN'T he want big brother to come fight for and with him. Use up some of our vast stockpile of weapons.

I hope he loses big. ENOUGH PERPETUAL WAR!

[Fred Sanders]

4. A thousand recs.....only Bibi's Channels carried it. Because the Big Three get to do the lying here.

[tularetom]

5. I don't think they wanted us to see all the empty seats in the chambers

Since it would conflict with the narrative that the President was all alone in his opposition to Netanyahoo and even his own party was supported of Boner's little stunt.

[Cha]

6. Israel didn't show it live.. BIBI WATCH: Israeli TV Banned From Broadcasting Netanyahu Speech Live

Israeli television stations have been banned from broadcasting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress live in order to keep the address from influencing the upcoming election.

Stations will be able to broadcast the speech with a five-minute delay after they remove any content that could be perceived as campaigning, according to The Telegraph.

MOre..
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/israel-tv-broadcast-ban-netanyahu

[Jerry442]

23. "...after they remove any content that could be perceived as campaigning..."

"It is an honor to have this opportunity to...
{REDACTED}
"...thank you and good day."

[Cha]

28. LOL.. you made me laugh.. I needed that. From what I've read..

you're right!

Mahalo Jerry

[bravenak]

29. !

That was brilliant.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

39. LoL!

[Iliyah]

36. Its a unfair advantage over the oppostion. Something that the GOP does.

Israeli's pollster claim the race is even, and this stunt may have hurt his chances of re-election.

Thank S. Adleson (sp) for that.

[Puddy]

7. Good... but CNN, MSNBC, FOX, CSPAN showed it, and it was live streamed all over the web.

I hope it backfires and Netanyahu loses the election!

[LibGranny]

27. +1

[hopemountain]

37. local abc affiliate spent

at least 5 minutes on the speech during the 11 am news. at the top of the hour, no less. not sure how much longer it went on. it was disgusting went back to my music. usually tune in to catch local news and weather - but, not today.

[2naSalit]

42. Several NPR stations carried it too.

I went shopping for groceries so I could enjoy the day instead.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Bloomberg ran this

Racial Slap in the Presidents face. Opening statement by Bibi,President Pro Tem Senator Orin Hatch,nothing more need I say. This will have major repercussions for decades.

[strawberries]

11. I have not watched it

what was the racial slap?

[Wellstone ruled]

16. By using Bibi to reinforce

Boner and other Rethugs subtle Racial dislike for Obama and the willingness to use any or anybody to slam him. Never have we had anything like this happen in the USA. Yes,there have been foreign leaders that have spoke before congress,they were invited through proper channels and never as a Political Revenge.

[jmowreader]

24. Subtle?

[misterhighwasted]

30. [phone].

Wisk that post off to Tweety @ Hardball.

[strawberries]

10. Not so sure

Now more people will be watching Faux and CNN because they televised it. So who really won this ridiculous game?

[HuckleB]

13. I doubt it.

Most people don't give a rip.

[HuckleB]

12. It was on NPR this morning.

Ruined my commute. OK, fine. I listened to some good music instead!

[OriginalGeek]

21. The best thing about my local NPR station

is that one click down is another PBS station that just plays real jazz all the time. Mingus, Coltrane, Miles...and a ton of stuff I haven't heard before.

For when I'm not listening to death metal.

[HuckleB]

25. That wouldn't be the wonderful KMHD, would it?

[OriginalGeek]

34. No I don't think so

Although if pressed, I couldn't tell you what it IS either..lol...but pretty sure it starts with a W as we are east of the Mississippi

But I'm glad you got one too! Mine goes for hours just playing jazz with the occasional break to tell us who the last several songs were or who the next several will be. It must be a publicly funded station (maybe/probably college) because I don't recall ever hearing a commercial or Kenny G.

[HuckleB]

44. Awesome! Yeah, we have a good one here, too.

It is publicly funded, and, luckily, they also post the song list online, so I can find out the names and artists of faves.

Cheers!

[Gothmog]

32. I switched to BBC America on Sirius

It was nice to not hear anything about bibi

[HuckleB]

46. +1

[Blue Owl]

14. John "Nothin' But Net" Boehner

What a joke...

[yuiyoshida]

15. Did Fox News carry it?

guessing they did.

[Nye Bevan]

19. Along with CNN and MSNBC, yes (nt)

[Nye Bevan]

17. I don't see any point these days in the networks ever showing political speeches live.

Anyone who wants to see them can switch to a news channel or stream online. And the tiny number of people who have access to network TV but not cable news or the internet would, I am sure, have no interest in having their game shows interrupted to watch a politician give a speech.

[treestar]

20. Why doesn't Bibi want a settlement withe Iran?

Makes no sense, he could not want them to have nukes with no supervision or agreement.

[2naSalit]

43. Because he

makes too much wealth off of goading the US into protecting him from every beehive he whacks with a big stick - then he hides behind our military. Our MIC loves him because they make a bunch off it too. War, it's all they have to offer.

[packman]

22. Not NBC,CBS or ABC

but most certainly FOX. After all, Fair and Balanced and all that type of stuff - with Bill O'Really providing commentary.

[Myrina]

26. Might have been better if they DID show it ...

... and people could see/hear for themselves what a POS act this was on Boehner's behalf.

Nothing like having to listen to a pompous bully toss insults to rally Amurkans around their president.

[jwirr]

31. Did faux news cover it? That is their base.

[jtuck004]

38. Good. Else they might have walked on my WKRP reruns. Dr Johnny Fever has been

a bigger influence in a lot of lives than the infiltrator N~yahoo ever has, I suspect.

[Sheepshank]

40. but but but...this same group of media outlets also failed to air Obama's recent speech

...self serving POS outlets. There is no noble cause behind this.

[Roland99]

41. Wasn't Iran like 2-3 years away from a "nukular" weapon during B/C years?

that was a good 8-10 years ago and still no "nukular" weapons.

[2naSalit]

45. Gawd forbid that somebody

might actually be honestly seeking nukular power rather than weapons. The countries who scream the loudest about the red herring nukular weapons also don't want any other countries to advance socially (you know, like having electricity in the majority of homes and for manufacturing use, etc.) because that would mean they can't be used as poster children for future campaigns of war or whatever ruse of the day could arise to bilk the taxpayers for yet another major economic set back.

[kelliekat44]

47. Yes, but they will cover it in their nightly news and make Bibi look good and believable. nt

[Octafish]

48. THAT makes me sad.

Not because I think Bibi should be addressing Congress, but because the House is the People's House. If a majority of reps want to allow the head of a foreign nation address them in the middle of crucial peace negotiations, let it be seen by the public. If it's not on tee vee, the People won't see what they're missing, a foreign nation lobby the Senate and House for the sake of advancing War Inc and his country.

Anybody ever read those redacted pages from the Iran-Contra report mentioning Israel and the Reagan Bush White House?

Me neither. And that should be on tee vee, too.