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PCIntern

(25,549 posts)
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 11:29 AM Apr 2012

Could Ed Henry show any more disdain for the President?

i awakened this AM thinking that Henry had this angry, impatient look all through the speech. I can't believe that he was elected President of this organization for the next year: it is really going to gall him to have to introduce him next year and could barely hide his displeasure in having to escort President and Mrs. Obama from the stage.

I saw that he, appropriately, was now with FOX. Did he lose his job at CNN b/c of his apparent and uneditied hostility towards the present administration? I don't watch CNN anymore so may have missed the dynamics.

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Could Ed Henry show any more disdain for the President? (Original Post) PCIntern Apr 2012 OP
i don't think you have to worry Enrique Apr 2012 #1
I'm not 'worried' about anything here, PCIntern Apr 2012 #2
Hell dances with wolves gregory was just as bad madokie Apr 2012 #3
At least Bush II was the President at the time... PCIntern Apr 2012 #5
True that madokie Apr 2012 #8
right you are...well, he's a real dick PCIntern Apr 2012 #10
Obama embarrassed Henry back in 2009 Roselma Apr 2012 #4
Thanks...I'd forgotten about that... PCIntern Apr 2012 #6
ZINGGG it went madokie Apr 2012 #9
I didn't know his history, but was not impressed. Riley18 Apr 2012 #7
Ed Henry has always been all about Ed Henry... Spazito Apr 2012 #11

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
1. i don't think you have to worry
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 11:34 AM
Apr 2012

I think Ed Henry is a big suck-up just like the rest of them, despite the look on his face. Maybe he had a tummy ache or something.

PCIntern

(25,549 posts)
2. I'm not 'worried' about anything here,
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 11:35 AM
Apr 2012

Henry's hostility was apparent during the 2008 campaign and was one of the major reasons why I stopped watching CNN.

PCIntern

(25,549 posts)
5. At least Bush II was the President at the time...
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 12:12 PM
Apr 2012

and although Gregory is the inside-Rethug we always knew him to be, he doesn't have that 'look' that Henry had last night...it reminded me of the old program "Divorce Court" - you had to be in the same room with your adversary, but you didn't have to like it.
At the podium last night, he didn't look scornful the way Mr. Henry did...

madokie

(51,076 posts)
8. True that
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:24 PM
Apr 2012

I was only wanting to point out that dances with rove in his own way was disrespectful. Kept going on while the mike was still on about the cord or whatever he was having to straddle when no one else let it seem to bother them. Reminded me of a petulant child

PCIntern

(25,549 posts)
10. right you are...well, he's a real dick
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 02:21 PM
Apr 2012

and he's got that mindset of men who possess large physical presence: You have to make allowances for my size and 'manliness', or you had best better get out of the way." That microphone business is typical of those fellows...it is dopey.

Riley18

(1,127 posts)
7. I didn't know his history, but was not impressed.
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 12:46 PM
Apr 2012

I thought his choice of words...something about this term seemed like he wanted to say "only" term. I thought i might just be biased against a Fox "reporter".

Spazito

(50,339 posts)
11. Ed Henry has always been all about Ed Henry...
Sun Apr 29, 2012, 03:40 PM
Apr 2012

Here's a direct quote from him on his reasons for asking what he does and the way he does it:

"I was heading into this event with the same strategy: make news on something unexpected (I won't tell you which topics I was working on cause it would ruin the surprise for a future presser or interview with the president)."

http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-25/politics/henry.obama_1_aig-president-obama-question?_s=PM OLITICS

Note the "MAKE NEWS" instead of report the news. He did "make news" but not the way he wanted, he was called out right after he wrote the linked article on CNN.

He was, is and always will be a gigantic POS, imo.

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