without looking like a fool

The simple fact that he works at Faux News makes him look like a fool. When he opens his mouth to ask a question...he merely confirms that he's a fool!

Should have shot right back and asked him why FOX hates America....did he have to try really hard not to laugh his ass off in this guy's face?

They should be embarassed to be in the same room. (Then again maybe that's why they didn't laugh.)

.. "some people might say" that Ed had a point.

I found no substance in the POTUS response. Same old song and dance.

It's about time you schooled the morans!

So maybe a little sass will help..

Me too....I received a birthday card awhile ago

of dancing teenagers along with the words:

"Birthdays -- What a perfect time to get down with your bad self"!

I don't see much mocking.

It's conceivable for people to want higher gas prices by the way, I've seen that idea expressed many times. But Obama is not one of those people and the way they try to paint him that way is ridiculous, like all attempts to paint him as an ideologue, which he's the furthest thing from.

in so many words after elected. He felt it was too soon, and too quick to rise. I can kind of agree with him. Seems today, the higher gas prices are less effective in shutting people off and the hurt doesn't seem as bad in my opinion. When they spiked this high last time people were irate. News story after news story ran. I don't see that vitriol over it. I think people are more used to it. If the rise is progressive and slower it seems we adjust better. People still have no complaint paying five times as much for bottled water of their liking. It is amazing to me that in the sands, the middle of the desert, we can extract crude oil; Barrel it up; ship it to America and then refine it in a multitude of ways; deliver it to terminals, ship it to gas stations, and then pump that into vehicles - all less than bottled water. Amazing to me. The average fuel mileage of vehicles continues to increase and people are making more environmentally friendly purchases in the vehicles they drive. Little by little we are moving forward in America. Even the ethanol fuel tax that went away on January first was hardly noticed and I see no draw back in economic growth, albeit slowly getting better.

I know Steven Chu said that back around the time Obama chose him, but I doubt Obama himself said it because we'd be seeing that quote all over the place, but we're not.

I want to raise gas prices?"

Anyone else in this room ---with a brain?

cats and dogs. and, I forgot ponies...

Not only did he address the question from Ed Henry, but he was able to provide the statistical information about the impact of the policies that he has advocated. Take that Faux News!

Nicely Done!

lol

"No, I don't want higher oil prices. However my predecessors, Mr. Bush and his vice President Cheney, were oil men who oversaw the largest sustained increase in gas prices in US history. You might ask them what they think. "

"I've got a palm tree in Wisconsin to sell you!"

What a douchebag. The president schools him every time he asks a dumb question. You'd think he would suffer shell shock by now.

you will ask dumb questions.

came straight from his faux boss. Hope that answer gave tubby ailes heartburn.

All that has to be done is that the House Republicans have to come out with a bill
declaring that gas will be priced no higher than $1.50/gal. Send it to the Senate
and then have the President sign it.

See how simple that is. I would bet the President would sign it.

Call Congress today and dare them to put their money where their mouth is.
The only problem with that is that it is hard to know where the republican
mouth is.

where the sun don't shine!

man parts.

I thought it had been established that fox is not really a news channel...that they are permitted to lie because of that very fact.

Gas is like a tax, and a regressive one at that.

Why are they treated so differently? After all, one presents the news of the day in an entertaining, informative, truthful & accurate format.

The other has Sean Hannity.

This, in a nutshell, is the Faux News "Book Of Style" in (what they pretend is) journalism. To understand how to ask a question, one must actually have some modicum of intellectual curiosity. Instead, they're Inquisitors. They have an agenda and pursue it with mindless obsession. Their slack-jawed audience merely 'tunes in' to put their Dali-esque fantasy world on life support. Imbeciles.

you've been on hiatus, haven't you?

SG

While I've kept up my 'membership' (i.e. star), I lurked and didn't post for quite a while. A couple of years. I'm not posting much even now.

asked a question that assumed the President wanted higher gas prices. Pox News has been pushing that angle.
I would ask the Pox Propagandist at what age did he first realize he enjoyed sticking an ice pick in his testicles for sexual gratification.

especially when he turned Chipmunk Cheeks Henry to derision in front of his peers:
"Is there anybody here who thinks that makes a lot of sense?"

Well played, Mr. President, well played!

Knocked it out of the park, and into the street. Honestly, how easy was that?

prices for.

Is it possible to get any dumber than F*x Ewes?

that this NEVER shows up of Faux News?

with their talking points that will do NOTHING to affect gas prices.

Oh and they will lead off with "THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!"

very difficult, I would imagine

Yes, Obama actually wants gas prices to go higher, wingnuts. Makes so much sense. Why? Because he's evil and mean. (sarcasm)

ever complain about parasite speculators. In any essential commodity (just about everything) only those involved in the direct supply chain from producers to consumers should be permitted to hedge. Such investors have an interest in stable prices, outside speculators profit from driving prices up and down aka boom/bust economics. Such speculation contributes nothing of value to the economy, unless continuing to fatten too fat hogs that should have already gone to market and slaughter is considered value.

That would put the federal chunk at 58.7 cents and the state chunk (on average) at 91.7 cents.

Maybe we'd finally have sufficient roads.

is an even better communicator than Reagan ever was. Ed from FOX ended up slowpitching to the President who used the opportunity to pwn FOX and the GOP primary chumps with a home-run. I almost believe it was a setup or the reporter was in on it.

Export of gas has also increased as consumer demand has decreased, and prices are still high (almost at $5 per gal. here) What is the point of increasing production, and reducing consumption if the excess is being exported therefore keeping gas prices high?

I don't give a shit if it is an election year or not, the situation is bull shit.

It's about the speculators who raise the price, while taking delivery of none of said commodity.

Things I have heard in the last 24 hrs. (Can't say all year, because 2012 is turning out to be real Derpfest.)

Can't the WH vet the press for working braincells?

... what about nationalizing the remaining oil underground in the US..? What about nationalizing the refineries? Mr. President, since fuel prices could kill the recovery and further damage the middle/working class, why isn't the control of our oil/coal/natural gas/gasoline a National Security matter?"

... and why do you continue to fuel projection of their faults on to himself and the Democrats?

Tell them that if they stopped this infatuation with the Keystone oil pipeline, which will likely only raise gasoline prices by having most of that gas being exported, and the Republicans standing in the way of putting in place a transaction tax on Wall Street transactions which would help stop speculation which IS the reason why gasoline prices are higher now, then perhaps we could have lower gasoline prices that Obama, the Democrats and most Americans want, but which corporatist entities like Fox News and the Republicans don't. In short sir... SUCK ON IT JERK and ask yourself that question instead!

But I guess Obama is more of a diplomat than I and would hold back from that way of putting that bozo in his place the way the rest of us might!

Democrats in congress don't even mention the word "Republican" when talking about the disaster in the economy, any of the previous disastrous gas price hikes, the housing bubble (and burst), banks tanking the economy because Republican overseers were too busy with cocaine and hooker parties paid for by the very same fossil fuels companies they were supposed to be regulating.

They say "my friends on the other side of the aisle" and other spineless phrases like that.

If Democrats in congress do not grow a spine and become intelligently forceful and take a stand then the idiot Republicans will always win --as they have been for 20 years now-- when it comes to policy and enforcing the law.

Congressional Democrats seem to be afraid of confrontation, the Repukes bread and butter, their only strategy. So if they all don't want to go down like Kucinich (whom I liked), they better start growing a spine like Nancy Pelosi has done of late.

I say "Progressive, driven and passionate Democrats only" in the Democratic primaries coming up. We can win back our economy and our government if WE THE PEOPLE stop electing spineless, gutless wimps to be our "leaders" in congress.

When the President answered the question more cogently than any Republican imagined, Gingrich simply lied about what the President said.

The things people are willing to believe today is both humorous and sad.

I watched it yesterday, I thought Henry was from CNN. I don't watch either Fox or CNN, so I don't know who's who.

said this regarding how he approaches press conferences with the President:

"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

He obviously missed ALL the classes on what a journalist's job is. It's NOT to "make news on something unexpected", it's to REPORT the news.

He is such an inept creep, fits perfectly with Fox.

That Obama is just getting sick and tired of the sheer stupidity of the RW nutters? Since he has been gifted with far more patience than most of us, it took a while. Or maybe it just took him this long to figure out that they really are that stupid.