"How long will that dog hunt"

This is a quote from Lester Holt on NBC this morning. He was interviewing that political whiz Tweety on the Today show.

He set up the lob to tweety this way.

"The president has been saying that he inherited this economy from President bush. Just how long will that dog hunt?"

I know we cannot plumb the depths of GE's pure greed and nastiness, but here the network signals their new position for all to see.

I used to teach journalism, but these sleazy sell-outs have ruined that title worse than what Sweeny Todd did for barbers.

instead of that asshole Matt Lauer on the AM show. We have started watching ABC's morning show on weekdays because we can't stand Matt any more.
I guess it may be ABC all week now.
Tweety has lost a lot of my respect over the lst month or so as well - he is so in love with the pols, he is blind to their evil/stupidity and seems to actually believe they have real principles.

I'm running out of TV networks....

I also intend to email NBC to tell them why the lost another long time viewer.

Rec.

mark

I might have asked the same question, and meant it innocently. As in, "That dog will definitely hunt right now--obviously, because it hasn't been that long--but if the economy doesn't improve significantly at some point in the future, at what point does that stop being the aftermath of the Bush legacy and start becoming the responsibility of Obama to acknowledge that his attempts to repair the situation he inherited have not worked as he had hoped?"

I think that's a fair question to ask. It acknowledges that at some point, Obama will no longer be able to blame Bush if things haven't improved--he will have to take responsibility for what he has and hasn't been able to accomplish to remedy things--and asks "But how far away are we from that point? Obviously we are not there yet, but at what point would we be?"

The implication? If things do improve significantly before we reach that point, Obama certainly deserves the credit for turning things around. And asking where that point is is a means of also framing things so as to bring people back to reality and remind them of what the real time frame is.

I think if it were Holt's goal to undermine Obama, he'd just do what they already do on Fixed Noise: call it "the Obama recession" and blame him for everything that has or hasn't happened in the economy since noon on January 20. Oh, and everything that happened before noon on January 20? An obvious inheritance from Clinton's bad policies that lasted for eight long years, despite every valiant attempt Bush made to remedy it during his administration. :rofl:

"How long does the administration have before the public forgets that these problems were created under george bush and the policies of the republican party?"

I watched the show. He wasn't asking the question that way. The gist was that Obama was trying to shirk the blame for his policies by blaming it on bush. Tweety agreed.

I'd say that dog hunts pretty well.

Assuming current trends continue, by the 2010 elections, the job market will have started to come back, the other indicators will be trending upwards significantly, and the people will have the meme in their heads that Republicans fuck up the economy, Democrats fix the economy!

bush fucked up the economy in a really determined way when it comes to the places where I do business. One more shoe to drop (like the incoming credit card mess) and what little starts we have will become endings.

Like I said. I'm happy for you.

With both major parties fighting reform--indeed, not allowing true reform to be mentioned--we are doomed to years of misery.

“It’s a job I gladly accept,” he said to applause. “I love these folks who helped get us in this mess. And then suddenly say, ‘Oh, this is Obama’s economy.’ That’s fine. Give it to me. My job is to solve problems -- not to stand on the sidelines and carp and gripe. So I welcome the job. I want the responsibility.”

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/14/1996373.aspx

Timmy gives the impression of continuing with the massive bonus nonsense, and luxury salaries.