It’s not a bug, it’s a feature
The exposure, some would say overexposure, of President Obama on TV seems to be David Axelrod’s strategy for personalizing the President’s agenda and getting it implemented. Dan Gainor:
In just 41 speeches so far this year, not including this week’s big speech at the United Nations, Obama has talked about himself nearly 1,200 times -– 1,198 to be exact. (That breaks down to 1,121 “I”s and just 77 “me”s.) And that just includes 34 weekly addresses and his seven major speeches…
Obama pulled a presidential first, going back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back on five different networks. He hit “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on ABC, “Meet the Press” on NBC, “Face the Nation” on CBS, as well as interviews on both CNN and Univision. “We’re essentially roadblocking the time by appearing on each station,” David Axelrod, senior adviser to the president, told The New York Times…
Martha Joynt Kumar, a political science professor at Towson University in Maryland, said Obama has had nearly three times the number of interviews either Bush or Bill Clinton had at this time in his presidency. The New York Times Caucus blog reported: “As of his seven-month in office mark in August, he had done 114 interviews, compared to 37 by former President George W. Bush and 41 by former president Bill Clinton.”
The question is whether Axelrod’s strategy is working or not.
September 27th, 2009 at 8:04 am
bho jr is not overexposed.
his skills/judgment were overrated from the start.
he was only elected because he pretended to be a moderate, had a supplicant msm, and because he outspent mccain by 8-1 during a recession.
as potus phony moderate words are not enough; the potus must act and actions speak loudly. many of his most discretionary actions have been well to the left of his campaign.
and he has broken many promises.
and peopled his administration with radical lefties.
the jig is up.
this was bound to happen no matter how many speeches or tv appearances he made.
September 27th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
The “gig” is up .. at least as viewed by most … but the “jig” .. the Obama two step dance … will continue.
Step one .. tell a big fat lie …
Step two … retrace, restate, redefine … deny deny deny …
repeat …
maybe that is more than two steps
September 27th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
thanks for that creative and generous correction
September 27th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Re: The jig/gig is up
Posted by ESC on September 18, 2007
In Reply to: The jig/gig is up posted by Adam Nicholas on September 18, 2007
: Trying to clarify a phrase to a friend, is it: the “gig” is up, or is it the “jig” is up?
Jig.
JIG IS UP – “The expression suggests that the dance is over and that the time has come to pay the fiddler. However, its derivation is more complicated. ‘Jig’ is a very old term for a lively dance, but in Elizabethan times the word became slang for a practical joke or a trick. ‘The jig is up’ – meaning your trick or game is finished, has been exposed, we’re onto you now – derives from this obsolete slang word, not the ‘jig’ that is a lively dance.” From “Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins” by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997). Another reference says a jig was “probably a dance commonly known throughout all of western Europe fifteen centuries or more ago. But in England, around 1600, ‘jig’ became also a slang term for a practical term, a bit of trickery.” From “2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings & Expressions from White Elephants to a Song and Dance” by Charles Earle Funk (Galahad Book, New York, 1993). “Jig” is also a racial slur, “a derogatory term for a black man.” According to “…1950 Blesh ‘All Played Ragtime’ 23: …ragtime piano was called ‘jig piano’ (in St. Louis) and the syncopating bands, like (Scott) Joplin’s, were called ‘jig bands.’ This term, taken from jig dances, even came a little later to be a designation for the Negro himself…” From “Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, Volume 1, H-O, J.E. Lighter, Random House, New York, 1994. The black sheriff, played by Cleavon Little, in the Mel Brooks’ movie “Blazing Saddles” did a little wordplay with the two unrelated phrases in the line: “The jig is up, AND GONE.”
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September 27th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
#jig
1. Any of various lively dances in triple time.
2. The music for such a dance. Also called gigue.
# A joke or trick. Used chiefly in the phrase The jig is up.
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September 27th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
the jig is up
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* jig’s up
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the jig is up (simple past the jig was up)
1. (US, idiomatic) An expression used to mean “We have been caught out and have no defence”, or if spoken to a person who’s just been found out as the perpetrator of an offense, it means “You’ve been discovered.”
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September 27th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
i made a mistake once.
that’s when i thought i was wrong but i was really right.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
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