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Former first daughter Jenna Bush joins `Today'
By DAVID BAUDER, AP
Sun Aug 30, 1:16 PM EDT
NBC's "Today" show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent — former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager.
Hager, a 27-year-old teacher in Baltimore, will contribute stories about once a month on issues like education to television's top-rated morning news show, said Jim Bell, its executive producer.
The daughter of former President George W. Bush said she has always wanted to be a teacher and a writer, and has already authored two books. But she was intrigued by the idea of getting into television when Bell contacted her.
"It wasn't something I'd always dreamed to do," she said. "But I think one of the most important things in life is to be open-minded and to be open-minded for change."
She'll essentially work two part-time jobs as a correspondent and in her school, where she will be a reading coordinator this year.
Bell said he got the idea after seeing Hager in two "Today" appearances. She was on the program two years ago to promote her book about an HIV-infected single mother, "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope," and it went so well that a short interview was stretched to nearly a half hour. She and her mother, Laura Bush, also co-hosted an hour of "Today" around the time their picture book came out.
She "just sort of popped to us as a natural presence, comfortable" on the air, Bell said. Hager will work out of NBC's Washington bureau.
"I think she can handle it," he said. "I think she knows something about pressure and being under some scrutiny. When she came here for a handful of appearances, she knocked it out of the park."
He expects her first story, most likely concerning education, to be on sometime next month.
A first television job on "Today" is, in her father's world, sort of like a run for president as a first attempt at elective office. Hager said that people on the show "have always made me, whenever I've been there, feel very comfortable."
Bell said Hager won't be covering politics. He said he didn't consider the job as a down payment for a future interview with her father, who has been living quietly in Texas since leaving office earlier this year. Attacks on NBC News by conservatives for the liberal bent of MSNBC also had nothing to do with it, he said.
"I hope to focus on what I'm passionate about because I think I'd do them best job on them — education, urban education, women and children's issues and literacy," Hager said.
What she doesn't plan to do is talk about her experiences as the daughter of a president.
"I don't think it's that interesting," she said. "I'm pretty normal."
Former first daughter Jenna Bush joins `Today' | Comcast.net (http://www.comcast.net/articles/entertainment/20090830/US.TV.Today.Bush/)
Blackflag
08-30-2009, 03:32 PM
Hagar?
Big Train
08-30-2009, 03:33 PM
In other news, Alan Colmes works for "Faux News", which by your logic is HARDLY conservative then...
But you will backpeddle and say "Well, Alan Colmes is BCE"...
kwame k
08-30-2009, 03:56 PM
"But I think one of the most important things in life is to be open-minded and to be open-minded for change."
I knew she voted for Obama.......
Kristy
08-30-2009, 04:44 PM
He expects her first story, most likely concerning education, to be on sometime next month.
Well if there is any upshot here, her debut story won't be about her father.
sadaist
08-30-2009, 04:51 PM
Dang. If it were Barbara (the young one) I may actually set my dvr to it. She's a cutie.
In other news, Alan Colmes works for "Faux News", which by your logic is HARDLY conservative then...
But you will backpeddle and say "Well, Alan Colmes is BCE"...
He's not BCE exactly, but he certainly was a pathetically weak excuse for a "liberal", which is exactly why FAUX hired him to be a weak opponent to Hannity, so they could claim the show was "fair and balanced".
Colmes actually showed a little bit of spine on his radio show, which I used to listen to every now and then when I had XM (during those dark two months in 2006 that Mike Malloy was off the air). But even then, his politics were probably closer to DLC false "centrism" than those of a true Liberal like myself.
Big Train
08-30-2009, 05:16 PM
He's not BCE exactly, but he certainly was a pathetically weak excuse for a "liberal", which is exactly why FAUX hired him to be a weak opponent to Hannity, so they could claim the show was "fair and balanced".
Naturally, he is BCE "enough"..
sadaist
08-30-2009, 05:30 PM
he certainly was a pathetically weak excuse for a "liberal",
You mean he didn't represent all liberals the way you constantly peg Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Beck, or Hannity as representing all Conservatives?
Dang, that would be like calling all Republicans racist because a handful of racists claimed to be Republican. You'd never do that though.:rolleyes:
Dr. Love
08-30-2009, 09:32 PM
He's not BCE exactly, but he certainly was a pathetically weak excuse for a "liberal", which is exactly why FAUX hired him to be a weak opponent to Hannity, so they could claim the show was "fair and balanced".
Colmes actually showed a little bit of spine on his radio show, which I used to listen to every now and then when I had XM (during those dark two months in 2006 that Mike Malloy was off the air). But even then, his politics were probably closer to DLC false "centrism" than those of a true Liberal like myself.
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hideyoursheep
08-30-2009, 10:07 PM
NBC's "Today" show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent — former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager.What White House experience? She can find the bathrooms?
He said he didn't consider the job as a down payment for a future interview with her father, who has been living quietly in Texas since leaving office earlier this year- AND LETS KEEP IT THAT WAY!!!!
In other news, Alan Colmes works for "Faux News" Didn't he quit?
Well if there is any upshot here, her debut story won't be about her father.
Do you doubt future stories won't be about her father or their next-in-line candidate?
I see this as positioning. I doubt the story's authenticity completely - shit like this doesn't happen by chance to someone like Bush's daughter.
Big Train
08-31-2009, 10:36 AM
Perhaps the networks, NBC in particular, are realizing the bit way to hard onto what Obama is selling and they are bringing her on to hedge their bets for 2010.
bueno bob
08-31-2009, 12:15 PM
Perhaps the networks, NBC in particular, are realizing the bit way to hard onto what Obama is selling and they are bringing her on to hedge their bets for 2010.
That's part of the Republican upswing that's been sweeping the nation lately, right?
:biggrin:
Big Train
08-31-2009, 12:24 PM
No, the one that is coming in the midterms...
This town hall /healthcare fiasco plus the complete lack of a result from the stimulus, while be causing a sea change in 2010.
bueno bob
08-31-2009, 03:20 PM
No, the one that is coming in the midterms...
This town hall /healthcare fiasco plus the complete lack of a result from the stimulus, while be causing a sea change in 2010.
With Republican approval ratings at an all time low, I doubt that's going to happen.
Empty cans rattle the most, though, so I can see how easy it would be to get confused by that...
Republican Approval Ratings at All-Time Low - The Stakeholder: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (http://dccc.org/blog/archives/republican_approval_ratings_at_all_time_low/)
bueno bob
08-31-2009, 03:21 PM
http://dccc.org/page/-/images/stakeholder/GOP-approval-ratings.jpg
I like the part where it says "nonpartisan polling", personally...
:)
http://dccc.org/page/-/images/stakeholder/GOP-approval-ratings.jpg
I like the part where it says "nonpartisan polling", personally...
:)
What I like is that the poll owned by GE and Rupert Murdoch actually had the lowest ranking. :biggrin:
thome
08-31-2009, 04:20 PM
Stop with the polls already everyone knows they have nothing to do with proving a point or any basis in reality, at all.
If anyone wants to log onto a site and give more internet footprint to the wierdos who run the media polls, so they can skew your name to whatever they choose, be that stupid asshole.
Then link all that to your worthless point of view...well.... I just don't know...?
You ignorant fukkin wasted mind twits. The Pollers of America Convention bus leaves at 5 be on it and Be SQUARE!
The only people who answer them, are the people who happen to be looking at that poll, that second and the only ones who do, are douche bags.
A chip on thier shoulder and wanting to run the world, the little Napoleon wierdos.
Except -PORN POLES- they should be addressed face first, by the hot chicks who happen to be looking in my car window.
EDIT: It is sad that one of the nations first children, is a attention whore, who would sell her ass for a shot of face time, as a media news talking head.
very sad indeed.
Is she going to come clean on nation al tv about how many times she has banged some stud, during sweeps week, or just show her pussy getting out of dads limo.
She joined the -Elite Assinine- of the world.Pathetic.
Big Train
08-31-2009, 05:33 PM
With Republican approval ratings at an all time low, I doubt that's going to happen.
Empty cans rattle the most, though, so I can see how easy it would be to get confused by that...
Republican Approval Ratings at All-Time Low - The Stakeholder: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (http://dccc.org/blog/archives/republican_approval_ratings_at_all_time_low/)
Well, possibly. The experts would disagree with you:
http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=1379263
Experts see double-digit Dem losses
By: Josh Kraushaar
August 31, 2009 04:50 AM EST
After an August recess marked by raucous town halls, troubling polling data and widespread anecdotal evidence of a volatile electorate, the small universe of political analysts who closely follow House races is predicting moderate to heavy Democratic losses in 2010.
Some of the most prominent and respected handicappers can now envision an election in which Democrats suffer double-digit losses in the House — not enough to provide the 40 seats necessary to return the GOP to power but enough to put them within striking distance.
Top political analyst Charlie Cook, in a special August 20 update to subscribers, wrote that “the situation this summer has slipped completely out of control for President Obama and congressional Democrats.”
"Many veteran congressional election watchers, including Democratic ones, report an eerie sense of déjà vu, with a consensus forming that the chances of Democratic losses going higher than 20 seats is just as good as the chances of Democratic losses going lower than 20 seats,” he wrote.
At the mid-August Netroots Nation convention, Nate Silver, a Democratic analyst whose uncannily accurate, stat-driven predictions have made his website FiveThirtyEight.com a must read among political junkies, predicted that Republicans will win between 20 and 50 seats next year. He further alarmed an audience of progressive activists by arguing that the GOP has between a 25 and 33 percent chance of winning back control of the House.
“A lot of Democratic freshmen and sophomores will be running in a much tougher environment than in 2006 and 2008 and some will adapt to it, but a lot of others will inevitably freak out and end up losing,” Silver told POLITICO. “Complacency is another factor: We have volunteers who worked really hard in 2006 and in 2008 for Obama but it’s less compelling [for them] to preserve the majority.”
Historic trends point to Republican House gains in the midterm election, particularly after facing two brutal election cycles where the party lost seats in every region and even in some of the most conservative states in the nation. Over the last five decades, the party out of power has picked up seats in 10 of the 12 midterm elections.
Turnout levels may also work in the GOP’s favor: House Democrats who narrowly won election in 2008 on the strength of high turnout among African-Americans and young voters probably won’t be able to count on that same level of enthusiasm next year in a nonpresidential election.
The national political environment, of course, could look significantly different next year. It wasn’t until the final month before the 1994 GOP landslide that political analyst Stuart Rothenberg, editor and publisher of The Rothenberg Political Report, anticipated GOP gains large enough to win back control of the House.
This year, Rothenberg cautioned that despite signs of a Republican resurgence, there are many factors working against huge numbers of GOP pickups. If Democrats are able to pass a health care bill without the controversial public option, the party could get credit for passing legislation without jeopardizing their most vulnerable members, he noted. And if the economy perks up in the third quarter of next year, Rothenberg argued, all bets are off.
“To have another wholesale sea change bigger than last year’s and almost as big as the two years combined is asking a lot. It’s not impossible, but you have to think that’s quite a challenge for the Republicans,” said Rothenberg. “If [House Republicans] won 12 to 15 seats, … they should be very happy about that. Could I see them winning more than that? If there are gale force winds, I could see them winning 20 to 25, … but 40 seats is a really big number.”
Cook Political Report House analyst David Wasserman, who expects Republicans to pick up between nine and 26 seats, said that even if the national environment approximates the 1994 atmosphere, there are significant structural differences about the political landscape that will limit Republican gains.
Back in 1994, Democrats had held the majority for 42 years. Many veteran members, predominantly from conservative districts, decided to retire after sensing the changing political winds. Of the 31 open seats they created, Republicans picked up 23 of them — about 40 percent of the GOP’s total pickups that year.
Only seven House Democrats to date have announced they’re not running for reelection — with all but three of them representing safe Democratic districts.
“I don’t think that Democrats’ chances of losing the House are anywhere near one-in-four right now,” said Wasserman. “For Democrats to lose 40 seats, they would have to be facing absolutely catastrophic circumstances, and even if the health care debate turns sour, it’s hard to imagine that Democrats will be losing a ton of ground.”
Silver also pointed to the role of health care legislation, which he said is increasingly looking like a no-win situation for House Democrats.
In his view, if a compromise bill is passed without a public option, the liberal base will become upset and may not be enthusiastic heading into the 2010 midterm elections, where their support will be critical. But if Democrats pass legislation without any assistance from Republicans, the party risks incurring the wrath of independent voters looking for a bipartisan solution. And if no health care reform at all gets passed, the administration and vulnerable members will have spent political capital without getting any results on the administration’s signature issue.
“If you pass a health care bill it doesn’t make you popular, but if you don’t sign any legislation it makes things even worse,” Silver said. “You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. I don’t see what the exit strategy is for the White House. Once they went down this path, they’re going all in here, and you can’t take that bet back.”
Democratic officials privately expect to lose around 10 House seats even under politically stable conditions, and acknowledge that President Obama’s standing in the run up to November 2010 will play a pivotal role in how well they can weather the historical trend.
“When you have big waves like 2006 and 1994, you felt it early and you felt it build. I am not sure we are seeing that. While healthcare is causing some heartburn, it is still an issue that two-thirds of all voters say needs reforming,” said Democratic pollster John Anzalone, who represents many clients in conservative Southern districts.
“It is clearly too early to tell if the Republicans have a chance [to regain control of the House], but at this point I still think it is more like a 10 or 15 percent chance. That may certainly grow. But there are some big battles yet to fight.”
Indeed, those upcoming battles — on health care reform, energy legislation and economic regulation — will be crucial to the fortunes of targeted House Democrats.
Wasserman noted that of the 16 House Democrats who voted against former President Clinton on the controversial budget and assault weapons ban, every single one of them won reelection. If this year’s crop of targeted Democrats resists pressure from leadership and votes in line with their constituencies, Wasserman predicted they can overcome a Republican wave.
Already, many Democrats representing conservative-minded districts have distanced themselves from the national party’s leadership on the most controversial measures. Forty-four Democrats split from their leadership to oppose the cap-and-trade energy legislation — most of them falling in line with the economic interests of their districts.
“It goes to show that voting behavior in Congress matters at the end of the day.” Wasserman said. “Right now, we’re looking at a wave cycle, but the question is will it be a small wave or a major wave. And it matters how these freshman and sophomore members vote to determine how big a wave it will be.”
sadaist
08-31-2009, 06:15 PM
That's part of the Republican upswing that's been sweeping the nation lately, right?
:biggrin:
Are you talking about the same upswing that is going to show fearless leader Harry Reid the exit door in the upcoming elections?
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bueno bob
08-31-2009, 07:17 PM
Are you talking about the same upswing that is going to show fearless leader Harry Reid the exit door in the upcoming elections?
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Nitro Express
09-01-2009, 12:26 AM
FOX goes after the conservative market. MSNBC goes after the liberals. CNN plays it in the middle with a dash of both. The thing is FOX is scaring advertisers away with their crazy shit heads like Glenn Beck. There might be an agenda at the network but they also LOVE money and if crazy Glenn is chasing off big advertising dollars, who gives a rat's ass about how many books he sells. They all want Proctor and Gamble and Johnson & Johnson. Maybe they should shove a bottle of Pert up Beck's ass and an adult diaper down his throat and sprinkle him with a douche.
No, the one that is coming in the midterms...
This town hall /healthcare fiasco plus the complete lack of a result from the stimulus, while be causing a sea change in 2010.
An absolute sea-change event!
WE heard for 16 years: Republicans-this, Rebublicans-that..
First, 8 years of Clintonian propaganda and mailings from the DNC I myself received "help us stop the Republicans who want to deny you _______ and ______" by supporting them.
Then, another 6 years or "see how bad the Bush is" and then the last 2 years they had to tinker with the controls dominating Congress, "oh it's all Bush's fault, because we don't have a Democrat president.. vote for us in Nov"
So the Dems get their chance they waited for almost 2 decades.. and in 6 months they all but fucked over the taxpayer in the name of greed.
Greed pork payback projects to party faithfull in every state, calling it stimulus.. greed payback to ACORN in the form of Census contract awards so they can do ground-level Democratic politicking while door-to-door polling, and SEIU payback in the form of bloating the ranks with millions of new Federal employees on the payroll - all paying into Union dues - which will pay again into campaign coffers for the midterm elections they hope to hang onto for their dear lives.
At least Bush left the fucking economy and the taxes alone, and had a couple good asskicking wars to show for the 680 billion of added defecit. We knew what he was doing and spending it on and so did the Democrats who also voted for the wars!
What do we have to show for the Democrats adding 9 times that just in this year alone?
Nothing.
Nickdfresh
09-01-2009, 08:30 AM
An absolute sea-change event!
WE heard for 16 years: Republicans-this, Rebublicans-that..
First, 8 years of Clintonian propaganda and mailings from the DNC I myself received "help us stop the Republicans who want to deny you _______ and ______" by supporting them.
Then, another 6 years or "see how bad the Bush is" and then the last 2 years they had to tinker with the controls dominating Congress, "oh it's all Bush's fault, because we don't have a Democrat president.. vote for us in Nov"
So the Dems get their chance they waited for almost 2 decades.. and in 6 months they all but fucked over the taxpayer in the name of greed.
Greed pork payback projects to party faithfull in every state, calling it stimulus.. greed payback to ACORN in the form of Census contract awards so they can do ground-level Democratic politicking while door-to-door polling, and SEIU payback in the form of bloating the ranks with millions of new Federal employees on the payroll - all paying into Union dues - which will pay again into campaign coffers for the midterm elections they hope to hang onto for their dear lives.
At least Bush left the fucking economy and the taxes alone, and had a couple good asskicking wars to show for the 680 billion of added defecit. We knew what he was doing and spending it on and so did the Democrats who also voted for the wars!
What do we have to show for the Democrats adding 9 times that just in this year alone?
Nothing.
GAR, you and I both know you can barely afford any health insurance you might have --assuming your job, that can easily be held by an illegal alien apparently, gives you any. But you're one of the biggest jackoffs here with the silly fear fear fear false-arguments. You're typical trailer trash voting against his own self-interests 'cause yo dernt' likes so'shall'ism...
Kristy
09-01-2009, 01:06 PM
FOX goes after the conservative market. MSNBC goes after the liberals. CNN plays it in the middle with a dash of both. The thing is FOX is scaring advertisers away with their crazy shit heads like Glenn Beck. There might be an agenda at the network but they also LOVE money and if crazy Glenn is chasing off big advertising dollars...
You're half-right. The media machines that is 24 hour cable news survives solely upon their advertisers rather than that the twisted propaganda they push. They pay heed to them before all other and if anyone needs an excuse as to why the death of journalism is so prevalent today look no further than the endless onslaught of commercials on these networks.
Where Beck fucked up wasn't so much on what he said as his ignorance (I know, what's the difference?) on calling out Obama as a "racist" while foregoing that the majority of the people who sign his checks (i.e., the advertisers) are black themselves. The other side is that Fox has no (for lack of a better term) minorities apart from a handful of tokens who always seem to come out of the woodwork when a race issue seems to pop up which could explain why as to why so many pulled their spots. What surprised me was that condescending bitch Maddow, or her bitter sidekick Sloberman OR even all the "we're just way too cool and modern for proper news" hacks at CNN failed at hyping this to boost ratings knowing all too well they too walk the same fine line with their advertisers as Beck soberly reminded them at Fox. Hate one more than the other all you want but at the end of the day they all serve the same master. But this is a little off subject here...
Jenna Bush is nothing more than a vanity hire in order to bring in fleeting interest from viewers already disillusioned with the cable drek; whether or not she can bring in a younger audience to a low-rated prime time news network who can stop themselves long enough from Twittering about their boring lives or updating their shitty Facebook profiles to give a shit what's going on in the world remains to be seen but I'm betting she will make not a scrap of difference.
You're typical trailer trash voting against his own self-interests 'cause yo dernt' likes so'shall'ism...
Ex-felons can't vote. You know that, my parole officer knows that and that college kid I wrote a bad check to for fixing the foundation skirt on my trailer knows it, too cuz I told him.
Empty cans rattle the most, though
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Nickdfresh
09-02-2009, 09:42 AM
Ex-felons can't vote. You know that, my parole officer knows that and that college kid I wrote a bad check to for fixing the foundation skirt on my trailer knows it, too cuz I told him.
Ex-felons can vote I believe is they apply...
standin
09-02-2009, 12:40 PM
American Civil Liberties Union : State Legislative and Policy Reform to Advance the Voting Rights of Formerly Incarcerated Persons (http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/exoffenders/statelegispolicy2007.html)
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bueno bob
09-02-2009, 03:10 PM
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Stay off the sidewalks, Bob.
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GreenBayLA
09-03-2009, 02:20 AM
"former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager...will contribute stories about once a month"
Well that certainly tips the balance of the liberal media in the favor of conservatives now! :rolleyes:
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