"Are we on seven-second delay?"--Mark Halperin on Morning Joe, prefacing his criticism of Pres. Obama's performance at the health-care summit.
From the Washington Times:
"Obama talking to Obama"All of cable news set up to air the entire event. But interest had fallen so critically that the afternoon session was not featured by anyone - the NY Times has this afternoon summary:
By 2:30 p.m., at the opening of the session's second half, Fox News Channel had shifted to its studio show (occasionally showing a mute picture of the summit on a portion of its screen) and CNN's Wolf Blitzer was reporting on poll results. Both covered it fitfully in the afternoon. MSNBC moved on to the Finland-Sweden women's ice hockey game from the Olympics. PBS aired "Between the Lions.
From ABC's Chip Reid, we have this summary:
“Republicans were able to show they had real substantive ideas, there are just differences about how to achieve health care reform in this country.”
CNN's David Gergen had this to say:
“Republicans were able to show they had real substantive ideas, there are just differences about how to achieve health care reform in this country.”
From the very liberal blog, Slate, agrees with all of the above:
Obama and Republicans seemed reasonable. That's bad news for Democrats.
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