Say what you want about Fox News, but they go to great lengths to satisfy their hard-earned
audience of stupid people:
[Gretchen Carlson] felt compelled to really reach, first calling Monday's Rose Garden event "campaign-ish" and then moving on to a montage of previous landmark speeches given by other Presidents. Her choices were JFK's speech following the Cuban Missile Crisis, FDR's speech on December 8, 1941 following the attack on Pearl Harbor, and Ronald Reagan's speech calling for Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."
Because holding a small White House event about a rocky rollout of the front door to the ACA is exactly like Pearl Harbor and the Cuban Missile Crisis, right?
I have to tell you, the day a presidential speech about slow loading times on a website becomes marked as one of the great presidential speeches is
not a day I am looking forward to. I'm not saying it could not happen—someday, perhaps, we will tell our grandchildren about where we were the day an American president gave his famous oratory about the flawed
meta tags that were hindering proper search indexing of
epa.gov—but I am hoping that we are able to save our best political rhetoric for more important issues, things like whether or not to rename every interstate highway after Ronald Reagan or which Simpsons season turned out to be the best one after all.
It's the commitment to the bit that really makes Fox News. It's not enough to pump out silly tropes and partisan snipes under the auspices of supposed news programs, you have to squeeze every drop of oil from that nut. You just know they go home exhausted each night.