Last night I DVR’ed ABC’s prime-time health care “conversation” with President Obama, and when I got home from dinner I fast-forwarded through the hour-long show. As I did, I noticed that Obama certainly seemed to be doing a disproportionate amount of the talking, so I pledged to watch the whole thing in the morning with a stopwatch in hand and calculate the percentage of the program that Obama spent filibustering the “conversation.”
This morning, I woke up, grabbed my stopwatch, and checked the online news to make sure nobody else had already quantified Obama’s talk-a-thon. I’m glad I did, since Drudge had already linked to this report from the fine folks at the Business and Media Institute.
The report confirms exactly what I suspected last night: that Obama sucked up the vast majority of the time to pitch his health-care plan, regardless of what questions were asked. Not exactly what I’d call a balanced conversation:
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