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So, I've been thinking about this, and what are some of the things you'd like to see the President do during a Press Conference?

Here's my list.

Juggle
Talk with a Ventriloquist doll
Start a pie fight with his cabinet or the press
Tell the entire press corp that they won a brand new car
Do a Press Conference in the nude
Have the President ask the question and the press corp answers
turn the whole White House into a Jigsaw game that the press corp has to win.

Your turn.

So, I've been thinking about this, and what are some of the things you'd like to see the President do during a Press Conference?

Here's my list.

Juggle
Talk with a Ventriloquist doll
Start a pie fight with his cabinet or the press
Tell the entire press corp that they won a brand new car
Do a Press Conference in the nude
Have the President ask the question and the press corp answers
turn the whole White House into a Jigsaw game that the press corp has to win.

Your turn.

Walk away from it pointing at his watch and then at Marine One...

Wait, that's been done already...
:D

So, I've been thinking about this, and what are some of the things you'd like to see the President do during a Press Conference?

Here's my list.

Juggle
Talk with a Ventriloquist doll
Start a pie fight with his cabinet or the press
Tell the entire press corp that they won a brand new car
Do a Press Conference in the nude
Have the President ask the question and the press corp answers
turn the whole White House into a Jigsaw game that the press corp has to win.

Your turn.

Didn't Johnson do something along those lines?

Didn't Johnson do something along those lines?

*psh* Yea, before there was Television....

have everything answered through interpretive dance. Or mime.

have everything answered through interpretive dance. Or mime.

But if Obama does Mine, wouldn't that be white-face? :eek:

Singing the whole press conference like an opera.

Singing the whole press conference like an opera.

Or rapping it.

Or rapping it.

We'll have to wait for the next white President to do it.

Trust me, it'd be funnier with a white guy rapping.

Do a Press Conference in the nude

On this one, unless the person looks a lot like this:
http://a328.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/85/l_2e7a4592694dcbb0243c5250fe87981f.jpg
or this will do: ;)
http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff315/Sarothai/Me12.jpg

I'd have to go with no thank you

I wanna see the President ride in on a bike with no handlebars just to know that song is true...

Everyone in clown suits and makeup, press corps, President, whomever.

The Honest, unvarnished, un-manipulated truth would be nice.

Barring that, clown makeup and a punch-and-judy show in the background to honour the seriousness and solemnity, and make the Press people dress in jumpsuits with shaved heads like in "1984", to assure that their true nature is clear to all.

Brutal Honesty ..


I want all politicians to be so damn honest they make ppl cringe.


a week with no lies. Vacation!

Hold a conversation with his imaginary friend.

Brutal Honesty ..


I want all politicians to be so damn honest they make ppl cringe.


a week with no lies. Vacation!

yah, exactly!

Enter the room on a unicycle. Announce war with San Marino. Take a dump on the table. Exit.

Brutal Honesty ..


I want all politicians to be so damn honest they make ppl cringe.


a week with no lies. Vacation!

Obama: "I...can't lie!" :D

Obama: "I...can't lie!" :D

you forget, he's a lawyer. Forbid outright falsehoods, and he can still omit information and phrase deceptively.

indipendent media who ask real question seated first, up front, ahead of lapdog corporate media propigandists.

So, I've been thinking about this, and what are some of the things you'd like to see the President do during a Press Conference?

Here's my list.

Juggle
Talk with a Ventriloquist doll
Start a pie fight with his cabinet or the press
Tell the entire press corp that they won a brand new car
Do a Press Conference in the nude
Have the President ask the question and the press corp answers
turn the whole White House into a Jigsaw game that the press corp has to win.

Your turn.

have everything answered through interpretive dance. Or mime.

Singing the whole press conference like an opera.

Everyone in clown suits and makeup, press corps, President, whomever.

Hold a conversation with his imaginary friend.

Enter the room on a unicycle. Announce war with San Marino. Take a dump on the table. Exit.

How the hell did you people get these from my playbook?!?

You forgot Full Contact Press Conference. If a reporter wants to ask me a question, while asking it, the other reporters must tackle him or her. Should they do a mediocre job of doing so, my Secret Service shall tackle them all. *nod*

It might be fun to do a press conference on a rapidly spinning circular platform above a nice deep mudpit.

I'd like a press conference with no cameras. Or voice-recorders, mobile phones etc.

I think it would show the weak state of modern reporting. Covering trials, for instance, where cameras are not permitted, a reporter can apparently sit in the court all day with a notepad and then misreport the testimony given there. They seem more concerned with descriptions of what they saw, than the actual words spoken.

Doing a voice-over when you have pictures to carry the story is just too easy. Television has made us all idiots, audience investigators and announcers alike. Bah.

*goes to bed*

Jeopardy.

"I'll take foreign policy for $200, Barack."

Every press conference should open with a Bud Dwyer.

So, I've been thinking about this, and what are some of the things you'd like to see the President do during a Press Conference?

Here's my list.

Juggle
Talk with a Ventriloquist doll
Start a pie fight with his cabinet or the press
Tell the entire press corp that they won a brand new car
Do a Press Conference in the nude
Have the President ask the question and the press corp answers
turn the whole White House into a Jigsaw game that the press corp has to win.

Your turn.

Been done repeatedly. You know Dimitry Medevev? Well Putin is hiding backstage supplying the words.

Have a third grader read the speech.

Been done repeatedly. You know Dimitry Medevev? Well Putin is hiding backstage supplying the words.

I always thought Putin moved like he had a hand up his ass. :D

We're at the point where a call-in session would be more informative and entertaining than a press conference. The American media has spent far too much time feeding off it's own wastes.

I think it would show the weak state of modern reporting. Covering trials, for instance, where cameras are not permitted, a reporter can apparently sit in the court all day with a notepad and then misreport the testimony given there.

Speaking as a court reporter, I can reassure you that any journalist who misrepresented events in open court would be liable to criminal prosecution and, in some circumstances, to a very expensive libel action. That's a big risk to take when every lawyer in the room, including the judge, will be taking notes.

That's for UK law, but I doubt it's much different in most other countries.

Hmmm...

I think I'd like the President to do his press conference dressed up as Zombie Reagan.:D

But if Obama does Mine, wouldn't that be white-face? :eek:

European mimes have white faces, American mimes can pick or choose. Mime isn't about what color your face is, it's about not talking. There are many silent clowns that have Aguste faces.

FWIW I know 4 African American clowns, and none of them wear white grease paint.

I always thought Putin moved like he had a hand up his ass. :D

Thing is, I'll wager Putin likes it.

Okay:

Press conference in charades. Can't you just hear Kelly O'Donell or other press lackeys shouting out guesses?

Semaphore. Big flags for shouting, little flags for more introspective stuff, and to seal the deal, he's gotta have a completely deadpan face.

This might be racially insensitive, but he comes out and breaks into a full-on Nicholas Brothers-style tap dance number, finishes it, straightens up, adjusts his tie and walks off.

Again, deadpan, but delivers the whole address in Pig Latin, complete with his trademark oratory style and cadences.

Drop in random movie lines in between policy statements. "We intend to work with Congress in order to THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE! make sure this problem is addressed and people are made to feel secure. The truth of the matter YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH! is that...

I think I'd like to see Lunatic Goofballs run a press conference.

Naked women.