Obama gives first formal TV interview of his Presidency, not to Fox or CNN or MSNBC or CBS or NBC or Bloomberg...... but to al-Arabiya

[Fandango 1,440]

Lemme highlight the part I have a problem with:

President Obama has sat for his first formal TV interview with the Arabic cable TV network Al-Arabiya

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Lemme highlight the part I have a problem with:

President Obama has sat for his first formal TV interview with the Arabic cable TV network Al-Arabiya

Would you rather he have done it with CNN?

[nowhereman 1]

Here comes a post from kaydee....

Oh hahahaahahaha......

He was writing for like ..........20 mintues.........then he gave up!

He probably turned beet red in anger, passed out, hit his head & is sleeping like a baby...

hey we can all dream!

[rebeccajo 14]

[Fandango 1,440]

Lemme highlight the part I have a problem with:

President Obama has sat for his first formal TV interview with the Arabic cable TV network Al-Arabiya

Would you rather he have done it with CNN?

Yep

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Lemme highlight the part I have a problem with:

President Obama has sat for his first formal TV interview with the Arabic cable TV network Al-Arabiya

Would you rather he have done it with CNN?

Yep

Ok. Fair enough. I disagree though.

[Fandango 1,440]

Lemme highlight the part I have a problem with:

President Obama has sat for his first formal TV interview with the Arabic cable TV network Al-Arabiya

Would you rather he have done it with CNN?

Yep

Ok. Fair enough. I disagree though.

Fair enough!

[rebeccajo 14]

Lemme highlight the part I have a problem with:

President Obama has sat for his first formal TV interview with the Arabic cable TV network Al-Arabiya

Would you rather he have done it with CNN?

Yep

Ok. Fair enough. I disagree though.

Hmmm.

I thought everybody wanted to see Obama working. Not spinning himself in the media.

[Fandango 1,440]

Was that directed at me? If so, how on Earth did you infer that from what I wrote, RJ?

[alienlovechild 75]

Hmm in all seriousness now, how does his Irish experience work in the ME?

Islam's color is green and the Irish like the color green, too. See all the similarities now?

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Rebecca,

Yes an interview this early on with CNN would have been celebratory. By talking to al-Arabiya right from the get go, he's putting the American administrations perspective out where it needs to be - on the Arab street.

I'm also very pleased he didn't pick al Jazira. Those guys are a bunch of snakes and al-Arabiya needs all the support it can get in their media 'war' against al Jazira.

[rebeccajo 14]

Rebecca,

Yes an interview this early on with CNN would have been celebratory. By talking to al-Arabiya right from the get go, he's putting the American administrations perspective out where it needs to be - on the Arab street.

I'm also very pleased he didn't pick al Jazira. Those guys are a bunch of snakes and al-Arabiya needs all the support it can get in their media 'war' against al Jazira.

You're preaching to the choir, AJ............

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Rebecca,

Yes an interview this early on with CNN would have been celebratory. By talking to al-Arabiya right from the get go, he's putting the American administrations perspective out where it needs to be - on the Arab street.

I'm also very pleased he didn't pick al Jazira. Those guys are a bunch of snakes and al-Arabiya needs all the support it can get in their media 'war' against al Jazira.

Who runs al-Arabiya? Can anyone get access to the broadcast?

[rebeccajo 14]

Hmm in all seriousness now, how does his Irish experience work in the ME?

Islam's color is green and the Irish like the color green, too. See all the similarities now?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Rebecca,

Yes an interview this early on with CNN would have been celebratory. By talking to al-Arabiya right from the get go, he's putting the American administrations perspective out where it needs to be - on the Arab street.

I'm also very pleased he didn't pick al Jazira. Those guys are a bunch of snakes and al-Arabiya needs all the support it can get in their media 'war' against al Jazira.

Who runs al-Arabiya? Can anyone get access to the broadcast?

Steven,

When I have no idea how to answer one of your questions, I resort to Wikipedia.

Al Arabiya ... was established on March 3, 2003.

The international news station is based in Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates, and is partly owned by the Saudi-controlled broadcaster Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC).

Al Arabiya broadcasts 24 hours a day with news updated at the top of the hour. The free-to-air channel carries news, current affairs, business and financial markets, sports, talk shows, and documentaries. It is consistently rated among the top pan-Arab stations by Middle East audiences. Al Arabiya says it tries to use neutral, non-supportive language when covering Islamic militant groups.

Al Arabiya was created to be a direct competitor of Qatar-based Al Jazeera. According to ... Al Arabiya director Abdul Rahman al-Rashed, the station was founded "to cure Arab television of its penchant for radical politics and violence," with Al Jazeera as its main target ... Arabiya has ... drawn accusations of pro-American or pro-Saudi bias, in part due to MBC's Saudi ownership.

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The original investment in Al Arabiya was $300 million by MBC, Lebanon's Hariri Group, and other investors from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.