How prescient! I feel the same way about many of the regular posters around here.

Leonidas,
Are you implying that the number of appearances that these 1000 people have seen is significantly different than what the average American has seen?

I somehow doubt that average Americans take the time to watch every single appearance and speech and press release put out by the administration. However, the Media does have that opportunity which is probably why (along with the demands of a 24 hour news program) they are talking about overexposure.

It's a case of the media making the story instead of reporting the story.

No I'm not implying that these folk have seen more or less of him than the average American, I'm simply wondering how many times they have actually watched him. If they aren't watching him overexposure isn't an issue, at least unless they are peeved at him for interrupting their favorite programs.

And as tidbits says, the focus keeps wandering off into the sideshow.

Scraping the barrel bottom again to try to deny reality only makes people look even more pathetic.

I somehow doubt that average Americans take the time to watch every single appearance and speech and press release put out by the administration. However, the Media does have that opportunity which is probably why (along with the demands of a 24 hour news program) they are talking about overexposure.

It's a case of the media making the story instead of reporting the story.

1. Prior to the summer recess, Obama held a press conference. In it he displayed, in my opinion, a generally weak understanding of the health care debate taking place in Congress. Result – we, as a nation, spent the next week or longer talking about the cop and the professor, culminating with a Rose Garden beer toast.

2. During Obama's recent address to the joint session Obama endorsed some very controversial aspects of health care including mandates (contrary to his campaign promise) and public option. For more than a week after the speech we heard only two words spoken that evening, and not by Obama, “You lie.”

3. This past weekend Obama appeared on numerous television shows. During one he exposed a lack of knowledge on the substance of one of the bills moving through Congress, specifically whether it included a tax. So what do we hear about? That he snubbed Fox and whether or not he is over-exposed.

The obsession with the carnival sideshow may attract eyeballs and ears for media marketing purposes but it does not advance the debate. It isn't about long form birth certificates or teleprompters or rude congressmen or tv time. It's about substance, and that is being pushed to the background for newsertainment purposes.

Final point. One reason I like TMV is that one can choose to be educated and comment on substance or float to a side issue from time to time. Both are available. Many other sites, and much of the media, are carnival sideshow all the time.

Besides, would you rather see and hear Palin everyday?

Wonder what the average number of times those polled have seen Obama speak? I mean if you are not watching him you likely will not be overexpossed will you?