ALL MAJOR TV NETWORKS SNUB OBAMA'S IMMIGRATION ADDRESS (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Thursday, November 20, 2014, 22:18

The White House is upset that the nation's major broadcast television networks will not air President Barack Obama’s primetime announcement Thursday evening of executive actions on immigration policy.

ABC, CBS, and NBC rejected pleas made Wednesday by the White House to air the speech, scheduled for 8 pm ET, in which Obama planned to discuss his unilateral plan for immigration reform that will include temporary reprieve from deportation for as much as 5 million additional undocumented immigrants.

The networks, according to Politico, determined that the speech was political in nature, thus they balked from airing it over their usual primetime programming.

“There was agreement among the broadcast networks that this was overtly political,” Politico’s Mike Allen wrote on Thursday. “The White House has tried to make a comparison to a time that all the networks carried President Bush in prime time, also related to immigration [2006]. But that was a bipartisan announcement, and this is an overtly political move by the White House.”

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