# News During The Price is Right...Thanks Obama **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 1, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958 "2015-07-01T15:11:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/1 "2015-07-01T15:11:03Z")
Obamacare…gay marriage and now Cuba You couldn’t do this during the soaps?!?! Thanks Obama ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/2 "2015-07-01T15:35:30Z")
You know, I can understand the interruption for unexpected news flashes or weather. But breaking in to show stuff which has already been in the news is just plain idiotic. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/3 "2015-07-01T16:15:47Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > You know, I can understand the interruption for unexpected news flashes or weather. > > But breaking in to show stuff which has already been in the news is just plain idiotic. Totally agree. If they interrupt a show, it should be to announce something along the lines of, “A tornado warning has been issued for your area. Seek shelter now!”. Or perhaps, “A 9.0 earthquake just obliterated Los Angeles.” The gay marriage ruling, I can almost see. Almost. It’s at least major news. But Cuba? :rolleyes: That’ll get mentioned somewhere around the mid-point of the news tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/4 "2015-07-01T16:22:31Z")
It reminds me of that Weird Al song: _A devastating earthquake in Peru Thirty thousand crushed to death, many more were buried alive On the Richter scale it measured eight point two. And I said ‘God, please answer me this question: Why’d they have to interrupt The Simpsons just for this? What a drag! And I was taping it and everything.’_ ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/5 "2015-07-01T17:09:57Z")
Every time the forking local hockey team wins a championship game, our local ABC station _has_ to break into the network programming. And this always happens at about 10 minutes before the local newscast. So you don’t see who got murdered or how they solved the murder or whatever. But a championship is big local news. Shouldn’t they break in? Well: 1. Anybody who cared would be watching the actual game, which is being broadcast on another channel. Anybody who is tuned into your channel is doing it to deliberately avoid the game. 2. It’s only 10 minutes until the local newscast, which will be 100% devoted to the game. 3. They could flash the score of the game onto the screen along with “stay tuned for details.” 4. All they do is cut to reporters standing live around the city in bars surrounded by drunks reporting “Everyone here is excited by the victory” while the drunks make zoo-like noises and chant “We’re Number 1!” ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/6 "2015-07-01T17:16:55Z")
If only those poor people jumping up and down for over-priced warehouse stock were on every day & at the same time. "Dammit…! Gilligan was about to get off the island and there was _Another Damn News Flash_! So What if Greece stays with the EU? And where’s my soup…? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/7 "2015-07-01T18:18:26Z")
So you couldn’t break into this thread to tell us the news? (I found it on Yahoo, way down.) But I agree, dumb to break into anything for the news, unless you live in Havana aka Miami. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/8 "2015-07-01T18:18:39Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > If only those poor people jumping up and down for over-priced warehouse stock were on every day & at the same time. > > "Dammit…! Gilligan was about to get off the island and there was _Another Damn News Flash_! So What if Greece stays with the EU? And where’s my soup…? Oh God I forgot about Greece. Well it looks like I’m not seeing the Showcase Showdown AGAIN dammit Obama ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/9 "2015-07-01T18:50:25Z")
Send someone important a link to [this video clip](https://youtu.be/viKUu_BWqwc?t=5s) with an angry note attached. Who that person is is up to you-- should it go to Pres. Obama, Drew Carey, or the head of CBS News? Well, once you figure that one out, your problem should be solved. Perhaps cc the president of Greece as a preemptive measure. ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/10 "2015-07-01T19:26:44Z")
Remember to have your Castros spayed and neutered. There are 6 time zones covering all 50 states. It’s hard to schedule everything for the window of the daytime soaps. I blame the media instead. It saves me from having to adjust my outrage level based on my approval of the who’s butt is in the Oval Office chair. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/11 "2015-07-02T00:59:03Z")
> [@DinoR](#): > > Remember to have your Castros spayed and neutered. I realize you probably didn’t know this, but that’s several million people. It still wouldn’t be funny if Fidel, Raúl and their closest relatives were the only ones, but hey, knock yourself out. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/12 "2015-07-02T03:35:09Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > I realize you probably didn’t know this, but that’s several million people. It still wouldn’t be funny if Fidel, Raúl and their closest relatives were the only ones, but hey, knock yourself out. You do realize that’s a play on a line from The Price is Right, right? ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/13 "2015-07-03T14:09:32Z")
I knew it was a play on something, but on what doesn’t matter - still a highly offensive thing to say. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-during-the-price-is-right-thanks-obama/723958/14 "2015-07-05T11:18:16Z")
I think we finally found out who **PSXer** is a sock of. Note to mods, I’m kidding.