High School All Over Again

Hey, Obama administration people:

When you give in to the Village's sense of self-importance and play along with their "First 100 Days" game, don't act surprised when the Villagers suddenly change the rules on you in an effort to make you look stupid.

The Fox television network has refused to air President Barack Obama’s primetime press conference on Wednesday night, scheduled to mark the president’s 100th day in office.

“The address, scheduled for 8 p.m. (ET), could have possibly affected the ‘American Idol’ results show, which begins at 9 p.m., and the network did not want to risk that during the critical sweeps period for ratings, according to sources,” reported the Los Angeles Times. “Fox has historically not registered high ratings for presidential addresses and decided, given the nature of this particular press conference, not to show it, sources said. Fox aired Obama’s two previous primetime addresses.”

They're not refusing to air you because you're preempting American Idol. They're telling you to go to hell to your face because 1) you're making too much of a deal about this 100 days thing and 2) because you might spill over into American Idol an hour later.

Here endeth the lesson.