You know, never once have I had the fortitude and patience and interest to even sit through a presidential address, much less a response to it in my entire life. I have read through some transcripts of them later, but never watched one, not even in the Clinton days, and by my estimation, he was the finest leader in my lifetime. Political speeches about hard facts and realities? Since when? I never got that memo....
I much prefer reading to video or radio, saves a lot of time and I get a lot more information that way.
If I want to sift through politcal speeches I much prefer transcripts for a multitude of reasons, chief among them being I can take in the speech in a fraction of the time, and the politician, (read: actor), doesn't have to sicken me with his obviously decieving tactics.
Every news source on this planet has some kind of slant. I personally happen to prefer to my instant electronic access to nearly all of them at once, to your spoon fed Fox News, which is "fair and balanced", when I make my opinions. I can see the strory from several of the different slants and I suspect get a better idea of what the actual truth was.
But by all means, continue eating Fox News reality, they even have their own reality channel, and many other fine channels of entertainment. Hell a person could have some Fox based idiot tube outlet on 24/7 and never be bored! Rupert Murdoch can serve all your needs, and being "fair and balanced", you can tell everyone else who reads and view other sources how they need their opinions formed for them because you get only the facts at Fox News and make your own opinions!
Too bad the rest of us have to be stuck on opinion based sources like CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, and CSPAN, (the one TV news source I think truly deserves the "fair and balanced" moniker). I wish I was man enough to only view the truth at Fox, but I am weak and need to look at less "fair and balanced" sources.