Priorities

If the President needs to make a prime time speech on the activities and justifications for his country's actions in the Middle East that surely would take precedent over anything, wouldn't it? If you said, "Yes" you would be incorrect and a wee bit foolish.
Obama wanted to talk AT us at 8 PM EDT last evening. This is know as Prime Time. One of his pals, the ABC Network, balked, according to the New York Times. The second most popular show on television, "Dancing With The Stars", occupies that time period. The administration gave in and went for the 7:30 time period.
Sometimes we have to decide on priorities. Dancing? War? Dancing? War? Is Kirstie Alley on that show? Ahhh------Cheers. Wasn't Woody Boyd funny? War? What war?