Producers who specialize in awards telecasts have said that postshow research indicates that many viewers dislike it when celebrities turn a trip to the stage into a political bully pulpit. (Ms.
And he has what is called the bully pulpit.
This overlaps with but is distinct from the concept of the presidential “bully pulpit”—the President’s power to appeal directly to the people for support of his policies.
Get back in the bully pulpit and tell us what we need to do.
GEORGE BUSH may occupy the most powerful bully pulpit in the world, but so far he is making little or no headway in selling his latest policy, sending more troops to Iraq.
The bully pulpit of the President can be a wonderful tool, if it directed toward the right cause, and this would send a signal of the importance of investment.
Arguably, all he has left is the bully pulpit.
But the President's bully pulpit is not what it was before the rise of partisan cable television and the cacophony of the blogosphere empowered the obfuscators.
Mr Christie is using his bully pulpit in a way no other New Jersey governor has done in modern history.