Obama on "The View": The end of civilization!

[babylonsister]

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/the_view/index.html?story=/mwt/broadsheet/2010/07/29/obama_on_the_view

Obama on "The View": The end of civilization!
Critics fume, but his appearance is a weird, respectable mix of questions about race and Justin Bieber Video



Well, it's over. History has been made. The institution of the presidency has been degraded. The ratings of ABC daytime have been boosted. Our national identity has been forever altered. President Barack Obama has appeared on "The View."

When it was announced this week that Obama would become the first sitting U.S. president ever to appear on a morning talk show, critics were quick to fly into a hanky-waving frenzy more intense than any since the one that greeted Katie Couric's gravitas-defying move to prime-time.

You'd think that the recent surge of female Republican candidates and Tea Party hustlers laying siege to female voters might make a president's decision to appear on a show watched by lots of women perfectly understandable, but no. No one seemed to get that, so intent were they on further dismissing the still-exotic merging of politics and femininity.

Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell opined that the "president has to go on serious shows"; former "View" co-host Rosie O'Donnell sniffed at the idea of Obama doing "fluffy daytime shows." A "Nightline" segment on the appearance concluded with a voiceover piped in over a picture of Obama with his wife and daughters: "After all, being constantly surrounded by women is well within Mr. Obama's comfort zone"; and MSNBC's Dylan Rattigan showed a photo of the five "View" co-hosts and asked, "Which of these lovely ladies -- each of them lovelier than the next -- will actually ask the president a difficult or challenging question?" A president was going to talk to ladies! For an audience of ... ladies! As conservative columnist S. E. Cupp speculated in her Wednesday column, the show would either be "a momentous occasion worthy of celebration or the end of civilization as we know it."

If only it had been that exciting!

Naturally, most of the squawkers seemed to have forgotten that two years ago, the women of "The View" were the only members of the media man enough to ask John McCain tough questions, directly accuse him of lying during his campaign, and make him squirm so uncomfortably that his wife would later complain that the daytime doyennes had "picked our bones clean." At the time, New York Times columnist Frank Rich called it "the hardest-hitting interrogation McCain has yet faced on television," and grimly joked that Joy Behar "looms as the new Edward R. Murrow."

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http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/the_view/index.html?story=/mwt/broadsheet/2010/07/29/obama_on_the_view

[rocktivity]

1. Fee, fi, fo, fum

I smell the blood of a green-eyed media monster.

How dare he speak directly to "the lesser people!"

:eyes:
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[rocktivity]

2. "(F)ormer "View" co-host Rosie O'Donnell

sniffed at the idea of Obama doing "fluffy daytime shows..."

That SHE used to co-host. Classy with a "K," Rosie.

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[Better Today]

8. I don't understand your comment. Rosie recognizes that she was a host on a "fluffy

daytime show," but doesn't think it was wise for a President to be there too. Since she's never claimed, nor has anyone else that I know of, considered Rosie on par with a President, I'm not sure where your problem is, except that you must just want to bash anyone who doesn't agree with Obama's decision here.

[rocktivity]

9. In view of her abrupt departure from the "fluffy daytime show"

she should have considered that such remarks could come across as sour grapes. I couldn't be happier about Obama's decision myself--it's why I tweaked the MSM upthread. She's the one who's doing the bashing!

:headbang:
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[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

18. Someone's bitter about not being on that show any more.

[FirstTimeVoterAt37]

3. If he hadn't gone on the show, he would have been "Disconnected"

Or aloof, or elitist, or a socialist, or some damn thing. I fear that's why I tend to react negatively to a lot of legitimate criticism, just because there are two sides to every story, and both of them are about Obama doing something wrong.

[Blue Owl]

5. Exactly

The RW media's task is to smear Obama using any means possible -- the dumber the better.

[monmouth]

4. After about 2 minutes I switched to an old movie. It. was. boring. n/t

[boppers]

16. How was the old movie?

Catch something interesting?

[monmouth]

17. Ah wonderful, a marathon of Powell/Loy films...n/t

[TheKentuckian]

6. A truly silly criticism of the President here. Going on the View is more respectable than O'Lielly

I don't get this stuff.

The beltway is stupid which is why we should never listen to to anything they say or indulge their bogus "common wisdom" as we generally do.

There is plenty to unload on Obama for days about but this kind of crap is stupid.

[mopinko]

7. another nontroversy turns out to be nothing but hot air.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Oh the humanity!!!!

:eyes:

We should start up a list of all of the stupid "poutrages" and "manufactroversies" that Republicans and their crazed supporters (and, bizarrely enough, even a few Dems) have started up in the time that Obama has been in office.

This brings back memories of right-wing protests about Clinton being asked (and answering) a question about whether he wore boxers or briefs and how that supposedly "degraded "the Presidency. Neither Obama nor Clinton will EVER "degrade" or damage the office of the Presidency of the United States more than Bush/Cheney did during their awful eight years in office. :puke:

[DCBob]

11. I have never watched "the View" and I intend to keep that streak going... unless..

Lizzy Hasselbitch has an epiphany and renounces, denounces, and rejects the GOP live on the show. That I might tune in for!

[roscoeroscoe]

13. nice and comfy in your own little echo chamber?

heck, i like the view. i have to remind you, they handed mccain his ass during the '08 campaign? they mix it up pretty well. any little nonsense hasselback brings out is easily smashed back over the net by joy behar. i watch the view just for joy, really, and by the way she has her own great show on hsn network

[DCBob]

14. I am not criticizing anyone for watching it.. it just does not seem to be my type of show..

enjoy your own "echo chamber". ;)

[tanyev]

12. Yeah, sitting presidents need to appear on serious shows.

Like Fishing With Roland Martin.



April 9, 2004

[lunatica]

15. All I can say is Big Deal. I don't watch it but there's nothing wrong with it

Would they say the same if he went on Oprah's show? Then they should shut their pie holes and we should shrug them off like water off a ducks back. Big Fucking Deal.