VIDEO & PHOTOS: President Barack Obama Appears On The View Thursday; Rosie O'Donnell Criticizes Appearance
Posted on Jul 29, 2010 @ 04:32AM
President Barack Obama Thursday becomes the first sitting U.S. president to appear on a daytime talk show - The View - and even before its aired, he's already catching flak from critics such as ex-View co-host Rosie O'Donnell, who says the commander-in-chief should be focusing his energies elsewhere.
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"I don't really think sitting presidents should do fluffy daytime TV shows," O'Donnell said on her XM talk show Wednesday in reference to the appearance.
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New York Daily News writer S.E. Cupp, in an editorial titled, "Two wars, oil crisis, crashed economy and he's whooping it up with Whoopi," put the issue in similar perspective.
"Obama will surely discuss the state of the nation on ‘The View,’ in between coos and leg pats from Sherri, wisecracks from Joy and earnest pseudo-journalism from Elisabeth," she wrote, "but it's unlikely he'll change the minds of voters who are increasingly unimpressed that our President is a wiz at self-promotion, but no good at steering the nation through these tricky straits."
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Mr. Obama, who appeared on the ABC staple twice prior to being elected president, said it was his wife’s fondness for the daytime talk show that made him want to appear.
"Look, I was trying to find a show that Michelle actually watched, and so I thought this is it, right here," he told the panel of The View, according to ABC. "All those new shows, she's like, eh, let me get the clicker."
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President Obama taped his interview with The View on Wednesday. It airs Thursday on ABC at 11am/10c.
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The View creator and co-host, Barbara Walters, made a special appearance for the President's interview. Walters has been on extended vacation since undergoing heart surgery, and plans to return to the show full-time in September.
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Apr 04, 2011 @ 04:15
I agree with the comment about 8 years of severely corrupt administration. It was a democratic administration the entire time that Bush was president...so corrupt then and corrupt now. You Americans are hilarious
Posted Sat, 07/31/2010 - 5:20am
We have thousands out of work, and people struggling just to put food on the table and this guy is laughing it up on day time talk shows?
He makes me sick!
Posted Fri, 07/30/2010 - 1:59am
This man is absolutely unbelievable!
He goes on vacations every weekend and goes golfing every other day and can't wait to show off his ugly mug on a stupid day time talk show but refuses to focus on HIS JOB!
Posted Fri, 07/30/2010 - 1:59am
Love the fact he bailed on 44,000 boyscouts in DC today--the classy pres made history twice today 1st for his daytime talkshow stoop and 2nd for being the 1stPres to diss the boyscout celabration.
Posted Thu, 07/29/2010 - 5:38pm
I can't stand Rosie. I don't like Obama either. Though I don't see what the big deal is w/him being on the View
I mean what can he change in a couple of hrs.
Posted Thu, 07/29/2010 - 1:10pm
Rosie is so jealous.
Posted Thu, 07/29/2010 - 11:16am
Easily the most radical, smug and dishonest president in history.
He's fundamentally ruining our great country -- so sad....
Posted Thu, 07/29/2010 - 11:16am
How is he ruining our country? He's great and it was good to see him doing something different than fighting with journalists.
Posted Thu, 07/29/2010 - 6:10pm
I think it's great that he appears on TV. He is still dealing with the gigantic messes Bush left, no one would have had an easy time in office following 8 years of that severely corrupt administration.
Posted Thu, 07/29/2010 - 11:00am
AMEN
Posted Thu, 07/29/2010 - 11:44am