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Fox News has responded to President Obama’s appearance on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon by suggesting that Obama is somehow denigrating the office of the presidency. For instance, today on Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson said that it’s “nutso” for Obama to go on “these comedy shows” because it “lowers the status of the office.”
The Queen of screech, Ann Coulter, chimed in with…
“It’s pretty pathetic that that’s what the president has to go to but what else is he gonna do?”
Okay. My question is what these same people had to say back in 2008 when a certain president showed up on a popular game show.
A game show! Did poor little Gretchen believe then that Bush’s satellite appearance on Deal Or No Deal was also “nutso”? Did it lower the status of the office?
Or what about Mitt Romney’s appearance on Letterman last December? “Pathetic” might be better used to describe Mitt’s reading of the Top 10 (no.9 – “What’s up gangstas, it’s the M-i-double tizzle.” Sheesh.)
Personally, I see no problem with presidents and prime ministers and other world leaders mingling with the common folk as long as they keep a certain decorum. The only thing pathetic here is the right-wing’s transparent and patented hypocrisy on all matters Obama.
Gretchen Carlson probably wouldn’t remember this (she was only two years old at the time), but during the second season of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, Richard Nixon appeared three times. His first appearance was as the Republican candidate on 16 September 1968. His subsequent appearances were broadcast on 20 January 1969 (his inauguration day) and on 31 March 1969, after he was president. I had expected The Daily Show and The Colbert Report to pick up on this, but the only television pundit I saw who did was Lawrence O’Donnell, on his Wednesday 25 April show.
Carlson and Coulter are also forgetting all the times the Shrub made a fool of himself when he wasn’t on a comedy show.
The problem is, republicans don’t want Obama reaching out to the average guy like this. If they see him as a cool guy, just like us, they can’t keep up their Secret-Muslim, Evil Commie, Socialist, Gay Loving ,Baby Killer lie campaign. They count us fearing what we do not know or understand. The more we see him, the more we realize they are lying about him.
FOX-chatter is a tiny hotbed of deminished intelligence spouting a litiny of anti Obama put-downs hoping that the emptiness of their bullshit rhetoric and bluster will hit a pin head target somewhere or maybe to scratch their feelgood points so they feel legit. My respect for the truth of our President helps to keep me above this reactionary crap although I pity the poor souls who believe this stuff. The President is a class act and we should all walk in the grace of his truth. GO POTUS!!!!!! Richard Berryman
This is yet another example of a Rethug tactic that can be described as “keep throwing shit at the wall, and maybe some of it will stick.” They know damn well that Rethug presidents have done similar TV appearances – they just hope that their audience doesn’t remember them (and after all, Fox sure isn’t going to tell them – and that’s where they get their information from).
Thanks for attempting to keep them honest, Mario, but for them its only wrong when a liberal President participates in these entertainment venues. President Obama IS a class act and such a breath of fresh air — Lord, I can’t bear even the slight possibility that he might not be relected in November. I know its not realistic, but I personally wish he could run for several more terms.
Obama is the classiest president ever and the right wing can’t stand it. Boo Hoo.
Gretchen Carlson probably wouldn’t remember this (she was only two years old at the time), but during the second season of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, Richard Nixon appeared three times. His first appearance was as the Republican candidate on 16 September 1968. His subsequent appearances were broadcast on 20 January 1969 (his inauguration day) and on 31 March 1969, after he was president. I had expected The Daily Show and The Colbert Report to pick up on this, but the only television pundit I saw who did was Lawrence O’Donnell, on his Wednesday 25 April show.
Carlson and Coulter are also forgetting all the times the Shrub made a fool of himself when he wasn’t on a comedy show.
The problem is, republicans don’t want Obama reaching out to the average guy like this. If they see him as a cool guy, just like us, they can’t keep up their Secret-Muslim, Evil Commie, Socialist, Gay Loving ,Baby Killer lie campaign. They count us fearing what we do not know or understand. The more we see him, the more we realize they are lying about him.
FOX-chatter is a tiny hotbed of deminished intelligence spouting a litiny of anti Obama put-downs hoping that the emptiness of their bullshit rhetoric and bluster will hit a pin head target somewhere or maybe to scratch their feelgood points so they feel legit. My respect for the truth of our President helps to keep me above this reactionary crap although I pity the poor souls who believe this stuff. The President is a class act and we should all walk in the grace of his truth. GO POTUS!!!!!! Richard Berryman
This is yet another example of a Rethug tactic that can be described as “keep throwing shit at the wall, and maybe some of it will stick.” They know damn well that Rethug presidents have done similar TV appearances – they just hope that their audience doesn’t remember them (and after all, Fox sure isn’t going to tell them – and that’s where they get their information from).
Thanks for attempting to keep them honest, Mario, but for them its only wrong when a liberal President participates in these entertainment venues. President Obama IS a class act and such a breath of fresh air — Lord, I can’t bear even the slight possibility that he might not be relected in November. I know its not realistic, but I personally wish he could run for several more terms.
John McCain and Sara Palin BOTH appeared on Saturday Night Live.