President Barack Obama will visit CBS’ Late Show With David Letterman on Monday, Sept. 21, as part of a media blitz to promote his health care message to Americans.
Obama’s visit will make the first time a sitting president has ever visited the Late Show, CBS said in press release this afternoon. Obama has appeared on the late-night comedy five times in the past, mostly during his presidential campaign in September 2008.
The president will be the only guest on Monday’s Late Show.
Even President Barack Obama has an opinion on Krazy Kanye’s stage-storming at Sunday night’s VMAs, according to Politico.com.
On Monday night, ABC’s Terry Moran Tweeted: “Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a ‘jackass’ for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential.”
Moran deleted the post soon after, but not before catching the attention of his more than 1 million followers.
“In the process of reporting on remarks by President Obama that were made during a CNBC interview, ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview,” according to a statement issued by ABC News shortly after Moran’s Tweets emerged. “This was done before our editorial process had been completed. That was wrong. We apologize to the White House and CNBC and are taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again.”
(Which means, no one is disputing Obama made the comment, just that it wasn’t meant for publication.)
Apparently having respect for the office of the presidency is something some Republicans only give lip service to, although to be fair I don’t think Joe Wilson making a jackass out of himself will be popular with most conservatives. Here is video of South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson screaming “You Lie” at Barack Obama during his health care address to the nation on 9/9/09:
President Barack Obama warned America’s adolescents that your Facebook postings could come back to haunt you in a speech to students on Tuesday. Obama spoke to the nation’s young people on the first day of the school year for many in America, encouraging them to study hard and take responsibility for their own education.
“I’ve been hearing a lot about young people who, you know, they’re posting stuff on Facebook, and then suddenly they go apply for a job, and …” the President stated in an address live from Wakefield High School in the Washington suburb of Arlington, Virginia. Read the rest of this entry »
Helmet-Gate 2009! President Obama has sparked concern that he could use a few lessons in bike safety after the Commander-In-Chief was caught riding without a helmet, in the company of his family and security service officials, in Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard Thursday.
When asked about the incident, White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters that he doesn’t know why the president was not wearing a helmet because he generally does.
“He supports the wearing of bicycle helmets,” Burton said Thursday.
A poster depicting President Barack Obama as The Joker has divided opinion on the internet – some say it’s “dangerous”, others say there’s nothing wrong with a little free speech.
Earl Ofari, president of The Urban Policy Roundtable in Los Angeles — where the poster first appeared late last month — is one Democrat voicing his opposition.
“Depicting the President as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery,” he said. “It is mean-spirited and dangerous.”
This isn’t the first time the comic book villain’s image has been used for a political message. In 2008, Vanity Fair Magazine ran a similar image of President Bush as The Joker.
The White House was prompted into moving President Obama’s latest primetime news conference to 8 PM on Wednesday, July 22, after NBC expressed reservations about pulling the plug on Susan’s appearance on America’s Got Talent so the President could take over the airwaves at 9 PM, the time originally set aside for the live broadcast.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the network was not interested in silencing the most-watched show on summer TV so that Obama could spend an hour talking about healthcare.
