Sneak preview: Best president ever appears on best show ever
posted at 8:44 pm on July 28, 2010 by Allahpundit
Sorry, but I can’t wait until tomorrow morning. In fact, this vid has me feeling nostalgic for the early days of Hot Air, when “View” clips were a daily occurrence and every imbecilic Truther conspiracy theory floated by Rosie O’Donnell promised a traffic windfall. How young we were then…
Seriously, though, I don’t grasp the logic that this show is somehow beneath him. Remind me again, whose program did he appear on back in September to talk about subjects as serious as health-care reform and race relations? QED. Clearly, this is not a guy who worries about diminishing the office when there’s an important demographic to be courted, and this program will give him a pipeline to women voters. Exit question: Why not?
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As The Worm Turns
GnuBreed on July 28, 2010 at 9:42 PM
Like they would allow a capable conservative on the show! Please. The only positive outcome is people don’t like her being bullied.
Cindy Munford on July 28, 2010 at 9:41 PM
Shows like that are hilarious. Bill Maher has done the same thing. They’ll have 3 liberal guests , a liberal host, and one weak conservative.
CWforFreedom on July 28, 2010 at 9:44 PM
Hell I thought it was Rodney Dangerfield.
Patrick S on July 28, 2010 at 9:44 PM
When Rosie O’Donnell is a better judge on the image of the presidencey (she belittles this appearance) the land is in deep trouble.
Schadenfreude on July 28, 2010 at 9:45 PM
I can’t watch, but I do remember the days when people were screaming about no more Rosie clips.
Hening on July 28, 2010 at 9:47 PM
How the hell does she go on there and listen to that drivel from these mindless twits day after day?
One day I would just walk in and first negative Anti-American word from their Pie hole I’d go chair throwin crazy on these witches like the skin heads did to WhoreAldo!
dhunter on July 28, 2010 at 9:47 PM
They need to recover some DNA from Charles Martel, although I think he was more Germanic, and gene therapy it into the English as well as the French. America could use some too.
Tav on July 28, 2010 at 9:48 PM
Bill Cunningham use the name Barack Hussein Obama during the run and he was made a racist.
Vernon Jordan just spoke on “we have to support president Barack Hussein Obama”.
What changed? Teh heh – he, Obama, should have owned his name with pride when he ran. ‘Adopting’ his middle name later appears hyper-calculated and it is. “I’m not a Hussein until I need to be a Hussein”. It’s just one of his fooling of the masses. The people are no longer fooled.
Schadenfreude on July 28, 2010 at 9:50 PM
I think only her bank account could tell us for sure.
Cindy Munford on July 28, 2010 at 9:53 PM
One day I expect he’ll walk out of the White House yelling “yabba dabba doooooooo”
scalleywag on July 28, 2010 at 9:53 PM
For objectivity, Hannity has the same, in reverse.
Schadenfreude on July 28, 2010 at 9:53 PM
Dancing with the Stars is all that is left…
d1carter on July 28, 2010 at 9:53 PM
If I remember correctly, as soon as he won his middle name became an instant asset. You can’t shame that guy with his hypocrisy.
Cindy Munford on July 28, 2010 at 9:54 PM
No, it isn’t. This is someone who thinks a set of cds is a good gift for visiting heads of state. There isn’t much that would be beneath him. And there isn’t much that’s beneath this show either.
Eren on July 28, 2010 at 9:55 PM
How about
Law and Order : Social Justice
In the social justice system
the racists are represented by 2 separate yet
equally impoltant groups
the thugs who commit crimes
and the DOJ attorneys who prosecute their victims
these are their stories
macncheez on July 28, 2010 at 9:55 PM
He can get get away with scrooming some of the people all the time, scrooming all of the people some of the time, but not scrooming all of the people all of the time.
Tav on July 28, 2010 at 9:56 PM
…needed it for Cairo and etc…
He can only be mocked. Why SNL doesn’t do it, weekly, is beyond reason. The sources are soooo rich.
Schadenfreude on July 28, 2010 at 9:56 PM
Didn’t he cut out on the Boy Scouts to do this taping? And he’s honorary President of the organization.
“Please welcome President A*****e to The View! ” *wild cheering, fainting*
inviolet on July 28, 2010 at 9:57 PM
Since you brought it up….
Bamster on The View
slickwillie2001 on July 28, 2010 at 9:57 PM
Gee Whoopi, why’d ya get all dressed up?
johnnyU on July 28, 2010 at 9:58 PM
And unlike the preceding Law and Order series, this one will be much truer to real life events.
Tav on July 28, 2010 at 9:58 PM
‘Classy’ peddlers
Schadenfreude on July 28, 2010 at 10:00 PM
Of course its called ‘The White House’. Well now that will need to be rewound and restamped.
johnnyU on July 28, 2010 at 10:01 PM
He did say it! It is very short. Listen. It won’t kill you. He is a douchenozzle! LOL!
JAM on July 28, 2010 at 10:01 PM
Tav on July 28, 2010 at 10:01 PM
Just as suspected, I see. How to I say, thanks for the video referral, without actually appreciating viewing it? :)
betsyz on July 28, 2010 at 10:01 PM
Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar. Just review their greatest hits on youtube to understand the well of imbecility he just dove down into.
But go ahead champ, you’ve made such stellar decisions so far….
Hog Wild on July 28, 2010 at 10:01 PM
Personality and mental acuity, like water, seeks its own level
Beto Ochoa on July 28, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Well Zero has certainly risen to the level of his incompetence.
annoyinglittletwerp on July 28, 2010 at 10:02 PM
OMG
now thats nutty
macncheez on July 28, 2010 at 10:05 PM
Personal pick for QOTD and then some!
betsyz on July 28, 2010 at 10:09 PM
H1N1?
David2.0 on July 28, 2010 at 10:11 PM
..but the video explains why he feels so comfortable with those hags….they like to perform for camera , just like him
macncheez on July 28, 2010 at 10:12 PM
I really don’t think this will help him with women voters. Anyone who is enough of a dimbulb to vote for this guy is already voting for him, because all the cool people do, and its the nice thing to do.
sharrukin on July 28, 2010 at 10:13 PM
Oh, great – six ladies sitting on the couch.
Maybe Sir Golfsalot can give the other girls the scoop on what tacky designer duds Michelle will be wearing while deigning to mingle with the little people that they both so despise.
And after the show, in the Green Room, maybe they can all change into their baby doll PJs, have a pillow fight, and write mash notes to Justin Bieber.
I.can.hardly.wait.
TeresainFortWorth on July 28, 2010 at 10:15 PM
Joy Behar always looks like she’s ready to burp up yesterday’s pastrami sandwich.
RedRedRice on July 28, 2010 at 10:16 PM
You misunderstood me. I watched it. Sorry. I meant to say thanks for sharing, but then again, no thanks for the gift…sort of like the queen’s CDs.
betsyz on July 28, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Its time to start hurting people…………
dmann on July 28, 2010 at 10:22 PM
You’re right in one sense, it doesn’t necessarily demean the office that he’s going on there. Yes, Behar is one of the most vulgar women on the planet, but Presidents have gone on late night TV and the Presidency has survived.
What could be extremely demeaning to his political reputation, though, is when people figure out why he felt he needed to go on this particular show at all right now.
Think about it. That show’s audience is exactly his core constituency – poorly educated women on the dole or on Social Security. Very young, very old or very poor.
If Barack OBama had to take time out of his busy golfing schedule to go schmooze with Joy & the gang in order to reconnect with people he should have a permanent lock on, this can only mean the WH has very good reason to believe he’s hemorrhaging popular approval at a much faster rate and much more deeply than any of the more reputable polling companies have even detected yet and the West Wing has hit full panic mode.
If he had to go on The View of all places to shore up support, by golly the man’s hit an artery and he just may be losing vital organs.
When everybody snaps to that view – the one of him flailing desperately to staunch the bleeding – yeah, the image could surely be beneath him.
leilani on July 28, 2010 at 10:26 PM
What an a$$hole to call women that publicly, and your own daughter at that!
silvernana on July 28, 2010 at 10:30 PM
atleast you didn’t throw up
like I did when I first saw that video.
That woman is a camera-whorpse …just like Hussain
macncheez on July 28, 2010 at 10:30 PM
Looks like the most testosterone in the room is in Whoopie’s purse….
KZnextzone on July 28, 2010 at 10:32 PM
If Boy scouts were able to vote he would not have made this appearance. Power to the people – HIS people. What a travesty!
LarryG on July 28, 2010 at 10:32 PM
This putz proves Sam Kinnison right.
Fighton03 on July 28, 2010 at 10:40 PM
I’d prefer an entire segment of America’s Most Wanted dedicated to this putz.
Fighton03 on July 28, 2010 at 10:44 PM
I agree: Elizabeth is utterly useless at communicating the conservative position. She half the time agrees with these old battleaxes just to appear enlightened I suppose, and then when she does decide to wade into the muck, she is ill-informed or cranky or both. They had an opportunity to get a real conservative host not long ago and they had her on as guest host several times but it was obvious she was too smart for them so they hired the dimwitted Sherri instead.
I always enjoy the Boss Emeritus when she’s on. She always goes loaded for bear. She’d make a great host (if she lived in NY). She would eviscerate them daily.
NoLeftTurn on July 28, 2010 at 10:50 PM
So now “best” means “buncha’ flippin’ morons?”
Who knew?
john1schn on July 28, 2010 at 10:54 PM
What’s next, a cameo on General Hospital?
LASue on July 28, 2010 at 9:39 PM
Ha ha! Perfect.
cynccook on July 28, 2010 at 10:54 PM
He’s due to go on Ellen and shake his ass.
Hummer53 on July 28, 2010 at 10:59 PM
Did he bow to anyone?
LarryG on July 28, 2010 at 11:00 PM
Did he bow to anyone?
No , they bowed to him
Hummer53 on July 28, 2010 at 11:04 PM
Excuse me while I PUKE.
WaltzingMtilda on July 28, 2010 at 11:08 PM
Take a look; every woman there has more muscle then President String Bean.
carbon_footprint on July 28, 2010 at 11:11 PM
GAG! Obama, towels and sponges, freeky deeky…eeeeewwww! No wonder this guy makes me physically sick!
Yellowdog12 on July 28, 2010 at 11:14 PM
At the ballot box, kiddo, let’s get them there.
Cindy Munford on July 28, 2010 at 11:17 PM
After The View, Obama Faces Jilted Voters on the Jerry Springer Show: http://optoons.blogspot.com/2010/07/obama-faces-jilted-voters-on-raucous.html
Mervis Winter on July 28, 2010 at 11:25 PM
The man’s dead and he still can’t get no respect…
Bruno Strozek on July 28, 2010 at 11:26 PM
IIRC
Ellen doesn’t roll that way
macncheez on July 28, 2010 at 11:34 PM
And to think he still hasn’t gone on the Daily Show. Stewart must be pissed with Obama constantly avoiding him.
Dave_d on July 28, 2010 at 11:39 PM
Who the heck wastes their time watching this show?
Connie on July 28, 2010 at 11:57 PM
The Celebrity in Chief and the Eternal Campaigner all wrapped into one. Too bad Presidential Leader can’t fit in there.
Mallard T. Drake on July 29, 2010 at 12:03 AM
Too bad his appearance wasn’t sponsored by Massengill. Barry’s the biggest douche around these days.
Sugar Land on July 29, 2010 at 12:08 AM
The President, of where?
Speakup on July 29, 2010 at 12:12 AM
The View is a cacophony of cackling hens. What a perfect place for the Dingbat Messiah to spend an hour.
Really Right on July 29, 2010 at 12:17 AM
I’m sorry, but I just couldn’t bring myself to click play.
I can no longer listen to the sound of his voice, (must less Behar’s).
SalHansen on July 29, 2010 at 12:20 AM
All the women on The (Liberal) View have JOBS. Why is Obama wasting/distracting from doing anything to get the unemployed back to work…
TN Mom on July 29, 2010 at 12:55 AM
It’s all just part and parcel of the 4-year Apology Tour.
With a deftly intertwined attempt at a Comeback Tour ostensibly slated to begin in 2012.
Dhurka Dhurka on July 29, 2010 at 1:23 AM
Sure it’s beneath the office of the president as you and I think of it. But that’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Obama doesn’t think very much of the US or the office of the president, so nothing is really beneath it.
After all, his default position on all these type questions is that America is not exceptional. And in fact, it’s nothing out of the ordinary and, in any case, the office he holds is just his due. Think of his bowing to foreign heads of state (and to the mayor of Miami), think of his constant apologizing for America’s actions, think of his downgrading of NASA, think of his running up a Greek-level of debt that can’t be paid off in the life-time of your grandchildren. It’s all of a kind.
Fred 2 on July 29, 2010 at 1:28 AM
A real President does not have time to hang out with gossipy women in the afternoon. Its an embarrassment and akin to Carter being a judge on Dance Fever or whatever they did on that show.
This women are not worthy of an audience with the most powerful man in the world…
The whole thing makes me sick.
alecj on July 29, 2010 at 1:30 AM
Can’t do it.
You-Eh-Vee on July 29, 2010 at 1:54 AM
Um, because the Campaign should have ended about 2 years ago. Seriously, there is a very hostile and violent world out there. Our American sons & daughters are risking their very lives while President Talkshow chats it up on a large couch in front of a studio audience, and this is okay? How exactly does this have anything remotely connected to protecting and defending anything other than his voter retention?
redwhiteblue on July 29, 2010 at 2:16 AM
Barry is Devo. D-E-V-O. He has whored out the office.
BHO Jonestown on July 29, 2010 at 3:40 AM
Pathetically, I’ll be sitting in Master Control at an ABC affiliate as the show airs, trying very hard not to watch. Which is hard, considering there’s 40+ monitors of some type in there.
Scott P on July 29, 2010 at 4:29 AM
I wish Rosie was going to be there with him.
Dork B. on July 29, 2010 at 5:22 AM
“Why not?”
To his dwindling base it probably makes no diff…they do/cannot comprehend the idea of the “stature of the office”…too much of an intangible idea.
To the bulk of the voting public (I hope) it is one more withdrawal from the presidential equity bank…makes him smaller and smaller.
He has NO grasp of that concept and it can’t be polled so it is lost on many observers…but it’s there.
winston on July 29, 2010 at 5:44 AM
but it is in most peoples eyes…
talking with 4 gossipy ladies instead of thousands of boys who want to be inspired….it just doesn’t make sense…
cmsinaz on July 29, 2010 at 6:35 AM
I didn’t watch the clip last night, since I see entirely too much of him as it is. If this clip is the one they just showed on Fox & Friends, he said that we suffered a H1N1 pandemic. That is total horse hockey. Although his administration did screw up the vaccines, couldn’t get them when they were needed and had to destroy millions of dollars of expired doses that we didn’t need. But I enjoy a good revision as much as the next person.
Cindy Munford on July 29, 2010 at 7:07 AM
Gearing up the election machine to go back after the Soccer Moms.
Obama must be thinking he is in pretty good shape poll wise. He is sitting at around 50% approval rating despite huge unemployment numbers, huge deficits, announcements of big tax increases coming, fumbling in two deadly wars, a non-existent foreign policy, major oil spill, illegal alien problems, etc, etc, etc with the bad news.
How worse could it get? And yet still around 50% of the people think he is doing a good job. That is all one needs to get re-elected.
albill on July 29, 2010 at 7:09 AM
No, it’s not beneath Obama. But just imagine Reagan going on the View.
Case closed.
fossten on July 29, 2010 at 7:14 AM
Why bother? Intelligent women don’t waste their time watching that very unserious show. Seems to me it’s another case of preaching to the choir.
disa on July 29, 2010 at 7:15 AM
Did he lift his shirt and show his abs yet?…Ok there’s still room to drop further.
Personally, I hope his next TV appearance will be on COPS-DC where they have him face down on the pavement of some random DC pickle-park-rest-stop, in a wife beater, knee on the back of his head, pulling a sack of blow out of his pocket, and him screaming that he’s not gay he just has a wide stance.
Alden Pyle on July 29, 2010 at 7:32 AM
FTFY
Good Lt on July 29, 2010 at 7:46 AM
Just wait until they hit and people actually FEEL THE CHANGE in their wallet.
Good Lt on July 29, 2010 at 7:48 AM
Two things about this:
1) We somehow survived it without ObamaCare, and yet, that didn’t stop him from “changing” the health care system that was working.
2) It wasn’t a “pandemic.” Doctors the world over now concede that it was OVERBLOWN and that it was more media hype than actual medical problem.
Nice try, though, Barry. And I suppose the “stimulus” worked, too.
Good Lt on July 29, 2010 at 7:50 AM
This is not a dignified setting for any serious politician. Yet, somehow he fits right in with the rest of the silly hens. He is not a serious president but he is a serious progressive soldier. As far as I’m concerned he already laid his eggs.
cackle
v., -led, -ling, -les.
v.intr.
1.To make the shrill cry characteristic of a hen after laying an egg.
2.To laugh or talk in a shrill manner.
v.tr.
To utter in cackles: cackled a sarcastic reply.
n.
1.The act or sound of cackling.
2.Shrill laughter.
3.Foolish chatter.
verb
To express amusement, mirth, or scorn by smiling and emitting loud, inarticulate sounds: cachinnate, guffaw, laugh. Informal heehaw. Idioms: die laughing, laugh one’s head off, roll in the aisles, split one’s sides. See laughter, sounds/pleasant sounds/unpleasant sounds/neutral sounds or silence.
noun
An act of laughing: cachinnation, guffaw, laugh, laughter. Informal heehaw. See laughter, sounds/pleasant sounds/unpleasant sounds/neutral sounds or silence.
verb
To express amusement, mirth, or scorn by smiling and emitting loud, inarticulate sounds: cachinnate, guffaw, laugh. Informal heehaw. Idioms: die laughing, laugh one’s head off, roll in the aisles, split one’s sides. See laughter, sounds/pleasant sounds/unpleasant sounds/neutral sounds or silence.
noun
An act of laughing: cachinnation, guffaw, laugh, laughter. Informal heehaw. See laughter, sounds/pleasant sounds/unpleasant sounds/neutral sounds or silence.
uber-con on July 29, 2010 at 8:18 AM
I think it is interesting how is voice has changed in 18 months, he used to sound like a southern preacher.
workingforpigs on July 29, 2010 at 9:05 AM
Familiarity breeds contempt. The lower he brings the office the closer he is to his critics. Ultimately this will erode the cultural shield his melanin provides him. At some point America wakes up: “Black people can be incompetent and I don’t have to feel guilty about it!”
The demographic that he hopes to court is the one that will see him less as “black” and more as “a bad president.” Nothing is going to save him from an economy that is repelling capital in 2011. Prior to the tax hikes everyone is cashing out. And when the Christmas numbers come out, oh-boy. His cherished white female demographic won’t have a problem blaming him AND holding him accountable in 2012. He is better off using the media as a tool and speaking at events that interest females. Going on The View just makes him easier to criticize.
Theworldisnotenough on July 29, 2010 at 9:09 AM
Why Not? I’ll tell you why not. Our beloved nation is greater than you being elected. It is respect for the office and the people who went before that made this nation great, who died in bloody battles–Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, Argonne, D-Day, and many more up to present day. It’s the men and women working everyday to feed their families, provide the necessities of life for them. Give these people someone they can look up to. Please don’t prostitute the office and yourself by coffee klatching with some women who are in it strictly for the show and nothing else. For God’s sake, man up and be a man Obama!
Herb on July 29, 2010 at 9:26 AM
Just saw that he said Michele only watches this show. That’ll make more than a few women ticked off that he demeaned her that way.
AnninCA on July 29, 2010 at 9:29 AM
I don’t know many women who watch this show.
scalleywag on July 29, 2010 at 9:29 AM
Do you think that the terrorists in the cave that saw him dancing like a little b-tch on Ellen, now watch him cross his legs like a woman are scared?
What a typical p-ssy dem/RINO.
LtE126 on July 29, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Put a pop star in the white house and this is what you get.
Thunderstorm129 on July 29, 2010 at 9:37 AM
Ha, well said! By going on this show all Mr. President tells me is that he is still campaigning, still an opportunist, still thinks he is uber cool and isn’t taking our nation’s problems seriously. I’m a woman and I don’t care what they do on the View, but having the leader of our nation on their silly ass show makes me ill. John Edwards? No problem. Joe Biden? Go for it. The president doesn’t belong on talk shows. None of them. He should be busy in his office and this president doesn’t seem to do nearly as much work as he should be doing and is paid handsomely to do. He’s acting like a school boy.
scalleywag on July 29, 2010 at 9:37 AM
I don’t know many women who watch this show.
scalleywag on July 29, 2010 at 9:29 AM
Speaking as a woman I would rather be locked in a room with a swarm of Talibanist mud daubers who like gangsta rap than be forced to watch the View.
annoyinglittletwerp on July 29, 2010 at 9:38 AM
I didn’t watch the show for two very important reasons.
Behar and Barack. Both of those people leave a bad stench in the air even from a TV set and I wouldn’t give them the honor of tuning the television to watch.
I am surprised that BHO could fit the view in between his golfing and fund raising. To bad he can’t give up campaigning and actually do a decent job of running the country. Right now he is “running” it right into the ground. Hopefully after 2010 he will be left harmless with no power and we can begin to clean up the mess.
SgtRed on July 29, 2010 at 9:39 AM
OT: Hassleback does the best she can, and she’s certainly yummy. But seeing Fred Thompson’s wife on Cavuto yesterday made me think, I might actually tape The View if Jeri were going at with the other whatever-you-call-them.
BuckeyeSam on July 29, 2010 at 9:39 AM
It’s a good thing Zero won’t be at the BSA Jamboree because since he doesn’t agree with their values his only reason for attending would be to use the scouts as a photo op’.
The BSA deserves better!
annoyinglittletwerp on July 29, 2010 at 9:41 AM
Will. Not. Click.
Ann Coulter had one of the best lines ever when Joy Behar was haranguing her about waterboarding: she said something to the effect that when inmates at Gitmo were really, really bad they were made to watch reruns of “The View”.
muggedbyreality on July 29, 2010 at 9:47 AM
Did Obama ask Whoopi what she meant when she tried to defend Roman Polanski’s child rape as “not rape-rape?”
Good idea going on that show, Obama.
Good Lt on July 29, 2010 at 9:49 AM
Tsk, tsk, if you really think so little of women that you think The View is the program of choice for women who are intelligent enough to vote, no wonder you have only felines for company.
katiejane on July 29, 2010 at 9:49 AM
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