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I hope the Obama administration kicks those greedy AIG bastards in the teeth hard.
I can’t believe after everything Letterman did to help that campaign out he would go on LENO! Although honestly I’m surprised a sitting president would go on any show at all…
This is just the latest reason why he isn’t qualified for the job. He should be more concerned with doing his job running the country rather than making media appearances. At least Bush had enough common sense and class to not make media appearances during his term.
If he has done one thing, he has found a new way to brainwash the public.
I didn’t realize Obama supported attempted union busters.
Wait. Really? Obama is going on Leno? I’m sorry. I mean I’m down with the new hip blackberry carrying president, but this is going too far. Jay Leno is a place where actors, actresses and bands go to shill their upcoming wares, this is not a forum dignified enough for the office of president. There is such a thing as making yourself too accessible to the public and I think it harms and deflates some of the power that you wield as the most powerful man in America. I hate to be on the early hater band wagon, but I feel like this administration is bouncing from one mistake to the next.
Okay, I’ll admit I didn’t vote for Obama. But surely even those who consider(ed) themselves to be supporters have got to be tired of seeing this guy flapping his mouth CONSTANTLY.
Will he use a teleprompter? Will Jay Leno challenge him at all? No need to answer– I think we all know the answers to those questions.
I cannot believe this! Obama is soooo into himself….a tv appearance. Is he our prez or a hollywood star? I cannot stand him! Conceided man!
Hopefully Leno will push him on the AIG insanity. Summers’ position of “contracts are sacred” is absurd. Before we loaned the automakers money, the unions were forced to renegotiate contracts. Meanwhile, AIG is getting more than 10 times what the automakers got, and a few executives who cause the crisis are entitled to bonuses? What a load of BS.
Is the teleprompter coming? Because Obama doesn’t go anywhere without the teleprompter.
“Hopefully Leno will push him on the AIG insanity…” Leno doesn’t push — he’ll probably ask the President if he brought a clip with him.
I agree – it’s a cheap stunt for the current President to go on a show like this. 60 Minutes or Nightline, sure – but Leno? And the fact that Leno disgraced the union during the WGA strike shouldn’t be forgotten. How are Obama’s people overlooking this? Unreal.
I’d like to see him go in front of Jon Stewart, now that might be good. But you all wanted change! Here you go. Our new President of entertainment! The only change I can believe in is changing the channel!
Unfortunately, we now have an utterly classless president who sees nothing wrong with someone of his position appearing on a late night comedy show. No wonder Russia is licking its lips right now…
This makes sense. If Obama can win over all the Tonight Show joke faxers, that’s gotta be 20 million Americans.
Obama has a right to get his message out, but pick and choose your venues. I support Obama, but how about following Bernanke on 60 Minutes, or make a Jon Stewart appearance, some place where you’re asked tough questions. I’m concerned this will trivialize the stimulus package and hurt the cause.
Obama – Hope(less)
Ah, the Drudgebots are coming out in full force:
1. Ooooh…teleprompter jokes. Wow..that’s some cutting edge satire there.
2. “Russia’s licking it’s lips”? How exactly? What exactly do you feel Russia is planning on doing? Can a Republican express a view of the world that doesn’t involve images of cartoonish super-villains hellbent on destroying this country? Of course, you are the same clowns who have elevated that crackpot Chavez as a mortal threat to the US.
3. If Obama wants to use the Leno show for his bully pulpit, more power to him. Perhaps the single biggest mistake Bush made during his Administration was that he was utterly unwilling to attempt to use any bully pulpit outside of Fox News and Rush’s minions. He never attempted to convince on-the-fence Americans about anything. He simply “decided”, and then had his flaks go on friendly news shows declaring that dissenters were somehow traitors.
Here’s a question you can ask, Jay: How is Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner, who was running the New York Federal Reserve Bank during the crucial time when most of this abuse was birthed, the best choice to fix the banking mess?
Wooooooooooooooowwwwww.
On principle I’m opposed to the leader of the our nation appearing on a variety show (even a great one). BUT I’ll reserve judgement until I see it. Like most things, it can be done but will they do it well?
-Wowzer
Well, since nobody’s reading the papers, why not hit the shows people watch instead of forcing layman to watch shows nobody cares about? I can’t believe classeless came up after that last eight years we spent clowning phoentics, up chuck and blank stares. You guys should never write for tv. Even if some of the choices are off, the man’s breaking a sweat to do something for middle class folks instead of the Ewing clans.
How about this question, Jay – does Obama ever check up on anyone’s background for a possible appointment to his administration? At least if they have paid their taxes? We all know the question to that one, though…
Quick question Tara, what exactly has he done for the middle class?
Are letting tax cut’s expire doing something for the middle class? How about doubling our deficit one week and then saying the economy isn’t as bad as we thought the next.
Just curious.
Comment by truth — March 16, 2009 @ 10:28 am
“At least Bush had enough common sense and class to not make media appearances during his term.”
If he had, I would have bought tickets, flown across country and thrown some old, stinking Army boots at him.
Hey there Jamie,
I don’t believe in Trickle Down theory so if you eliminate that, I think you’re helping middle class people. If you go to his website, you’ll see what the goals are. Will he succeed? Who knows? But for the last eight years, I wasn’t a fan of how things went – war not on the books, deregulation, housing bubbles and burstings. Our deficit didn’t just grow since November’s election. It was always there. Most economists will tell you that when the people aren’t spending money (which they aren’t) then government spending has to come into play. But these are ills that existed long ago. Somebody’s just not ignoring them. Sometimes reality sucks. And then it changes. I don’t love getting into political debates but I also love information and not opaque digs just because.
The celebrityization of Obama continues. Barf. How I rue for the days when world leaders not only acted like it but were treated like it.
Gee, Mahogany. Regarding your use of the word “rue”: (To quote Inigo Montoya: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Julia,
Your comment just made me think
Change – Obama keeps using that word. I don’t think he means what we thought he meant.
“Comment by Deaf Indian Muslim Anarchist! — March 16, 2009 @ 10:24 am: I hope the Obama administration kicks those greedy AIG bastards in the teeth hard.”
The real issue that everyone is missing is that Obama has a sell ahead that is tougher than a pitch for a Watchmen prequel.
Obama wants to give MORE money to AIG et al. This isn’t a Democrat thing. A Republican would want to do the same thing.
Any additional financial assistance to any corp is DOA in Congress right now. The populist revolt is building.
Obama has to somehow claim to be angry about AIG while selling us on giving them even more money despite all of the previous money making little difference.
He should be appearing everywhere, because his credibility is going down weekly. Approval scores are lower for Obama now than they were for Bush at the same point in his first term.
For Obama to sell his plan now, he may have to cash in all of the goodwill he would have had this year on one financial assitance bill. It’s going to be a tough political year for him regardless, now.
“Gee, Mahogany. Regarding your use of the word “rue”: (To quote Inigo Montoya: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Comment by Julia — March 16, 2009 @ 3:57 pm”
*Bwwwwwaaaaaaha-ha-ha-hahahahaha…*
How about this for an idea- see how he does first BEFORE criticizing him??? Yes, this has never been done but who knows? Perhaps Obama will set a new trend. This is what I like about Obama – he’s not afraid to try new things. And just because YOU don’t watch The Tonight Show doesn’t mean that others don’t watch. I applaud him for thinking outside of the box in order to push his agenda.
And for all you Obama haters – get over it. You all sound like that idiot Rush Limbaugh with your moronic spewing messages of hate.
It has been 55 days, people. Calm the fuck down, already.
OBAMA=OBEY
Andre the Giant
55 days of one shocking form of ineptness after another. Is there anyone in his cabinet who has an empty closet? Thank Christ he’s only going to be a one termer. If that.
@ “truth”:
You win for most ironic posting-name.
I’d pay to see these from Leno to Obama:
1.) Sir, what is the content of your character?
2.) Please name three American war heroes that you admire, and tell us why.
3.) Are you fearful of one-on-one interview with Rush Limbaugh?
I’m still so embarrassed to be in a business that is so “all about Fraudbama.” What a joke. Y’all are going to get what you deserve. Thank God there are a bunch of undercover patriots who would rather have died than vote for such an idiotic, no talent America hating scumbag. When you all lose your homes, jobs, etc. and are paying for lazy slobs’ houses I hope you realize that being a batcrap crazy liberal doesn’t mean you have to destroy America and your own pathetic lives.
Hey JD, we can’t help that you’re STOOPID. Some of us actually respect the Constitution, the Presidency, and our COUNTRY. So we did our HOMEWORK. You bought the crap shoveled down your sad piehole by the bought and paid for media. How sad for you. STFU loser. Your idiot vote is costing us our country. GROW THE HELL UP YOU MORON.
Would the President please just keep his ass in Washington and keep trying to fix the economy instead of playing the narcissistic celebrity. Oh wait, Obama is pushing green tech, GE makes green tech, Obama lives for the limelight, GE owns NBC, NBC needs ad dollars. Ah, I got it..
The President of the United States is appearing on LENO? This guy is a pretender. I can’t believe how quickly this country is falling under the rule of this egotistical fraud. We are so in trouble now. God help America.
Soon, at it won’t be long, the majority of Americans will start missing . . . are you ready? . . . here it comes . . . George W. Bush!
Obama has been a disaster and he shows no signs of changing.
Oh my God. I’m gonna TIVO it and just keep watching it over and over again. What’s next? Saturday Night Live. Maybe he can do a cameo on Desperate or fill in for Joy on The View. Dancing with the stars? America’s got talent? No wait I got it. How about the biggest LOSER?
Odumbo was slick, wasn’t he? Nebulous rhetoric to get in (”Hope” & “Change”), great teleprompter skills, the media ignored his abysmal legislative record (his old IL state senate district is still blighted and crime ridden)…my God, I have to give it to him, he pulled it off.
God help us all.
Maybe Jay can advise Obama on how to run a successful enterprise. Also how to handle criticism without retaliation, censorship or Truth Squads. Developing a solid work ethic is something Jay knows about, too. For all the vacations Leno refuses to take, Obama might benefit from the same serious approach to his own commitments and responsibilities. If the last 54 days is any indication, though… don’t hold your breath.
Pathetic and typical. Republicans and racists who hate Obama- seem to have forgotten that this deficit was created by GW Bush, the war- Bush, Katrina- Bush, if you would miss GW Bush- you should be stuck on a roof waiting for him to do something Presidential- I have a feeling your fate would be the same as those Americans in Katrina- you would die waiting for him to do anything we might be proud of.
Bush was Presidential, really????
Take a look-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlcE3HVRlRs&feature=related
and get over yourselves-
^ Like virtually every large urban city New Orleans is run by Democrats. Chicago, Detroit, D.C., Philadelphia. Bush didn’t celebretize or cheapen the office. (This being an entertainment business site, many people here know how to read from a teleprompter and play to the camera.)
You gonna gun it on through to 2012 blaming the last president? Good luck with that.
I wonder why people call Obama classless when GWB had the class to lie to the nation so he could start a war for oil, waste trillions, have thousands of US soldiers killed, and ruin the economy.
If that’s true class, I’d rather have a president appearing on a talk show because I think it won’t have the same fatal results.
The Drudge-bots out in full mouth breathing glory. Yikes!
So, if you criticize the President, you are automatically a racist or a Republican? The ignorance and demagoguery on both sides of these comments are frightening.
Fact is, both parties are rotten and instead of screeching at each other people should unite and be very upset. It’s comforting to think one side offers salvation, but it doesn’t. It’s all a mess to varying degrees. Bush was a disaster (and btw he blamed many things on Clinton.) Obama is not the messiah, he is a typical politician who engages in the same old, same old (though the extent of it remains to be seen.)
The Leno appearance is a manipulative ploy, a cynical ‘charm offensive’, for Obama to distract from the fact that his admin and Congress knew for some time about the bonuses and allowed it. Enough people will see him on Leno and say oh he’s funny, he has a nice smile, and be stupidly pacified. Obama appears to say one thing to the public but has aides do otherwise. All this government outrage is just theater at all your expense. That includes Congress.
Obama, Congress knew about AIG bonuses for months
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article
/ALeqM5hEalVdubp5tGI_-bkLMyNULqCjXgD97040E00
You always know brain dead, mental case Obots when they have the ignorance to claim Iraq is about oil. Maybe you people can get an edumacation about oil before you say something so idiotic???? I miss Bush and I didn’t vote for him either time. What we have now is the Manchurian Candidate and some of the fools here are still proud they sold America down the river and voted for a criminal. Good luck with that. The rest of us are moving our money elsewhere so that when America becomes Cuba you losers are stuck with the bill. Even rats with lobotomies knew Obama was a mistake, and even a lot of blacks know they screwed up. Why is Hollywood so far behind? Guess it really is a bunch of people with low IQs here.
In the movie, Ruthless People, Bette Midler had some pretty funny lines that describe how the Obama team makes me feel…. I’ve been kidnapped by clowns!
And then the great line when her husband refused to pay the ransom price even though they kept marking down the price. Bette wailed, I’ve been kidnapped by K-Mart. Yeah, the President of the USA going on Leno to sell his misguided programs now feels like being kidnapped by K-Mart… UGH!
Cool! Maybe, Orahmobama will give Jay a DVD boxed set of his campaign promises!
I look forward to Obama’s guest arc on All My Children during which he gets into a catfight with Erica Kane over the hoax that is global warming. Then perhaps he and Michelle can show up on an e-harmony commercial.
I look forward to Obama’s guest arc on All My Children during which he gets into a catfight with Erica Kane over the hoax that is global warming. Then perhaps he and Michelle can show up on an e-harmony commercial.
Comment by Dorothy — March 18, 2009 @ 3:22 pm
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LMAO Dorothy. Funny, but so pathetic that we have such a Buffoon in Chief. God help this poor country full of ignorant voters who bought the scam of Obozo.
The Dems are marking this a an historical event.
Yes maybe it is, its the first time a president has been so immature and egotistical that he would take time away from running this country in order to be on a late night talk show with a comedian. How shallow!!!
I read a couple of comments about Bush creating this deficit. I won’t argue that he created deficit (good or bad it is what it is)….BUT WAKE THE HELL UP!…..OBAMA IS GOING WAY BEYOND BUSH. He’ Mortgaging our childrens’ futures!….(ironic, it’s the Mortgage fiasco that really put us in this bind…and it was mostly the Demo’s behind it)…Obama’s putting THE US INTO MULTI TRILLION DOLLARS DEFICTS!!!! And some morons want to contiue to spout “I hate Bush”….ahh dude…or dudette…Obama’s destroying the Economy and this country…”I don’t care….cuz I hate Bush…Waaaaah!”
Do you Obama lovers even know how many zeros are in a Trillion Dollars? It ain’t pretty. No wonder other countries have started to insinuate that the US is a bunch of deadbeats. Obama didn’t inherit anything….I mean, was he not part of the Government? I didn’t see him giving any warnings of what was coming(Oh that’s right…he was almost never in office as Senator…he was already out running for office…just like showing up for his press coverage on Jay Leno). The only warning Obama sent prior was a letter he says that he sent to some official…and definitely sent when the problem was already an 800 pound Gorilla in the room.
Picture George W. Bush digging a ditch….then this moron named Obama comes along and decides to dig into this ditch and make it grave. Are the Obama Blinders off yet? Has light dawned on Marble Head? Probably not.
So now picture Obama digging the grave but acting like it’s the greatest thing eva’ (more fun than picking Basketball’s Final Four, Playing Bowling at the White House, or going on the Jay Leno show…it doesn’t matter that the Economy and his administration is self destructing)…acting like it’s so much fun, that he gets the Obama loving kids in the neighborhood to dig the ditch for him. In fact, he makes it sound so great that he gets these gullible kids to pay him for the privilage of happily digging their own grave……..all the while Obama’s quietly mumbling “Tom Sawyer and his white picket fence ain’t got nothing on me”.