The Prez Does ‘The View’

[30 July 2010]

By PopMatters Staff

Whether or not you think it’s a particularly good idea for the most powerful person on the planet to set foot on a daytime TV stage, you have to admit this was pretty entertaining. Does it diminish the office of the president as some observers, like Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has claimed this week? Or is this just an inevitable outgrowth of our celebrity and trash TV obsessed times? Whoopi Goldberg did address race issues with the President, which many “hard news” reporters have shied away from, but in this clip Obama talks pop culture.

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