“…Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to appear on a daytime television chat show, The View…
Preamble: If you’ve got an American history book, throw it away, it’s useless.
Future chronicles of American history will just say “Barack Obama appeared on The View” –
- everything else will be a footnote* to the first sitting US president on a daytime talk show, at 11am ET (4pm in the UK).
According to CNN: “Obama to make history with appearance on The View” – which is true, if you take a very generous interpretation of what “to make history” means.
On this basis, there should have been headlines such as “Lincoln to make history with appearance in daguerreotype”.
Depending on you who listen to, Obama’s debut presidential appearance on daytime telly is either another step in the inevitable destruction of the American empire –
- akin to the Rome installing lead pipes for its drinking water – or a media masterstroke.
Anyway, for those of you not familiar with The View: it’s a chat show with five women and various guests.
It briefly became important in 2006 after former cast member Rosie O’Donnell called Donald Trump a “snake-oil salesman” …
… and he called her a “fat pig”.
It was a highpoint in American civilization…”
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