Political Ruminations

VIDEO: Jon Stewart Interviews President Obama on The Daily Show

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VIDEO: President Obama Answers Hasselbeck Question Unlike in HuffPost's Selectively Edited Version

You can watch the full episode of The View from September 25 which includes an appearance by the President and First Lady here.

You can also take a look at Huffington Post’s selectively edited version (and Conan’s response to Hasselbeck) here. You should know that the Huffington Post has yet to pull the edited version even though it presents a completely different version than the actual segment does, a fact which their commenters have yet to realize. #HuffpostPropaganda

And you can watch the clip below as Elizabeth Hasselbeck asks President Obama a question during his appearance on The View on Tuesday (and despite Huffpost's apparent desire to lead you to believe otherwise, yes, he did answer the question):

FULL VIDEO: Letterman Interviews President Obama

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For those of you who landed on this and found that the Letterman video was a cooking video, my apologies. CBS has a VERY wonky video deal, and I really did post the Letterman video, but at some point “it switched” itself to the food video.

Anyway, I found a better clip, so please enjoy.

Video: President Obama Interview With 60 Minutes

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Morning Quote: Barack Obama

In an ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos last night, President Obama was asked about Donald Trump and the birther nonsense Trump has been spewing recently. President Obama responded by pointing out that he doesn’t have horns, and he was born in Hawaii, along with a smackdown to the Republicans Southern Strategy.

President Obama:

I think that over the last two and a half years there’s been an effort to go at me in a way that is politically expedient in the short-term for Republicans. But [it] creates, I think a problem for them when they want to actually run in a general election where most people feel pretty confident the President was born where he says he was, in Hawaii. He– he doesn’t have horns…we’re not really worrying about conspiracy theories or– or birth certificates.

Watch [Stephanopoulos asks President Obama the question about Trump and birtherism at about 1:50]:

Every damn Republican in the primaries had better be prepared to cough up an official, long-form birth certificate or get called on it.

Updating Daily Political News Brief

What we're reading today:

Howard Kurtz has an excellent analysis of Bill O’Reilly’s Super Bowl Sunday interview with President Obama.

Over the weekend, former Vice President Dick Cheney defended Egyptian President Mubarak, saying that Mubarak had been a  “good friend” to the United States, and should be treated well.

Former President Bush avoids arrest for war crimes in Switzerland. [if only…]

Rep. Jane Harmon [D-CA] resigning from Congress to head up a bi-partisan think tank.

VIDEO: O'Reilly Interview With President Obama

The President won the day. O'Reilly is an A$$. Howard Kurtz has an excellent analysis of the interview, although he should have been tougher on O'Reilly, who was, in my view, openly antagonistic at times:

Maybe it was the setting, an afternoon chat in the White House on Super Bowl Sunday. Maybe it was the fact that Barack Obama’s team had just helped free two injured Fox News correspondents from Egypt. But Bill O’Reilly didn’t put any points on the board.

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VIDEO: Obama Interview on The Daily Show

Read the full transcript of the interview here.

PART 1

PARTS 2 AND 3 of the interview after the jump.

FULL TRANSCRIPT: President Obama Daily Show Interview

Watch the video of the interview here.

Jon Stewart: Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming the President of the United States, Barack Obama.
["Hail to the Chief," audience cheers]
President Barack Obama: Thank you! Thank you very much.
Stewart: Please have a seat.
PRESIDENT: Thank you. [audience cheers and applause] Thank you.
Stewart: I'm sorry; that's all the time we have. [laughter] Thank you for joining us.
PRESIDENT: This is a nice set.
Stewart: Thank you very much.
PRESIDENT: It reminds me of the convention.
Stewart: We actually bought it. It was in a warehouse and we bought it. We had it chiseled. Let me give you "Mug Force One." This is yours.
PRESIDENT: Oh, nice.