Obama to Give Election Day Exclusive to 'American Idol' Host Ryan Seacrest
In case you didn't know, the President really doesn't like Fox News. Why? Fox is "not really a news station," in the words of White House advisor David Axelrod.
Barack Obama hasn't given the most highly-rated cable news channel an interview in eight months. But he apparently has no problem sitting down for an election day exclusive with the b-list host of "American Idol", Ryan Seacrest.
Seacrest announced the interview in a Monday Facebook post on his fan page:
As he wraps up weeks of urging potential voters to get to the polls on midterm election day, President Barack Obama will join 'On Air with Ryan Seacrest' tomorrow, November 2 for an exclusive interview on the state of the nation and life in the White House.
Do YOU have a question for President Obama? What issues concern you most? Let us know in the comments below and Ryan might ask it in the interview!
Ryan's interview with the President airs tomorrow at 7:15am PST in Los Angeles, and will be immediately available afterwards at RyanSeacrest.com.
So if the president has a problem feeding exclusives to news outlets that are not really news outlets, what is he doing talking with Seacrest the day of the midterm elections?
Perhaps he knows he will be fed with softball questions that are all-but-inevitably asked by a Los Angeles resident deep in the entertainment industry. Seacrest hasn't exactly tried to hide his political leanings. "[Obama's] influences have been felt all over the country," Seacrest gushed in a January episode of "Idol", "[and] today many of the 'Idol' hopefuls are following in his footsteps,"
This is the same Ryan Seacrest who, in his capacity as "Idol" host, mocked a 19-year-old contestant for his abstinence pledge.
So maybe Obama is doing the interview because he can be all but sure that no question will present a meaningful challenge. Of course he probably thought the same about his interview with Jon Stewart, but the comedian managed to hit Obama from the left on a number of issues, so who knows.
One thing is clear: Fox's status as a news organization obviously has nothing to do with the White House's demonization of the channel. If a town hall-style speech on MTV and an interview with the left's favorite comedian didn't remove any doubt, this latest antic should.
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So he has
Submitted by 10ksnooker on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:14pm.
five listeners ...
...none of whom know who
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:16pm.
...none of whom know who Obama is or that there is an election on Tuesday...
Barry has finally met his match
Submitted by Lord-come-soon-... on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:14pm.
The world's most empty-suited politician interviewed by the world's most empty-suited interviewer. This is number one on my what not to watch list.
Another stop on a
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:19pm.
Another stop on a never-ending list of vacuous appearances by Boy Blunder. I think his handlers KNOW that he is incapable of discussing anything of a serious nature, and they keep him on the sugar-coated trail........
Boy Barry Soetoro Barack Hussein Obama is, was, and always WILL BE a total lightweight!!!!
Next comes . . .
Submitted by neutron on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:49pm.
Next year, Obama will prove to all that he can beat Sarah Palin -- head to head -- by competing on Dancing with the Stars, and get a cumulative score higher than Bristol Palin's. That will show everyone who's got game!
Nah!
Submitted by Secret Conservative on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 11:39am.
Nah, I think he'll send Moochelle to shake her ample booty on DWTS. I get the feeling Barry isn't all that coordinated.
another episode of... The
Submitted by MidAmerica on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:23pm.
another episode of... The Incredible Shrinking President
Justin Bieber was busy...
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:24pm.
at least that's what I heard.
Very Lincolnesque, there Barry.
Anyone know if
Submitted by Dragonsbreath on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:27pm.
Has he gotten his screen actors gulid card yet?'How are we able to secure the borders in Iraq and Afghanistan, and not secure our own as a government?'
as if we needed any more
Submitted by MidAmerica on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:32pm.
as if we needed any more proof that barry is even less of a President than Jimmie Carter.
Obama has so diminished the office of President of the United States that other world leaders will EXPECT him to bow before them.
I think the President made a
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:41pm.
I think the President made a wise decision. Obama must be an American idol follower.
Obama's Logic
Submitted by mnemosyne23 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:55pm.
Obama's Logic Model:
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"Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."
~General John Stark, 1809
Really, Barry? Really?
Submitted by mnemosyne23 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:41pm.
Aaaand Presidential descent into utter fame whore in
3...
...2...
...1
Fame whore status established. Carry on, FWOTUS.
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"Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."
~General John Stark, 1809
My understanding is that Ryan
Submitted by bkeyser on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:48pm.
My understanding is that Ryan Seacrest is the President's second choice; he was really hoping to reach his intellectual peers with this appearance but all efforts to re-animate Captain Kangaroo -sadly- have failed.
And Barney the Dinosaur
Submitted by mnemosyne23 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:53pm.
And Barney the Dinosaur wouldn't even pick up the phone.
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"Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."
~General John Stark, 1809
Gee...I thought that Bert and Ernie were Obama's...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:02pm.
first choice...From an intellectual peer standpoint, they're the ticket!
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Voted
Submitted by Secret Conservative on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 11:40am.
Since Captain Kangaroo voted for Barry in Chicago, it's an understandable mistake.
Enjoying this.
Submitted by Texndoc on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 7:57pm.
I sat bewildered at him worshipped in Berlin and his "Greek columns". Now he's reduced to Ryan Sechrest. We're not laughing WITH you, you colossal fool.....
Today on Obama's court..................
Submitted by Tomorama on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:04pm.
I am OK with this, I sleep well knowing that this lying, gutless fraud of a President will be lucky if he gets a "Judge Barry" show on daytime cable in 2012.
His "handlers" if they had any brains would have him on Fox to get some uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh viewers or listeners, but then he would be made a fool with the non-puff ball questions.
The knuckleheads on Fox and friends would stump this fool.
Signed lovingly,
The enemy..........
I seem to remember the
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:09pm.
I seem to remember the puffball questions from the goofball O'Reiley. I still watch O'Reiley even though he likes Obama. Gotta think he likes Obama due to his being a New Yorker and not right in the haid.
Oh Jeez............O'Reilly
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 12:24am.
Oh Jeez............O'Reilly was on his kneepads and shining Boy Blunder's shoes!!! And I've seen Michael Moron run Big Bad Bill in circles................I'm not too impressed with him much anymore. If Laura Ingraham is sub-hosting his show, I'll watch, but otherwise - if it's on, I'm probably not paying that much attention to it, unless there is someone or something interesting.
And that greasy smarmy guy that's on mid-day - I can't think of his name right now - on Fox REALLY irritates me!!! I have to change channels when he's on!!! He even does the radio news sometimes on the station I listen to at work.......the guy irritates the hell out of me...............
Can't stand him either
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 10:05am.
Sounds like you're talking about Shep Smith. Used to like him myself till Katrina and New Orleans. Went downhill since.
-Jon
Obama is auditioning for the new reality TV show . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:27pm.
. . . "Hey, Mom! Dad broke the Country!"
Here Galvanic*
Submitted by cajun2 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:52pm.
S%$& my President said
The Amazing Race (towards
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:59pm.
The Amazing Race (towards socialism)
Honey
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 10:19pm.
I shrunk the economy
Good one, cajun2
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 10:14pm.
My, how the luster has tarnished since the coronation on Inauguration Day and the beatification by the Nobel Prize committee.
Acclaimed Journalist Ryan Seacrest?
Submitted by HoosierEm on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:28pm.
That's how they referred to him on TV Newser. Ryan Seacrest an acclaimed journalist? Who knew?
Well, to be honest
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:35pm.
Hoosierem, they couldn't refer to Secrest as the host of a tweener, vacuous, talent show for mostly, tweener, vacuous audience members, now could they? But, Barry will fit right in, he's appealing to an audience of his peers.
No kidding!
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 9:07pm.
I took a look at his various positions that he's held(according to imdb) and no where does it say anything about him being a journalist. Been a host many times of many shows though. Even an executive producer once or twice.
The one thing in common that Seacrest has with the Chairman is pretty obvious, what does the host have to do when looking at the camera? READ THE TELEPROMPTER!
So when they do the "interview," there'll be teleprompting screens behind them as long as they sit face to face, and oh it's going to be and I mean REALLY BE the BEST interview EV-AH!
Come on, seriously? He makes a damn fool of himself where he's arguing with hecklers, HECKLERS! for a few minutes, and now he's going to be interviewed by an "acclaimed journalist!?!?" (for those in Rio Linda, that means someone who's never been) edit: I watched the video of him being "heckled" and I wonder if he really meant it when he said they were following him. If they were, wouldn't the Secret Service have stopped them before coming in? Anyway.....
LSM/MSM, you just got poked in the eye by the guy who you worshipped and colluded with! How do you guys like being his bitch now, eh? You all just got pimped!
Lean forward now!
-Jon
Lean forward now!
Submitted by Boudin on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 9:12pm.
Caution, watch for face plant
This whole 'lean forward'
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 3:35am.
This whole 'lean forward' hype just reminds me of 'I've got your back'...............only lower..............
Em, I think TVNewser was
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 9:38pm.
Em, I think TVNewser was being sarcastic.
President Obama has really been making the rounds in the days leading up to the midterm elections. Last week he appeared on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” and this week he goes mano-e-mano against arguably his toughest opponent yet… Ryan Seacrest.
MB
Submitted by HoosierEm on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 12:01am.
Could be, but it's still funny.
Paris Hilton wasn't available?
Submitted by samhermanmd on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 8:38pm.
For "hard hitting" news analysis of Obama's interview, perhaps the gossip columnists are no longer taking Gibb's calls...
A visit to Jersey Shore to
Submitted by stormy67 on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 9:02pm.
A visit to Jersey Shore to share a drink and round of fist-a-cuffs with Snooki and the circle will be complete.
dems and Fox
Submitted by charlietexas on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 9:13pm.
None of the Dems except for old Ed Rendell is going on Fox. It is killing them. No one is watching the other channels. One of the worst strategies any political party has ever done. Tim Kaine goes on sometimes. Debbie Schultz, but that is about it.
I hope they keep it up.
Following their leader...
Submitted by Dan Diego on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 9:24pm.
I don't know how many times I've heard FNS talkers say "we invited so & so (dem) but they declined...).
It's so absurd to hear the Dems complain about Fox...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 9:45pm.
not having enough libs on their channel (which is patently false, btw), when it's the spineless Dem/libs themselves who are too chicken to appear on Fox when asked!
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
This is just irrelevant misdirection
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 11/01/2010 - 10:03pm.
Keep your eyes on the prize. Watch for the voter fraud. Try not to get robbed, again.
Who cares what show... why let the pick pocket jostle you as he takes your wallet?
Hopefully it has happened enough...
The View MTV The Daily
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 12:21am.
The View
MTV
The Daily Show
Rolling Stone Magazine
and now Ryan Seacrest!
What was that about Obama being a Paris Hilton creation of pop-culture? Could this man be any more shallow than this? Has he completely abandoned the 25 and up age group?
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Chris Matthews: The Joy Behar of MSNBC.
Bill Maher: The Joy Behar of HBO.
Paul Krugman: The Joy Behar of The New York Times.
Let's not forget the upcoming MythBusters appearance
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 8:07am.
"Testing the Archimedes Death Ray."
My hope is that he replaces Buster for that episode.
His next role...
Submitted by sean_m on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 1:20am.
...will be a guest star on "Glee". Sadly he's going to give the same old song and dance.
Bada-bing! This is fun.
lol
Submitted by TerryWest on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 1:30am.
"Seacrest announced the interview in a Monday Facebook post on his fan page"
cute, says it all, How the mighty have fallen
Makes sense...
Submitted by Teamcheeser on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 3:13am.
Now we know the real reason Simon, Kara, and Ellen left "American Idol"!
Seriously though, Obama had to find the only thing in the world whose ratings will tank faster than his has over the course of a year.
It'll be close...
Why not give
Submitted by TCinAZ on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 5:59am.
Why not give Anthony Bourdain a try when he takes his show Kenya, Barry? Or how bout' The Martha Stewart Show? Stitch up a a nice Soviet Flag comforter. Or why not have Michelle show up at TMS for the NASCAR Race with her "Food Desert" Agenda in hand, and have her try to pitch Cap & Trade to the Fans Too?
He/she wouldn't go anywhere
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 6:23am.
He/she wouldn't go anywhere near a NASCAR race.
All those rednecks clinging to their guns.....
And their religion!
Holy Cannoli! They even have a PRAYER before every race!
And it ends with "...in Jesus' name!"
you betcha!
Submitted by texasborngranny on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 3:14pm.
YeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHa!!!!!!!!!!
What about Obama-feld
Submitted by ML Stovall on Tue, 11/02/2010 - 10:52am.
What about Obama-feld (failed?)? The show about nothing...
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