
I'm afraid I must agree with the learned, now-facially hirsute Jon Stewart: Nothing President Obama does will ever make his critics happy. In an appearance on The View, President Obama spoke with rare honesty about the issue of race, but got "Breitbarted" for his trouble. The media have gone into...
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After sitting down with President Obama this morning on The View, co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck visited Hannity to share her thoughts on the experience, and had plenty of positive things to say about the President-- aside from his politics, that is. Somewhat surprisingly, Sean Hannity agrees-- and praises Obama for choosing to appear...
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President Obama made his much-anticipated appearance on The View today. Actually, I'm not really sure how anticipated it was, per se -- my Twitter feed was pretty dead through the hour. But it was definitely discussed! People were worried that an appearance on The View was beneath President Obama....
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Snooki-Gate? President Obama was on The View today, where he charmed the audience with jokes about how he wasn't invited to Chelsea Clinton's wedding and how he had no idea who Jersey Shore's Snooki is. But he must be using a different joke writer these days, because he seemed to know all about...
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Our friends at Gossip Cop have cracked open a potentially huge story that perfectly captures the divided nation in which we now find ourselves. During the much criticized taping of The View this morning, President Obama revealed that he does not have Justin Beiber on his iPod. Given that Bieber is a...
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Earlier tonight, ABC released a much-anticipated appearance of President Barack Obama on The View, to air in full tomorrow. From the clip, where the President talks about a family dinnertime tradition, it doesn't seem the ladies roughed him up too badly.
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This fall on CBS there will be a new daytime talk show called The Talk, hosted by Julie Chen of CBS' The Early Show (and Les Moonves' wife) and a panel of other women. But it's not The View! (According to the CBS execs at the TCA Press Tour today.)Well a sample...
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Tomorrow President Obama will make history by becoming the first sitting president to appear on a daytime talk show. But is it a good idea for Obama to go on The View? Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell does not think so...to put it mildly, Here is how he described...
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Fox News contributor Bernie Goldberg has finally found a subject on which he can praise the New York Times: the publication last night of top secret military documents uncovered by the website Wikileaks. Supporting the leak as long as it "doesn't hurt either American troops or the ability to gather information,"...
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