Michelle Obama On The View – Open Thread (Updated with Video)

18 Jun 2008 Author: Baratunde Thurston (Jack Turner)

The Obamas on the Upcoming Issue of US Weekly

I don’t have live TV at my office, but somebody must be checking it out.

Starts at 11AM ET. Let us know how it goes!

Update: Here’s the video in a five part playlist. Dang I love YouTube!
Also HuffPo has a piece with some clips, but they don’t have this1

Tags: 2008 Elections, Michelle Obama

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Craig Hickman
Long time no see, Jack.
rikyrah
I just came to do this.
rikyrah
I like her dress.
Craig Hickman
The dress is fierce. I think it’s the best I’ve seen on her.
rikyrah
‘ There can’t be diversity training, if the diversity is only me.’
LOL
KarmiCommunist
I’m impressed…so far. Unlike Barack, she clearly does not need a Teleprompter.
Perhaps the wrong Obama is running for President. ;-)
justice58
Michelle is gorgeous today!
rikyrah
Whoopi just thanked her for ‘ representin’ for the Darker Sistas…LOL
TruthSeeker
Ok, so I don’t recall Barbara questioning Cindy McCain the notorious pill and cookie thief this way!
Michelle looks fabulous in a black and white print summer dress! Makeup and hair gorgeous!
Damn, I can’t stand Barbara!
Craig Hickman
Whoopi really does like Michelle, doesn’t she?
Jack Turner
thanks craig. i’ve been on the road so much for the past two weeks i haven’t been posting as regularly. i’m getting back into the groove though. ‘preciate it
Jack Turner
@karmi i have heard so many people say michelle is actually the better obama. in some ways this couple is similar to the clintons. remember how many folks were impressed with hillary, saying she was actually the smarter, better one?
anyway, thanks for the reporting yall.
i’ll try to post the video this afternoon in this same entry
shani-o
New York Magazine is live-blogging it, for those of us who can’t watch.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/06/liveblogging_michelle_obama_on.html#hp
shani-o
A better link….
http://tinyurl.com/6kyet6
rikyrah
craig,
even when she didn’t like Barack, she liked Michelle. I remember reading on another blog Whoopi bringing up that Michelle was such a difference in representing Black women. This was months ago, when she clearly was FOR Hillary. Whoopi always respected Michelle.
Sepia
@Truthseeker:
“Ok, so I don’t recall Barbara questioning Cindy McCain the notorious pill and cookie thief this way!”
She sure didn’t! It also seemed like Walters was trying to get Michelle to say she’s getting flack because of racism.
So far, Elisabeth has been behaving. I guess they told her to reel it in.
Craig Hickman
I definitely think the right Obama is running for president at this time.
Anonymous
Matthew Broderick was rude. The correcting about “empathetic.” Hmmm…jerk
KarmiCommunist
Matthew Broderick cmae on…gave some ‘daps’ (?) to the Ladies.
Anonymous
What’s really hood with Matthew’s pants?!
TruthSeeker
Oh my God, look at all those homegrown terrorists!
Barbara Walters is the thing that claws it’s way up from the grave to drag me back down into hell with it..the monster in all my nightmares.
I’m not going Barbara!
Craig Hickman
So they are “bacon people.”
I guess that rules out them being Muslims.
TruthSeeker
Ha!…I’m glad she said Barack eats the bacon too!
It’s pretty hard to pray 5 times a day on the campaign trail…duh
TruthSeeker
Does anyone think the picture on this post look like the Madonna? The Obama for America logo in the background is the halo, with Michelle gazing up to heaven with hands clasped.
Anonymous
Craig,
It could be turkey bacon. LOL!
Against Race Politics
rikyrah
truthseeker,
I didn’t think of it that way, but now that you said it, it’s all I can see!
LOL
D.
Truth,
These images of the Obamas aren’t uncommon. Google “obama halo” and there’s several of them taken by respected organizations (and some foolishness as well).
Craig Hickman
truthseeker, I saw that too.
Craig Hickman
I write a tennis blog and I can tell you that halos in the photographs of tennis players are quite common.
N. Mahana
It’s not on over here yet!
scruncher
I’ve only seen a brief clip on HuffPost but LOVE the dress. It really suits her.
And Craig, I’m a big tennis fan. What’s your blog address? Thanks.
texas girl in l.a.
I hear that Hasselbeck will be on Hannity and Joy Behar on Larry King to talk about the show today.
TruthSeeker
Michelle defused Hasselbeck with kindness. She didn’t ask a single nasty question that I can recall.
Ha, tough luck Hannity!
P Waggie
Truthseeker,
I am glad you see the truth about Barbara(Mistress)Walters. I knew she was a bigot way back when she interviewed Farrakhan. Michelle is a greasy pig, they weren’t going to be able to hold or pin her down.
Craig Hickman
scruncher,
My tennis blog
::
That’s a great cover, Jack Turner.
laprofesora81
Barbara Walters irritated me the entire show especially when Whoopi praised Michelle for representing for the brown sisters. Barbara had the nerve to say, “Now back to the real hot topics!” What I like the most about the Obama’s is how poised and calm they are. They never let anyone ruffle their feathers. I know it irks the hell out of white America that they are killing them with kindness and realness every single day!!!
TruthSeeker
Barbara’s skill is in bringing up sensitive subjects to make her guests break down and cry. It’s infuriating.
The ladies are sitting down having a nice conversation, and she comes out with something like: “So, your parents just got murdered and your husband left you for a younger woman, how are you handling that?” in that sickeningly sweet voice…and I’m like, WTF??!! Then everyone is mortified, and get really quiet and don’t know what to say. That’s when I hear the Psycho shower scene theme playing in my head as I imagine daggers flying toward her. But, the daggers bounce off as they hit bone…she’s been on yet another diet…all 20 lbs of her.
Craig Hickman
truthseeker,
Please, tell us how you really feel about WaWa, okay, because I’m so tired of all your cryptic insinuations.
heartsandflowers
I liked it! She was relaxed, friendly, personable. Matthew Broderick was acting a bit foolish. And since the Obamas eat piggy bacon that would definitely cross them off the Muslim list.
Anonymous
Greasy pig? LOL ! I think your comment could end up on a Special Comment segment of Countdown with Keith Olberman.
Jen-
TruthSeeker
Craig,
I’m not quite sure what to do with these feelings..
;)
Nita
rikyrah said…
‘ There can’t be diversity training, if the diversity is only me.’
===========================
That’s deep. That’s truth.
lamh
I TIVO’ed the show and watched it. I think Michelle did really well. Definitely better than Cindy McCain.
As for Hasselbeck, I’m no fan anyway. If I wanted to watch a pseudo “Sean Hannity” impersonation with my morning coffee, I’d watch Fox & Friends. I just find Hasselbeck to be really disingenous. I was no big fan of Rosie O’Donnell either, but I totally got her point when she went after Hasselbeck for saying one thing on-air to prove her “conservative” street cred with the Fox News crowd, but off-air being totally the opposite.
Anyway, Hasselbeck is suppose to be on Sean Hannity tonight. Let’s see what she says about Michelle Obama then.
To paraphrase one of the “Kings of Comedy” Cedric the Entertainer, I don’t hope she says something nice, I wish she would say some crazy s…t on Hannity about Michelle afte laughing her up on “The View”
lamh3176
Well there here you go: At the end they said that Elizabeth would be on Hannity tonight. Well I was just over on Huff Po and someone was posting that Elizabeth was totally bashing Michelle and her appearance on the View.
I don’t watch Fox News, and if I ever passed the channel, I definitely never watch Hannity & Colmes, so I’m not sure if it was true?
If it’s true, I hope someone at the View reads her the riot act.
But of I bet they won’t the View’s usual MO is to ignore what the co-host do or say outside of the show.
icebergslim
and cindy mccain going after michelle obama, my take here.
Ms.Martin
Mary Francis nappy-headed (yep, I said it.) ass Barry just said that Michelle has to be made to be seen as non non-conventional compared to Cindy McCain.
Does she mean the felonious drug addicted adulterer Cindy McCain? If that’s traditional, please give me non traditional.
Someone please tell me how I can contact that coon.

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