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Thanksgiving At The White House: Barbara Walters To Interview The Obamas Next Week

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ABC’s Barbara Walters will interview with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama two days before Thanksgiving, for a special airing Friday night.

This will be the second sit-down for Walters, who has interviewed every President from Nixon to Obama.

Here’s more from the ABC release:

President and Mrs. Obama will sit together for a Thanksgiving visit in a joint interview with Barbara Walters airing as a one-hour Special on Friday, November 26th, the day after the holiday, at 10 pm ET. In addition to focusing on some of the major challenges facing the President today, part of the conversation will be a discussion of how the whole family reacted to the President’s political reversal. This interview will be Mrs. Obama’s first since the mid-term elections. The special marks the second time the President and First Lady have sat for a joint interview with Ms. Walters; the first was November of 2008, immediately following the presidential election. The interview will be conducted in the White House on Tuesday, November 23rd.

It doesn’t exactly sound like it’s going to be a friendly visit – the “President’s political reversal” and “Mrs. Obama’s first [interview] since the mid-term elections” indicate politics will be a major point of discussion for next week’s interview.

It’s a good get for Walters and ABC – the timing, 10pm the Friday after Thanksgiving, is likely to bring a wide audience.

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  • paulmdoro

    Come on. The Obamas don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. They hate freedom, pilgrims, turkeys, family, national holidays, and pumpkin pie.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Antony-Dupuy/1194612935 Antony Dupuy

    Glad to see the President still has his priorities in line.

  • paulmdoro

    Antony Dupuy said:
    Glad to see the President still has his priorities in line.

    Eating healthy turkey dinners?

  • The Real Royal King

    paulmdoro said:
    Come on. The Obamas don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. They hate freedom, pilgrims, turkeys, family, national holidays, and pumpkin pie.

    Great Thanksgiving book:

    http://www.carolpeacock.com/subpage/sub_pilgrim_cat.html

  • lane

    Wow, is this the most tone-deaf administration ever. Seriously, how many democrats have to lose their jobs before you realize that you should be seen as working on the recession and creating jobs, not doing everything else but that. If he was the CEO of a company, I’d sell the shares. The Obama Adminstration is supposed to be ‘so smart’ and yet repeats the same mistakes over, and over, and over.

    Mr. President, do your job and the ‘optics’ and ‘messaging’ will work itself out….

    Next on the Nate Berkus show, ‘decorating wih the Obamas’….

  • paulmdoro

    lane said:
    Wow, is this the most tone-deaf administration ever. Seriously, how many democrats have to lose their jobs before you realize that you should be seen as working on the recession and creating jobs, not doing everything else but that. If he was the CEO of a company, I’d sell the shares. The Obama Adminstration is supposed to be ’so smart’ and yet repeats the same mistakes over, and over, and over.

    Mr. President, do your job and the ‘optics’ and ‘messaging’ will work itself out….

    Next on the Nate Berkus show, ‘decorating wih the Obamas’….

    Overreacting a bit, don’t you think? Is it really that big of a deal?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    I love arrugala with my turkey. Tofu dressing?

  • paulmdoro

    gordonbloyershow said:
    I love arrugala with my turkey. Tofu dressing?

    I think you mean your squirrel.

  • Probably NOT wrong

    My God!!
    Will that woman ever retire?
    One more face lift and she is going to have
    to start shaving!

  • Rusty Shackelford

    The following week he’s doing a Throw Down with Bobby Flay on the Food Network,the week after that hes on the Travel Channel eating bugs with Andrew Zimmern.

  • TfT

    The manchild really needs to be the center of attention doesn’t he? I for one won’t be watching, I’m sick of the media sycophants sucking up to them and I’m sick of seeing him on television day in and day out.

  • justanotherconservative

    maybe she’ll give us her recipe for calorie free stuffing.

    paulmdoro said:
    Come on. The Obamas don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. They hate freedom, pilgrims, turkeys, family, national holidays, and pumpkin pie.

    and we can all give thanks for obama the destroyer and what he is doing to this country. oh and lets hope michelle my belle gives us her recipe for low calorie pecan pie.

  • paulmdoro

    TfT said:
    The manchild really needs to be the center of attention doesn’t he? I for one won’t be watching, I’m sick of the media sycophants sucking up to them and I’m sick of seeing him on television day in and day out.

    The president likes attention?! Holy sh*t! What’s next? You going to tell me something else totally crazy like Sarah Palin loves attention?

  • paulmdoro

    justanotherconservative said:
    maybe she’ll give us her recipe for calorie free stuffing.

    and we can all give thanks for obama the destroyer and what he is doing to this country. oh and lets hope michelle my belle gives us her recipe for low calorie pecan pie.

    I know! America as we know it is coming to an end! It’s not even America anymore. It’s like some European country out there.

  • ChrisNH

    OF COURSE it will be a ‘friendly visit.’ The ABC press release is design to lure in those who utterly despise Obama, in hopes that they’ll see Barbara lay a few challenging questions on him that elicit his familiar contradictory answers. ABC needs viewers, and they can’t make this interview appear to be a fawning one lest they alienate most viewers. But the interview will be exactly that (“Let’s go out to the First Garden, Michelle, and take a look at those beets!”).

  • RobDavis

    Antony Dupuy said:
    Glad to see the President still has his priorities in line.

    Walters interviewed the Bush’s as well. So guess he didn’t have his priorities in line as well.

  • BarneyFranken

    Oh this is a relief. Obama hasn’t done an interview in what, ten days?

    My holiday is complete now.

    Turkey- check.

    Stuffing- check.

    Crappy president with a boring interview making the perfect sedative after a heavy meal- check.

  • paulmdoro

    Don’t forget football.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Lane,
    Didn’t you hear, he’s the smartest man to every walk the face of the earth. Just as Val Jarrett:

    In his biography of Obama, “The Bridge,” David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, quotes White House senior adviser and longtime Obama friend Valerie Jarrett: “I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. … He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. … So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. … He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”

  • The Real Royal King

    gordonbloyershow said:
    I love arrugala with my turkey. Tofu dressing?

    I think you mean arugula, and, no, it doesn’t go well with turkey.

  • The Real Royal King

    The Real Royal King said:
    I think you mean arugula, and, no, it doesn’t go well with turkey.

    Or squirrel.

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Lane,
    Didn’t you hear, he’s the smartest man to every walk the face of the earth. Just as Val Jarrett:

    In his biography of Obama, “The Bridge,” David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, quotes White House senior adviser and longtime Obama friend Valerie Jarrett: “I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. … He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. … So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. … He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”

    Do you ever tire of being a mean-spirited, bitter old cow?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    The Real Royal King said:
    Do you ever tire of being a mean-spirited, bitter old cow?

    You are getting old. Talking to yourself now?

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    HAHA, so posting a quote from one of BO”S closest advisors makes me a bitter, old cow, now?

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    HAHA, so posting a quote from one of BO”S closest advisors makes me a bitter, old cow, now?

    So, if I go into the SLC airport men’s room, presuming Larry Craig is not there trying to make a connection to Fire Island, and I jot down the text written on the hand dryer, “MIchelle-in-Utah Is Cheap and Easy,” then I write into the adult magazine, “Mature Connexions” copying this text, I am not being mean-spirited?

    Quoting a passage doesn’t launder your malicious intent, Michelle-in-Utah.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    You still haven’t explained what in my statement was malicious. You and your ilk (personalities) call me hateful and vile day after day and yet you can NEVER provide a shred of proof to back you up. You would think if I were as vile as you suggest, it would be easy.

  • RobDavis

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    You still haven’t explained what in my statement was malicious. You and your ilk (personalities) call me hateful and vile day after day and yet you can NEVER provide a shred of proof to back you up. You would think if I were as vile as you suggest, it would be easy.

    pot meet kettle. No offense King. only trying to point the hypocrisy out.

  • Sunnyr

    Sorry, I will be watching TIVO’d reruns of Sarah Palin’s ALASKA! A REAL American family!

  • CAconservative

    Oh boy, another staged interview by Babs. This should be as interesting as watching a fly crawl up a drape.

  • notsofast

    Boy, they are going to have to get Walter’s a super-sized drool bucket when this interview occurs.

  • RichS

    Barbara Walter’s first hard hitting probing question:

    So, Mr. President, what makes you such a great President?

    And her chilling follow-up:

    And what makes you such a wonderful person….

    Repeat until the time is up.

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