From a Bloomberg column by Margaret Talev titled "Obama's Social State of the Union/In the age of new media, the president and his team are trying to innovate to keep one of the country's oldest traditions relevant." I'm not going to embed any videos from the links above, but I strongly encourage you to go check them out to see the route these characters took to achieve YouTube popularity so you can form an accurate opinion of what it means for the President of the United States to be using them to boost his own popularity.
“The mainstream media still matters a great deal, but you can’t just do that anymore,” said White House communications director Jennifer Palmieri. “You have to work harder to reach a larger audience. It’s so disaggregated that you have to put more effort into it. The good news is there’s ways to reach people who really care about a particular issue.”
Discussions about how to reach a broader and deeper audience this year through non-traditional and social media began six months ago, Palmieri said. “We’re trying to make sure as many Americans know about his proposals as possible,” she said. “And you have to make sure that people who really care about a particular issue know what his proposals are and what he’s done."...
Palmieri summed up their collective appeal to the president... “These people have a huge following.”
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I'd say he's afraid of difficult questions --- but then remembered he is bypassing the mainstream media, so tough questions were no fear at all.
Yeah! New ways I can ignore Obama and his list of unpossible goodies.
He asked Jerry to pick him up for coffee, but...
Obama stole the poor Republicans post election honeymoon.
I don't suppose that it occurs to Obama to invite one of the unemployed Millennials? I understand that their unemployment rate is 13%, so it shouldn't be hard to find one.
"My push up bra will help me get my man."
Finally, a reality check from a lefty personality.
Unleash this woman. But do not unbra her.
@ Garage The R's are properly lying low. There is no way they can compete for the big stage at this moment. Remember, the R's control the purse strings now and will control the stage shortly after O's performance. O's current noise is "sound and fury signifying nothing"
Obama should pay for a Super Bowl ad if he wants to reach a lot of people.
Their target is the gullible and the stupid.
America use to be a country and is now a TV show. Best summary of the situation I've read.
Is there an age cutoff below which it isn't obvious to everybody that Obama is a moron?
Obama stole the poor Republicans post election honeymoon.
Absolutely. His mental rejuvenation is pretty good evidence this is exactly what he wanted.
A Republican Congress to blame when he can't get what he wants, and to count on to not give him the things he knows won't work (but the left wants).
It feels so good to not have any responsibility beyond that which you want!!!
The equivalent, when I was a teenager, would have been for Nixon to have been interviewed by:
Stan Lee (14-year-old future voters)
William Gaines (8-year-old future voters)
Cheryl Tiegs (co-eds)
Flip Wilson (the Negro vote)
Toni Tenille (young housewives)
Tony Orlando (Hispanic voters)
and
Bert & Ernie (homosexual voters)
I bet they all ask him about the Yemen Presidential Palace falling today.
"Look at me. Look at me. Don't look at anyone else. Don't look at the fat ass losers or freaks, you look at me!"
Fundamentally Transformed!
Don't blame me. I knew where this was going in 2007. I knew that some people would fall for his bullshit, and here we are. I voted for Johnny Mac.
On the bright side, today marks the official beginning of the end for the Obama administration. He will now become smaller and smaller as each month passes, soon to become nothing more than an afterthought.
Good riddance.
I bet the US Ambassador to Yemen will be able to join him for the chats.
If the shots fired at US Embassy vehicles don't get to him first.
"Mr President, do you think Charlie Hebdo bullies Muslims?"
"Mr President, has the President of Yemen considered resolving this coup with a Cinnamon Challenge?"
"Mr. President, are you really suggesting taxing 529s? Just kidding. I don't know what that means! What's your favorite emoji?"
Boxers or briefs?
Dunce cap or jesters' bells?
Well, it takes a Democrat.
Republicans are too stodgy, too set in their ways to change things.
This is a great thing the President is doing, because it sets a precedent. It says, we don't need the mainstream media to get the message out. We can find other avenues.
And this is what the next President of the United States needs to remember, especially if he is a Republican. Get rid of the old, dead tree, media. Cast them aside. Why surround yourself with Democrats trying to twist every word you say?
Instead, go to the internet. Go to radio. Find other ways to use your bully pulpit.
The Democrats have the mainstream media and late night talk shows.
Republicans need to start using the Internet to their advantage, and Youtube is a part of that.
I have never liked "reality tv.' This is no exception.
Just point out how many tax hikes Obama is proposing specifically at the middle class and at trying to pay for college.
That'll be fun.
The same guy who suggested that Kerry do that James Taylor thing is behind this? Presumably Pajama Boy.
I preferred it when presidents didn't mind being adults talking to an audience of presumed adults. This seems like a prequel to "Idiocracy".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5wHRryA2aw
This is ultimately insulting to serious people.
The administration had the President's recurring guest star roll on Girls all lined up until somebody in the White House accidentally found out mostly old white guys watch the show.
This was a last minute scramble to try to keep the President relevant until the end of the week.
There is no "Union" anymore. It was ended by the installation of the Usurper Hussein Obama, who is not a natural born Citizen because he was born BRITISH of a British subject father. Dual allegiance at birth is disallowed by A2S1C5.
When the executor of the laws is an illegal entity then there is no law, and the law is only what evil, greedy men say it is. Duh-- just look at the way he rules by executive fiat, as the R team, knowing they have committed treason, cowers in the corner (or cries).
Now the Rs want to give the Usurper political cover, and put forth Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, also ineligible candidates, since they were born of foreign parentage, as candidates for POTUS or VP. Cowards all
"The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners" Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162, 167 (1874).
That is SCOTUS precedent of the meaning of "natural born Citizen", which comports perfectly with its purpose (to prevent foreign influence-- See Federalist 68). Hussein Obama is no more a "creature of our own" (Federalist 68) than a python released in the everglades, and just a destructive. He is the poster child for the requirement's purpose.
The Original "Common Law" of the United States is law of nations (see Sosa v. Alvarez), and law of nations clearly defines natural born Citizen the same way as Minor v. Happersett.
But the law prof was clueless in her Academia Ivory Tower. A "Con Law Prof" who doesn't know the meaning of natural born Citizen!--- What are those kids learning there anyway?
credited to Conan O'Brien:
So -- does that mean he will be talking to a cat, a bear, and a water-skiing squirrel?
What if they gave a State-of-The-Union address and NOBODY showed up?
Would be interesting to see all the Republicans and SCOTUS not go.
Obama will speak with the Pug who says "I Love You"?
Obama will speak with the Pug who says "I Love You"?
Followed by "please don't eat me!"
(sorry couldn't resist)
So "a pioneering 52-year-old comedian" will "reinforce that theme of youth engagement?"
Just imagine what a 48-year-old white dude like me will be able to do!
Reality TV star hits America like a train.
It's funny that out of the list of reasons in the article why people aren't paying attention to Obama's SOTU addresses, none of them actually have anything to do with President Obama. They're all bland remarks about second terms, the Internet, blah, blah, blah. Perhaps there are other explanations than the ones Bloomberg chose to highlight.
...and is the SOTU really one of the "country's oldest traditions?" Sure, from the beginning of the republic, the Constitution requires the President "from time to time" to "give to Congress information of the State of the Union," but the current tradition of the SOTU as an annual theatrical production is less than a hundred years old. Even Ezra Klein would say that's it's within possibly relevant memory.
Re Mick's comment about how "There is no "Union" anymore..."
There is no "SCOTUS precedent of the meaning of "natural born Citizen"." There certainly isn't one in Minor v. Happersett. The elements of the law of nations that formed part of the original common law in this country came into it by way of the common law of England-- the source from which the term "natural born citizen" descends.
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