The 1992 Memo That Explains Why Obama's Going on Jimmy Fallon's Show

Atlantic Wire ^ | 4/23/12 | Elspeth Reeve

[SoFloFreeper]

President Obama will be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC on Tuesday, and we can probably blame this on a 1992 memo from a Bill Clinton campaign staffer on the necessity of doing "UnPresidential" stuff to get voters to like the candidate.

On Monday, Lapham's Quarterly posted an April 27, 1992 memo from Mandy Grunwald in which she encouraged the campaign to be openminded about getting free media from low-brow soft-focus interview shows like The Tonight Show, Late Night,and yes, The Arsenio Hall Show. Just over a month later, Clinton appeared on Arsenio and famously played the saxophone. The New York Times write-up of the Arsenio appearance by Elizabeth Kolbert said, somewhat prissily, that more of this low-brow stuff was to come...p

[SoFloFreeper]

Obama and Clinton....both claim to be the first black occupant of the Oval Office. Both pervert the place in their own special way.

[Maceman]

a 1992 memo from a Bill Clinton campaign staffer on the necessity of doing "UnPresidential" stuff to get voters to like the candidate.

Few things are more "UnPresidential" than bowing to foreign leaders, and blaming the founders and the Constitution for the failure of Obama's administration.

[opentalk]

GE's NBC is synonymous with Obama TV. Turing one of the Whitehouse parlors into a gym for Michelle Obama to host NBC Biggest loser, was classless.

The gate crasher was also a reality NBC show (bravo)

[eastforker]

I stayed up and watched JF last night, what a love fest they had going on.

[fantail 1952]

In 2008 he showed in some ways why he could be likable, such as in a bath house in Chicago, and enough fools liked him.

Now, 3 1/2 years later, he has been showing himself to be not only unlikeable but a vindictive, self serving narcissist anti-american, traitorous sociopath with delusional policies and actions that belie any kind of likability.

I would like him....in an orange jump suit.

[Buckeye McFrog]

its’ the “Arsenio Hall Saxophone” strategy

[Valin]

“President Obama will be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC on Tuesday, and we can probably blame this on a 1992 memo from a Bill Clinton campaign staffer on the necessity of doing “UnPresidential” stuff to get voters to like the candidate. “

This is correct...for better or worse.
I would also point out...Thus it has ever been.

[The Electrician]

Without a doubt Obama has taken "UnPresidential" to never-before-seen heights depths.