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OBAMA WATCHED HBO SPECIAL ABOUT HIMSELF INSTEAD OF ELECTIONS

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By Kyle Drennen (Bio | Archive)
November 4, 2009 - 11:20 ET

During the 10AM ET hour of America’s Newsroom on Fox News Channel, fill-in co-host Martha Maccallum told viewers what President Obama watched on election night while Democrats suffered big losses in New Jersey and Virginia: “Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.”

On Tuesday night the White House had worked to downplay the Democratic gubernatorial defeats by claiming the President did not watch the election returns. Apparently Gibbs thought it would look better if the commander in chief was watching a self-indulgent fawning documentary about himself. Interestingly, Obama apparently previewed the HBO special a few days earlier, as Gibbs himself explained to the blog Talking Points Memo: “White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says Obama has already seen ‘By the People’...Gibbs told TPMDC Obama’s review: ‘Thumbs up!’”

On FNC, Maccallum noted: “...we know that Michelle and the girls went to the Miley Cyrus concert last night... So he’s all alone in that big house, right? Nothing to do but sit back and watch – reminisce about the long campaign and watch HBO and the special.” The HBO documentary, ‘By the People,’ debuted on Tuesday, in commemoration of the one year anniversary of Obama’s election.
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  • JimInMinn November 05, 2009 04:55:56
    JimInMinn
    FOX News lied about this and, of course, the right wing blogs picked it up and ran with it. An example of Obama'a ego? NO! An example of typical FOX "news" reporting? YES!
  • Allbiz JimInMinn November 05, 2009 05:19:59
    Allbiz
    Hey Jimbo, why is it that everything FOX is accused of lying about, turns out to be true?

    If anyone lied, it was Robert Gibbs. FOX only reported the information he provided at his daily new conference.
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    rightside November 05, 2009 02:04:52
    rightside
    Oh come on, this is such a crock. You know he was keeping an eye on the elections.
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    Allbiz rightside November 05, 2009 02:30:27
    Allbiz
    I'm not so sure.

    I mean...........if he doesn't consider a war important enough to keep his eye on, why would he consider an election important?
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    rightside Allbiz November 05, 2009 02:47:01
    rightside
    Because he campaigned for these people. Now I'm not saying he will admit it, but you know he was watching.
    Now watching his election win, probably just made him feel better.
    You know, sad election, whatch myself win, watch them lose, watch myself win.
    You know that's what he was doing.
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    xcggfjtr November 04, 2009 20:32:53
    xcggfjtr
    moderated...
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    woody November 04, 2009 19:25:29
    woody
    Bull Shit #XXXXVI
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    Allbiz woody November 04, 2009 19:49:05 (edited)
    Allbiz
    They could make a documentary about Obama watching himself on TV while Democrats are losing elections and call it "A Night of Narcissism".
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