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Obama did NOT do a live radio interview this morning. Do right wingers not understand tape delay?
This morning, Miami radio station WRMA "DJ 106.7" played an interview that DJ Laz did with the president on Sunday. ABCNews.com reports:
President Obama was heard on the South Florida airwaves this 9/11 Anniversary morning in a 10-minute radio interview with Miami’s “Pimp with the Limp” DJ Laz from 106.7 WRMA-FM.
“You’re big time. You’ve got Pitbull and Flo Rida and all these guys just beating a path to your door,” Obama said, buttering up Laz. “And so I’m hoping that I can get a little of that magic from you in this interview.”
The two talked tunes, TV, football and top topics of the 2012 campaign. Obama did not mention the terror attacks that took place 11 years ago today, a fact his critics were quick to point out.
He “avoided talking about 9/11 on 9/11?s anniversary, but made time to mock the Dolphins bad record,” noted the Miami Herald.
Some Republicans circulated a link to the Herald article to claim that Obama was being disrespectful of the anniversary with the lighthearted banter and inappropriately injected politics into what has traditionally been an apolitical day.
It turns out, however, that President Obama was not speaking live. The interview had been pre-taped and was supposed to air on Monday, an Obama campaign official told ABC News.
“You’re big time. You’ve got Pitbull and Flo Rida and all these guys just beating a path to your door,” Obama said, buttering up Laz. “And so I’m hoping that I can get a little of that magic from you in this interview.”
The two talked tunes, TV, football and top topics of the 2012 campaign. Obama did not mention the terror attacks that took place 11 years ago today, a fact his critics were quick to point out.
He “avoided talking about 9/11 on 9/11?s anniversary, but made time to mock the Dolphins bad record,” noted the Miami Herald.
Some Republicans circulated a link to the Herald article to claim that Obama was being disrespectful of the anniversary with the lighthearted banter and inappropriately injected politics into what has traditionally been an apolitical day.
It turns out, however, that President Obama was not speaking live. The interview had been pre-taped and was supposed to air on Monday, an Obama campaign official told ABC News.
If you notice your conservative friends complaining "OBAMA DID AN INTERVIEW WITH A RAP MUSIC STATION THIS MORNING WHEN HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE IN MEMORIAM OF 9/11 HERP DERP" send them the Miami Herald article that ABC reported on.
The interview is here:
And by the way, here are CSPAN videos of Obama at the White House 9/11 moment of silence and Pentagon ceremony. Do you really think the President would have had time to do a media interview the morning before these events? I think not!
Oh, and with all this faux right wing outrage over this radio station airing the Obama interview, think about THIS fine president:
