Michelle Obama to be a guest host on `The View'

[villager]

Source: AP

Michelle Obama to be a guest host on `The View'



NEW YORK - Michelle Obama will be a guest host on "The View" on June 18. The popular ABC daytime talk show had invited her to be a guest this month, but she sent back word that she would like to be a host like Cindy McCain did in April, said Bill Geddie, the show's executive producer.

"Equal time — that's hard to argue with," he said Wednesday.

Being a guest host will allow Michelle Obama to help interview guests and participate in the opening "hot topics," or banter about what's in the news that day. It offers the chance for someone to show a more complete personality than just sitting for an interview and talking about themselves, Geddie said.

Michelle Obama was injected into the campaign when the Tennessee Republican Party posted an online video questioning her patriotism. That prompted her husband, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, to say political opponents should lay off his wife.

When Cindy McCain was guest host in April, comic Craig Ferguson was the lead guest. No guests have been booked for Michelle Obama's show yet.

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[Aunt Anti-bush]

1. I'll be watching that one.

Elizabeth will be so happy to have her on, I'm sure. :eyes:

[a la izquierda]

3. ooh, i hope mrs. obama tears off hasselbarf's head

and shits down her neck.
i hate that twit.:evilgrin:

[aquart]

11. Obama supporters, so tolerant of other points of view.

[FatDave]

16. You're still here?

[a la izquierda]

18. ooh, wah, following me around are you?

i'm flattered.
elizabeth hasselbeck has done absolutely nothing to deserve tolerance from me, imo.
and don't you dare question my tolerance. you don't know me from adam.

[FatDave]

15. If she does, she'll do it with class.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

2. Great! I hope they have some cool guests. nt

[bluestateguy]

4. Wasn't the "Whitey" tape supposed to come out today?

Uh huh, yeah.

[IndependentDem]

8. yeah, I heard something about a shoe dropping???

not so much i guess.

[Cha]

5. Cooo-llllll! This will give people a good

chance to see what Michelle Obama is about and why we love her.

[ryanmuegge]

6. DON'T DO IT!!!!

We should allow zero opportunities for anything that could be spun in any way as a gaffe (like the misrepresented "proud of my country for the first time" statement).

We've got public opinion working in our favor on the issues as it is. The less material we give the media to spin, the better.

[Jefferson23]

7. I think Michele needs to take the invitations to speak out, just wish it was not

on a hack show like this one.

[aquart]

10. You think she's gonna do it again, dontcha?

LOL!

Don't worry. The View is going to be a nauseating suck-up festival.

[gravity]

14. We shouldn't be afraid of the Republicans

I think Michelle will be great on the show even if she makes a gaffe or two. It will offer the chance for more Americans to get to know Michelle and the Obama's on a personal level which more than makes up for any mistake that she could make.

[boomerbust]

9. My advise to Michelle

Think long and hard before you speak!

[grannylib]

13. I'm sure she will. She's an intelligent woman, I'm sure she's capable

of learning from her missteps. She knows that every move, every word, will be put under the microscope from here on out.

[mzmolly]

12. That should be great!

:toast:

[muntrv]

17. Michelle, leave the stupid talk to Elizabeth Hasselbeck.