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LOS
ANGELES, After Barack Obama and his family sat
down for an exclusive, candid interview with Access The presidential
hopeful graciously allowed his charming daughters – 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha – to
do their first on-camera interview with Access
Hollywood. But what Barack didn’t like was how it ended up plastered all over
the cable stations. “The Obamas’ two little girls tell all,” proclaimed MSNBC’s
“Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” “The entire Obama family, including their two children, sits down
together…” emanated
from the voice of TV political pundit Dan Abrams. Following the
airing of his interview with Access,
Barack sat down with Diane Sawyer on “Good Morning
America.” “Are you sorry
you did it?” Diane asked of the Access
interview. “A little bit of
pause… particularly the way it went around the cable stations,” the
presumptive Democratic nominee replied. Indeed, the
interviews (which aired in two parts on Tuesday’s Access Hollywood) garnered a massive response. In
fact, “Good Morning America” even went as far as to pull one of the interview
clips straight from AccessHollywood.com. On Wednesday,
Matt Lauer took the senator to task over the interview on the “Today” show. “I was a little
surprised by the attention this got this week,” Matt told Barack.
“Did you make the right call on that?” “I think we got
carried away in the moment. We were having a birthday party and everybody was
laughing and suddenly this thing cropped up. I didn’t catch it quickly enough
and I was surprised be the attention as well,” Barack
admitted. “If you had the
chance to do it over again?” Matt asked. “We wouldn’t do
it again and we won’t be doing it again,” Barack
answered. And that’s the
way it happened. So what’s the big deal? That’s what the
ladies of “The View” wanted to know on Wednesday morning, as all of them
(except Whoopi) admitted to conducting interviews
with their children. “Why did he
regret it? What did they do?” Joy Behar questioned
of the senator. “I think he
regretted it because it exposed the kids in a way they hadn’t really been
exposed to before,” Whoopi suggested. “Well, John
McCain brought his old lady mother out,” Joy joked. Since Access aired the first Obama family interview on Tuesday night, the show and the
Web site have been inundated with responses from our viewers. “How was it OK
for Chelsea and Bill to help Hillary, but people want to crucify Obama for including his family? Come on!,”
wrote Meredith. Meanwhile, a
fellow viewer named Susie wrote, “Lovely family! I would vote for the whole
package, just on the basis of the interview!” “I don’t care
for Barack Obama and
won’t vote for him because I still don’t know what he stands for,” added
another viewer named Bill. “But this was a fantastic interview! It shows a
high degree of confidence to let your kids go live with an interviewer
because as we all know, kids say the darndest
things.” During the Access interview with the Obama family, some of the kids’ candor was revealed when
Maria Menounos asked Barack
and Michelle’s daughters what they thought about the idea of making their
home on Capitol Hill. “What have you
guys thought about the possibility of living in the White House some day?”
Maria asked Malia and Sasha. “It’d be very
cool,” Sasha smiled. “I think my most
excitement about it is that I get to redecorate my room. I enjoy decorating,
so I get to get this whole new room and do whatever I want,” Malia said. “That’s my most exciting.” But for Sasha and Malia, there’s
something even bigger in store than a move to the White House. “What’s the big
deal that’s going to happen when all of this is done?” Michelle Obama reminded her daughters. “A dog!” Malia exclaimed. “Win or lose,” Barack noted. So what did you
think of Access’
interview with the Obama family? |
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