The January 27 edition of Entertainment Weekly magazine devoted two pages to a kissy-kissy Obama farewell titled “The Obamas’ Best Pop Culture Moments.” Hollywood loved the Obamas, and cooperated in their propaganda ministry whenever requested. These are now “precious moments” to Entertainment Weekly, even the pedestrian note that the Obama daughters took an Inauguration selfie in 2013.
The magazine cooed through an introduction: “Over their eight years in the White House, Barack, Michelle, Malia, and Sasha Obama undoubtedly left their mark on history, but they were just as ingrained in our entertainment, too. As the 44th president leaves office, we look back on the First Family’s most memorable and meme-able acts.”
Here’s a sample of the gushiest Barack items [bold in the original]:
Dec. 8, 2010: No, we cannot set stuff on fire with Archimedes’ solar ray, but President Obama blew minds with his love of science on Discovery’s MythBusters.
....June 26, 2015: The president’s moving, unexpected rendition of “Amazing Grace” — at the funeral of a mass-shooting victim, with a cadre of ministers singing along behind him — was just that: amazing and graceful.
....April 30, 2016: Obama ended his final White House Correspondents’ Dinner in perfect dramatic fashion: by saying “Obama out!” and dropping his mic like a badass.
....Oct. 24, 2016: Not even the Commander-in-Chief is immune to mockery from the Twitterverse. He took to Jimmy Kimmel’s Mean Tweets a second time to read some of the most egregious and hysterical, including “Barack Obama is the Nickelback of presidents.”
There was no space to note that Obama’s mockery on Kimmel included telling Donald Trump he would never be president. Somehow, that wasn’t a “memorable” act. The Michelle moments were just as sugary:
Feb. 2, 2012: The always health-conscious Michelle went on Ellen and did 25 push-ups, which is approximately 24 more than we can do.
....Feb. 22, 2013: When FLOTUS performed the first “Evolution of Mom Dancing” sketch with Jimmy Fallon on Late Night, she confirmed two things: that her Let’s Move! campaign could also be funny, and that she’s excellent at doing just the hands part of “Single Ladies.”
....April 24, 2014: Appearing as herself in season 6 of Parks and Recreation, Michelle was on the receiving end of a lovefest from a gobsmacked Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler), who told her, “I agree with you on all things throughout history and until the end of time…forever.”
That sounds a lot like the “objective” entertainment magazines on the Obamas, doesn’t it?
