Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Called into the principal's office

Darren Samuelson writes at Politico about how Obama and his staff "took unusual steps to "cultivate" Daily Show comic Jon Stewart.
Jon Stewart slipped unnoticed into the White House in the midst of the October 2011 budget fight, summoned to an Oval Office coffee with President Barack Obama that he jokingly told his escort felt like being called into the principal’s office.

In February 2014, Obama again requested Stewart make the trip from Manhattan to the White House, this time for a mid-morning visit hours before the president would go before television cameras to warn Russia that “there will be costs” if it made any further military intervention in Ukraine.
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