Was President Obama watching TV right after the Benghazi attacks?

Daily Caller ^ | 9/11/2013 | Tevi Troy

[Nachum]

Obama’s love of TV is in keeping with childhood. By his own admission, Obama watched an enormous amount of television while growing up with his TV-loving grandfather in Hawaii. According to Obama’s memoir, he watched TV – cartoons, reruns, then sitcoms – pretty much from the moment he came home until the moment he went to bed at night. His grandfather was a big fan of Johnny Carson, and even after Obama went off to Occidental College, he continued in his grandfather’s footsteps. He would often get together with friends to watch Johnny Carson’s opening monologue on The Tonight Show.

His TV watching habits continued into adulthood. At different times, he has indicated that he is a fan of Boardwalk Empire, Entourage, Downtown Abbey, Homeland, Mad Men, and The Wire, among others. His TV love even intrudes on his work time. In Jonathan Alter’s largely glowing portrait of Obama, The Center Holds, Alter reports that during one White House discussion on the possibility of a sleeper terrorist, Obama’s reaction was, “Sounds like Homeland.” Alter also notes that Obama would occasionally close his door and pretend that he was toiling away, but instead he was watching Homeland reruns. Similarly, when White House aides grumbled that Valerie Jarrett was using her closeness to the president to get her way in internal staff disputes, Jarrett replied that she and Obama didn’t talk about work so much as about “what happened on Downtown Abbey.”

[Dalberg-Acton]

If. by “TV”, you mean transvestite then I’m sure he was.

[LegendHasIt]

Heh, good one!

[cynwoody]

From the article:

Obama’s TV watching habits even shocked the comedian Stephen Colbert. During the 2012 campaign season, Colbert offered Donald Trump $1 million to let him put a part of his anatomy in Trump’s mouth so that he would “have something going into [his] mouth instead of coming out of it.” The offer was so vulgar, Alter notes, that it “was causing some embarrassment in Colbert’s own family.” After his re-election, Obama saw Colbert and alluded to the offer. Colbert was amazed the president was aware of it. Undaunted by Colbert’s discomfort, Michelle Obama volunteered that she and the president watched that particular clip “over and over.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDXQ8maAlsk

[Stosh]

Captain Oveur: “Barry, do you like movies about gladiators?”

[bgill]

The taxpayers are paying for those special cable channels.

All that tv watching was probably why, as his HS coach said, he wasn’t that good a basketball player.

[machogirl]

I check “the One’s” public schedule every day. His schedule is exhausting. (big sarcasm)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/complete

Today, moment of silence at 8:45 am (and that’s about 3 hours earlier than his usual first briefing of the day)
Service Project somewhere in DC @ 2:00 pm (picking up trash?)
Observance ceremony @ 9:30 pm.

[FreeAtlanta]

You know a good president from a bad one, if they enjoy the job. Clinton said it was the best time of his life, Bush could get away from it fast enough. Some treat the job as a job, then there is Obama(barky) and Clinton.