BARBARA WALTERS BARACK OBAMA & MICHELLE OBAMA INTERVIEW VIDEO

Barbara Walters interviewed President Barack Obama and his beautiful First Lady Michelle Obama yesterday in an ABC television special.  Barbara Walters scored the interview after her hour long segment on the world's first pregnant man in her last special. This is a hard act for Barack Obama and Michelle Obama to follow. The View had Elisabeth Hasselbeck bashing Barack Obama and Michelle Obama during the election and ABC snubbed Barack Obama by not allowing him to purchase air time to run his infomercial during the election. ABC later changed their minds but by the time they reconsidered Obama wasn't interested. Every network which aired the Obama infomercial scored high ratings in their time slot. ABC aired an episode of Pushing Daisies which is now canceled and earned low ratings.

Is it just us or is there something missing from Barbara Walters' interviews? Before the View Walters used to be seen as a respectable journalist. Now she frequently flirts with guests, discusses how hard she wants to be kissed with guests like former James Bond Roger Moore and tells married political candidates like Barack Obama that she thinks they are "sexy".  Barbara Walter's released a bestselling memoir Audition which chronicled her affairs with married men including a prominent African-American senator.

Thankfully Barbara didn't rub all over Barack Obama during the interview like she does when LL Cool J, Usher or Samuel Jackson sit on the View couch. It did seem like Barbara Walters kept the moment in the interview when Barack tells Michelle she has lipstick on her teeth just to help her bruised ego.  Why else would this footage see the light of day other than to make Walters feel better? Perhaps Walters felt that in that moment Michelle Obama could be seen by the world as someone a little less beautiful and perfect. What is the purpose of keeping that moment in the interview unless you are creating a fluff piece? Don't even get us started on Barbara Walters' stalker moment when she was insisting on the Obamas getting a dog like her own pooch who is wearing a pair of glasses in a photo she flashed. Watch the Barbara Walters interview if you missed it. 

Barbara Walters Special 11/26 HQ Michelle & Barack Obama Interview by Barbara Walters November 26th

Well, she didn't ask them what kind of trees they would be but Barbara Walters' hour with the Obamas Wednesday was certainly lighter than their earlier post-election inquisition on "60 Minutes."

Yes she asked about the economy and had a couple of pesky lines of inquiry that sounded as if he was still on the campaign trail (how's he going to find Osama bin Laden anyway?).

But she seemed to enjoy herself more asking questions about his safety (and irresponsibly showing a white supremacist poster urging his murder - free advertising for the cause).
She also really wanted to know if he was still sneaking cigarettes.

Walters was trying to get meaning out of every gesture and utterance, so she made sure to let the cameras run when the president elect stopped the future first lady by telling her she had some lipstick on her tooth.

Walters asked how inauguration would be celebrated with a question sure to be quoted on "the Daily Show" ("Will you have eight or nine balls?").

She also asked about Thanksgiving plans and whether he had a Thanksgiving message for America (he came up with something on the fly).

If there was holiday news, it was about Santa. Both of their daughters still believe. And the Obamas said they don't buy presents for their kids since they're already loaded down with gifts from grandma and their aunts.

The craziest exchange came at the very end.

"I sent you a picture of my dog Cha Cha," Walters told the couple. "His real name is Cha Cha Cha."

She was encouraging the first family to get that kind of dog for the White House.

But Barack Obama said it sounded like "a yappy dog; sounds kind of like a girly dog."

"What I was wondering was," Walters soldiered on, "Are you being inundated with pictures of funny looking dogs. Is everyone like me?"

"We're getting more advice about this than my economic policies, no doubt about it," the president elect said. source