EDITORS' CORNERThe president looked less than presidential this week when he appeared on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to perform a hip-hop song about student loans. That was only one of many cringe-worthy aspects of the appearance, which Chicago Sun-Times film critic Richard Roeper (of Ebert and Roeper fame) called “bizarre,” “cheesy,” and “pandering.”
“It was a rather bizarre appearance, what with Obama “slow-jamming” with Fallon and the Roots, calling the disgraced Secret Service agents “knuckleheads” and answering a Twitter question about legalizing pot from some guy named Bobo,” wrote Roeper, adding, “On the surface, the notion of Obama slow-jamming with Fallon might seem hip, but it came across as cheesy pandering.”
Watch a video of the president’s strange appearance on the show.
Is this presidential? You be the judge.
