'Saddest tweet of the month!' Mark Knoller reveals telling aspect of Galifianakis' Obama interview

Know your real audience RT @CuffyMeh All the reporters I follow this morning: "Squeee! ObamaGalifianakis FAP FAP FAP!"

— Matt Exotic (@MattCover) March 11, 2014

Snicker.

Huh? Obama was “interviewed” by actor and comedian Zach Galifianakis? Let’s go to journo Mark Knoller’s Twitter feed for the scoop.

"Which country were you rooting for in the Olympics?" Pres Obama was asked by Zach Galifianakis on his Internet interview show online today.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 11, 2014

As part of the schtick, Pres Obama appears to fume at the deliberately rude and/or obtuse questions from Galifianakis.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 11, 2014

WH aides say Pres Obama taped the appearance to make another pitch to young people to sign up for ObamaCare before the March 31 deadline.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 11, 2014

Even WH senior advisor @pfeiffer44 is tweeting about the show: "Worth a watch, especially if you want to laugh & learn abt the ACA" too.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 11, 2014

Sigh. The embarrassment of a Tiger Beat president aside, CBS News’ Mark Knoller then revealed a very telling aspect of the “interview”:

The Galifianakis show is posted at http://t.co/goOqvLPl7r. It brings my Obama interview count to Galifianakis 1, Knoller 0.

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 11, 2014

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Huh. Funny that.

https://twitter.com/foomeister/status/443363424483823616

And that's wrong. MT @markknoller: Galifianakis show posted http://t.co/9zRcMG3uCg. Brings Obama interview count to Galifianakis 1Knoller 0.

— ?️?‍☠️Doug Wagner?️?‍♂️? (@DougWagner) March 11, 2014

https://twitter.com/andyhre/status/443363925589901312

Yep. That will never happen though, natch.

@markknoller You're not in on the cult-of-personality thingy, maybe?

— SAJ (@ShenValleyLife) March 11, 2014

Bingo.

@markknoller Clearly, the @WhiteHouse values Zach's hard line of questions over those of a DC neophyte such as yourself.

— Chace Murphy (@chacemurphy) March 11, 2014

@markknoller Love to see a Knoller/Obama interview. Love to see an Attkission/Obama interview. Won't happen – he'd be out of his depth.

— Uncle Jimmy: Positively Toward the Negative ? (@jneutron1969) March 11, 2014

Ding, ding, ding!

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