Angles on the Fallon appearance missed by the media.

The Investors Business Daily remarks on how deeply the media is in the tank for Obama's "cool campaign."

They might, for example, focus how this "cool" campaign seems to smack of desperation. As columnist Michael Barone notes on the next page, the president spends a lot of time trying to shore up his youth base. A confident Obama would be chasing swing voters.

Nor did the press bother to mention how the left-wing Fallon was last seen sandbagging Michele Bachmann when he had his band play "Lyin' Ass Bitch" as she walked on stage. Civility police, anyone?

There's also the more important question of whether Obama's Fallon appearance crossed the line on campaign finance laws. As Ben Shapiro notes on Breitbart's "Big Hollywood" site, letting Obama read a campaign speech on that show, without offering equal time to his political opponents, appears to violate the federal equal-time rule.

Epic debt? Soldiers dying in foreign countires? Foreign policy failing everywhere? The answer for the Prom King President is to do a non-comedy, comedy skit where he panders to the student vote.



Anne Althous detects a singular lack of ...ah...what's that word?...."funny"...in the skit.

And, of course, there is the inevitable liberal hypocrisy of "bad for Bush; good for Obama."

Plus, it constituted an illegal gift in kind for Obama from media.

From the Washington Times:

Last night, President Obama appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s unwatchable show to “slow-jam the news.” By this, Fallon meant that Obama would read a campaign speech about student loans, Fallon would utter a few lines to back him up every so often, and his lead band singer would warble in support of Obama’s propaganda.

Only one problem, aside from the fact that this was possibly the worst “comedy” segment in the history of mankind: it violated campaign finance law.

The equal time rule states that if a licensee permits a person “who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station.”

Finally, it was an absurd performance according to Charlie Spiering at the Washington Examiner:

President Obama's 'celebrity status' reached perplexing new levels last night on comedian Jimmy Fallon's comedy show last night. After watching this sketch, I think it's fair to say that he has 'jumped the shark.'

Last night on the Jimmy Fallon show, Obama "slow jammed" with Fallon and his band about his plan to freeze interest rates for student loans, criticizing filibustering Republicans for blocking his plan.

But the president doesn't really "jam." Rather, he delivers a version of the stump speech he gave to students earlier that day.