This week President Barack Obama will make an appearance on the ABC daytime talk show The View. White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said of the upcoming presidential performance, "Given the difficulty of reaching people in this hyperactive media environment, we look for opportunities to reach people in environments that are not traditional forums for political newsmakers. That's why we have been willing to have the president on Leno, Letterman and ESPN." (source) In other words, it's easier for Mr. Obama to keep pushing his failed policies and unaffordable ideas to people who get their "news" from Hollywood celebrities.

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Of course this is the right thing for this president to do if he wants to keep the support of at least some of the politically uninformed who watch daytime talk shows. Certainly it's safer for him to be fawned over by uber-liberal comedienne Joy Behar and actress Whoopi Goldberg than to answer serious questions from actual journalists on NBC's Meet The Press, ABC's This Week or (gasp!) Fox News Sunday.

Sure The View has its token conservative in Elisabeth Hasselbeck but does anyone really expect her to allienate the show's core audience of liberals by asking a real question or openly doubting President Obama's summer of recovery propaganda?

No, this will be just another packaged performance by a president who believes that if he tells the American people often enough that the economy is improving they will believe it. I'm sure he will temporarily entertain and maybe even charm those who remain willfully blind to current events and economic indicators. But once the show is over the American people will be left with their own view; the one they see from their own homes in their own lives and no amount of yukking it up with Whoopi is going to change that perspective.