Barack Obama granted his first family interview, including his wife and two young daughters, to the syndicated gossip show “Access Hollywood,” said Jake Trapper in ABC News’ Political Punch blog, and if you think that an inappropriate venue, “you are not alone.” Obama himself now says the family got “carried away,” and that exposing his kids to the media like that “won’t happen again.”
Too late, said the blog JammieWearingFool. After showing he’s “willing to pimp” his kids out to “Access Hollywood,” Obama has no standing to whine about his family not getting any privacy.
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