Obama: 'I spend most of my time watching ESPN in the morning'

Obama: 'I spend most of my time watching ESPN in the morning'
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When it comes to bloviating talking heads, the leader of the free world prefers ESPN.

"I get so much politics I don't want to be inundated with a bunch of chatter about politics during the day," Obama said in a Friday interview with Colin Cowherd on ESPN Radio. The president also revealed that he sometimes turns on ESPN (with the sound off) when reading a "really fat briefing book," Business Insider reports.

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Teresa Mull