Barack Obama, television appearances, updated

Recently, the president said that he hates Photo-ops. This, from the man who had a giant image of himself hanging in his campaign headquarters in 2008.

 I've previously referred to the president as a celebredent, and said that he'll make a great game show host someday. But let's take this challenge. How many times has the president deliberately put himself into the limelight?

Luckily, IMDB helps us track that.
I tried to eliminate any appearances where the president is simply in a clip or a documentary about him.

2008-2014 Good Morning America (TV Series) Himself
- Episode dated 27 June 2014 (2014) ... Himself (as President Barack Obama)
- Obama to Tennessee GOP: Lay Off My Wife (2008) ... Himself

2006-2014 Face the Nation (TV Series) Himself
- Episode dated 22 June 2014 (2014) ... Himself
- Episode dated 12 March 2006 (2006) ... Himself (as Sen. Barack Obama)

2014 Fox News Sunday (TV Series)
Himself - Power Player of the Week
- Episode dated 8 June 2014 (2014) ... Himself - Power Player of the Week (as President Barack Obama)

2014 Live with Kelly and Michael (TV Series)
Himself
- President Barack Obama (2014) ... Himself (as President Barack Obama)

2007-2014 60 Minutes (TV Series documentary)
- President Obama & Secretary Clinton/The Fall of Lance Armstrong (2013) ... Himself
- President (segment "President Obama & Secretary Clinton")
- Campaign 2012 (2012) ... Himself - President
- President Obama/Howard Buffett (2011) ... Himself (segment "President Obama")
- Killing Bin Laden: The President's Story (2011) ... Himself
- President Obama/Pacman (2010) ... Himself (segment "President Obama")
- President Obama/Growing Body Parts/Ricky Gervais (2009) ... Himself (segment "President Obama")
- President Obama/Big Teddy/Guiding Light (2009) ... Himself (segment "President Obama")
- Vice President Biden/Powered by Coal/The Orphanage (2009) ... Himself - President (segment "Vice President Biden")
- President Obama/Mr. Ayers and Mr. Lopez (2009) ... Himself (segment "President Obama")
- The Road to the White House (2008) ... Himself - President Elect
- The 44th President (2008) ... Himself - President Elect (segment "The 44th President")
- The Candidates: McCain/The Candidates: Obama (2008) ... Himself - Senator, Illinois (segment "The Candidates: Obama")
- Obama Biden '08/Bombing Afghanistan/Awakening (2008) ... Himself - Senator, Illinois (segment "Obama Biden '08")
- Ohio/Lifeline/The Pentagon's Ray Gun (2008) ... Himself - Senator, Illinois (segment "Ohio")
- Obama '08/Hillary for President/Should We Make Cents? (2008) ... Himself - Senator, Illinois (segment "Obama '08")
- Barack Obama/The Death of Timothy Sounders/Norah Jones (2007) ... Himself - Senator, Illinois (segment "Barack Obama")

2014 Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis (TV Series)
Himself - Obama (2014) ... Himself

2008-2014 The O'Reilly Factor (TV Series)
Himself
- Episode dated 3 February 2014 (2014) ... Himself (as President Barack Obama)
- Episode dated 9 September 2008 (2008) ... Himself
- Episode dated 8 September 2008 (2008) ... Himself
- Episode dated 4 September 2008 (2008) ... Himself

2013 Steve Harvey (TV Series)
Himself
- Steve Talks to President Obama! Holiday Homecoming/Ultimate Gift Guide/12 Days of Christmas (2013) ... Himself (as President Barack Obama)

2013 World News with Diane Sawyer (TV Series)
Himself - President of the United States of America
- Episode dated 9 September 2013 (2013) ... Himself - President of the United States of America (as President Barack Obama)

2006-2013 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series)
Himself / Himself - Guest
- Episode #21.196 (2013) ... Himself - Guest (as President Barack Obama)
- Episode #21.23 (2012) ... Himself (as President Barack Obama)
- President Barack Obama/Yo-Yo Ma & Friends (2011) ... Himself (as President Barack Obama)
- Episode #17.50 (2009) ... Himself (as President Barack Obama)
- Episode #15.185 (2007) ... Himself
- Episode #14.219 (2006) ... Himself

2005-2013 Charlie Rose (TV Series)
Himself - Guest / Himself
- Episode dated 17 June 2013 (2013) ... Himself - Guest
- Episode dated 16 July 2012 (2012) ... Himself - Guest
- Episode dated 19 October 2006 (2006) ... Himself - Guest
- Episode dated 25 April 2006 (2006) ... Himself - Guest
- Episode dated 11 January 2005 (2005) ... Himself

2013 Newsround (TV Series)
Himself - US President
- Episode dated 17 June 2013 (2013) ... Himself - US President

2005-2012 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TV Series)
Himself
- Barack Obama (2012) ... Himself
- Barack Obama (2010) ... Himself
- Barack Obama (2008) ... Himself (as Sen. Barack Obama)
- Barack Obama (2008) ... Himself (as Senator Barack Obama)
- Barack Obama (2007) ... Himself (as Sen. Barack Obama)
- Barack Obama (2005) ... Himself (as Sen. Barack Obama)


2004-2012 Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series)
Himself / Himself - Guest / Himself - Top Ten List Presenter
- Episode #20.14 (2012) ... Himself - Guest
- Episode #17.10 (2009) ... Himself (as President Barack Obama)
- Episode #16.7 (2008) ... Himself - Guest (as Senator Barack Obama)
- Episode #15.107 (2008) ... Himself - Top Ten List Presenter (as Senator Barack Obama)
- Episode #15.51 (2008) ... Himself - Top Ten List Presenter (as Senator Barack Obama)
- Episode dated 9 April 2007 (2007) ... Himself
- Episode dated 26 November 2004 (2004) ... Himself

2012 2012 CMT Music Awards (TV Special)
Himself

2012 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (TV Series)
Himself - Guest
- Episode #4.63 (2012) ... Himself - Guest

2012 26 Years: The Dewey Bozella Story (TV Movie documentary)
Himself (voice)

2012 Ali 70 from Las Vegas (TV Movie)
Himself

2012 Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Gir

2007-2012 Today Show
Himself
– Episode dated 13 January 2012 (2012) … Himself (as President Barack Obama)
– Episode dated 2 February 2009 (2009) … Himself
– Episode dated 23 September 2008 (2008) … Himself (as Sen. Barack Obama)
– Episode dated 3 January 2008 (2008) … Himself
– Episode dated 28 December 2007 (2007) … Himself

2011 WWE Tribute to the Troops (TV movie)
2007-2011 The Situation Room (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 20 August 2011 (2011) … Himself
– Episode dated 1 December 2008 (2008) … Himself
– Episode dated 5 July 2007 (2007) … Himself

2011 Race to the Top Commencement Challenge Special (TV movie)

2011 Jeopardy! (TV series)
Himself - Video Greeting

2005-2011 The Oprah Winfrey Show (TV series)
Himself
– All New! President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama (2011) … Himself (as President Barack Obama)
– Episode dated 18 October 2006 (2006) … Himself
– Episode dated 19 January 2005 (2005) … Himself

2011 All Together Now: A Celebration of Service (TV special)

2011 The 83rd Annual Academy Awards (TV special)

2010 WWE Tribute to the Troops (TV movie)

2010 Christmas in Washington (TV movie)

2010 MythBusters (TV series documentary)
Himself
– President's Challenge (2010) … Himself

2010 A Conversation with President Obama (TV movie)
2010 Stand Up to Cancer (TV special)

2007-2010 The View (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 29 July 2010 (2010) … Himself
– Episode dated 27 September 2007 (2007) … Himself (as Senator Barack Obama)

2010 The Apprentice (TV series)

2010 The Real World (TV series)
Himself
– From D.C., with Love (2010) … Himself
– White House, Glass House (2010) … Himself

2009-2010 The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.138 (2010) … Himself
– Episode #1.2 (2009) … Himself

2009 Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special (TV special)

2009 Get Schooled: You Have the Right (TV documentary)
Himself

2009 2009 MLB All-Star Game (TV movie)
2008-2009 The Colbert Report (TV series)
Himself / Himself - Guest
– Episode #5.76 (2009) … Himself - Guest (as President Barack Obama)
– Hillary Clinton/John Edwards/Barack Obama (2008) … Himself (as Senator Barack Obama)

2009 Inside the Obama White House (TV movie)
2009 Sky News: Live at Five (TV series)

2009 A-studio (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 1 April 2009 (2009) … Himself

2006-2008 Meet the Press (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 7 December 2008 (2008) … Himself
– Episode dated 27 July 2008 (2008) … Himself (as Sen Barack Obama)
– Episode dated 22 October 2006 (2006) … Himself (as Sen. Barack Obama)
– Episode dated 22 January 2006 (2006) … Himself (as Sen. Barack Obama)

2008 The Barbara Walters Summer Special (TV series)
Himself
– Barbara Walters Presents: The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2008 (2008) … Himself
– Barack and Michelle Obama (2008) … Himself

2008 Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer (TV series)

As you can see, clearly, the president is camera shy, and hates photo ops.

"Misinformed" viewers believe that Republicans were against TARP, and are correct

Earlier, I wrote about how Jon Stewart can't admit that he was wrong about Fox News viewers being the most "misinformed" viewers.
I did a bunch of research on one of Fox News' rivals, and applied the same standard that Jon Stewart did. Which I thought was kinda brilliant.

Shortly after that, a number of people all started using the same argument that Politifact used (a few of) the wrong studies. That there was a thin difference between being 'misinformed' and not knowing what the facts were.
If one person had come to this conclusion, I'd chalk it up to one person splitting hairs. But it wasn't one person. It was a herd of Dems.
So I googled, and came up with the FireDogLake post that seems to be the source of it all:

...The three Pew polls measure how informed viewers are. They don’t even belong in the discussion, because they don’t go to Stewart’s point.

Let's go back to Stewart's point:

Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? … Fox viewers, consistently, every poll.

If we constrain our definition of "misinformed media viewers" to the FireDogLake version of what Stewart meant, then we're not talking about 'every poll'. We're talking about one polling service: PIPA.
Moreover, we're talking about what PIPA asked people, and what PIPA felt was 'misinformation.'
I ran into this study before, which is why I wanted to focus on it. A lot of the questions are subjective, but no question was more wrong in my opinion then this one:

When TARP came up for a vote most Republicans opposed it

I already addressed this one a while back. So let's go over the votes for TARP:

The first vote on the bailout was September 29th, and the final tally is as follows:

	Ayes	Noes	PRES	NV
Democratic	140	95
Republican	65	133		1
Independent
TOTALS	205	228		1

The second vote on the bailout was October 3rd, and that tally is as follows:

	Yeas	Nays	PRES	NV
Democratic	172	63
Republican	91	108
Independent
TOTALS	263	171

NOTE: the second vote, while not initially appearing to be connected to TARP, does have TARP bootstrapped onto it. Read the text.

Now keep in mind, PIPA said that Fox viewers were 'misinformed' if they believed that most of the Republicans were against TARP.
How do they form that opinion?
Wait. Let's do this. Suppose you asked viewers who supported TARP more, dems or reps?
What do you suppose the vast majority of MSNBC viewers would say? I'm going to jump into the pool and suggest that their 'misinformation' rating would go way, way, way up, along with those who listen to NPR.

I wonder if PIPA would ask that question?

Jon Stewart can't admit he was wrong

I hate, hate, hate when people can't admit when they were wrong.

No one is more problematic at this then Jon Stewart. Granted, admitting that you're wrong isn't as funny as sticking to the premise that you're right in lieu of the fact that Politifact screwed you to the wall.

So let's start here. 3 minutes in... Stewart says:

"Who are the most consistently misinformed media viewers? … Fox viewers, consistently, every poll."

This is not true.
Politifact Fact-checked the statement, and called Stewart out on it.
According to one media study they cited:

Fox actually scored better than its two direct cable-news rivals -- MSNBC, which is a liberal counterpoint to Fox, and CNN, which is considered more middle-of-the-road. Also scoring lower than Fox were local television news, the evening network news shows and the network morning shows.

Ouch.
Politifact concludes, after showing several different studies:

So we have three Pew studies that superficially rank Fox viewers low on the well-informed list, but in several of the surveys, Fox isn’t the lowest, and other general-interest media outlets -- such as network news shows, network morning shows and even the other cable news networks -- often score similarly low. Meanwhile, particular Fox shows -- such as The O’Reilly Factor and Sean Hannity’s show -- actually score consistently well, occasionally even outpacing Stewart’s own audience.

Of course, Jon Stewart admitted he was wrong, and moved on.
Oh wait.
He didn't.
Ugh. Like the rest of the left, he doubled down instead of admitting that he was wrong. Stewart went on the air to say that if he was wrong, it was because he watches Fox News... whom he still claims is consistently wrong.


To keep his claim true, Stewart quotes a number of Politifacts.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Fox News False Statements
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook

Uh, but wait wait wait.

Fox was never reviewed by Politifact, as a network.

They DO review individual people who have made statements on opinion programs, and then they find the statements to be true or false. In fact, if you notice, the very first quote that Stewart refers to comes from Glenn Beck. After that, he kinda doesn't mention/refer to the fact that the statements he's quoting are from opinion makers on Fox.
However, Politifact does list them in one, handy, statement. What you'll notice is that Stewart is using statements from Beck, Palin, O'Reilly, and even Karl Rove as "Fox News" statements.

Now most people understand that if you list off a bunch of commentaries, you'll find people who have statements that aren't completely true. And if Stewart did that, he'd have to admit that the same thing happens on other networks.

Like... I dunno... lets do this with MSNBC.

Olbermann:

"Subsidies for oil and gas companies make up 88 percent of all federal subsidies. Just cutting the oil and gas subsidies out would save the U.S. government $45 billion every year."

FALSE

"Yes, this would be the same congressman (Rep. Pete Hoekstra) who last year Tweeted the whereabouts of a top-secret mission to Iraq."

FALSE


Maddow:

"Despite what you may have heard about Wisconsin’s finances, Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year."

FALSE

Fox News "said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Barack Obama."

FALSE

"President Bush never did one interview with the New York Times during his entire presidency."

FALSE

Gov. Sarah Palin "got precisely zero support for her call for Alaska's Democratic Senator Mark Begich to resign because Ted Stevens' corruption conviction was overturned."

FALSE

Ed Schultz:

Under changes being debated, state employees in Wisconsin "who earn $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 a year might have 20 percent of their income just disappear overnight."

FALSE

With his decision on whether to fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal, President Obama "has to fix yet another problem he inherited from the Bush administration."

PANTS ON FIRE

"Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu received almost $1.8 million from BP over the last decade."

PANTS ON FIRE

(Whew... starting to get tired from all of this copy/paste)

Joe Scarborough:

The health care reform bill "is the largest tax increase in U.S. history."

FALSE

President Obama has never received a paycheck from a profitmaking business in his entire life.

FALSE

Lawrence O'Donnel:

"There are no similar clips of Newt Gingrich talking about how ineffective President Bush was in trying to control North Korea."

FALSE


Now I'm not even on the staff of Comedy Central writers, and I came up with that 'short' list, from just 4 people who appear on MSNBC. Should I presume that Stewart did the same thing as I did, when he researched Fox? That he took the time to compare it to other networks?

Of course he didn't. Because like many people on the left, he can't admit that his premise was wrong. He will continue to look for evidence that proves him right, ignoring anything to the contrary.

There is a thin difference between ignorance and arrogance.
Ignorance is not knowing.
Arrogance is the presumption that you already know.