The West Wing Blog csan now be found at www.whitehouse.gov/blog

According to the Washington Post:

You didn’t see this on CNN or Fox News or NBC: President Obama awkwardly introducing Chile’s president, Sebastián Piñera, to the Netherlands’ prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, at the recent nuclear security summit. “You know, uh, you’ve met Jan?” the president says tentatively as the other world leaders stand aside like shy kids at a dance.

Or this: Obama, playfully doing his best impression of Muhammad Ali, throwing mock punches into the midsection of a costumed Easter Bunny following the White House Easter Egg Roll.

You didn’t see it on the networks because the behind-the-scenes video was only available on “West Wing Week,” the Obama administration’s new video blog. The six- to seven-minute compilations, which appear each week on the White House’s Web site (http://www.whitehouse.gov) and on such video-sharing sites as YouTube, offer what a narrator on each segment calls “your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”

The West Wing blog will show video not shown by the major cable networks or nightly news that gives a bird’s eye view of what’s really going on behind the scenes.

In this video, President Obama talks with Americans about why the Wall Street reform is important to anyone who has ever used a credit card, gotten a loan, bought a car or a house, uses an ATM, has a checking account, etc. He talks to ordinary Americans who just might not have a private political agenda:

13 Thoughts to “West Wing Blog”

  1. e

    uh, hello, the regime has a new video blog, when was the last time the annointed one actually gave a real news conference? what would our objective press say if bush went this long without one? the question is rhetorical

  2. e

    last press conference, all topics open, july 22, 2009. i guess the huffington puffington post not entirely worthless

  3. Maybe the news conference is just going out of style. It isn’t like you never see the Presisent.

  4. kelly3406

    In a modern update of ‘1984’, this blog provides a plausible scenario for how The Ministry of Truth in the government of Oceania would get its start.

    1. But you don’t HAVE to read it.

  5. Emma

    @Moon-howler ” It isn’t like you never see the Presisent.”

    He has to be the most overexposed and underquestioned President in history.

    1. It might have helped if I didn’t have a typo in there and could spell ‘president.’

      Many presidents have been very under-questioned. The first that pops into my mind is JFK, FDR, etc. They had very little scrutiny. Today, in the information era, we can find out almost anything instantly.

  6. Wolverine

    Moon, that “almost anything” includes Elena Kagan’s senior thesis at Princeton University, on display at the Too Conservative blog despite efforts by Princeton University to get everyone to cease and desist. Recommend you all read it. I would like to know what you think. It’s over 100 pages but an interesting read nevertheless. Lots of fascinating historical detail about the history of the Socialist movement in New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

  7. Captain Idiot-Face

    Wolverine :
    Moon, that “almost anything” includes Elena Kagan’s senior thesis at Princeton University, on display at the Too Conservative blog despite efforts by Princeton University to get everyone to cease and desist. Recommend you all read it. I would like to know what you think. It’s over 100 pages but an interesting read nevertheless. Lots of fascinating historical detail about the history of the Socialist movement in New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

    The “smoking thesis” bit is very familiar to those who post here!

  8. Wolverine

    You all missed it. I see it has been removed from Too Conservative because of copyright infringement. Princeton wins apparently. Too bad. There was some interesting research in that piece, although the last few lines of the conclusion might have caused some debate — which I am not so sure would be much warranted since the thing was written by a 22-year old college senior with, as yet, not much real world experience. What really bothers me is that we, as the public, are being cut off too much from knowing all we can know about our “ruling class”, so to speak. Not good. Not good at all.

    1. So give me the jist of the paper….

      I once did a paper as a psych major tracing the history of syphilis from the new world to the old world. I sure hope I won’t be judged by it.

      And Slowpoke makes a good point. We came down heavy on McDonnell over his cultural warrior thesis. Point taken. I suppose my next question would be how much is the person buying in to what they are writing about.

      Give me the socialist part again please.

  9. The White House is going to release the paper in question in a day or 2, according to various media sources.

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