President Obama Does The View, Talks Lindsay Lohan and Justin Bieber

US President Barack Obama has made an appearance on the chat show The View, where, among other, more important things, he also agreed to take on a pop culture quiz. As the video below will confirm, even President knows of Lindsay Lohan’s stay in jail, though he may not be aware of the existence of Jersey Shore’s Snooki or does not have Justin Bieber’s songs on his iPod.

Aside from talking about the economy, the job market and how badly the US has been in recent months, Mr. Obama also found some time to crack a few jokes and laugh a bit with the ladies of The View. The first question asked of him was whether he knew about Lindsay Lohan’s sentencing and subsequent stay at a prison facility in Lynwood, California, to which he replied in the affirmative. When pushed for details, the President said he could not say exactly how he knew – but he did know that.

Another question asked was whether he’d heard the Mel Gibson rant tapes but, since this is a more delicate matter than Lohan’s legal predicament in which she’d gotten herself, Obama refused to get drawn into the debate. When Sherri Shepherd tried to force the words out of his mouth, Obama only said that he hadn’t seen a Mel Gibson film in quite a while, thus completely avoiding the question of whether he thought the actor needed anger management or not. Other celebs named in the same conversation were Snooki, of whose existence Obama is not even aware, and Justin Bieber, who’s music he doesn’t listen to.

Though reception of the appearance on The View has been mostly positive, there are many voices saying surely the President must have other things to deal with right now than doing a women’s chat show that solves and proves nothing. One such voice belongs to Sarah Palin, who literally bashed Obama on her Twitter. “President with no time to visit porous US/Mexican border to offer help to those risking life to secure us, but lotso’ time to chat on The View? I’m headed to border in near future… let’s see how quickly his travel schedule will allow that border visit after all,” Mrs. Palin tweeted.

Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, feels the same, saying in her The Daily Beast column that the President needs to stop talking about Jay-Z once and for all. “Once again it was all smoke and mirrors, not surprising for a president known for his poetic use of language. I found the president’s appearance pretty predictable and his answers very rehearsed. I mean, how many times can he talk about how he has Jay-Z on his iPod?” McCain writes.

Below is the video of US President Barack Obama on The View, the celebrities segment. Enjoy. 

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