Michelle Obama's making a well-timed 'View' stop
To the victors belong ... ever-increasing television exposure.
ABC's women-oriented chat show "The View" has announced that Michelle Obama, the presumptive Democratic contender for first lady, will appear on the program June 18 (a Wednesday). In fact, she's being billed not only as a guest, but a "co-host" with regulars Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sherri Shepherd.
Obama had been scheduled for a "View" drop-by in early December, but -- being the good Democrat that she is -- cancelled because of the writers strike that began in late November.
As it turns out, her upcoming appearance is more propitiously timed, given that one of her husband's immediate challenges is to make-nice to Hillary Clinton's legion of female supporters (some of whom, we imagine, are "View" watchers).
For those keeping track, Barack Obama has been on "The View" twice, most recently in late March. Not surprisingly, he got gushed over. Cindy McCain has already been a View co-host.
-- Don Frederick
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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Makes sense. Cindy McCain was on before as a co-host. They're being balanced.
Posted by: HomeLearning | June 05, 2008 at 06:13 PM