Nice interview with Obama, but ...

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I wonder how well Netflix's ratings have been so far for this show. I used to admire Letterman greatly in the 80's when he was on NBC and his material was edgier than it was on CBS. Still, his first two episodes are with two supposedly popular bourgeois icons. Obama and Clooney. I tried to watch the one with Obama but I got sick of his "suave" routine when he was in the White House. I couldn't watch more than a few moments of Obama gloating about hobnobbing with Oprah and Tom Hanks on Richard Branson's yacht. And I definitely don't care to hear anything from Council on Foreign Relations member George Clooney. I would rather Letterman return to the cynical, absurdist humor he started out doing, not this pandering to wealthy icons of the pseudo-left.

I didn't watch the first episode. Nothing against Obama, but I just don't care what he or any other politician has to say. Just the idea of watching an interview with any ex-president makes me bored out of my mind. I liked the Clooney interview so I'm going to keep watching this if the guests are good.

Just when I thought Letterman's show couldn't get any worse, his latest episode features CIA concoction Malala Yousafzai, presented without irony. You would think a Nobel Peace Prize winner would be a source of national pride. Try telling that to citizens of Pakistan and specifically Swat Valley where she supposedly comes from. Nobody believes the official story over there because its timeline doesn't add up when you investigate it. This girl was thrust in front of Western cameras, already quite rehearsed on how to comport herself and what to say, Her rhetoric consists of blandly humanitarian appeals to Western values like providing education for women. The "Taliban" (whatever they are nowadays) play the bad guys in this scripted scenario, because it makes average Americans say to themselves "Taliban? Oh yeah, those guys who did 9/11. How dare they shoot a young girl in the head just because she wants to go to school!" An average Joe American would come away from the Malala story with renewed support for his country's imperialism overseas committed in the name of "humanitarianism" and "democracy". It is worth noting that Malala received her Nobel in the same era as Obama won one undeservedly after only a few months in office. Peace Prize committee head Thorbjorn Jagland became the first head of the committee to be terminated because the Prize's global integrity was seriously called into question during those years. It is not surprising a Malala Yousafzai with her fake narrative was allowed to take home the same prize as warmonger Obama. Here is a good rule of thumb: if someone is endorsed by Madonna or Oprah Winfrey, you can bet they are probably full of shit.