After spending several weeks expressing disdain for pundits' calls for President Obama to show more emotion and outrage about the environmental disaster in the Gulf -- White House officials called it "method acting" and "theatrics" -- President Obama showed some anger in an interview to air on NBC tomorrow morning.But Greg Sargent tells me he wishes the president hadn't done this because it gives political commentators something to point to as "victory" for wanting to see more emotion about the oil leak.
"I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf," the president told Matt Lauer in a clip released this evening. "A month ago I was meeting with fishermen down there, standing in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be. And I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick."
I've spent some time with Barack Obama. On a personal level and professional. This isn't the president caving to the talking heads. This is the president being Barack. I'm glad to see some anger from him. Trust me, it's not to please the talking heads. He stands up for himself. He has his whole life. That's what he's doing here. This is nothing out of the ordinary and nothing the MSM has spun.
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