One of my favorite parts of the late night talk show “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” is a segment that is called, “Slow Jam the News.” During this segment, Jimmy talk / sings the news while the house band (The Roots) plays an excellent backing melody. I have to say that if I am going to hear that the economy is in turmoil, I would rather hear about it while it is being slow jammed.

Much to my surprise, one of the biggest news events of the last events (the problem with student loans and their interest rate possibly going up drastically) was slow jammed by none other than one of the principal players involved in keeping the student loans affordable — the President of the United States. The roof of Rockefeller might have just about blown off from the applause that hit the stage after Jimmy announced that there was going to be a special guest and the President walked out.

By the next day, there were so many people talking about how terrific it was that we have a President that talks to The People, as it were, in such a modest manner. Then again, there were also a fair share of haters including (predictably) Fox News, which referred to the President’s appearance as lowering the status of the office and to use their word, nutso. I believe that more nutso than slow jamming actual news is lying and trying to falsify the news — over and over again.

If anything, I think that it is fantastic that we have a sitting President that makes appearances on shows such as Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and communicates directly with the concerned citizens rather than through intermediary messengers. I feel that it shows that the President actually cares enough about the people in this country to look them directly in the eye without hiding behind cameras and Secret Service people and the Vice President (not meant to refer to any past president, of course) and to assure them of the meaning behind what he is trying to do in this country.

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  1. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
    David W. Boles says:

    It was odd to see such a negative reaction from The Right — to such a great and warm President doing his thing to connect with us in a real and genuine way. We need more of that from our leaders, not less!

    1. Most certainly, David. I think it comes down to opposing anything the President does, even if they would ordinarily agree with it. If he stated that capitalism was the best thing since sliced bread, they would denounce that as well!

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