Obama Goes On Comedy Show For Big Laughs: Stiffnecked ABC reporter Asks if Appearance on Comedy Show 'Damaged' Presidency

President Obama on the comedy show "Funny or Die."

Reporters like Jim Avila won't touch the discrepancies in the FBI's Boston Bombing
story or the deliberate killing of Ukraine demonstrators by Ukraine's neo-Nazi coup
leaders - yet they fret over Obama having a few jokes on a comedy show.

By Patrick Kevin Day
President Barack Obama's appearance on Zach Galifianakis' Funny or Die Web series "Between Two Ferns" is the viral video of the day, but while your friends on Facebook may be laughing, not everyone is into the joke. Especially those on the White House press beat.

During the daily briefing with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, ABC News' Jim Avila questioned whether the appearance had damaged the "dignity" of the office of the president.

According to the political website Talking Points Memo, Avila asked, "How much discussion was there in the White House about the dignity of the office and whether or not, in order to reach these people who don't watch us at 6:30, or who don't watch this briefing." He also wondered, "how much the dignity of the office might be lost? This is an interview like no other probably ever done by a president."

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