We Need Chris Farley and His Interviewing Skills to Bring Perspective Back to Obama

Anyone who can remember the late Chris Farley and one of the more popular skits on Saturday Night Live, called "The Chris Farley Show" - Where his character was a simple, unassuming oaf ,whose one-dimensional interviewing style was applied, in sit-downs with some of the more popular people of the time.  Sometimes, even cultural icons like Sir Paul McCartney were subject to a line of questioning that would start with a piercing inquiry, such as:  "Do you remember when you were with the Beatles?"  For those not familiar with these skits or if you just want to laugh all over again...they can be seen here.

If only Chris Farley were still with us.  If he could score an interview with the President.  It could be the last, best hope to flick on some kind of light, within the President, that might just give him a proper perspective on things.  Especially, as it pertains to what is more widely being viewed and now sticking to him...as his own Katrina.  The Gulf Oil Spill disaster.

Imagine Chris Farley sitting with President Obama. If Farley's interviewing style were true to form, it would probably go something like this:

Farley:  Um...Hello and welcome to the Show.Tonight we have The President O...Um President of the United States, Barack Obama.  Hey, Mr. President.

Obama:  Hi Chris.  Nice to be here.

Farley:  Uh...yeah...oh thanks.  It's good...ah...we'll go to the questions.  Uh...remember when you were president and like...um...when all the Health Care stuff was going on and you were always telling us how good it would be for us?  And you were like...on TV all the time and doin' interviews and it seemed like you were always on TV and how you were traveling all around the country and stuff all the time...givin' speeches about health care and even though it was, um...like sooo huge, like....2000 pages or so and like...no one really knew everything that was in it...but, even though...you like...you were still everywhere all the time, telling us how good it would be and how important it was, that it got passed.  Do you remember that?

Obama:  Well...yes Chris,I remember. I was there.

Farley:  (Alternately pulling on his hair and pounding his head while saying)  Jeez!  I'm so stupid......GAWD!!

Obama:  Chris...it's okay.  You're doing fine.

Farley:  Yeah...Ah, I'm sorry.  Um...thanks, Mr. President.

Obama:  Sure Chris

Farley:  Well, Um...do you remember the oil spill, in like...the Gulf and stuff?

Obama:  Why...yes Chris.  It only happened just over a month ago.

Farley:  Oh yeah.  That was awesome.  Well, you remember how even though there was so much stuff going on like, the wars and unemployment and terrorists trying to bomb us and stuff and all kinds of things but...like you were like all about the Health Care plan and like...it seemed that all you were focused on was getting it passed cuz you were like...it was all good for us and stuff?  You remember that?

Obama:  Well, I guess.... 

Farley:  Yeah...Um...right.  Well...ah...how come you haven't been doing the same thing with the oil spill that you did with Health Care?

So perfect in its simplicity.  Bumbling and scattered, maybe.  But laser-like in its ability to shed all the media fawning and political bullcrap and get right to the point.  Oprah, Stephanopolous, Steve Croft, Diane Sawyer?  Forget all of them.  If only Chris Farley were still here today.  Perhaps he would help, to put everything in its proper perspective, for the President.  And, for the rest of us, as well.