Who better to interview Michelle Obama than CBS’s Gayle King? After all, the CBS This Morning host is a Democratic donor (including thousands to Barack Obama). She’s a close friend of the Obamas and even vacationed with the couple in 2017. So on Saturday, it shouldn't be surprising that the powerful journalist agreed that Barack Obama was scandal-free.

King conducted an hour-long interview with the former First Lady at the Essence Festival in New Orleans. Mrs. Obama complained about having to go to Donald Trump’s inauguration and the preceding eight years in the White House: “Watching my husband get raked over the coals, feeling like we had to do everything perfectly. You know, no scandal, no nothing.”

King eagerly agreed, “No scandals. Yes.”

Of course, that’s simply not true. Some major scandals included: The IRS targeting the Tea Party, the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal, the terrible situation at Veterans Affairs hospitals, ObamaCare failures. That’s just a few. For more Obama scandals, see this list by the MRC’s Geoffrey Dickens. It’s not surprising that King wouldn’t remember them, they didn’t get much coverage.

Later, the co-host insisted that Trump’s reason for reversing course and “dismantling” so many Obama policies is simply because “the two of you did it.”

I wonder what it’s like for you to sit and watch everything that you and President Obama built seemingly being torn down or dismantled simply because the two of you did it. Not because there’s a better alternative sometimes, but just because it was an idea of the Obama administration.

CBS has a tangled conflict of interest with the Obamas, King and good friend Oprah Winfrey. In addition to vacationing with the Obamas and donating to them, Winfrey was chosen to kick off the media campaign for Mrs. Obama’s book. This was December of 2011, after CBS contributor Winfrey briefly left that position to campaign for Democrat Stacey Abrams. On November 1, 2018, This Morning guest host Nancy Cordes announced, “We should note Oprah has been a part-time CBS News contributor for 60 Minutes, but she is stepping away from that role while she campaigns.”

That didn’t last. In November, Winfrey and King donated 22 minutes to promoting the former First Lady’s book.

On Monday, King previewed some of her Essence interview with Mrs. Obama by gushing, “She is so beloved when she walks around the street. People were saying, ‘We miss you. We miss you. We miss you.’”

When it comes to King’s intertwined relationship with powerful Democrats, CBS doesn’t even bother with objectivity anymore.

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