There Is No Way President Obama Smoked A Cigarette With Billy Joel

Posted by | November 26, 2014 16:30 | Filed under: Contributors Opinion Politics Tommy Christopher Top Stories

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President Obama’s former smoking habit has reared its head again in the form of media reports that he copped a smoke with pop legend Billy Joel during a White House visit last year. The right-wing media has eagerly repeated the tale, but it all started on Judy Kurtz’s The Hill blog, In The Know:

According to our tipster, the 65-year-old entertainer said, “I was at the White House recently, and President Obama did the same thing. He said, ‘I’m going out on the North Portico to have a smoke. Do you want to come with me?”

Joel said he replied, “Well, I haven’t smoked in a long time,” but indicated that he ultimately couldn’t turn down a cigarette offer from the president.

Billy Joel was at the White House last December for a Kennedy Center Honors ceremony, but Joel has since told the New York Daily News that President Obama did not offer him a smoke, which is just what you’d expect one guy on the wagon to say about another guy on the wagon. Fortunately for President Obama and Mr. Joel, the mysterious tipster’s story doesn’t add up in several key respects.

Most glaringly, there’s no way President Obama, or anyone else, would smoke a cigarette at the North Portico, because…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

16 responses to There Is No Way President Obama Smoked A Cigarette With Billy Joel

  1. Carla Akins November 26th, 2014 at 16:41

    OMG, the President may have engaged in a perfectly legal activity?! The horror!

  2. Carla Akins November 26th, 2014 at 17:41

    OMG, the President may have engaged in a perfectly legal activity?! The horror!

  3. tracey marie November 26th, 2014 at 16:59

    So what!

  4. tracey marie November 26th, 2014 at 17:59

    So what!

  5. neworleans878 November 26th, 2014 at 17:03

    How the man quits smoking while presiding over the free world and dealing with the R.W.is far beyond me.

    Like the man or not, one has to respect him for that. As a 40 year smoker who’s been clean for 10 months, I know how hard this habit is to quit.

  6. nola878 November 26th, 2014 at 18:03

    How the man quits smoking while presiding over the free world and dealing with the R.W.is far beyond me.

    Like the man or not, one has to respect him for that. As a 40 year smoker who’s been clean for 10 months, I know how hard this habit is to quit.

  7. Obewon November 26th, 2014 at 21:05

    Ok so maybe it was a joint. After all pot is now legal in D.C. Even St. Reagan admitted to smoking Pot. And what about stoner Perry: “What was the third thing?.Ugh..ugh..?”

  8. Obewon November 26th, 2014 at 22:05

    Ok so maybe it was a joint. After all pot is now legal in D.C. Even St. Reagan admitted to smoking Pot. And what about stoner Perry: “What was the third thing?.Ugh..ugh..?”

  9. Hirightnow November 26th, 2014 at 21:46

    WINSTONGATE!

    • FrankenPC . November 26th, 2014 at 23:05

      RAWRR! I bet he purchased those cigarettes with TAX PAYER MONEY! The president’s doing drugs with OUR MONEY! WARRGARBLE!!!

  10. Hirightnow November 26th, 2014 at 22:46

    WINSTONGATE!

    • FrankenPC . November 27th, 2014 at 00:05

      RAWRR! I bet he purchased those cigarettes with TAX PAYER MONEY! The president’s doing drugs with OUR MONEY! WARRGARBLE!!!

  11. Carolina Trucker November 27th, 2014 at 21:18

    The real story here is that Billy Joel’s soft rock sucks. I like Outlaw Country from drunken hell raising Honky Tonk Cowboys and former inmates and I like Hard classic and southern rock from dope smoking rebels. That’s real music. Billy Joel and Barry Manilow can go fuck each other. Lol

  12. Carolina Trucker November 27th, 2014 at 22:18

    The real story here is that Billy Joel’s soft rock sucks. I like Outlaw Country from drunken hell raising Honky Tonk Cowboys and former inmates and I like Hard classic and southern rock from dope smoking rebels. That’s real music. Billy Joel and Barry Manilow can go fuck each other. Lol

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