MALIA OBAMA, WENT TO LOLLAPALOOZA, A MUSIC FESTIVAL
A FEW MONTHS AGO.
WHILE SHE WAS THERE SHE DID WHAT ANYONE HER AGE, SHE IS 18
YEARS OLD, WOULD DO AND SHE'S GETTING CRITICIZED FOR IT.
A NUMBER OF VIDEOS AND IMAGES HAVE POPPED UP ON CONSERVATIVE
NEWS SITES CRITICIZING HER FOR DANCING IN A SEXY WAY AND ALSO
FOR ALLEGEDLY SMOKING.
THIS VIDEO SURFACED AND PEOPLE ARE ALLEGING THAT SHE WAS
SMOKING MARIJUANA, SOME THINK SHE MIGHT'VE BEEN SMOKING A
CIGARETTE.
I AM THINKING THAT IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE VIDEO.
SO, THAT'S THE MOMENT OF THE VIDEO THAT EVERYONE IS
APPARENTLY TALKING ABOUT.
YOU CAN'T REALLY TELL WHAT IT IS.
ALL THESE CONSERVATIVE SITES ARE LIKE, I GUESS SHE IS NOT THAT
ALL-AMERICAN GOOD GIRL AFTER ALL.
FIRST OF ALL, THE BUSH DAUGHTERS WERE PARTY ANIMALS AND THEY
GOT CRITICIZED IN THE MEDIA FOR IT.
I THOUGHT IT WAS RIDICULOUS.
WHO CARES, THEY ARE YOUNG WOMEN HAVING FUN, ENJOYING LIFE, LET
THEM LIVE.
THEY ARE NOT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
YOU WANT TO HOLD THE LEADER OF THIS COUNTRY AT A HIGH STANDARD.
I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU ARE COMING FROM.
BUT WHY ARE YOU ATTACKING THE TEENAGE DAUGHTERS OF THE
PRESIDENT?
SHE'S NOT DOING ANYTHING THAT OTHER PEOPLE HER AGE ARE NOT
DOING AS WELL.
>>YES, SHE'S GUILTY OF BEING A TEENAGER.
REALLY?
THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE ARE UPSET ABOUT?
I WAS READING SOME OF THE COMMENTS ON FACEBOOK.
SOME OF THEM WERE VICIOUS.
I WENT ON SOME OF THEIR PAGES, AND THESE WERE MIDDLE-AGED
PEOPLE, SOME OF THEM PARENTS, AND I'M THINKING SO YOU ARE
SPENDING YOUR TIME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY BASHING AN
18-YEAR-OLD.
THAT SAYS MORE ABOUT YOU THEN MALIA OBAMA.
>> BUT IT'S MORE POLITICALLY MOTIVATED.
IT'S THIS WHOLE NOTION THAT WE HAVE A BLACK PRESIDENT.
THEY THINK BLACK PEOPLE ARE THUGS OR WHATEVER, AND SO THEY
SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND THEY USE IT FOR THEIR FODDER.
IT MAKES ME FREAKING INSANE.
HERE'S THE THING, YOUR DAUGHTER, YOUR SON, WATCHING PORN,
SMOKING WEED, DANCING SEXY AT THESE MUSIC FESTIVALS ACTING
LIKE MOST PEOPLE THEIR AGE ACT.
I'M NOT SAYING OH MY GOD, DRUG USE IS GREAT.
BUT HERE'S THE THING, THERE WAS A RECENT ANALYSIS ON THE
NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT SMOKE WEED REGULARLY AND THE NUMBERS
JUMPED CONSIDERABLY BECAUSE PEOPLE FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE
COMING OUT AND TALKING ABOUT THEIR WEED USE.
IT'S WAY LESS DANGEROUS THAN ALCOHOL AND PEOPLE TALK ABOUT
GETTING DRUNK ALL THE TIME AS IF IT IS FINE.
>>LET ME SAY, RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU DID NOT SMOKE A JOINT WHEN
YOU WERE 18.
IF YOU DID NOT, RAISE YOUR HAND.
>>I DIDN'T SMOKE UNTIL I WAS IN MY MID-20S BUT STILL.
>>I WILL BREAK IT DOWN A STEP FURTHER.
HER FINGERS WERE LIKE THIS, AS SMALL AS IT WAS, IF IT WAS A
JOINT SHE WOULD HAVE TO HOLD IT DIFFERENTLY.
>>THAT MAKES IT WORSE.
>> IF YOU ARE SMOKING A JOINT YOU HOLD IT LIKE THIS,
ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S THAT SMALL.
>>IS THAT YOUR EXPERIENCE SMOKING?
>> IT IS.
AND IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DR.
ON HAS SAID THAT I AM
MEDICALLY CLEARED TO HAVE THAT.
>>SAME HERE.
>> I'M JUST SAYING, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT SHE'S DOING, SHE'S
18 YEARS OLD.
BUT DANCING SEXY.
>>SHE WAS TWERKING.
IT'S SUCH A JOKE THAT PEOPLE ARE UPSET ABOUT THIS.
>> PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DANCING LIKE THAT SINCE 1992 WITH THE 69
BOYS.
SHE WASN'T GYRATING ON A GUY OR ANYTHING.
>>AND IF SHE DID, WHO CARES.
I CAN'T IMAGINE IF THERE WAS A CAMERA ON ME EVERY DAY WHEN I
WAS A TEENAGER.
>> I SAY THIS ABOUT CELEBRITIES ALL THE TIME.
PEOPLE ARE QUICK TO PULL OUT CAMERA PHONES NOW, BUT 20
YEARS AGO WE DID NOT HAVE CAMERA PHONES.
THINK ABOUT WHEN THE RAT PACK WAS GOING ON.
CAN YOU IMAGINE IF YOU HAD CAMERAS AROUND?
FRANK SINATRA AND DEAN MARTIN AND ALL THESE GUYS AND THE
STUFF THEY USED TO GET INTO.
>> WASN'T THE PRESIDENT MESSING AROUND WITH MARILYN MONROE?
WASN'T HE OPENLY HAVING SEX WITH HER?
I'M JUST SAYING.
THEY ARE TWO CONSENTING ADULTS, DO YOU.
WE JUST DID A STORY ABOUT A FORMER BOULDER COLORADO
UNIVERSITY STUDENT WHO GOT CONVICTED OF RAPE.
I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF THESE CONSERVATIVE PUBLICATIONS ARE
OUTRAGED ABOUT THAT.
I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE CRITICIZING THE FACT THAT THAT
GUY DIDN'T GET ANY PRISON TIME AS PART OF HIS SENTENCE, EVEN
THOUGH HE'S A CONVICTED RAPIST.
IF YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT SOCIETAL ILLS AND THINGS TO THAT
ACTUALLY DAMAGE PEOPLE THEN YOU WOULD BE OUTRAGED ABOUT THAT.
YOU WOULDN'T BE OUTRAGED ABOUT WHAT MALIA OBAMA IS DOING AT
LOLLAPALOOZA.
>>TAKE YOUR PITCHFORKS OUT FOR STUFF LIKE THAT, NOT THIS.
>> AND SHE GOT ACCEPTED TO HARVARD.
WHAT SCHOOLS ARE YOUR KIDS GOING TO?
>>THE FIRST THING THEY WILL SAY IS OF COURSE YOU GET ACCEPTED
TO HARVARD, IT'S THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER.
HOW ABOUT YOU FOCUS ON YOUR OWN KIDS AND TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT
THE GIGANTIC GLASS HOUSE THAT YOU'RE LIVING IN.
>> I'M CURIOUS AS TO WHAT THE OBAMA'S, THE PARENTS, THINK OF
IT.
I DON'T THINK THEY NEED A VIDEO TO KNOW WHAT SHE IS UP TO.
A LOT OF PARENTS KNOW WHEN THEIR KIDS ARE SMOKING IN THE FIRST
PLACE.
SO THEY GET BEYOND IT.
BUT I WONDER AS FAR AS HIS POLICY, AND HE'S DOING A LOT
OF PARDONS FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE IN PRISON FOR NONVIOLENT
OFFENSES, LIKE WEED OR POSSESSION.
I FEEL LIKE HIS MINDSET IS PROBABLY ON THAT BUT HE'S LIKE
I AM STILL KEPT IN THIS BOX BECAUSE I AM THE PRESIDENT.
IS IT GOING TO FINALLY GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE SAY YOU
KNOW WHAT, MY DAUGHTER SMOKED.
ALL THIS STUFF HAPPENS AND AT WHAT POINT ARE WE GOING TO SAY
IT DOESN'T MATTER?
YES, MY DAUGHTER DOES ALL THIS, BUT SHE GOES TO HARVARD, AND
SHE'S SMART.
>>SHE'S NOT HURTING ANYBODY.
>>HE SHOULD MAKE AN EXAMPLE OF HOW FINE IT IS AND LET'S GET
BEYOND IT.
LET IT GO.
>>YOU WANT HIM TO ADDRESS IT?
>>YOU HAVE TO, BUT WHEN CLINTON CAME OUT ñ
OR WHEN OBAMA SAID HE CAME OUT AND SMOKED WEED WHEN HE WAS 20.
SO, AS WELL AS MY DAUGHTER DOES.