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YouTube Interviewer, to the American President, re: Fidel Castro: "The Guy Puts 'Dick' in 'Dictatorship'"

Matt Welch | 1.23.2015 11:02 AM

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Some people get upset or embarrassed by the U.S. president taking interviews from cultural randos like YouTube celebrity bathtub-cereal-eater GloZell. And while I understand that, and occasionally agree, I am grateful that this moment exists:

Link via the great Twitter feed of David "Iowahawk" Burge.

UPDATE: Mediaite argues that "Obama's YouTube Interviews Actually Packed a Punch."

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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