Asked about Jersey Shore star Snooki on The View, the President replied, “I don’t know who that is.”

 

But two months ago, her name was a punchline in a joke he himself told to members of the fawning news media. 

 

“Asked on The View about the popular Snooki, the president claimed he had no idea who that was,” according to the web site The Gawker. 

However, according to a video obtained by The Gawker, only a couple of months earlier he mentioned Snooki during the White House Press Correspondents Dinner as part of a comedy bit about a health care bill section tongue-and-cheekly named after the MTV reality show. 

Obama said the provision reads:  The following individuals shall be excluded from the indoor tanning tax within this bill: Snooki, JWOWW, The Situation and House minority leader John Boehner. 

“This reminds me of Hillary Clinton’s whoppers like when she claimed her daughter Chelsea was near ground zero on September 11, 2001, or when she claimed she dodged bullets in Iraq, or during her Senate run she said the New York Yankees were always her favorite team,” said political strategist Steven Harriman. 

“Personally, this flub or fib or whatever you wish to call it is a sign of Obama sharing the same dishonest streak that is pervasive with Bill and Hillary Clinton. They lie about insignificant things,” said Harriman.