Millions of people watched Barbara Walters swoon over President-Elect Obama. Apparently, the producers of the show decided that portions of the interview should not be televised. Fortunately, PRS Operatives managed to obtain those omitted portions. They appear following Ms. Walters’ interview of President-Elect Obama.

Intro: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am bwoadcasting tonight from the Office of the Pwesident-Elect. My vewy special guest, or I should say, guests tonight are Pwesident-Elect Obama and his lovely wife Michelle Obama.

BW: Good evening Mr. Pwesident-Elect. It’s an honor to meet you.

BHO: My pleasure, Barbara. Please call me Barack.

BW: Oh my, how gwacious of you! OK, then “Bawack” it is!

[snip]
BW: Duwing the campaign, you were cwiticized by wepublicans for lacking foweign policy cwedentials. How do you wespond to those cwiticisms now that you’ve won the election?

BHO: Typical right-wing bullshit is what it was. They can kiss my black ass!

BW: Maybe we should take a bweak now. Stop the tape.

BHO: Good. I need a goddamned smoke.
[snip]

[snip]
BW: Tell me, Bawack. If you were a can of soup, what kind of soup would you be?

BHO: Are you shitting me?

BW: Stop the tape. No, I’m sewious, Bawack. Your opposition says that no one weally knows much about you, and I feel that this question is both entertaining and wevealing.

BHO: OK. If you say so.

BW: Roll tape. Tell me, Bawack. If you were a can of soup, what kind of soup would you be?

BHO: Fascinating question, Barbara. I believe I would be a can of black bean soup.

BW: Intewesting answer, but some might say that you are playing the wace card with that answer.

BHO: Damn, you sure are one dumbass white woman.

BW: I think it’s time for another bweak.
[snip]

[snip]
BW: Michelle, let’s turn to you. I often hear it said that you are particularly well gwounded. Would you agwee with that assessment?

MO: That is most flattering, Barbara. Thank you. I suppose it is true. I think it is important to keep things in proper perspective and not to be carried away with a celebrity thing.

BW: Actually, when I spoke of your being well gwounded, I was wefewwing to your wather large feet.

MO: My feet? How’d you like me to come up side yo head, bitch?

BW: I think another bweak is in order.
[snip]

[snip]
BW: Back to you, Bawack. Duwing the campaign, and even now, people have compared you to Jesus Chwist and Pwesident Lincoln. Is that a fair compawison?

BHO: No, it’s not fair, because people should be comparing them to me.

BW: Are you saying that you’re gweater than Jesus Chwist or Pwesident Lincoln? Isn’t that a bit of a stwetch?

BHO: Not really. You see, the problem those guys had is that they didn’t know how to use a computer.

BW: But, Bawack. There were no computers when Jesus Chwist and Pwesident Lincoln were alive.

BHO: Sucks to be them. How much longer is this shit gonna take? I need another smoke.
[snip]

I would like to share a word or two about my illustrious Waste-of-Space Congressman.

Two days after recent election, while the average slob was dragging his ass to work, wondering how he will pay his taxes, six members of the Congressional Black Caucus, along with three New York City officials and New York State Governor Paterson (no doubt fresh from attending victory parties), took time away from their busy schedules to fly off to the luxurious Sonesta Maho Beach Resort and Casino in St. Martaan, to spend four days attending the 13th annual Caribbean Multi-National Business Conference. Among those attending were Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel and my own illustrious Waste-of-Space Congressman Donald Payne.

The event, the stated purpose of which is, “promoting business relationships between some of America’s largest firms and the Caribbean’s most successful enterprises,” was sponsored by several large corporations, including IBM, AT&T, Verizon, Pfizer, Macy’s, American Airlines and Citigroup, Citigroup having recently received a big-ticket taxpayer funded bailout. The attendees were wined and dined by representatives of the corporate sponsors and by company-paid lobbyists.

While some attendees appear to have funded the trip themselves (From their congressional budgets? From their own pockets? Feh!), others, including my illustrious Waste-of-Space Congressman, had his airfare and lodging paid for.

The problem with this is that junkets such as this almost certainly violate House Ethics Rules, which forbid the acceptance of any multi-day trip that is sponsored by an organization that employs lobbyists. Representatives are supposed to complete a disclosure form with respect to attending events such as this, and the only person who submitted the requisite form was my illustrious Waste-of-Space Congressman. The problem is that the form submitted by Congressman Payne didn’t disclose the identity of any of the corporations that provided funds to run the event.

According to the filing submitted by Payne, a Democrat who represents northern New Jersey, his airfare, meals and lodging were paid for by Carib News, which spent up to $1,000 per participant.

But Payne’s disclosure didn’t list any of the corporations that gave money to Carib News[***] for the trip, even though their banners were prominently displayed behind a podium in the conference room of the hotel, listed on the glossy program and visible on items inside a Macy’s gift bag distributed to participants.

Payne checked the “No” box next to the question on whether the travel was being sponsored by “an entity that employs a lobbyist.” If Payne had disclosed the corporate sponsors, the trip might not have been permitted by the House Ethics Committee.

Kerry McKenney, a spokeswoman for Payne, told The Post: “It was our understanding that the trip was sponsored by the Carib News Foundation. We are unaware of any corporate sponsors.”

The screaming arrogance of these sumbitches slays me, but, in the case of Donald Payne, it doesn’t surprise me. Why should he worry one whit about what his constituents think, when last month he was again elected, without opposition? New Jersey Republicans know that running against Donald Payne in his gerrymandered district is a waste of time.

Then there is Charlie Rangel, who never passes up an opportunity to rub his constituents’ noses in the dirt and, like New Jersey voters, they eat it up and, every two years vote for more of the same.

The One campaigned relentlessly on the promise to curb the influence of eeeevil corporate lobbyists in Washington. Assuming he really meant it (Yeah, I know), I suggest that a good place for him to start would be by having a word or two with the Congressional Black Caucus.

I’m sure he’ll get right on that.

***The Carib News Foundation claims to be a non-profit organization, which can lawfully sponsor such trips, but, according to an IRS representative, as reported by the New York Post, there is no record of the Carib News Foundation being such an entity. It appears to be a slapdash attempt to evade the ethics rules.

h/t lawhawk