President Obama Talked Comms Strategy With Marc Maron

He touched on why the podcast appearance made sense strategically.

You’ve already heard that President Barack Obama stopped by the garage of comic Marc Maron to record an episode of his popular podcast WTF last week.

The biggest related headlines so far concern Obama’s use of the “N-word,” with Politico providing a convenient, awkwardly edited clip:

Of course this was an important topic of conversation…as was the matter of last week’s horrific shootings in Charleston.

But for the purposes of this blog, we were more interested in the brief moment that the President spent discussing his PR strategy.

Essentially,

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