Even Lincoln Would Have Made a Viral Video

Jeff Greenfield notes that Bill O’Reilly attacked President Obama for appearing on the viral video show Between Two Ferns, saying the Abraham Lincoln wouldn’t stoop so low. But he says history proves the opposite.

“What presidents do–what almost all politicians do–is use whatever method of communication gives then the best chance to connect with the citizenry. Methods–and standards–change over the decades: Lincoln would have understood a ‘website’ to mean a home for spiders–but the attraction of “unconventional” means of communication is a constant.”