Sunday 3 May 2015

Student interrupts Obama: Sixth grader tells Obama to move along, we're hungry

A sixth grade student interrupts Obama, telling the Commander in Chief, essentially, to move it along. The twelve-year-old, in listening to Obama go on and on about writer’s block, interrupted and told Barack that “we’ve sort of covered everything about that question.” The young moderator is now an Internet sensation.
Writes the HuffPost: “President Barack Obamawas interrupted by a sixth-grader who thought his answer about writer’s block was a bit long-winded. On Thursday, Osman Yahya, a student from Bennett Middle School in Salisbury, Maryland, interviewed the president at the Anacostia Library in Washington, D.C. While Obama was answering a question about writer’s block, Yahya totally cut Obama off.”
“I think we've sort of covered everything about that question,” Yahya interrupted. In response, Obama joked, “Okay, Osman thinks I’ve been talking too long.”
Here’s video of the full exchange, and we get why Yahya stepped in. After patiently listening to the president ramble for more than three minutes about writer’s block and take feedback from the class about how to overcome it, Yahya felt his audience had heard enough.
As far as his sharp interviewing style, Yahya told The Politico: “I didn’t mean to cut him off. I was just nudging him to get on…. Adults might have been diplomatic,” he said, before adding the real reason he stepped in to wrap the interview up: “Most students were hungry.”
“I am so incredibly proud of this amazing young man,” said Yahya's principal, Liza Hastings. Proud for handling himself so well that is, not necessarily for interrupting the long-winded Obama.

No comments:

Post a Comment