Michelle Obama to be a guest host on `The View' (June 18)

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NEW YORK - Michelle Obama will be a guest host on "The View" on June 18. The popular ABC daytime talk show had invited her to be a guest this month, but she sent back word that she would like to be a host like Cindy McCain did in April, said Bill Geddie, the show's executive producer.

"Equal time — that's hard to argue with," he said Wednesday.

Being a guest host will allow Michelle Obama to help interview guests and participate in the opening "hot topics," or banter about what's in the news that day. It offers the chance for someone to show a more complete personality than just sitting for an interview and talking about themselves, Geddie said.

Michelle Obama was injected into the campaign when the Tennessee Republican Party posted an online video questioning her patriotism. That prompted her husband, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, to say political opponents should lay off his wife.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080604/ap_en_tv/tv_the_view_michelle_obama

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1. Wonder what that silly goof...

Elizabeth Hasslebeck will say? I'll have to watch that one!

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2. Yeah. I'm nervous for her! She seemed shy on Colbert's show!