Just when you thought that our president couldn’t get any better, we find out that President Barack Obama is a fan of The Wire. Of course as our nation’s leader, during his conversation with The Wire creator, David Simon, Mr. President kept some things strictly political. The two discussed the need to reduce the incarceration of nonviolent drug offenders and steps to make cities across the country safer.

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After claiming that the show was “pieces of art,” Obama also stated that people looking for solutions to the drug war need to “humanize what so often, on the local news, is just a bunch of shadowy characters and tell their stories.” He adds on the HBO series to Simon, “that’s where the work you’ve done has been so important.”

First, hip hop now The Wire … what’s next O?

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