Barack Obama wins Emmy for narrating national parks series

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Barack Obama is halfway to an EGOT.

The former president won an Emmy Award on Saturday to go with his two Grammys.

Obama won the best narrator Emmy for his work on the Netflix documentary series, “Our Great National Parks.”

The five-part show, which features national parks from around the globe, is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, “Higher Ground.”



FILE - Former President Barack Obama speaks during a memorial service for former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at the Smith Center in Las Vegas, Jan. 8, 2022. Obama won an Emmy Award for his work on the Netflix documentary series, "Our Great National Parks," on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)


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[Deuxcents]

1. He has not faded away.. thank you, President Obama

I really admire him. I miss him almost as much!

[ZonkerHarris]

2. What? No awards for Trump's Truths on Truth Social Life is soooo unfair to him. He'll tell you too

big baby

[Danascot]

18. Wait, you mean there's no award

for unhinged monologue?

[Historic NY]

3. You know who never has won an Emmy, the loser.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Congrats to President Barack Obama

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. How long before TFG claims that this award really should had gone to him?

Link to tweet

[Hugh_Lebowski]

12. The whole thing was rigged against me ... UNFAIR!!! (nt)

[calimary]

17. Oh, I'd say, just about any minute now.

OR he'd find some way to try to top it.

"I just won the Golden God-Emperor Award..."

[lamp_shade]

6. Awesome.

[SouthernDem4ever]

7. Congratulations to Mr. Obama

[Novara]

8. It was a really well done series

He earned this win.

[truthisfreedom]

9. Woohoo!!!

This rocks. The orange fake is feeling even faker today.

[kacekwl]

10. That was a great program.

Well deserved Mr President.

[Botany]

11. So Barack Obama has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Nobel Prize, was twice elected POTUS, ...

... has a home on Martha's Vineyard, left the personal, the protocols, and materials in place that
very well might have stopped the C-19 pandemic, loves to laugh @ himself, he is a big kid himself
in many ways and loves playing with kids, hangs out with "The Boss" aka Bruce Springsteen, a drop
dead beautiful wife who is very smart, 2 daughters who are doing good (Harvard & University of Michigan)
killed bin Laden, building a Presidential Center, library, and a park in Chicago*, likes dogs, and won his
high school team won the state championship. BTW the man he picked to be Vice President is now doing the
best job as President in my lifetime too.


* ?ssl=1

[Stallion]

16. Plus He won Both the Electoral College AND the Popular Vote Twice

...as opposed to some who lost the Popular Vote TWICE

[twodogsbarking]

13. Always a class act. Congratulations.

[yellowdogintexas]

14. That is an awesome series. If you haven't already done so

do give yourself a real treat and binge it

Listening to his voice is quite therapeutic.

[efhmc]

21. How and where do I listen to it? Thanks.

[yellowdogintexas]

22. Netflix nt

[Evolve Dammit]

15. I love the guy. And just today I was thinking how little he is recognized, period. n/t

[twodogsbarking]

19. Did Bush2 really suggest closing the parks on week-ends to save money?

[machoneman]

20. Oh, this has GOT to sting the old orange-haired fat boy, big time. Watch, he'll demand an Emmy too!