President Obama discusses the ever-important issue of Jessica Simpson’s weight on Today this morning. Via Gateway Pundit:

LAUER: And here’s a great picture —
OBAMA: Oh, it’s beautiful.
LAUER: — of — of you and — and Michelle and — and your daughters. Now, the — the reason I bring this up I think is funny. It’s a great picture.
OBAMA: Yeah.
LAUER: But I wanna show you the cover. Look what they did. They — they took you off the cover.
OBAMA: Yeah.
LAUER: They took you out of it.
OBAMA: It — it’s — it’s a little hurtful.
LAUER: You got replaced by Jessica Simpson.
OBAMA: Yeah, who’s losing a weight battle apparently. (LAUGHTER) Yeah. Oh, well.

Matt Lauer is holding up a copy of Us Weekly, a magazine we’ve identified before as an Obama surrogate. The president should be speaking out against covers like this one on Simpson, not making jokes about it. We’ll see if Obama goes after his good buddy Jann Wenner, but I doubt it.