Obama Supports Conan, According to Conan

The melee continues at NBC, where late-night hosts continue to slam each other and the network as executives try to rearrange the late-night line-up. No one’s happy, least of all being Conan O’Brien, who was asked last week to bump his Tonight Show to midnight to accommodate a half-hour program hosted by Leno at 11:35. Conan said Tuesday he wouldn’t do it.

But now Conan’s got support, or at least he created high-level support for himself and his staff. In a bit on last night’s show, Conan showed a CNN interview featuring President Obama praising him as a "good friend" and “stalwart champion.” At the bottom of the screen, the caption read “President Obama stands firm: I’m on team Coco.”

To be clear, folks, this is fake stuff, typical late-night fodder. President Obama didn’t endorse Conan. The footage was taken from a CNN interview with Obama talking about Harry Reid, excusing his controversial comments on race and defending the man he said has always been “on the right side of history.”

Question still is, will Obama actually throw his vote behind one of the hosts?

Watch the clip here.