Posted on 06/16/2023 5:57:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
During an interview with CNN’s “Axe Files” podcast released on Thursday, former President Barack Obama stated that while he thinks some things get improperly labeled as “woke,” progressives do sometimes go after reporters for “asking questions that don’t fit the accepted narrative or are inconvenient for progressives” or for “pointing out facts that don’t fit the neat narrative” that progressives want to push.
Obama said, [relevant remarks begin around 47:00] “I think that we have tended, at times, on the progressive side to tip into kind of a scolding social etiquette police and virtue signaling whereby somebody doesn’t say something exactly the right way, even if we all know they kind of didn’t mean it in an offensive way, and suddenly you’ve got — partly because of social media — everybody jumping on them and saying, somehow, oh, you must be racist or sexist. I think there have been times where reporters are asking questions that don’t fit the accepted narrative or are inconvenient for progressives around certain issues and just by raising the question or pointing out facts that don’t fit the neat narrative, we’ll jump on them and say, why are you aiding those who are attacking us?”
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Your speech is hate and violence… our speech is polite social etiquette…
Get bent.
Hey Barack—how is James Rosen doing? Or maybe Sharyl Attkisson?
The man who allowed Biden’s crooked schemes to continue. I wonder what hidden crimes Osama Obama committed whilst in the White Hut?
Moving to the center to make way for Big Mike
Most of what we are hearing about Biden’s corruption happened while he was VP. What did Barry know, and when did he know it? If he knew, how much was his cut? Would a normal person think “the big guy” was the VP, or the POTUS?
We have tended, at times, on the progressive side to tip into kind of a scolding social etiquette police.
Trying to cover up for the few in the media who gets the truth out and he has no way to kill it.
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