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Obama Wants the Power to Define ‘Facts’
American Thinker ^ | 7 Jul, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 07/07/2025 4:24:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The Connecticut Forum hosted Barack Obama a few weeks ago to discuss current events, and the former president took the opportunity to support government regulatory constraints for online speech. “We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts,” Obama opined in his nonchalant way of attacking the First Amendment while pretending to support it. “There is a difference between these platforms letting all voices be heard,” he continued, “versus a business model that elevates the most hateful voices, or the most polarizing voices, or the most dangerous in the sense of inciting violence.” Obama has always been a tyrant wearing a smiling celebrity’s mask.

Just who shall be empowered to determine the “facts” that will constrain public speech? Barack Obama and his fellow Marxist travelers expect to have that job. Did you know that men can have babies and that women are at risk for prostate cancer? That’s right! Those are “facts”! Did you know that Hamas terrorists who chop off Jewish babies’ heads practice a “religion of peace”? That’s a “fact,” too, and anybody who disagrees is spreading “hate”! Did you know that the Clinton-Obama-Steele Dossier confirmed President Trump’s “collusion” with Russia and that Vladimir Putin now rules from the White House? That’s a “fact”! Disgraced CIA director John Brennan and disgraced FBI director Jim Comey both said so! Did you know that we’re all going to die from global cooling…er, global warming…er, I mean, extreme weather, unless we pay more in taxes and allow powerful corporations and governments to monitor our economic transactions? That’s a scientific “fact,” man! Anybody who disagrees is a “dangerous” idiot!

The truth is that if we really followed Obama’s proposed regulatory rule in constraining online speech, most of the nonsense that Democrats and their leftist cohorts around the world

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KEYWORDS: 1984; censorship; leftism; minitru; obama

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1 posted on 07/07/2025 4:24:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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The left seems to worship the “father of lies”, but they are OK with “the greatest deceiver” too.


2 posted on 07/07/2025 4:24:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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A communist assumes their thoughts are fact, when it is obvious it’s BS.


3 posted on 07/07/2025 4:34:25 AM PDT by Mlheureux
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Well, Bambi dear, YOUR facts have always been different from OUR facts, and your idea of hate and violence has always been different than the majority of Americans...AND any definition in Webster’s.
Obama is a hateful, evil man and wannabe tyrant and is the worst mistake this country ever made.


4 posted on 07/07/2025 4:37:18 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: MtnClimber

Glad I never use x!
I imagine it’s going to be used against Trump/republicans very soon.
Just like drudge has become a daily assault against both!


5 posted on 07/07/2025 4:40:20 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than saving to WORK of !US:-)p)
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To: MtnClimber

Obama , the king OG of projection. I’m sad for the folks who keep falling for this.


6 posted on 07/07/2025 4:46:33 AM PDT by Callnote (Stacking sats, don’t have time to explain, study it for your self !)
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"..“There is a difference between these platforms letting all voices be heard,” he continued, “versus a business model that elevates the most hateful voices, or the most polarizing voices, or the most dangerous in the sense of inciting violence.”

In other words, the leftists voices. d;^)

7 posted on 07/07/2025 4:46:45 AM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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To: MtnClimber

What a blowhard.


8 posted on 07/07/2025 4:53:53 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes, of course he does.


9 posted on 07/07/2025 5:01:23 AM PDT by OKSooner (Always carry. Even if all you can handle is a .22, carry it. You might be surprised...)
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Just who shall be empowered to determine the “facts” that will constrain public speech? Barack Obama and his fellow Marxist travelers expect to have that job.

Obama confuses facts with opinion again.

10 posted on 07/07/2025 5:08:54 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: MtnClimber

Dorkbama, the Muslim eunuch quota baby of fakeness, pretending, and vapidity. Go away. Forever.


11 posted on 07/07/2025 5:13:06 AM PDT by Da Coyote (H)
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To: MtnClimber

Once a communist fascist always a communist fascist, was his message approved by Big Mike?


12 posted on 07/07/2025 5:13:27 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: MtnClimber

The fact is, Obama is a Marxist communist.

Marxist communists should not define Freedom of Speech.


13 posted on 07/07/2025 5:13:46 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: MtnClimber

Osama Obama just won’t give up trying to “Fundamentally tranform America”


14 posted on 07/07/2025 5:16:06 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (In a way ge is right as)
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Obama opined in his nonchalant way of attacking the First Amendment while pretending to support it.

Exactly.

15 posted on 07/07/2025 5:26:13 AM PDT by Lizavetta
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DOES THIS IDEA INCLUDE THE “FACTS” IN HIS ALLEGED “BIRTH CERTIFICATE”????? NOT WORTH THE PAPER IT IS WRITTEN ON.

WHERE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT WHO PAID FOR HIS EDUCATION BEFORE HE WENT TO “HARVARD”.

HOW ABOUT THE “FACTS” SURROUNDING HIS USE OF 2 DIFFERENT PASSPORTS????AND TRAVELS TO PAKISTAN, ETC.

HOW ABOUT THE FACTS SURROUNDING THE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER HE USED-—THE ONE THAT WAS ISSUED IN CONNECTICUT TO A MAN BORN IN 1896?

THE FACTS SURROUNDING HIS GRANDMOTHER”S SUDDEN ILLNESS & DEATH?

HOW ABOUT THE FACTS SURROUNDING THE BIOLOGICAL PARENTS OF THE 2 KIDS THEY CLAIMED WERE THEIRS???

THE FACTS SURROUNDING THE DROWNING OF HIS CHEF?

THE FACTS SURROUNDING HIS ACTIVITIES WITH REGGIE LOVE?

THE FACTS SURROUNDING BENGHAZI???????

THERE SEEMS TO BE PLENTY OF “FACTS” AROUND OBAMA THAT ARE FUZZY OR NON-EXISTENT.....

HOW ABOUT THE “FACTS” SURROUNDING THE DEATH OF VINCE FOSTER?

“FACTS” WITH DEMOCRATS ARE WHAT THEY DECLARE-—DIFFERENT FROM DAY TO DAY-—WEEK TO WEEK, ETC.

HE SPEAKS EASILY WITH FORKED-TONGUE.

THERE ARE ALOT MORE FUZZY OR SCRAMBLED “FACTS” WE ALL NEED MORE ANSWERS TO.

OBAMA & “FACTS” IN THE SAME SENTENCE IS A WORN OUT JOKE.


16 posted on 07/07/2025 5:36:55 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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PS- OBAMA WENT TO “OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE”—WHO PAID FOR THAT???


17 posted on 07/07/2025 5:39:36 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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“...or the most dangerous in the sense of inciting violence.”

Unless, of course, they’re inciting violence against Republicans, conservatives, Jews, Christians and other groups he/they hate.


18 posted on 07/07/2025 6:21:59 AM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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I have not ever understood why they are so frightened with open communication among the citizenry. After all, the new media is really nothing more than a “community center” of conversation in which people will treat each other the very same way they have always treated each other, historically, while conversing.

Those who wish to control others or those like Obama, who are simply the face for the controller, certainly are alarmed due to their corruption which can no longer be hidden.


19 posted on 07/07/2025 6:29:09 AM PDT by Racketeer
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“There is a difference between these platforms letting all voices be heard,” he continued, “versus a business model that elevates the most hateful voices, or the most polarizing voices, or the most dangerous in the sense of inciting violence.”

Irony wrapped in hypocrisy (and arrogance).

Has-been. *yawn*

20 posted on 07/07/2025 6:30:54 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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