Posted on 04/02/2010 12:54:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
In an interview with Harry Smith on CBS' "Early Show" Friday morning, President Obama called out Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh as purveyors of "vitriol" - creating a climate in which he's called a "socialist" and even a "Nazi."
Smith asked the president if he was "aware of the level of enmity that crosses the airwaves and that people have made part of their daily conversation about you." Obama replied, "When you've listened to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck it's pretty apparent." The rancor is "troublesome," he said, but he acknowledged it's also a recurring phenomenon.
"Keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of - this kind of vitriol comes out," he said. "It happens often when you've got an economy that is making people more anxious and people are feeling that there's a lot of change that needs to take place. But that's not the vast majority of Americans."
Walking with Smith on the grounds of the White House, the president said that he is "concerned about a political climate in which the other side is demonized" and that "everybody has a responsibility, Democrats or Republicans, to tone down some of this rhetoric." What's different about today, Obama suggested, is the way overheated rhetoric has moved into the mainstream.
"It used to be that somebody who said something crazy, they might be saying it to their next-door neighbor, or it might be on some, you know, late-night AM station at the very end of the radio dial."
Asked by Smith if the name-calling bothers him, Obama replied that all presidents develop a "pretty thick skin." Still, he added that he hopes that Americans will start to lose their taste for vitriol.
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Definitely troublesome for O. He can’t handle the truth.
CBS should lose its broadcasting license for producing propaganda.
Leftists have been doing this for 50 years, but they get all mad when conservatives do the same thing they do.
0bama blames Beck and Limbaugh for the political unrest? This guy is more narcissistic than I thought!!
Yeah--he's right. The first period of "vitriol" ended in the American Revolution, as I recall.
I am hoping he ain’t seen nothin’ yet.....
I thought dissent was patriotic? Didn’t Nancy say so?
I bet he throws tantrums when there’s no cameras around.
Obama’s head would have exploded if Smith had come back with, “Well Olberman and Maddow, etc., said a lot worse about Bush, but no prominent Democrats objected.”
Matter of fact, President Obama creates a troublesome climate himself. He doesn’t listen to anybody.
How Hugo of him.
If Harry Smith was really a journalist, he’d have asked Bambi why it might be that Limbaugh and Beck consider him a socialist, and is he in fact a socialist (or not), and whatever he answered to those questions, he’d have held his feet to the fire and make him back his answers up.
But, of course, Harry Smith is NOT a journalist, he’s a propagandist working for the White House.
The truth simply is not important to these people.
Yep. He is one angry man. And IF elections are held this November and the Houses of Congress are majority Republican seats, he won’t be able to keep it under control.
Obama has the personality of a dictator, and a nasty one, at that.
The similarities are troubling.
And even better if he'd said that and followed up with: And President Bush never called out those private citizens.
It’s called the ‘opposition’. If you insist on passing yourself off as a politician, deal with it!!
Last I heard this was a TWO party system.
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A President who mocks and taunts Americans, who incites his followers to be confrontational, is troublesome.
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