Posted on 05/13/2015 3:10:09 PM PDT by jazusamo
President Obama is taking heat for calling for changes in "how the media reports," during an anti-poverty event where he also took a swipe at Fox News.
At the Georgetown University discussion on Tuesday, Obama lamented how, sometimes, the poor are cast as "sponges" who don't want to work.
"I have to say that if you watch Fox News on a regular basis, it is a constant menu -- they will find folks who make me mad," Obama said. "I don't know where they find them. They're like, I don't want to work, I just want a free Obama phone or whatever. ... And very rarely do you hear an interview of a waitress -- which is much more typical -- who's raising a couple of kids and is doing everything right but still can't pay the bills."
Obama went on to call for a change in not only how GOP leaders in Congress "think" -- but how the news media cover these issues:
"We're going to have to change how our body politic thinks, which means we're going to have to change how the media reports on these issues and how people's impressions of what it's like to struggle in this economy looks like, and how budgets connect to that. And that's a hard process because that requires a much broader conversation than typically we have on the nightly news."
The remark, while perhaps an off-the-cuff moment, only revived concerns about the federal government taking an uncomfortable interest in how the media reports.
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Troof hurts.
Obama’s Marxist policies are failing. No surprise. Socialism never works.
Bump, he’s desperate.
Will be bright new day in America when Obama leaves office and is replaced by a real president who believes in God and believes in America!
He’s batting ready to take his pen out and take FOX down.
My, another example of how both he and Hillary make Richard Nixon look like a choirboy/sweetheart by comparison.
The teenager in the White House.
I guess its better than him slipping into jive - even fewer of us would be able to understand him, then.
The man is a maniacal dictator and needs to be impeached NOW! !!
Alinski rules...
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
America’s runt dictator - all thats missing are the platform shoes & Jiffy Pop hair style.
“They’re like,....”
How very 4th grade.
He’d love to take Fox down but it’s a hill to steep for him, much of the moderate to liberal media will skewer him realizing they could be next.
Absolutely.
The entire Democrat Party is in agreement with him on this — along with much of the GOP leadership.
The masses should just get their news from the Ministry of Propaganda so they will not be confused with the truth. Obama is within a hairs breath of ending free speech by censoring cable news and the Internet. I would not be surprised if he would also claim that free elections are too cumbersome. When is the RINO leadership going to wake up and see that Obama is a threat to liberty itself and start blasting these pronouncements
Yep, the RINO leadership had best wake up soon or people will help them wake up if boy _resident tries something before the elections.
Every time I a O 2008 bumper sticker, I want to slap the driver and ask just ask him if he is truly proud of his choice.
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