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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One of the young Black “homeless” girls who was rescued from a flooded area in Houston today was interviewed on TV. She talked about “losing her cell phone” but not much else. I would suspect that it was an Obama phone and our tax dollars will be paying for a replacement very soon.
Soon the Interwebs will be safe from dissent. The only two places left will be Fox News and talk radio, but the internment camps are ready to go.
Why use a Constitutional weapon on someone who does not feel bound by the Constitution?
At some point we need to remove this cancer.
He is losing it..
Because he said what he did, I would bet within six months or less, he will write orders that will result in trying to shut down how Fox reports news and those rules will apply to any political speech on the TV and on the web.
Do you think that is ridiculous and he could never do it? Well, I used to think that about numerous other freedoms we HAD that we don't have now. Evil abides in his DNA.
Agreed, with this turkey I wouldn’t rule out him doing anything.
Obama controls all but FOX and he expects the GOP to control Fox like he does his media... He’s a sick puppy.
that sure is going to be one large re-edumacation camp.
The RINO leadership is also a threat to liberty because they are enabling all that he is doing.
They’re awake, they’re just on the other side.
The fools in the media are the target of his next takeover. They will tow the line or all he** will break loose when he throws one of his temper tantrums. It isn’t enough that they have been in the tank for him for the past 6 years or so - no - he wants total control. Even though he never held a job in his life - this dictator wannabe wants to control everything and everybody. Lands, how I loathe this POS.
And, just who is going to impeach him? The GOP controlled Senate? What a joke!
You nailed it Sir.
That says it all. LOL
Seems like a natural thing to worry about from an illegal alien dictator worried about his marxist legacy as President of the USA.
Ironically, (cynically?) one of the first things homobama did upon becoming the fence post turtle of the United States was to hire thousands of new IRS agents tasked to investigate waitresses and punish them for underreporting tips.
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