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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Dead on the mark.
First his two strumpets, Boner and McConnell have to be removed from their leadership positions. Then we can push impeachment. They are his two enablers.
There won’t be “re-education”....only death.
They will be death camps.
As a triage interviewer at a local food/clothing/etc. bank I talk with people like this all the time.
I just want a free Obama phone or whatever.
I cannot supply a phone. But I've had people insist I access the Internet and find them a place where they can get an obamaphone.
I still get a Top Bunk,Right?
How about a call to change our government?
Will I live to hear it from someone with a real pair at the podium?
Can Thought Crimes be far off? Hillary said the same thing about people with faith: “It just has to stop!”
If it was an Obamaphone she would have several, not just one...
LOL. How true.
Remember, though; public speakers are taught to speak at the level of their intended audience (Democrats, in this case), so they don't appear to be speaking down to them, and so the intended audience will be more likely to understand.
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