Um... no. Obama has nothing to do with Trump.
Obama is just the part of the problem that is greater than him. GOP fecklessness fr decades, even before Odumbass came into office.
Cavuto is just pointing out that Obola has been on nearly every “reality show” there is on TV!
But yes, 0bama and his administration have set a new low bar for behavior in office, which given the past several Democrat administrations is saying something. There seems little doubt that Hillary Clinton, an integral part of the last two, has openly and shamelessly behaved quite literally in a criminal manner regarding bribery and espionage. 0bama has, as VDH cites, enforced and ignored laws in an arbitrary and partisan manner. Eric Holder has proudly made racism one of the perquisites of office. You couldn't lower the bar much more than that.
But VDH is very mistaken that the media intend to apply that lamentable lack of standards to any Republican, far less Donald Trump. Those standards will snap back to the stratospheric the second a Republican takes office, which is precisely the mirror image of VDH's complaint. A fair person could not possibly hold Trump to standards higher than 0bama. VDH is very naive to hope that the media won't.
“As Rhodes admits, it’s not that hard to shape the narrative. “All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus,” Rhodes said. “Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.””
I like VDH, but that's just nonsense. All presidents since Reagan have been paving the way for Trump by refusing to enforce immigration law, and constant increasing legal immigration, and by entering into numerous trade deals, all resulting in US factories and jobs leaving for cheap labor nations and the accompanying large increases in the trade deficit.
VDH nailed it! (Although he left my all time favorite: Voting is the best revenge!)
If not for Trump, Jeb! the presumptive Republican Nominee would be the one being interviewed by CNN.
Everything else is just noise.
To the #nevertrump folks, be careful what you think you wished for. If not for Trump you would be waiting for Jeb! to send you his secret Guacamole Recipe.
Cruz would have been eliminated from the running long before he was had Trump not been there. It would have been Jeb! 24/7 and all the Donor money would have gone with him.
Disclaimer: Former Cruzer now waiting at the Station for the Trump Train to arrive in June.