Posted on 01/16/2017 9:02:06 AM PST by Hojczyk
During his interview on CBS’s Sunday “60 Minutes” broadcast, President Barack Obama blamed the “corrosive nature” of talk radio and fake news for providing two of the most unpopular presidential candidates in history.
“You had two of the most unpopular presidential candidates selected by the two parties in history. Doesn’t that say something’s wrong, something serious is wrong?” host Steve Kroft asked.
Obama responded, “It indicates that there is a lot of cynicism out there. It indicates that the corrosive nature of everything from talk radio to fake news to negative advertising has made people lack confidence in a lot of our existing institutions. I think it indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we’ve got more work to do to strengthen our grassroots networks.”
“In some ways, the Democratic Party hadn’t constructed itself to get that message out to the places it needed to get to,” he continued. “The Tea Party I have huge disagreements with, obviously. But I give them credit for having activated themselves. And they made a difference in terms of moving the Republican Party, in terms of moving the country in a particular direction. It’s a direction I disagreed with. But it showed that, in fact, you get involved, if your voice is heard it has an impact.”
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Kroft and Obama don't like Hillary.
Obama is envious that the Tea Party and Talk Radio has had some success.
On the upside, Constitutional Republicanism is on the rise.
Fixed it.
He is right. We have ruined the democracy by restoring our Republic!
A prima facie statement that talk radio helped control the Demon Obama.
He’s right; talk radio is corrosive. It’s managed to corrode the corrupt monopoly enjoyed by left-wing media, and good on it for doing so.
An idiot by any other name is still an idiot. You qualify, Obama
Think it’s time to outlaw Talk Radio there Barky?
He had already bemoaned the fact that people today got their news from a variety of sources, instead of as they had in the past (from two or three networks all reporting the same news).
Yes, he actually said that.
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