Posted on 01/13/2018 6:25:15 AM PST by cq
Former President Barack Obama resurfaced on Friday and took a shot at Fox News viewers, saying they’re “living on a different planet” than people who consume mainstream media.
Obama made the remarks on the premiere of the new monthly Netflix series “My next guest needs no introduction with David Letterman,” which hit the streaming service on Friday morning. Early in the episode, Obama asked Letterman about his retirement but the veteran talk show host quickly let the former president know who was boss.
“Now here’s how this is gonna work. I’m gonna ask you stuff, and then you respond to stuff,” Letterman joked.
Letterman then asked Obama what he considers the more dangerous threat to a democracy, the president demeaning the press or a foreign power sabotaging the voting process. Both options are clearly jabs at President Trump and Obama answered without mentioning the current president’s name.
“One of the biggest challenges we have to our democracy is the degree to which we don’t share a common baseline of facts,” Obama said. "If you watch Fox News, you are living on a different planet than you are if you are listening to NPR.”
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Yes, you are correct Mr. Barack Hussein Obama. We are on Planet Earth, and you are on Uranus
At least we don’t live on Planet of the Apes.
Fox News viewers already are exposed to mainstream news in every newspaper, radio, or tv source. Somehow they can handle hearing another viewpoint than the CNN one. If Fox News is too difficult to watch, you are on a planet where you suck unquestioningly at one giant teat for your entire life.
Yeah, planet Earth.
Gosh, I guess that means we need the smarter people to take control of all the media so that we only get the real facts. Isn’t that better?
Obama knows this due to all the times he was interviewed on Fox News.
Trump says "sh*thole countries. Media decides he's talking exclusively about Haiti and African countries. Media notice high concentration of black people in these countries. Media deduces Trump does not want black people in this country. Media declares Trump racist.
Not satisfied with this "logic" or conclusion, the press then has to "take it up a notch".
Since Trump has been deemed racist, we must now confront him about his racism. Direct questions about his 'overt' racism. Speculative discussion about his ties to the KKK. Incendiary talk about a return to slavery, or worse yet, concentration camps and executions. Concentration camps and executions? Well, that sounds like Hitler. Trump is Hitler. No, wait, that doesn't sound bad enough. Trump is WORSE than Hitler.
And soon the Ministry of Disinformation that is the mainstream media begins marching in lockstep, chanting 'Trump is worse than Hitler.' Mass hysteria.
Obama and Letterman...now that’s a pair I would surely listen to.
“Common baseline of facts” that would be nice, wouldn’t it? What really angers them is so many of us realized we were not being told the truth, and have not been for many years.
I remember my father-in-law cursing at the news and calling them liars in the 1970s shortly after he got a TV at the ranch. I was young and dumb and thought he was slightly off but as it turns out he was really smart about lying news people.
I rarely watch TV at all, so when I do the propaganda, talking points- brain washing is so obvious I cannot believe everyone doesn’t notice. Many are just happy hearing what they want to hear so I guess the truth or facts don’t matter to them.
FOX News may seem radical right to the left; I don’t watch them either, they go back a forth too much for me to trust them...and no the way they go about it is not just being “fair and balanced” either.
There is no “trusted” source for a “baseline of facts” out there. I dig on my own through several sources to try to find out what is going on. Far more accurate than trusting anyone to just spoon feed it; yet at times it is impossible to track some things. Sometimes the facts trickle out over time.
I do not believe in the name calling like John Hanoi Kerry calling Vietnam veterans baby killers and war criminals then updating the name calling for Afghanistan and Iraq veterans. I do not believe in calling people racists because of skin color or religious beliefs.
I want my country back.
I don’t know which federal pen Obama’s gonna end up at but I hope they show FOX news all day long. That will be fun.
Exactly, jug ears is full of itself ...
I took that to mean that the NPR people were from a planet other than planet Earth.
reality vs fantasy + wishful thinking
He’ll be living in a different zip code soon - 66027
The great and power barrack 1% GDP has spoken.
And those manufacturing jobs aren’t coming back...
He must have heard there’s a lot of talk about shitholes on tv and figured he should go defend Kenya and Indonesia.
Welcome Obama to your favorite planet - VENEZUELA!
Welcome to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...soon.
Right, A different planet than Obama.
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