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Thursday June 23 on a CNN special Obama & Amanpour ([link removed]) , former president Barack Obama ([link removed]) said he believes watching Fox News or listening to rightwing radio skews facts and makes “people fearful of each other.”
Obama said, “It wasn’t that long ago that I got a lot of Republican votes. It wasn’t that long ago where John McCain was the Republican nominee, and actively shut down a person at a town hall who was saying that I was an illegal alien and bent on imposing Sharia law. There is still a bunch of folks that are more politically conservative than I am on social issues on economic issues and who I consider good people and thoughtful people, I enjoy conversations with. So the polarizations that we have seen in international politics is not identical to what is happening on the ground here.”
He added, “What is true is that partly because of where people are getting their information these days, the silo wing of information, if you’re watching Fox News, or following some right-wing radio host, or getting Facebook feeds within the bubble, the reality is different than if you read the New York Times or watch your program. And such fundamentally different facts, or what they think to be facts and the worldviews are so skewed, one direction or another it’s very hard for democracy to work, and the foundation, and other work, and this kind of misinformation, not the kind that we see him engaging in, and not just during election time, but the constant demonization of the other side and making people fearful of each other.”
The hypocrisy and projection are breathtaking, aren’t they? Suggesting that Fox News is biased but CNN, the New York Times, and the antisemitic propagandist Christiane Amanpour are not takes incredible gall. Suggesting that “right-wing media” demonize the other side and make people fearful but left-wing media do not is mind-boggling gaslighting. But that’s the Democrat way.
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** Obama on America’s “Fever of Racism”
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In a November 2020 interview ([link removed]) , National Public Radio ([link removed]) host Michel Martin asked Obama to speak about the “fever of racism” that allegedly plagued the United States. “That fever, as you said, that’s been a defining feature of a lot of our life,” Obama replied, adding that many American racists had resented his presidency simply because he was the first black man to hold that office:
“I think that what did happen during my presidency was yes, a backlash among some people who felt that somehow, I symbolized the possibility that they or their group were losing status not because of anything I did, but just by virtue of the fact that I didn’t look like all the other presidents previously…. It would surprise me if you didn’t have a big cross-section of the country that was still carrying around a bunch of baggage and still a little disturbed by the advances that African Americans had made. It would surprise me if changing demographics and the growing Latino population didn’t scare a certain segment of this population, just because I know enough about American history to know that that’s always been a fault line in American history.”
In the same interview, Obama lauded the nationwide protests and riots sparked by the May 25, 2020 incident in which George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, had died shortly after a physical encounter with a white police officer in Minneapolis. Lamenting America’s intransigent “systemic injustices” in “inequities,” Obama said: “I think what happened this summer with George Floyd was so important, where you saw at least some shift in the general population in recognizing that there’s real racial bias in how our criminal laws are applied and how policing operates in this country.”
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