Obama Just Blasted FOX For Creating Fictional Obama To Make Trump Fans Hate Him

[DonViejo]

By Lou Colagiovanni

The era of the Barack Obama presidency is, unfortunately, coming to a close. While President Obama serves out the twilight of his administration, he is no longer pulling punches and has lifted the veil to share what he truly thinks about the conservative media.

Obama had a spirited interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates from The Atlantic, who is one the most renowned black intellectuals working today. Coates recently won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. During the conversation, Obama launched into a blistering explanation describing a “fictional” variation of him that had been created right-wing media pundits. Obama said:

In 2008 I was never subjected to the kind of concentrated vilification of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, the whole conservative-media ecosystem, and so as a consequence, even for my first two years as a senator I was polling at 70 percent,” Obama said.

They weren’t seeing some image of me as trying to take away their stuff and give it to black people, and coddle criminals, and all the stereotypes of not just African American politicians but liberal politicians. You started to see that kind of prism being established towards the end of the 2008 race, particularly once Sarah Palin was the nominee. And obviously almost immediately after I was elected, it was deployed in full force. And it had an impact in terms of how a large portion of white voters would see me.

Never before in the history of American politics has an individual been so vilified as Obama and routinely blamed for all of the ills surrounding the nation. This is particularly true regarding instances to which Obama had no hand or influence as he was not president at the time.

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[pbmus]

1. Faux news has purposely abused the public thru misinformation

And exaggerations aimed at destroying credibility....

They are another enemy of the state...

[dreamland]

2. Obama's legacy is at stake here

History is written by the victors. The American people need to be reminded of all the great things he's done and how the media has framed him, in so many ways. We mustn't let them win this one.

[pnwmom]

3. I think Hillary was vilified as much. So was Bill, but some people

would excuse that on the basis of his misbehaviors.

Hillary, OTOH, never did anything wrong -- like Obama. But she was vilified for being an uppity woman, just as he was vilified for being an uppity black person.