President Obama tried desperately to talk up the economy in a speech at Northwestern University on Thursday, but he still ended up denouncing his own term in office. “When nearly all the gains of the recovery have gone to the top 1 percent, I find that a little hard to swallow," he said. Doesn’t that reflect on him?
Obama made a petulant attack on Fox News for presenting Obamacare as a “fanged threat to freedom,” and then he claimed it “working pretty well in the real world.”
I have laid out my ideas to create more jobs and grow more wages. A true opposition party should have the courage to lay out theirs. There's a reason fewer Republicans are preaching doom on deficits – because they're now manageable. There's a reason fewer are running against Obamacare – because while good, affordable health care might still be a fanged threat to freedom on Fox News, it's working pretty well in the real world.
It wasn't enough for the president to slam Fox News on television. Team Obama also regurgitated that anti-Fox message on Twitter:
President Obama: While affordable health care might still be a threat to freedom on Fox News, it’s working pretty well in the real world.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 2, 2014
Now ask yourself: Did President George W. Bush ever trash a news network like that? Did he ever make a major speech and take a whack at Keith Olbermann? Republicans avoid that, because you can upset the entire liberal media with a remark like that. But Obama bashing Fox is completely acceptable, apparently.
During the fall 2000 campaign, candidate Bush was caught saying into an open mic that New York Times reporter Adam Clymer was a “major league a–hole,” and his running mate Dick Cheney answered "Big time."
ABC and NBC led off their nightly newscasts with that mini-scandal. All three networks returned to the subject the next morning. Newsweek's Howard Fineman announced on NBC's Today "there goes the newsroom vote." On CBS, Bryant Gumbel declared "Bush may have taken yet another step backwards by sticking his foot in his mouth with a vulgar comment." This from the man who had recently been caught calling social conservative Robert Knight a "f--ing idiot" on camera.
