Obama rips Fox News viewers: ‘You are living on a different planet’

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We are! Except for my being better looking than Obama,that’s a fact!😌
 
Because Clinton got away with so much corruption and she had the nerve to go on a book tour and promote a stupid book called What Happened!
 
I agree that Fox viewers are on a different planet from those who listen to NPR. I have done both, at different times in my life. In my opinion both are pretty openly biased toward their viewpoint - maybe Fox is a little more upfront about it. But you would have to be pretty dim not to pick up on the left slant of NPR. Polar opposites. But similar in their unfailing commitment to their ideology. You would never see an intelligent pro Obama piece on Fox and you would never hear an intelligent pro Trump piece on NPR. For this reason, I find them both limited as news sources. I don’t entirely trust what they say because I am so busy filtering the bias. Fox makes me angry (at the left) and NPR depresses me and makes me hate the right (and the left come to think of it).
 
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Same here, I like to jump between NPR and AM Talk Radio (conservative) to get polar perspectives on the issues. I like NPR but the bias is blatant, I chuckle when they do their fundraising and brag about how balanced they are in their news coverage. They don’t have a single reporter or program that even pretends to be conservative in tone.

To an NPR listener, Cokie Roberts is their legit conservative. Now Cokie is a decent reporter, but there is nothing conservative about her or her family history. She’s also just a guest reporter and doesn’t work for NPR affiliates.
 
Except being a former president ,when he pipes in with his unsolicited opinions he is crossing the basic courtesy former presidents afford the sitting president.They keep quiet.
 
Jeanne_S said:
Except being a former president ,when he pipes in with his unsolicited opinions he is crossing the basic courtesy former presidents afford the sitting president.They keep quiet.
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Not sure what Fox News viewers “living on a different planet” has to do with the basic courtesy that former presidents afford the sitting president…and I’m pretty sure his opinion was solicited.
 
Maybe by the leftist media
Obama has an ax to grind with Fox he whined about them being unfair to him frequently.He was implying that anyone who listens to fox ,clearly isn’t on the same wavelength as he.
 
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Jeanne_S said:
Maybe by the leftist media

Obama has an ax to grind with Fox he whined about them being unfair to him frequently.He was implying that anyone who listens to fox ,clearly isn’t on the same wavelength as he.
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He was comparing Fox News to NPR as having very different reporting so that the viewers of each might think the viewers of the other is living on a different planet based on what is covered, but it seems like you have an axe to grind.
 
Jeanne_S said:
he is crossing the basic courtesy former presidents afford the sitting president.They keep quiet.
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Just had a thought, if you use Start using former presidents as a measure of any type the current president doesn’t quite appear to conform to such Behavioural restrictions.
 
Jig_Saw said:
Well, I’m waiting for their viewers to prove my original statement wrong.
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Oh, no. You’re the one leveling accusations of racism, so that’s up to you. I occasionally watch Fox News, along with other outlets like CNN and ABC. Prove that I’m racist, please, or let your statement be shown as incorrect.
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So, as far as I’m concerned, it is a factual statement.
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That’s your opinion and you’re welcome to it. My opinion is that it’s one of the most bigoted statements I have ever read.
 
He could call in to Coast to Coast Radio at night and spout off on UFO’s or something.
 
Raxus said:
Oh, no. You’re the one leveling accusations of racism, so that’s up to you. I occasionally watch Fox News, along with other outlets like CNN and ABC. Prove that I’m racist, please, or let your statement be shown as incorrect.
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I’ll have to pay attention to your posts for a while to see if you’re a racist. Give me a few months.
Raxus said:
That’s your opinion and you’re welcome to it. My opinion is that it’s one of the most bigoted statements I have ever read.
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And you’re welcome to your opinion. I’m glad you consider me more bigoted than a president that called Haiti and Africa s**tholes.
 
You must be one of them Troll-bots saying what DT called Haiti and Africa because you weren’t in the meeting were YOU?
 
Right. American news is so often superficial, ratings driven. I don’t mind the slant on Fox since I consider myself a social conservative, Marco Rubio type, maybe throw in a few more government programs, progressive taxes, pro environment. Moderate GOP. But Fox does not provide in depth analysis of anything; it just feels like staged sound bites designed to defend Trump; they just spat over reporting the Trump stories, tweets with CNN, the major media. Maybe Chris Wallace gets a little bit more into things. I like the BBC News Hour, that sort of thing. America really needs to develop this kind of news programming. I would love to see a really impartial station - allowing both sides in depth interviews, good reporters, etc. It will never happen. In fact, I notice even in Britain and Europe the press is getting more partisan and nasty, not less so. Everywhere it is getting worse.
 
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And you’re welcome to your opinion. I’m glad you consider me more bigoted than a president that called Haiti and Africa s**tholes.
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I said I wasn’t in the meeting. And I didn’t repeat things I didn’t hear like it was truth…
 
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