It’s no secret to anyone who follows President Trump on Twitter that he’s a Fox News watcher; check out this tweet from Saturday in which he tagged @FoxNews:
Wow, “FBI lawyer James Baker reassigned,” according to @FoxNews.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2017
The funny thing is, that tweet inspired New York Times reporter Julie Bosman to recall a recent speech by Barack Obama in which he claimed he never watched cable news — it was all old news to him by the time the cable channels had gotten to it.
https://twitter.com/juliebosman/status/944678835857117184
Oh really?
Definitely. https://t.co/gRzBudzfGA
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) December 24, 2017
If you didn’t click the video, you should: it’s an amazing supercut by the Washington Free Beacon of just some of the times Obama himself or Jay Carney explained that the president learned about things like Fast and Furious, IRS targeting of conservatives, and the VA scandal through news reports, just like the rest of us.
does carrying obama's water get tiring? do you remember how many times he told the press he found out about an administration scandal from the "news?"
— Ryan (@chasinghumility) December 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/Moj_kobe/status/944768184220971008
https://twitter.com/liars_never_win/status/944767443150475264
Is that right?https://t.co/hnQHH2JGOV
— That's LIEUTENANT COMMANDER Crapplefratz! (@Crapplefratz) December 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/molratty/status/944766892232859648
https://twitter.com/RealJacobPerry/status/944772103508779011
Which Barack Obama was lying, I wonder?https://t.co/13qrkEnz39https://t.co/v6BO4CUEll
— The H2 (@TheH2) December 24, 2017
Obama claimed to learn about scandals from the news media so often that it became a running Twitter joke that Jon Stewart riffed on.
But NYT reporters now take his claims that it never happened, that he always knew stuff in advance, at face-value.
Post-Truth era indeed.
— Thankful Muppet Energy (Sunny) (@sunnyright) December 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/944765349215506432
Scandal-free administration didn't find out about all their non-scandals on TV.
— Anthony Abides (@AnthonyAbides) December 24, 2017
BUSTED.
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