Weekly Standard editor Larry O’Connor has compiled helpful reminders of times when President Obama vilified a single news company, Fox News. In 2010, he told Rolling Stone Magazine that Fox News was “destructive” to the country.
Obama calls @foxnews 'destructive' to the growth for the country -> https://t.co/yMEPRO2VFE via @RollingStone
— Larry O'Connor (@LarryOConnor) February 19, 2017
That was a month before the first midterm “shellacking” of his party under his leadership. During the Benghazi and IRS scandals, he blamed none other than Fox News. He told Bill O’Reilly in a pre-Super Bowl interview that the scandals kept surfacing because “folks like you will promote them.”
Obama blames @foxnews for Benghazi and IRS scandal -> https://t.co/iV4P1o5Nzh via @mediaite
— Larry O'Connor (@LarryOConnor) February 19, 2017
In 2014, he suggested that Fox News was calling affordable health care a threat to freedom.
Obama attacks @FoxNews with outrageous false attack. https://t.co/XlhEI5AmeB
— Larry O'Connor (@LarryOConnor) February 19, 2017
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
If it had been affordable, his party might not have been pasted in the midterm elections a month later and Hillary Clinton might be the current president. Looks like Fox’s critical reporting was on the right side of history.
Point is, Obama frequently demonized @FoxNews to the delight of his base… the rest of the media.
— Larry O'Connor (@LarryOConnor) February 19, 2017
Just take it from a Fox News journalist who knows all too well how Obama felt regarding the media.
ROSEN: NOTHING TRUMP’S DONE ‘APPROACHES IN SERIOUSNESS AND NATURE’ OBAMA’S CONDUCT TOWARDS THE PRESS https://t.co/0CmbQFljyA @JamesRosenFNC
— Larry O'Connor (@LarryOConnor) February 19, 2017
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