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

[B]Obama rips Fox News viewers: ‘You are living on a different planet’
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]By Brian Flood | Fox News
14 hours ago

Former President Barack Obama resurfaced on Friday and took a shot at Fox News viewers, saying they’re “living on a different planet” than people who consume mainstream media.

Obama made the remarks on the premiere of the new monthly Netflix series “My next guest needs no introduction with David Letterman,” which hit the streaming service on Friday morning. Early in the episode, Obama asked Letterman about his retirement but the veteran talk show host quickly let the former president know who was boss.

“Now here’s how this is gonna work. I’m gonna ask you stuff, and then you respond to stuff,” Letterman joked.

Letterman then asked Obama what he considers the more dangerous threat to a democracy, the president demeaning the press or a foreign power sabotaging the voting process. Both options are clearly jabs at President Trump and Obama answered without mentioning the current president’s name.

“One of the biggest challenges we have to our democracy is the degree to which we don’t share a common baseline of facts,” Obama said. "If you watch Fox News, you are living on a different planet than you are if you are listening to NPR.”

"If you watch Fox News, you are living on a different planet than you are if you are listening to NPR.”
- Barack Obama

The response got a big round of applause from the presumably liberal crowd at the City College of New York. Obama has a long history of taking shots at Fox News but the recent comment marks his first public attack on the network and its viewers since leaving the White House.

While Trump is often criticized for attacking the media and labeling CNN as “fake news,” Obama’s comment is a reminder that the White House and the press have sparred for decades. Obama once even accused Fox News of “attacking” his administration during an interview with CNBC.

Letterman said goodbye to his long-running talk show two years ago and has launched a six-episode series on Netflix. In each hour-long episode, Letterman conducts a long-form conversation with a single guest, and explores topics of his own outside the studio.

George Clooney, Malala Yousafzai, Jay-Z, Tina Fey, and Howard Stern are scheduled to be guests on Letterman’s show over the next five months.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment...nt-planet.html

Wow. Obama just explained why he was such a lousy President. He was operating on a completely different set of facts than the rest of US.

Thank God, we've got a President now who operates on the same set of facts as most of US do. Thank you FOX NEWS!!!!

“One of the biggest challenges we have to our democracy is the degree to which we don’t share a common baseline of facts,” Obama said. "If you watch Fox News, you are living on a different planet than you are if you are listening to NPR.”

I had to laugh at this one, the portion in bold. Barack Obama is supposedly a graduate from Harvard Law School. He was supposedly a Professor of Constitutional Law of some type at University of Chicago Law School, but didn't actually teach a regular class, instead he wrote his "memoirs". Then he ran for political office as a state legislator. Then ran for the US Senate. Then ran for President. So while he never really practiced law, he has a law degree and worked as a legislator voting for laws and served as President to enforce those laws.

Now as most Americans know, our whole legal and political system is based on disputed facts. That is why we have Jury Trials, because the Jury is the trier of facts. It's why we have campaigns to get the facts out, and elections so Voters decide from those facts, who is the best candidate. Lawyers spend their entire careers researching facts and then arguing about them in courts. So, the real comedy of the interview wasn't what he said about Trump Supporters, it was the revelation that he doesn't know the baseline facts of his own professions.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it? I don't know if Obama was the Manchurian Candidate, but I hope he's as close to it as we ever have and that's behind us.