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Former Democrat President Barack Obama sat down with Nate Burleson, co-host of CBS Mornings, for an exclusive interview this week.
The two talked about gun ownership, his marriage to Michelle, and a slew of other things, but the answer to one question has a lot of people talking.
Burleson asked Obama what keeps him up at night. Of all the answers he could have come up with, it’s not surprising he decided to whine about the ability of Americans to consume news that covers something other than Democrat talking points.
“The thing that I’m most worried about is the degree to which we’ve now had a divided conversation, in part because we have a divided media,” he said.
“When I was coming up, you had three TV stations. And people were getting a similar sense of what is true and what isn’t, what was real and what was not.
“Today, what I’m most concerned about is the fact that because of the splintering of the media, we almost occupy different realities. Now, people will say, ‘Well, that didn’t happen, or I don’t believe that.'”
Jesse Watters roasted the former president on his Fox News program “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
“But seriously, Barack Obama can’t sleep at night because he doesn’t control every single media outlet? He’s mad the CIA can’t spoon-feed lies to the three big networks anymore? Obama’s not getting his beauty rest because the American voters actually have access to more information?” Watters asked.
Watters also reminded his audience that the former president spent a lot of time criticizing and complaining about Fox News during his two terms in the White House.
Former Trump campaign manager and counselor Kellyanne Conway weighed in on the former president’s remarks.
“This actually was resplendent in the 2022 campaign cycle, Jesse, where they brought out Barack Obama as the big gun.
“He went and campaigned everywhere. But the guy who said, yes we can, hope you can, believe in change, you can do together… He was out there wagging his finger at us, scolding, screaming, shouting at us, shaming us,” Conway shared.
“Democracy is on the ballot, he said. Kindness is on the ballot. Civility is on the ballot. Yes, I went to kindergarten myself, but inflation’s on the ballot, education, crime, all these things that he’s ignoring.”
“I think Obama worries about his legacy because Biden is president, and he should be worried about it because Trump had a higher growth rate, more energy independence, these trade deals, you know, the Trump record on Iran and Israel, so much better staring down Putin, containing Kim Jong-un. And he’s worried about that one,” Conway argued.
“And he’s worried about, too, that his first decision was to pick a running mate, and he picked Joe Biden. We’re still stuck with him.”
Conway says Obama told Biden not to run and now we have this disaster in the Oval Office and an even worse VP in Kamala Harris. Maybe that should keep Obama up at night.
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