Obama tells outrageous lies to college students--who were nine years old when he was elected
Most Americans have a very short memory, and college-age Americans are no exception.
Thus when a former president speaks at a university, he can tell outrageous lies without the slightest fear that anyone will recognize them as lies. It's a perfect opportunity to harvest Dem votes.
In the latest example, Obama spoke Friday afternoon at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, urging students to get involved in the November midterm elections. Much of the speech was about how awful the Trump administration has been for "attacking" the press, while claiming his (Obama's) administration would NEVER try to intimidate the press.
He said. “I complained plenty about Fox News, but you never heard me threaten to shut them down or call them enemies of the people.”
This is a masterpiece of propaganda, because it implies that Trump has threatened to shut down the press, and that Obama never tried to muzzle critical news outlets. But in fact, Obama did much more than just complain about press critics. In 2009, for example, the Obama White House intentionally excluded Fox News’ Chris Wallace from participating in a round of interviews pertaining to the president’s push for healthcare reform. Later that same year, the administration officials tried to block Fox reporters from interviewing Obama's new “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg. The White House initially lied about this, and many in the press went along with it.
It wasn’t until 2011 that the public learned the truth of the Feinberg episode. An internal email dated Oct. 22, 2009, showed the White House director of broadcast media told Treasury officials specifically, “We’d prefer if you skip Fox please.”
Obama White House communications director Anita Dunn said at the time, “We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent. As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”
Imagine the outrage if Sarah Sanders had said that.
In 2010 the Obama administration renewed the bogus Bush-era subpoena against New York Times reporter James Risen, to determine whether the reporter was the recipient of leaked CIA information. In February 2011, federal investigators were revealed to have spied on Risen. Federal investigators pored over Risen's credit reports and his personal bank records. The feds even tracked his phone logs and movements.
Imagine the outrage if Trump's DOJ had done this.
Later in 2012 Fox was excluded from a White House conference call pertaining to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
Imagine the outrage if the Trump White House excluded the NY Times from covering an event.
In 2013, the Obama Justice Department labeled then-Fox News reporter James Rosen a “criminal co-conspirator” under the Espionage Act of 1917. Rosen was also labeled a "flight risk." The Times refused to criticize the administration for attacking its reporter.
The federal law enforcement agency even seized the phone records of Rosen’s parents. The FBI also got a warrant to search Rosen's emails from 2010.
Remember the outrage when the Trump FBI got a subpoena to search the phone records of CNN's Jim Acosta?
That's because the Trump adminstration never did such a thing. And yet Obama claims he didn't go after the very few in the press who criticized his actions, and that Trump is doing that. Hmmm...
In May 2013, the Associated Press revealed that the Justice Department had secretly collected two months' worth of personal and work-related phone calls made by AP reporters and editors.
Federal officials secretly obtained records on incoming and outgoing calls made by specific AP journalists, as well as general news staff, the news group reported, potentially compromising many sources totally unrelated to the investigation. Federal investigators even collected data on calls made by AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery.
Imagine the outrage if the Trump administration had done that.
In 2014, the Obama administration set the record for denying the most Freedom of Information Act requests of any administration. Then in 2015 it broke its own record from the prior year.
Obama was accurate when he said he never actually called the news media the “enemy of the people.” Instead, he and his lieutenants prosecuted and spied on reporters who criticized him, all while claiming Fox is "an opponent" and not “ really a news station.”
Of course Obama is completely safe telling the most brazen lies to college students, since back in 2010 today's college sophomore would have been nine years old.
Far too many colleges are leftist cesspools.
Thus when a former president speaks at a university, he can tell outrageous lies without the slightest fear that anyone will recognize them as lies. It's a perfect opportunity to harvest Dem votes.
In the latest example, Obama spoke Friday afternoon at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, urging students to get involved in the November midterm elections. Much of the speech was about how awful the Trump administration has been for "attacking" the press, while claiming his (Obama's) administration would NEVER try to intimidate the press.
He said. “I complained plenty about Fox News, but you never heard me threaten to shut them down or call them enemies of the people.”
This is a masterpiece of propaganda, because it implies that Trump has threatened to shut down the press, and that Obama never tried to muzzle critical news outlets. But in fact, Obama did much more than just complain about press critics. In 2009, for example, the Obama White House intentionally excluded Fox News’ Chris Wallace from participating in a round of interviews pertaining to the president’s push for healthcare reform. Later that same year, the administration officials tried to block Fox reporters from interviewing Obama's new “pay czar” Kenneth Feinberg. The White House initially lied about this, and many in the press went along with it.
It wasn’t until 2011 that the public learned the truth of the Feinberg episode. An internal email dated Oct. 22, 2009, showed the White House director of broadcast media told Treasury officials specifically, “We’d prefer if you skip Fox please.”
Obama White House communications director Anita Dunn said at the time, “We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent. As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”
Imagine the outrage if Sarah Sanders had said that.
In 2010 the Obama administration renewed the bogus Bush-era subpoena against New York Times reporter James Risen, to determine whether the reporter was the recipient of leaked CIA information. In February 2011, federal investigators were revealed to have spied on Risen. Federal investigators pored over Risen's credit reports and his personal bank records. The feds even tracked his phone logs and movements.
Imagine the outrage if Trump's DOJ had done this.
Later in 2012 Fox was excluded from a White House conference call pertaining to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
Imagine the outrage if the Trump White House excluded the NY Times from covering an event.
In 2013, the Obama Justice Department labeled then-Fox News reporter James Rosen a “criminal co-conspirator” under the Espionage Act of 1917. Rosen was also labeled a "flight risk." The Times refused to criticize the administration for attacking its reporter.
The federal law enforcement agency even seized the phone records of Rosen’s parents. The FBI also got a warrant to search Rosen's emails from 2010.
Remember the outrage when the Trump FBI got a subpoena to search the phone records of CNN's Jim Acosta?
That's because the Trump adminstration never did such a thing. And yet Obama claims he didn't go after the very few in the press who criticized his actions, and that Trump is doing that. Hmmm...
In May 2013, the Associated Press revealed that the Justice Department had secretly collected two months' worth of personal and work-related phone calls made by AP reporters and editors.
Federal officials secretly obtained records on incoming and outgoing calls made by specific AP journalists, as well as general news staff, the news group reported, potentially compromising many sources totally unrelated to the investigation. Federal investigators even collected data on calls made by AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery.
Imagine the outrage if the Trump administration had done that.
In 2014, the Obama administration set the record for denying the most Freedom of Information Act requests of any administration. Then in 2015 it broke its own record from the prior year.
Obama was accurate when he said he never actually called the news media the “enemy of the people.” Instead, he and his lieutenants prosecuted and spied on reporters who criticized him, all while claiming Fox is "an opponent" and not “ really a news station.”
Of course Obama is completely safe telling the most brazen lies to college students, since back in 2010 today's college sophomore would have been nine years old.
Far too many colleges are leftist cesspools.
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