Former President Obama says that Fox News and the proliferation of social media have increased the current political divide in America.
“I think a lot of that has to do with changes in how people get information,” Obama said during an interview with The 19th published on Monday. “I’ve spoken about this before, but if you watch Fox News, you perceive a different reality than if you read The New York Times. And those differences have been amplified by social media, which allows people to live in bubbles with other people who think like them.”
Obama said it has become clear to him that the country today is “more divided than when I first ran for president in 2008.”
Obama said President Biden, his former vice president, is the right person to work to close that divide.
“But if anyone can help bridge our divides, it’s Joe Biden,” he said. “He’s spent his life bringing people together. And as president, he’s been focused on beating back the pandemic and rebuilding our economy — ideas that Americans from both parties can support.”
Since leaving the White House, Obama has attacked Fox News on multiple occasions, using the network as a foil for pushing so-called birther conspiracy theories and drumming up what he often dismissed as needless and partisan opposition to his policy agenda during his eight years in office.
Obama is a lying traitor that spied on the incoming duly elected President of the United States. He should be executed for treason, not quoted by the media.
No kidding – conservatives live in the real world and liberals live lies heaped upon lies. Further, he ought to know about division as he created it.
And we the Fox viewers perceive this cheap shot asshole who somehow managed to become President of less than half our country as a narcissistic, divisive and very arrogant nitwit.
Coming from the lying Depective luciferian imposter married to a tranny..nothing he says can be beleived…he was and is a marxist plant
Would we prefer to embrace the Bizarro World views of Rachel Maddow and the rest of those MSM clowns?
Hahahah hahaha
Thats a +1 in my book. Learned that +1 stuff from snowflakes. Hahahah hahaha
It all might as well be the Weekly World News with Alien and Big Foot sightings. All media just tosses it out there and hope someone embraces it. None of it now has anything to do with reality or history. I don’t consume any of it to inform or affirm my beliefs or political position. You don’t have to be told what is going on. Open your eyes walk the streets watch people and listen to the ridiculous stances people cling to. It’s all informed cultish hyperbole and it’s exactly the distraction from REALITY that they are banking on. It has made people slobbering crazy paranoid and divided. The festering Hysteria that is being pandered and cultivated in this Republic is no different than any other Fascist Indoctrination.
Obama – still needing an industrial sized laxative.
I guess he never heard old Joe saying he didn’t want his kids going to a jungle school?