Obama Calls Out Fox News For Demonizing Poor People

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/05/obama-calls-out-fox-news-demonizing-poor

President Obama named names during a panel on poverty at Georgetown University on Tuesday.

Speaking about those who work but never seem to get ahead, Obama noted that the question boils down to this: "Who are you mad at?"

"Over the last 40 years, sadly, there's been an effort to make folks mad at the top, or to make folks mad at the folks at the bottom."

"And I think the effort to suggest that the poor are spongers, leeches, don't want to work, are lazy, are undeserving, got traction. And it's still being propagated," he continued.

He then proceeded to assign some well-deserved blame to the likes of Fox News specifically, saying, "If you watch Fox News on a regular basis...they will find folks who make me mad. I don't know where they find them."

After referencing to the way Fox News magnified the "Obamaphone," he called them out for rarely showing stories about the waitress with two kids who is struggling to get by but playing by all the rules.

"If we're going to change how John Boehner and Mitch McConnell think, we're going to have to change how our body politic thinks, which means we're going to have to change how the media reports on these issues and how people's impressions of what it's like to struggle in this economy looks like, and how budgets connect to that," he concluded.

as true as his words are what he's saying is and will be a staple of republican politics they have to give their base something to hate on or they lose interest in those politicians and voting in their head "why vote if there is nothing that pisses you off and that is the glue they use to keep them dumb and down on the farm.  think about it every election cycle republicans campaign on gloom and doom and what they are against but note never what they are for because it doesn't jive with "gimme your vote" when you say "you want to take away everything keep the rich happy and f you American taxpayer".

you would think after losing they would drop the arrogance and learn how to be American.  they make it all to clear who cares about the country and we the people while they make it painfully clear it ain't them. recognize  one thing i think Pres. will be remembered for is he practically did it all by himself and his way.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/02/15/a-long-list-of-president-obamas-accomplishments-with-citations/