NewsBusters Podcast: The Fake News About Obama's Unifying Presidency
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NewsBusters Podcast: The Fake News About Obama's Unifying Presidency

Over the last few days, the networks have overflowed with gooey propaganda about the new Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. But the fakest news in the goo was claiming Obama's career was all about unifying America. NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and MRC Director of Media Analysis Geoffrey Dickens revisit all the media adoration of the Obamas that began with the Democrat convention of 2004.  On Sunday, CBS Face The Nation host Margaret Brennan oozed “former President Barack Obama spoke of America's resilience, and urged them to reject division and recommit to each other.” On Meet The Press, NBC’s Garrett Haake touted “a theme that would come to define his political career, bridging divides and finding common ground.” Journalists love to pretend the Obamas were uniters, not dividers, and that during Obama’s presidency, it was an idyllic time of unity. That’s not true at all. It erases the conservative resistance to the Obama agenda. But the Obamas could sound less negative about their opponents because they trusted other Democrats and their allies in the media to be the attack dogs for them. The elitist media aerobically pretends the Tea Party never existed, nor the IRS scandal where Obama’s bureaucrats suppressed Tea Party groups from seeking nonprofit status. Debacles like the four Americans killed at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya are airbrushed out. Obamacare is still a “signature achievement,” and don’t look at the actual results. Every interview with the Obamas sounded like an infomercial, where they were asked how they felt about the wonderful center they built, and were told it was an amazing tour. All that was missing was a “get your tickets now” pitch. It was a dramatic contrast with how Vice President J.D. Vance faced hardball questions from every interviewer on The View last Tuesday on ABC, while ABC morning host Robin Roberts conducted the most ridiculous softball interview in Chicago since she entertained the racial fictions of actor Jussie Smollett. In other news, actor Robert DeNiro won our Worst Media Quote of the Week poll: “I can’t love a country that sends out masked militias to shoot citizens in the streets, torture our neighbors and separate families. I can’t love a country that’s led by a racist, misogynist, xenophobic tyrant. And let me just say it: I can’t love the country that’s led by Donald Trump and a sycophant Congress.” On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security released a statement that claimed the alleged ringleader of the foiled terrorist attack on the UFC fight at the White House is an illegal immigrant. Since then, ABC CBS and NBC morning and evening shows have not disclosed this new information to the viewers. By contrast, the networks have continued to obsess over the latest setbacks in Trump’s efforts to renovate the reflecting pool on the National Mall by spending 13 minutes and 18 seconds on it, as of Saturday morning. There is an ongoing Democrat civil war underway in New York City, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani attempts to install several fellow Democratic Socialists in Congress, going so far as to support the primary opponent of an incumbent in good standing and not mired in scandal of any kind. But the Elitist Media are outright omitting this from their midterm primary coverage. We'll see if that changes after the returns come in.  Enjoy the podcast below. The audio is here.