The president of the United States called out Fox News today, as one of the leading voices pushing a false narrative against poor people.
In a speech at the Catholic-Evangelical Leadership Summit on Overcoming Poverty, Mr. Obama expressed his frustration at Fox and other media outlets for constantly painting the poor and less fortunate as lazy leaches on the American Society.
“If you watch Fox News on a regular basis, it is a constant menu, they will find folks who make ME mad. I don’t know where they find them. They’re all like ‘I don’t wanna work. I just want a free Obamaphone.’ And that becomes an entire narrative that gets worked up. And very rarely do you hear an interview of a waitress, which is much more typical, who’s raising a couple of kids, and is doing everything right, but still can’t pay the bills.”
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