Obama blames Rush Limbaugh for his loss of ‘connection’ to conservatives – By Bob Unruh (WND) / Dec 10 2020
Claims he was mischaracterized by ‘right-wing media infrastructure’
Former President Barack Obama says he was able to make solid “connections” with conservatives as a senator and a presidential candidate until Rush Limbaugh and Fox News destroyed the relationship.
Obama’s comments came Tuesday during a virtual gala with PEN America, which gave him its Voice of Influence Award, for “the power of his soaring words, the promises he has unlocked in our nation, and the enduring American values that he has embodied.”
“I ended up getting enormous support in these pretty conservative, rural, largely white communities when I was a senator, and that success was repeated when I ran for president in the first race in Iowa,” Obama said.
“By my second year in office, I’m not sure if I could make that same connection, because now those same people are filtering me through Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and an entire right-wing or conservative media infrastructure that was characterizing me in a way that suggested I looked down on those folks or had nothing in common with them,” he said.
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