{"id":52511,"date":"2022-04-06T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52511"},"modified":"2022-04-06T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T20:50:40","slug":"oh-noes-fox-news-thinks-obama-is-really-running-the-government-and-its-scaring-them-witless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52511","title":{"rendered":"OH NOES! Fox News Thinks Obama is Really Running the Government &#8211; And It&#8217;s Scaring Them Witless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of things for Fox News to be worried about these days. First and foremost is the genocidal war being waged by Russia against Ukraine, for which <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52195\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they are siding with Russia who is currently losing<\/a><\/strong>. And while <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51465\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Biden economy is booming<\/a><\/strong>, inflation is taking away some of the glow. And a Black woman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52496\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who they oppose because she&#8217;s too qualified<\/a><\/strong> is about to be confirmed for the Supreme Court. And <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52466\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney is too <em>&#8220;woke&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong> for America.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=OH NOES! Fox News Thinks Obama is Really Running the Government and It's Scaring Them Witless%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52511\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/obama-foxnews-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Obama Fox News\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite all of those <em>&#8220;woes,&#8221;<\/em> Fox News has settled into an entirely different and wholly imaginary catastrophe. During a segment on their <em>&#8220;business&#8221;<\/em> channel, Fox&#8217;s Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo, invited Republican Senator Marsh Blackburn to commiserate with her on a harrowing hardship that they both contrived from the thin air that is obviously depriving their brains of critical oxygen. That mental malady resulted in the following exchange:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bartiromo:<\/strong> I think what&#8217;s interesting here is that now we understand that Obama is gonna have weekly meetings with Joe Biden. so if you didn&#8217;t think Obama was running the country before, maybe you can know that he&#8217;s running the country now, given his weekly meetings with Joe Biden. How do you see all of this?<br \/>\n<strong>Blackburn:<\/strong> Well, Maria, we know that Obama&#8217;s team has been calling the shots all during the Biden presidency, whether it&#8217;s Susan Rice or Valerie Jarrett or Jake Sullivan, and Ron Klain. And now in order to try to get the poll numbers up &#8211; Biden is at a 55 percent disapproval. The Democrats are poised to take a shellacking in the midterm elections. They need a good news story. And the only way they think they can get it is to bring Obama back as the de facto leader in the White House. And that&#8217;s the message they&#8217;re gonna try to send. Barack Obama is in charge. And Barack Obama is setting the agenda. And Barack Obama is leading the team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Marsha Blackburn says Barack Obama is secretly running the country: \u201cWe know that Obama\u2019s team has been calling the shots.\u201d She says Democrats will \u201cbring Obama back as the de facto leader in the WH .. Barack Obama is in charge.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gs75dxdyEv\">pic.twitter.com\/gs75dxdyEv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonFilipkowski\/status\/1511740403095158790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Holy Shitake Mushrooms! Not Obama! Apparently nothing is more frightening to these ultra-rightist hacks than the thought of a Black man who governed successfully for two terms (that he won with a majority of the popular vote and zero impeachments) returning to provide his insight for the benefit of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Bartiromo and Blackburn think there is something untoward about Biden employing some of the same people who advised him so ably during his tenure as Vice-President. And the only thing they think is worse than Biden presiding over the nation (via his decisive victory over Donald Trump) is the return of Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that Obama was only visiting the White House (for the first time since his term ended) because it was the anniversary of the Affordable Care Act that Republicans helpfully tagged with the name Obamacare. He and Biden were celebrating the fact millions of Americans are now covered by health insurance who were previously subject to massive bills and unnecessary medical suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the only thing that Bartiromo and Blackburn took away from this was their darkly foreboding delusions that their arch enemy Obama is the <em>&#8220;de facto leader,&#8221;<\/em> a shadow president who is secretly calling the shots for a cognitively deficient Biden. And it&#8217;s terrifying them to even contemplate it. So naturally, they are passing their utterly irrational fears on to the already fretful Fox News audience.<\/p>\n<p>This is nothing more than another Fox News conspiracy theory that rivals any of those promulgated by QAnon. And knowing these two crackpots, perhaps that&#8217;s where it originated. In the meantime Fox News is deceitfully editing videos of Biden to bolster their lies about his mental acuity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The end of this one stops early before you see he was introducing someone <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l55K5ibMpx\">pic.twitter.com\/l55K5ibMpx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1511533677729046531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Notice that Laura Ingraham is regurgitating the tedious narrative by Fox News hacks that <em>&#8220;Biden doesn&#8217;t know what on Earth he&#8217;s doing, or at times, where he even is.&#8221;<\/em> That&#8217;s followed by Tucker Carlson disingenuously sobbing that <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s awful.&#8221;<\/em> But what&#8217;s truly awful is how brazenly dishonest they are. And how repulsively anti-American. The only thing they&#8217;re interested in is keeping their flock ignorant and afraid. And that should be be to hard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">articles from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of things for Fox News to be worried about these days. First and foremost is the genocidal war being waged by Russia against Ukraine, for which they are siding with Russia who is currently losing. And while the Biden economy is booming, inflation is taking away some of the glow. And a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,361,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[183,33,377,43,1112,126,1066,25],"class_list":["post-52511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-healthcare","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-barack-obama","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-laura-ingraham","tag-maria-bartiromo","tag-marsha-blackburn","tag-obamacare","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/obama-foxnews-logo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dEX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49708,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=49708","url_meta":{"origin":52511,"position":0},"title":"Putin Toady Trump Admits He Trusts Russia Over U.S. On Eve of Summit with Biden","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/11\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"In his latest statement from exile, Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear where his loyalty lies (with an emphasis on \"lies\"). 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