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VIDEO: Obama irritated at being challenged by Dallas reporter
Dear Leader gets snippy with a Dallas reporter for not obediently drinking his Kool-Aid. Not such a good way to kick off his reelection campaign.
via USA Today: President Obama has troubles with voters in Texas, and, apparently, with interviewers from the Lone Star State as well.
“Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, all right?” Obama told reporter Brad Watson after an interview with WFAA-TV of Dallas, one of four interviews with local television stations at the White House on Monday.
The exchange is toward the end of the video.
At one point, Watson asked the president: “Why do you think you’re so unpopular in Texas?”
After some jousting about the size of his loss in Texas in 2008 — the president said it was “a few percentage points,” but it was more like 11 — Obama told his interviewer: “If what you’re telling me is that Texas is a conservative state, you’re absolutely right.”
Obama also fired back at criticism from conservative Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
“Gov. Perry helped balance his budget with about $6 billion worth of federal help — which he happily took — and then started blaming the members of Congress who had offered that help,” Obama said.
Obama also bristled at claims that is administration skipped Houston in the award of space shuttle orbiters and favored states that could help his re-election.
“That’s wrong,” the president stated. “That had nothing to do with it; the White House had nothing to do with it.”
When Watson persisted, Obama said, “I just said that was wrong,” and, later, “I just said that wasn’t true.”
I doubt Brad Watson will ever be allowed to interview the President again. He’s used to softball questions from the press and he routinely filibusters anything that deviates from his narrative.
I must point out that President Obama seems to be forgetting that the six billion in so-called “federal help” to Texas came from the pockets of Texas taxpayers. Texas money had already been paid into the federal coffers; the “stimulus” returned that money to the state government. The problem was that the money came with strings attached, directing the state on how to spend it. The ideal thing would have been for the returned stimulus money to go directly to Texas taxpayers. But for Texas to get back what its citizens had already paid to the federal government, Perry had to do as Obama dictated. Otherwise, Texas’ money would have been spent in other states. Bringing up this issue was simply a distraction from Obama’s failures in office and Texans’ distaste for federal mandates.
Obama clearly doesn’t like to be challenged by reporters after he pats them on the head with his talking points.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
