What do you get when a failed president sits down with a rape-hoaxer? Some very satisfying schadenfreude.
President Barack Obama, the second most powerful human being in the world, has just 50 days left in office. He’s getting ready to turn over the White House to a man he clearly despises. He just watched the voters reject everything he stands for. They’re finally getting back at him for everything he’s done to them over the past eight years. His precious legacy lays before him in ruins.
What better way to wallow in his misery than to sit down with the disgraced publisher of the discredited Rolling Stone magazine?
Jann S. Wenner — who is still defending everything in his publication’s University of Virginia gang-rape story except for, y’know, the gang-rape — opens on a funereal note:
“My final interview with President Obama in the White House had been scheduled for the day after the presidential election. I had hoped to look back on what he had achieved over eight years and the issues that mattered the most to him and to the readers of Rolling Stone, hear his advice for Hillary and about the road ahead. It was to be the ‘exit interview,’ his tenth cover for Rolling Stone, our fourth interview together…”
Well, it’s still an exit interview. Just not the sort Jann wanted.
You can read the entire interview. But the following is all you really need to know about the impenetrable bubble of delusion these guys live in:
Mr. Wenner: You think it’s still a progressive country?
Mr. Obama: “I think that nothing is determined, but that the number of people who have a strong belief in a fair, just, equal, inclusive America is the majority and is growing.
“Part of the challenge, though, that we do have, and this is something that I’ve been chewing on for awhile now, is that there is a cohort of working-class white voters that voted for me in sizable numbers, but that we’ve had trouble getting (them) to vote for Democrats in midterm elections.
“In this election, (they) turned out in huge numbers for Trump. And I think that part of it has to do with our inability, our failure, to reach those voters effectively.
“Part of it is Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country, but part of it is also Democrats not working at a grassroots level, being in there, showing up, making arguments.”
That’s right. None of what’s happening has anything to do with you. It’s not about anything you have said or done. It’s that darned Fox News. It’s all those meanies in “big chunks of the country.” Why, they refuse to walk into a bar or restaurant that’s not playing Fox News! They’re the ones who did this to you.
“If Fox News had the level of power President Obama claims, he wouldn’t have been elected, let alone re-elected.
“Well, it’s not about what’s true. It’s about what makes Obama feel better about himself.”
This essay originated at www.dailycaller.com
