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Video: Obama Pines For Old Days When Media Narrative Was Accepted By All As “A Common Set Of Facts”
“The goals of the Obama Foundation, and one of the goals of my post-presidency, is how do we return to that?”
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Steve Watson

Former President Barack Obama said during an interview Tuesday with CBS News that thing he is “most worried about” is the that the mainstream media narrative of events is no long accepted by many Americans as “a common set of facts.”
“The thing that I’m most worried about is the degree to which we now have a divided conversation, in part because we have a divided media, right?” Obama told Nate Burleson, who is not really a journalist, but rather a former NFL player.
He further explained, “I’m much older than you… when I was coming up, you had three TV stations and people were getting a similar sense of what is true and what isn’t, what was real and what was not.”
“Today, what I’m most concerned about is because of the splintering of the media, we almost occupy different realities,” Obama continued, adding “If something happens, in the past, everybody could say, all right, we may disagree on how to solve it, but at least we all agree that, yeah, that’s an issue.”
Obama further complained that in this day and age some people refuse to believe media narratives.
“Now people will say, well, that didn’t happen, or I don’t believe that,” he complained, asserting that “one of, I think, the goals of the Obama Foundation, and one of the goals of my post-presidency, is how do we return to that common conversation? How can we have a common set of facts?”
Obama went on to talk about gun control as an example of one issue he wants to see Americans accept a “common set of facts” on.
“We may disagree on gun violence in terms of what the best prescriptions are, but we can’t deny the data that says the United States has levels of gun violence that are 5, 10, 15 times more than other countries,” he stated, adding “So if we say it is just a mental health problem, well, it’s not like there aren’t people with mental health problems in those other countries. What’s the difference? This is probably the difference. Now, we can have a debate. But at least we’ve agreed on some facts.”
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CBS's Nate Burleson: "Post-presidency, what…keeps you up at night?"
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 16, 2023
Barack Obama: "The thing…I'm most worried about is…a divided conversation in part b/c we have a divided media…When I was growing up, you had three TV stations…We almost occupy different realities." pic.twitter.com/KrNWHjSgap
Is Obama concerned that the ‘reality’ we occupy is no longer forged by what the establishment media and their NFL players/comedians/entertainers turned ‘reporters’ are bought to push as the case by their corporate sponsors?
“We almost occupy different realities” he is definitely working on that
— Kranky Pants (@KrrankyPants) May 16, 2023
As the interview went on, Obama cited Australia as a model of gun control, noting that in that country there was “one mass shooting 50 years ago and they said, we’re not doing that anymore,” before outlawing all firearms.
“That is normally how you would expect a society to respond when your children are at risk,” Obama declared.
Obama doesn’t know what actually happened. In Australia, it was not a school shooting. It was a mass shooting at a hotel over the sale of the property. https://t.co/wjfqirUMfq
— Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) May 16, 2023
Many viewers refused to accept that ‘common set of facts’:
Is he volunteering to help collect them? I would love to see how that works out for him.
— Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) May 16, 2023
Don’t let the facts get in the way of a false narrative.
— Charles Paul (@Charles17227248) May 16, 2023
Abolish his secret service protection detail first and I will still refuse.
— General Gen X (@chilicon73) May 16, 2023
Thankfully we aren't a prison colony.
— the Real Salty Dog 🐕 (@Triphammer111) May 16, 2023
but in Australia criminals are locked up, not let straight back out onto the street as in Dem run cities.
— ingrid eckhoff (@countesskkkk) May 16, 2023
Show me Australia’s second amendment equivalent, I’ll wait…
— Outlaw Sniper (@Outlaw_Sniper) May 17, 2023
Australia, where they confined the unvaccinated population in camps and routinely refused them employment and school.
— Anthony Formica (@AnthonyFormic13) May 16, 2023
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President Biden, can you hear me?
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