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Posted By: Hazymac, 10/30/2025 10:58:17 AM

In June, Barack Obama appeared at the Connecticut Forum for an extended conversation with Heather Cox Richardson. I became aware of the event via this tweet: (X) Curious about the rest of the conversation, I tracked down a transcript of the event. It reveals Obama as hopelessly old-fashioned when it comes to media and access to information, and either childish or sinister–take your pick–with regard to freedom of speech. Obama regrets the current media landscape with its diversity of voices and perspectives: What is done is we’ve lost a monoculture. We’ve lost everybody watching Walter Cronkite. We’ve lost everybody watching M*A*S*H,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: FormerDem 10/30/2025 11:30:18 AM (No. 2023603)
Obama wants to dominate, and is jealous of the force of better ideas. He wants to squish them via what he has, which is money and coercion. Future work: the tides, and the planets.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: kono 10/30/2025 11:49:37 AM (No. 2023620)
Socialists view human history through the lens of oppression, that improving prosperity of somebody necessitates the oppression of somebody else. They don't really want to end oppression, within this distorted perspective, but to get THEIR TURN being the oppressors who prosper. Soften the inflexible structure, modify the shape, then re-harden it. "diversity" to soften, then "unity" to re-harden.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bpl40 10/30/2025 12:35:49 PM (No. 2023632)
All 47 Democrat Senators voted to convict Donald trump of Russia collusion charges and remove him from office. it is now glaringly obvious that every single one of them that what they were voting for was a fraud. Made up out of whole cloth! yet for naked political gain they voted anyway. To me that is an egregious violation of the oath of office and could be viewed as treason against the republic. Yet, most of those individuals are still sitting in Senate after having retaken the same oath!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: minuteman 10/30/2025 1:13:22 PM (No. 2023649)
He speaks of a “monoculture” and demands that is one defined by liberal orthodoxy. Sadly, the monoculture he describes was allowed to gain prominence by the wholesale abandonment of the shared Biblical worldview by the post WW2 generations that had been at the core of Western civilization and American greatness. If not restored, we are headed for something even worse than Obama’s monoculture…Sharia, communism, AI worship, one world government.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: earlybird 10/30/2025 2:16:39 PM (No. 2023678)
Obie is not childish. He is a sinister, dangerous Mani[ulator. Facts to him are what a Lib government (preferably run by him) puts out and labels FACT. And that's a fact. Proven.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 10/30/2025 3:09:23 PM (No. 2023693)
BO: "we don’t want diversity of facts. …" For some things, facts may be precise and absolute. But the reality is, in many aspects of society, the "facts" are what simply what has been decided and agreed upon and perhaps encoded in laws. But even some hard facts are not absolute. Water freezes at 32 degrees, correct? It's a fact. But here is the reality - No, water does not always freeze at 0°C (32°F). While this is the official freezing point of pure water at standard atmospheric pressure, the actual temperature can be higher or significantly lower depending on several factors. So how much more likely is complex government policy or even an election be subject to change based on the "facts" observed by different people. A laptop suspected to belong to Hunter Biden, which had damning evidence that could have impacted the 2020 election, was determined by government agencies to instead be Russian disinformation. That was a "fact". Yet now we know that was a lie. The laptop WAS Hunter's but the evidence had been dismissed and probably impacted the election. So WHO gets to decide what the facts are? The government has proven itself too incompetent and corrupt to do that. The media has disqualified itself as well. Corporate Poobahs have lied and made huge mistakes. All these groups making decisions about what the facts are are acting as Authoritarians, which what BO wants. The correct answer has been provided by the architects of our Republic. The people get to decide. They are the ones that have to live with the consequences of such decisions so they get to decide. If they make a mistake, they get to decide again to do something else. Daniel Patrick Moynihan said '... you are not entitled to your own facts', however "facts" must be submitted to rigorous examination and people must agree that they ARE factual before decisions can be made based on them. Even then, the examination may eventually be proven to be flawed and the resulting decisions invalidated because of that (reference the laptop issue above). Getting to truth is a process and no one should be allowed to deliver unquestionable facts into a discussion. If that makes life for BO harder, GOOD!
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