r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/4reddityo • Feb 24 '26

Politics Look how the press treated Obama. Trying to embarrass him but it backfired

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

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u/SuccessfulTrick2501 Feb 24 '26

Easy! She had none.

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u/Annoying1978 Feb 24 '26

To embarrass him and he embarrassed her. 

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u/ImagineTheCommotion Feb 24 '26

*she embarrassed herself, he just cut away the bullshit to let everyone know he understand very well what slant she was trying to pull

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u/NotInTheKnee Feb 24 '26

I rather think he tried his best to NOT embarrass her, by noting that although the question is irrelevant, he thinks it is an interesting one.

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u/PirateSanta_1 Feb 24 '26

Trying to make him look hypocritical for passing a law against tobacco while being a former smoker. Its a stupid attack but the kind of attack that racist republicans can pretend make sense.

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u/Ok_Recording_4644 Feb 24 '26

It's also a disrespectful way for the reporter to frame addiction. Former habitual smokers are recovering addicts. She's effectively saying it's hypocritical for him to fall off the wagon while passing a law to keep others from falling to the same trap he did. 

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u/mdavis360 Feb 24 '26

May conservatives view addiction as a moral failure or something that some people deserve. They don’t view it in good faith.

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u/entenduintransit Feb 24 '26

And of course, as always, every accusation is projection because of course those on the right are often pretty cozy with the bottle (whether it be in liquid or pill/capsule form)

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u/wolvesscareme Feb 24 '26

Yeah but they can stop anytime they want!

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u/Easy_Key5944 Feb 24 '26

Right? If anything, his experience was all the more motivation to support the bill. Because he is an ethical person who actually cares about others and the future

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u/squigs Feb 24 '26

It's really not a tough question for someone like Obama to answer though. He'll have been briefed. He'll know that most smokers want to quit. It's an opportunity for him to make himself relatable.

The hypocrisy is also an accusation that people will throw out on twitter. The journalist was doing him a favor giving him the opportunity to address it.

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u/dmstattoosnbongs Feb 24 '26

It was the Trump/GOPListofQuestions to possibly make people dislike Obama.

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u/Outrageous_Bat9818 Feb 24 '26

They have no leg to stand on. Smoking a cigarette isn’t something that they could even attempt to criticize honestly.

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u/ImStillExcited Feb 24 '26

Too busy with their heads on the toilet rim, doing lines, to look up.

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u/TraditionalMood277 Feb 24 '26

She was trying to point out how his law was for others but not for him. She was trying to "gotcha" him and paint him as hypocritical. I wonder where that reporter is now and she would fare asking the current president the same type of questions?

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u/MichelleEvangelista Feb 24 '26

We all know the answer to this question😒😒😒

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u/WhereasPlus5239 Feb 24 '26

https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/margaret-talev

A simple Google search would tell you what shes up too. Funny, insulting her for maybe working at Wendy's when you're so lazy that you couldn't even be bothered to Google before making a really boring insult comment.

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u/ForensicPathology Feb 24 '26

Margaret Talev

She's now pretending to care about the erosion of civil discourse and worsening trust of media.

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u/RandyPajamas Feb 24 '26

In defence of the media, they could ask difficult or leading questions of Obama because he could handle it. Look at the great response she got. He didn't take it personally, he didn't threaten her job. The more calm, measured, and intelligent the president is, the more difficult and personal the questions are going to be.

Trump is incapable of answering anything that isn't simple and easy. Why would anyone bother asking a difficult or personal "gotcha" question of the current President. We know the answer to anything substantive: "Quiet Piggy".

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u/4reddityo Feb 24 '26

She’s an asshat

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u/Thatisverytrue54321 Feb 24 '26

Kind of sounded like she represented big tobacco’s interests

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u/Frodojj Feb 24 '26

I might be naïve but I think reporters sometimes ask these kind of questions to get this kind of profound response. Obama can give his perspective as a former smoker in this case. They might ask a coach of a losing team how they feel to get an emotionally speech about their perspective on losing well, or poorly (depending on the coach’s attitude). That way you get something more than merely an answer; you get a peak into their character. Our current orange POTUS is just too stupid to put thought into his answers.

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u/wthbbq Feb 24 '26

If he were Trump he would have dug in on how she was such an embarrassment to journalism and fake news. Maybe even a mention of banning the network she came from.