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Politico Misrepresents Exchange Between Kroft and Obama in 60 Minutes Interview
Comments from Left Field —
... about some of these problems. Are people going to look at this and say, ‘I mean, he’s sitting there just making jokes about money—’ How do you deal with— I mean: explain. . .” Kroft asks at one point.
Either Gordon did not watch the interview, or he did and is intentionally misrepresenting the tenor both of Pres. Obama’s manner and Steve Kroft’s question. And I don’t know which would be worse, quite frankly.
The transcript is not going to help here. You have to watch the video, because ...
Obama's 60 Minutes Interview a Laugh Fest
Politics Daily —
... According to the transcript, there were laughs and chuckles from Obama on subjects ranging from whether or not Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner should resign, to an additional bailout for the U.S. auto industry, to the idea of fixing the banking system without taxpayer money. In all, CBS notes that the president laughed or chuckled thirteen different times during the interview. Some were innocent, such as when the president joked about the size of the swing set his daughters have on the White House grounds. But the others may be viewed as evidence of an inappropriately cavalier ...
