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By Britt Nelson

President Obama in a Rolling Stone magazine interview released Tuesday blamed Fox News for Hillary Clinton’s presidential loss to Republican billionaire Donald Trump.

The exiting president said Clinton and the Democrats failed to reach white American working-class voters like he did in 2008 and again in 2012.

“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,” Obama said. “Part of it is also Democrats not working at a grassroots level, being in there, showing up, making arguments. That part of the critique of the Democratic Party is accurate. We spend a lot of time focused on international policy and national policy and less time being on the ground. And when we’re on the ground, we do well.”

This statement is not the first time President Obama mentioned the perceived effect Fox News has had on the elections. In a pre-election TV interview with liberal commentator and comedian Bill Maher the president said, “If I watched Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me either.”

Well, we all know Fox News is not the reason Trump won the presidency and Clinton lost. The Democrats nominated the wrong candidate. Clinton had more scandalous baggage than a container ship trying to squeeze through the Panama Canal.

When FBI Director James Comey reopened Clinton’s email scandal investigation two weeks before the Nov. 8 general election for many voters it was the last straw and pushed them to vote for the controversial Trump, who promised to “drain the swamp” once in Washington.

Trump motivated disenchanted and angry voters to get up and go to the polls like they have never done before. In the final days before the election, Clinton was unable to motivate all but hard-core Democrats who were hell bent on electing the first woman president of the United States just like they elected the first black president.

Apparently, the Democrats have not learned a damn thing about why they lost the presidency and failed to gain any ground in the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate.

U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) on Wednesday was re-elected 134 to 63 as House Minority Leader. The Queen Snowflake of ultra-liberal sanctuary of San Francisco will be guiding the Democrats for another two years, and for Republicans and Trump her re-election is seen as divine intervention. This is the former House Speaker (2007-2011) who said, “We have to pass the Affordable Care Act so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy,” leaving many Americans just shaking their heads not to mention when she said: “Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.”

Reacting to Pelosi’s re-election fellow U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader expressed disbelief with the choice, which shows how unable Democrats are to grasp the future, instead cling to the past.

“I’m very worried we just signed the Democratic Party’s death certificate for the next decade and a half unless we change …,” Schrader said. “So far, we’ve shown no inclination to do that.”

So while President Obama is blaming Fox News, Pelosi will continue with her senseless rants, and President-elect Trump is making the their heads spin around with actually doing work like saving 1,000 jobs in Indiana at a Carrier air conditioning plant like he said he would do to prevent losing more jobs to Mexico.

Trump appeared Thursday night in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the first leg of his “Thank You America” tour. His ability to bring tens-of-thousands of supporters together for political rallies filling large football stadiums to capacity over and over is what led to his winning the presidency, not Fox News.

This week has seen Trump appoint his economic cabinet team as he also considers five candidates for his Secretary of State selection as well as the rest of his cabinet positions that will all require confirmation hearings and approval or rejection by the U.S. Senate. Then will come Trump’s pick to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court.

On Dec. 15 Trump has scheduled a news conference to officially turn over his worldwide business, The Trump Organization, to his three adult children so he can concentrate 100 percent of his time on the presidency and confronting the issues facing the United States at home and overseas.

There is a bull in the China Shop who is sure to break every piece of glass in the store as Trump ravages the traditions of Washington, DC.

 

About the Author

Britt Nelson relocated to Costa Rica in 2011 from Florida, where he served as news editor for the Palatka Daily News, a newspaper owned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group (NYT-RNG) for 20 years.

Nelson served the NYT-RNG for 18 years in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as a correspondent, reporter, staff writer, senior staff writer training new reporters, copy editor, page designer, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editorial board member.