On Saturday, members of the Washington Press Corp. will gather for the
annual White House Correspondents Association dinner, which is also
traditionally attended by the sitting President. However, in a buck to tradition, Trump has
announced that he will not be attending and will be holding a rally the same
night, meaning some reporters will have to skip their own professional event to
cover his. While this slam is not anything
surprising to anyone who followed Trump’s campaign where he continuously called
the press “dishonest” and “scum” while vowing to somehow “open up our libel
laws” to weaken the First Amendment. Furthermore, since taking office, he has
dismissed unfavorable coverage as “fake news” and described the mainstream
media as “the enemy of the American people”, but is this all just theater? Joining me today to talk all about Trump’s fake war on the fake news is Ben Schreckinger who is a staff writer for Politico Magazine where he covers
national politics.
Barack Obama’s election in 2008 was a watershed moment in American
history that inspired progressives and enraged conservatives. Yet despite being
elected in the midst of multiple crises—a Wall Street meltdown that imperiled
the global economy and American troops entangled in two foreign wars—President
Obama was able to stabilized the economy and restore America’s prestige on the
global stage, but if you were to ask a right-winger they would likely tell you
he was the worst President in American history, and would then attempt to back
up that claim with a string of lies, disinformation, and conspiracy
theories. In his book The Best Worst President: What the Right Gets Wrong About Barack Obama veteran
campaigner and political analyst Mark Hannah systematically debunks
all these attempts to negate President’ Obama’s accomplishments and damage his
reputation and he joins me on the show today to talk all about the book and the
Obama administration’s most surprising and underappreciated triumphs.
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