Obama: Fox, Limbaugh created 'character named Barack Obama'Washington Examiner, Dec 21, 2016, Sarah Westwood
President Obama said Fox News and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh helped to convert some of his former supporters into fans of President-elect Trump by creating a caricature of Obama.
"When people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents. And so you don't take it personally," Obama said during an October interview with the Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates that was published Wednesday.
"You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government. And that applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now Trump supporters," Obama said. "They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh."
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