Obama Tells Dems to ‘Turn Off’ Cable News, Blogs
The president tells senators not to abandon their ideals in the face of electoral setbacks. He says they should shake obsessions with online and TV news and speak to regular Americans, regularly.
In a morning pep talk to Senate Democrats, President Obama urged his allies to buck up despite electoral setbacks, bear down in the final push to overhaul healthcare — and, whatever they do, quit relying on blogs and cable television for news.
Those online and TV sources create a Washington “echo chamber” that’s overly fixated on political analysis, he said, when a better perspective on the world comes from talking to average Americans on a regular basis.
“There’s a mistake I made last year,” Obama said, “and that’s just not getting out of here enough.”
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