Brit Hume's Commentary: Obama's media strategy

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-- -- -- -- Well you didn't hear it on sixty minutes the President Obama like many a president before him is unhappy with the press.

In a separate weekend interview with the liberal political journal the new republic.

He grumbled about Fox News and Rush Limbaugh nothing unexpected there for mr.

Obama also complained that reporters generally in an effort to -- -- impartial.

Treat the Democrats and Republicans as equivalent.

Balancing the -- of one side with those of the other they fail he said to note that one side is is trying to do what's right and quote.

We haven't seen that kind of attitude on the other side.

That reminder of course that the president that moment was being interviewed -- one of his campaign donors and supporters who is now also the owner of the new republic.

And -- -- that he basically whistled up sixty minutes on short notice to sit down with him and his secretary of state.

For an interview whose -- could have been described as just how great is the relationship continued to.

I must have missed a friendly interviews sixty minutes did with President Bush and departing secretary of state Colin Powell or.

Condoleezza Rice well do you say Mr.

Bush -- -- offered one.

That may be true it is also true that if he did he would never got the same treatment to this president is received from sixty minutes in nearly all the rest of the press Brett.

This is -- secretary of state leaving but it was a president entering his second tour and didn't you expect.

One series of tough question especially so in the case of sixty minutes as you may recall list on sixty minutes -- the president to -- -- controversy had had risen.

About whether the attack and been Ghazi was terrorism not -- what the president -- about it.

And he said in that interview and he didn't know what it was terrorism and not well he himself had said in a in the head debate -- Mitt Romney that he had -- right away it was terrorism.

So there was this piece of information and -- sixty minutes interview which appeared to contradict what -- said.

And they left it out of -- -- that they aired in and only turned -- at a much later.

It was embarrassing for them to have that happen do you think that thought that they would have been care of them actually -- some tough questions -- time.

But they -- did.

-- fact that tape didn't come out for just days before the election and those who wants it was a quite a long time and it was in the company look and you think how could what was he thinking.

Well.

You know it supports the case that there -- soft on this guy and he's an abuse of sixty minutes have done it -- have been pretty soft.

-- -- thank you.

Forties -- you latest interviews with the president I -- on Twitter you can follow me at Brett there.

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