Obama Tells Reporters How He Wants Them to Cover Campaign

Kyle Drennen | May 6, 2016
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

Throughout the friendly White House press conference on Friday, President Obama told reporters how he wanted them to cover the 2016 campaign. Specifically, he instructed them on how he wanted them to attack Republicans in their coverage: "And what that means is that every candidate, every nominee needs to be subject to exacting standards and genuine scrutiny. It means that you got to make sure that their budgets add up. It means that if they say they’ve got an answer to a problem that it is actually plausible and that they have details for how it would work. And if it’s completely implausible and would not work, that needs to be reported on. The American people need to know that."

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