More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
Appearing on Friday’s Ellen DeGeneres Show, President Obama lamented the “Twitter culture” in which people “expect quick answers without sacrifice” and complained about supposedly unfair media coverage: “The amount of stuff that is just put out there on the internet or on sometimes news broadcasts that are just factually inaccurate is surprising and it’s really hard to catch up.”
As an example of such imagined injustice, the commander-in-chief whined: “Since I came into office, we reduced the deficit by two-thirds, but if you ask the average person, they’re sure that spending has shot up. And the reason is because there are a bunch of folks who say that we’re wildly overspending, even though we aren’t.”