A few days after he hit Republicans from the left when he moderated a presidential candidate debate on MSNBC, NBC’s Brian Williams pressed President Barack Obama with the concerns of Obama supporters to the President’s left (“Members of your base are asking: ‘When are you going to get your Harry Truman on?’” and “What do you say to those Americans who voted for that man on the poster that said ‘Hope’?”).
In between, he empathized with how Obama had to deal with an irrational House Republican caucus, ie the Tea Party members.
Incredibly, in the interview aired Monday night, September 12, 2011, but conducted on Saturday just two days after Obama’s big raise taxes/spend more speech, Williams never challenged Obama on it beyond cuing him up: “Did you come to a decision that what the country needs is in large part a good old public works bill?”
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