Barack Obama’s seemingly constant attacks on Fox News were a hot topic of conversation on the June 22 edition of The Kelly File. Megyn Kelly invited former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen and Democratic strategist Robert Zimmerman to the program to discuss why the president complains about the cable network so frequently. Thiessen agreed with Obama’s statement in an interview with Marc Maron that people who watch Fox News are getting a completely different set of facts than those who read the New York Times.
The former Bush staffer claimed, “if you read the New York Times, you live in a world where Barack Obama is doing great, the battle against ISIS is going well, and the economy is recovering.” He added that – if you were living in the New York Times’s media bubble – “you wouldn’t know things like, for example, about Lois Lerner’s emails or the fact that Jonathan Gruber, the architect of ObamaCare, has said – mocked the stupidity of the American people.”