Obama Mocks Fox, Teabaggers

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Speaking at a town hall event in Arnold, MO earlier today,President Barack Obama took a swipe at Fox News and their tea bagging fans for their lack of seriousness. Watch:

“When you see, you know, those of you that are watching certain news channels on which I’m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.”

He went on to note that the stimulus bill–the supposed source of simmering teabagger outrage–represents only a fraction of the deficit. I strongly question the wisdom of dismissing Fox and the protestors so easily. As we’ve seen in the last couple months, by ignoring their noises, he may ultimately suffer yet another special election victory in the House and the conversion of one more Senate Republican into a Democrat.

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