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Barack Obama - Protecting Democracy and the Commitment to Facts

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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The Discourse in America Has Been So Toxic

When he ran for U.S. Senate in Illinois, you go down state, that's the South. There aren't a lot of folks who look like you or me. And I think the filter now has become so thick. It started with Fox News and some of the other, you know, traditional media. Now with social media, that's gotten turbocharged. If you go into those same communities now, they have so many preconceptions about what somebody like me believes cares about, etc., that it's very hard to penetrate.

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