substantive about this for a long time. where was he 18 months ago? he was nowhere. so now this is his christmas present to donald trump. mister trump says president obama, you wanted to do good for the russians, you want to make a nice for the russians, you try because people in your own party like lindsey graham, john mccain. gregg: president obama gave an interview to the atlantic, claims he suffered, quote, concentrated vilification by will fox news, rush limbaugh, the whole conservative media ecosystem which prompted karl rove, fox news contributor to respond president obama is whiny, self-justifying and bursting with excuses. which is right? don t know that either is right. i will go with a journalist who looked at a lot of this.
like a villain throughout the last eight years. he also claims it s not the real barack obama. well, we ll get to that in a little bit. he s done several interviews recently, kind of summing up his last eight years in office, taking a look back at his presidency on the whole. and he recently sat down with the atlantic and blamed fox news for damaging his image during his second term saying in 2008 i was never subjected to the kind of concentrated vilification of fox news, rush limbaugh, the whole conservative-media ecosystem. after i was elected it was employed in full force and it had an impact in terms of how a large portion of white voters would see me. he goes on to say, those critics aren t responding to the real president obama as heather mentioned saying, quote, they are responding to a fictional character named barack obama who they see on fox news or who they hear about through rush limbaugh. the interview part of the atlantic series called my