President Obama told House Democrats on Thursday to avoid reading The Huffington Post, ironically just before his own blog went up on the site. While Obama has mentioned his misgivings with HuffPost in the past, this time his criticism came in response to a question about his trade deals.
“The fact that president Obama’s got so worked up over analysis of
the HuffPost criticizing his trade agenda, I think that it says
something,” Global Trade Watch research director Ben Beachy told
HuffPost Live on Friday. “I think what it says is Obama is having to
reckon with the difficult reality that his trade agenda directly
conflicts with and undermines his stated middle class economics agenda.”
HuffPost
Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim told HuffPost Live that the site’s
concurrence with Obama’s overarching goals are the very reason for its
criticism of his trade policy, which some say would actually increase
income inequality.
“When The
Huffington Post, for instance, is so critical of Wall Street policy or
somebody like Larry Summers or somebody like Antonio Weiss … [Obama]
knows that we’re coming from a place of sympathy with the goals of
expanding opportunity, of trying to reduce poverty,” Grim told host Marc Lamont Hill. “You’re generally finding agreements about the ends [but not the means].”
Beachy debunked the theory
that the Trans-Pacific Partnership would create jobs and explained how
it would likely result in a pay decrease for workers who make less than
$80,000.
“[The plan would add] more offshoring incentives, which means a loss of manufacturing jobs . . . .http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/31/obama-criticism-huffington-post_n_6583076.html
Also, make note of Sam Klein's criticism of Barack Obama.
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