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demmiblue

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Fri Jun 9, 2017, 12:43 PM Jun 2017

Fox News Was Attacking Barack Obama for Using Dijon Mustard at This Point in His Presidency

Source: Newsweek

Donald Trump isn’t the only president to have faced harsh criticisms just months into office. At this point in former President Barack Obama's tenure as the leader of the free world, right-wing news outlets were condemning his use of Dijon mustard as a condiment. Yes, really.

In news from eight years ago that appears to be from some alternate reality, Obama left the White House and went out for a local bite to eat with vice president and BFF Joe Biden in May. The two politicians ordered hamburgers, MSNBC journalist Andrea Mitchell reported at the time, with the sitting president requesting mustard on his red meat.



The story was featured on Sean Hannity's show, Hannity's America, as a screen showed a photoshopped image of Obama surrounded by bottles of mustard with the words "PRESIDENT POUPON" plastered on a red and white banner.

Let that soak in for a minute. Trump tweeted his support for Fox News Friday, commending them for the network’s morning show Fox And Friends' "great reporting" job on ex-FBI Director James Comey’s Thursday testimony. The network’s rejection of Obama's taste palette compared to its incredible support of the embattled Trump White House was seen by Twitter users as shocking at best, and propagandistic at worst.

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/barack-obama-donald-trump-russia-investigation-dijon-mustard-scandal-fox-fake-623643
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Fox News Was Attacking Barack Obama for Using Dijon Mustard at This Point in His Presidency (Original Post) demmiblue Jun 2017 OP
Not shocking but definitely propagandistic. Scurrilous Jun 2017 #1
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