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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Leaked Sky News plans reveal network's high hopes for young presenter - but there's one complaint we keep on hearing... INSIDE MAIL
The Liberals may be stuck in the political wilderness, but over at Sky News HQ, the conservative star factory never stops. Word from Macquarie Park is that the 24-hour news channel has found its Gen Z poster girl - and she's already being groomed for prime-time stardom.
Fox News
16-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Charlamagne criticizes Obama's 'mind-boggling' advice to Democrats as too little, too late
Radio host Charlamagne Tha God argued that former President Obama's viral critique of his fellow Democrats is old news and that their base has been saying for a decade. As the Democratic Party continues to struggle to chart a new course forward, the 44th president offered a tough love message to the members of his party at a fundraiser on Friday on how to find their way out of the political wilderness. "I think it's going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions," Obama said during the private event in New Jersey. "And it's going to require Democrats to just toughen up." "It's mind-boggling to me when I hear people like President Obama say things that regular everyday people [have] been saying for years," the radio host said on his "Breakfast Club" radio show. "We've been saying Democrats were cowards for a decade. We've been saying Democrats need to toughen up. And that cowardice is, you know, why we're in the position that we're in now." He added that he could provide "countless examples" of Democratic leaders needing to show some backbone. "Like, for example, they should have told Biden that he was going to be a one-term president, it wasn't up to him," Charlamagne said. "So, it's just wild to hear President Obama say that now, as if Democrats haven't been cowards for the past decade." One of his co-hosts balked at Charlamagne, causing him to double down. "That's President Obama's opinion, too!" he argued. When asked what "toughen up" means in the realm of politics, the radio host offered more examples. "'Toughen up' looks like, 'Hey Biden, you're going to be a one-term president.' 'Toughen up' looks like, 'Hey, [Ruth Bader Ginsburg], you're going to step down 'cuz you're too old.' Like, that's what toughening up looks like," Charlamagne said. "Toughen up looks like, 'Hey, if Donald Trump is the existential threat that y'all tell us he is, how come y'all aren't going after him that way while y'all are in office?" he added. "That's what toughening up looks like."
Fox News
15-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Former NPR host says Obama is 'very scold-y these days,' no longer resonates with base
Former President Barack Obama's recent call for Democrats to "toughen up" sparked a conversation on Monday among CNN pundits about his changing importance to the party. One panelist deemed the comments a "pretty scold-y" lecture from Obama. A panel on CNN's "The Arena with Kasie Hunt" reacted to Obama's comments about Democratic Party disarray, with CNN contributor and former NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro arguing that Obama's tone and status in the party have changed dramatically since his time as president. "I'll also say from having read that speech that he gave, he was pretty scold-y. He is very scold-y these days. And he talked a lot about how people are not stepping up and doing their part, and how people have been folding and not really standing up tall. And I just don't think that that goes down very well anymore," she said. "We saw that in the run-up to the election, where he was sort of telling Black men that they needed in solidarity to vote for a Black woman, and I think that that kind of scold-y Obama really doesn't play to the Democratic base anymore," Garcia-Navarro added. As the Democratic Party continues to struggle to chart a new course forward, the 44th president offered a tough love message to the members of his party at a fundraiser on Friday on how to find their way out of the political wilderness. "I think it's going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions," Obama said during the private event in New Jersey, "and it's going to require Democrats to just toughen up." He reportedly went on to tell Democrats to "stop looking for the messiah" and instead rally around the "great candidates running races right now." "Don't tell me you're a Democrat, but you're kind of disappointed right now, so you're not doing anything. No, now is exactly the time that you get in there and do something," Obama added. On Monday, CNN anchor Kasie Hunt noted the irony that Obama "was often treated" like a political messiah himself. Democratic strategist and former Obama adviser David Axelrod weighed in as well during the panel discussion. "I half agree," he said. "I applaud those people, those law firms who had the courage to stand up, universities that are standing up to protect academic freedom. I also am aware that there are responsibilities to the institutions that people are leading that cause those to be difficult questions." Axelrod continued, "So it's not as easy as one might say. That said, there may have been people in that room last night who were there to support the Democratic Party, but had questions about whether they wanted to stick their own neck out, if they were part of a big law firm and so on. And for them, maybe the message was appropriate."
