re: Is it really ok to get all of your info from TV?

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Unless you watch fox news and it told you that there is no evidence that obama can read, I guess.

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What are you saying, that Obama got all of his info from TV? Because that's patently false and easily disproven. Unless you watch fox news and it told you that there is no evidence that obama can read, I guess. 

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I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this," Obama said in June 2013 when he was asked about the IRS scandal. "I think it was on Friday."

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VA Secretary Eric Shinseki resigned in the controversy, and the VA's 42 medical centers nationwide are under investigation for similar issues.

"We learned about them through the reports," Carney later said,referencing CNN. "That is when we learned about them, and that is when I understand Secretary Shinseki learned about them."

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Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told CNN last October that Obama did not know about the horrific problems with HealthCare.gov until "the first couple of days" after the site went live on Oct. 1.

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There have been problems, you know," Obama told CNN in October 2011."I heard on the news about this story that — Fast and Furious, where allegedly guns were being run into Mexico, and ATF knew about it, but didn't apprehend those who had sent [the guns]."

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In May 2013, the Associated Press reported that the Justice Department had seized the telephone records of its reporters and editors for two months in 2012. Justice refused to tell AP why it had taken the records.

"Other than press reports, we have no knowledge of any attempt by the Justice Department to seek phone records of the AP," Carney had told reporters.

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Just last Thursday, President Obama called German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss a number of world issues, The New York Times reports, but he did not know that a young German intelligence officer had been arrested the day before for slipping secrets to the CIA.

In addition, documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden last October revealed a surveillance program of Merkel and other U.S. allies that had been operating since 2002.

Obama never knew the effort targeted allies, White House officials said, The Washington Post reports, though he was aware of spying programs that centered on leaders of "adversarial countries."

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CIA Director David Petraeus resigned in November 2012 as head of the nation's primary spy agency over an extramarital affair with a freelance journalist.

Senior FBI officials investigating the affair with biographer Paula Broadwell did not tell Obama of the case, apparently to avoid embarrassment to Obama during his re-election campaign. The president learned of the affair two days after the election.

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