Obama: ‘Talk Radio’ Taking over Politics, Discourse Now Resembles ‘the Comments Section’

OBAMA: "We will see how the Republican primaries sort themselves out. And what I did talk about at the State of the Union was what is true is our politics has become so rancorous and there is so few restrains that these days people can just  make up facts, they can say one thing and then they can say the complete opposite the next week. The kind of language that we see people labeling their political opponents, calling them unpatriotic, saying they want to weaken America. That is I think a result of a lot of forces. Media, that is much more [splendor]; you've got sort of talk radio habits creeping into politics. A lot of times it's like a comment section, or trolling -"
THORNE: "I am very familiar with comment section --"
OBAMA: "-- where people just feel like they can vent without really thinking about what they say ahead of time. And what I did talk about at the State of the Union is the need for us if our democracy is going to work, we can have big arguments, we can disagree on a lot of stuff, but we do have to have some basic boundaries where facts are facts, we don't make stuff up, we don't assume malice on the part of other people. The only way to enforce that, by the way, is ultimately for people to vote and reward politicians who are conducting themselves in a way that we respect and punishing those who are not."