Obama: No ‘Diversity of Views’ in Either Party, We ‘Choose Our Own Facts’

President Obama delivered some strong remarks about partisanship and polarization to the Illinois General Assembly today, and had some strong words for how homogenized both major parties have become.

And while the president acknowledged partisan rancor has been worse, he still called for a “better politics” that rejects the polarization that infects practically everything these days.

Obama said both parties are trying to become more and more singular in their beliefs with “no diversity of views,” citing how Democrats try to push out Southern conservatives and Republicans to the same with Northeastern moderates.

He even brought up the media and said, “Some folks watch Fox News, some folks read The Huffington Post, and very often what’s profitable is the most sensational conflict and the most incendiary soundbites.”

Gee, I wonder what he could possibly be talking about.

Obama lamented how people can just “choose our own facts” and quipped, “If I listened to some of these conservative pundits, I wouldn’t vote for me either. I sound like a scary guy.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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