Obama Probably Didn’t Anticipate These Haunting Split Screens During His Speech
During his statements urging for calm in Ferguson, President Barack Obama also suggested that, in the coming days, the media focus on positive solutions to the civil rights issues that erupted in the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson. “There is inevitably going to be some negative reaction, and it will make for good TV,” he noted.
Which makes these split-screens, most of them coming from the same live feeds, so gut-wrenching:
Wow. pic.twitter.com/WQRkYkZktY
— Hayes Brown (@HayesBrown) November 25, 2014
MSNBC's surreal parallel airing of Obama speech with living footage from Ferguson. Gut wrenching. pic.twitter.com/tQiR95B9Yu
— Lauren Katzenberg (@Lkatzenberg) November 25, 2014
Surreal split screen: Obama calls for restraint as what looks like tear gas is deployed in #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/97W3YwGeHn
— Raya Jalabi (@rayajalabi) November 25, 2014
"There is inevitably going to be some reaction that makes for good tv" don't think he knows whats in the split screen pic.twitter.com/EeEByxFp7A
— Melissa Francis (@MelissaAFrancis) November 25, 2014
This is so bad RT @GPollowitz: Obama split screen via CNN pic.twitter.com/mFIKfwN1SH”
— Jen Olney (@gingerconsult) November 25, 2014
Three news networks right now. That Obama/Ferguson split screen is so surreal pic.twitter.com/QiaRgG0jo1
— Amanda Wills (@AmandaWills) November 25, 2014
This is the split screen. He is speaking of peaceful protest as they flip cars. #Ferguson pic.twitter.com/Qn6YYAKHDx
— Michael Buckley (@buckhollywood) November 25, 2014
Calling it now. Conservatives are going to use #msnbc's stupid #ferguson split screen as a campaign ad #2016. #fail pic.twitter.com/lPt0KklExF
— Edmund D. Harrington (@EdmundOnHudson) November 25, 2014
And the question of the night, from Ta-Nehisi Coates:
Oh this image. Good God. Can the White House people see this?
— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) November 25, 2014
[Image via screenshot/Twitter]
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