President Obama mocks Fox’s teabagging

Posted Apr 29, 2009, 10:04 AM PT by Jed Lewison • First broadcast: Apr 29, 2009

When you’ve had a succesful first 100 days, you’re entitled to take a shot or two at the fools at Fox ‘News’ — and President Obama took full advantage. From his town hall in Missouri earlier today:

Transcript:

Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I’m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we’re going to stabilize Social Security — Claire and I are working dilligently to do a thorough audit of Federal spending — but let’s not play games and pretend that the reason is because of the Recovery Act.