{"id":343523,"date":"2018-01-12T21:52:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-russians-exploited-issues-we-already-had\/"},"modified":"2018-01-12T21:52:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:52:20","slug":"the-russians-exploited-issues-we-already-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-russians-exploited-issues-we-already-had\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russians \u2018exploited\u2019 issues we already had"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/obama-the-russians-exploited-issues-we-already-had\/article\/2645734\"><strong>Washington Examiner<\/strong><\/a><br \/>January 12, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former President Barack Obama says one of the biggest threats to our democracy is Americans not agreeing on what\u2019s fact versus opinion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the biggest challenges we have to our democracy is the degree to which we don\u2019t share a common baseline of facts,\u201d Obama told David Letterman in the first episode of Letterman\u2019s new Netflix series \u201cMy Next Guest Needs No Introduction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Letterman asked Obama during the interview whether the leader of a democracy diminishing the press or \u201csomebody screwing around with the actual voting process\u201d was more damaging to that democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the Russians exploited, but it was already here, is we are operating in completely different information universes,\u201d Obama said. \u201cIf you watch Fox News you are living on a different planet than you are if you listen to NPR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/obama-the-russians-exploited-issues-we-already-had\/article\/2645734\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, January 12, 2018  at  9:20 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/obama-the-russians-exploited-issues-we-already-had.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/obama-the-russians-exploited-issues-we-already-had.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington ExaminerJanuary 12, 2018 Former President Barack Obama says one of the biggest threats to our democracy is Americans not agreeing on what\u2019s fact versus opinion. \u201cOne of the biggest challenges we have to our democracy is the degree to which we don\u2019t share a common baseline of facts,\u201d Obama told David Letterman in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}