AP’s Feller Asks Obama About Thursday ‘Third World’ Comment the Wire Service Flushed Out of Early Report
The Associated Press's Ben Feller was granted the opportunity to interview President Obama on Friday. In the transcript , Feller interrupts Obama's long-winded response to his previous softball question (“Are the Republican leaders lacking compassion and they're pessimistic?”) by beginning another question, which is shown as having been stopped before completion: Q. You said they might lead us to third world – It's impressive that Feller even knew that Obama, as reported by AFP, indeed accused Republicans of creating a fiscal plan that would, in Obama's words, turn the U.S. into: “… a nation of potholes, and our airports would be worse than places that we thought — that we used to call the Third World, but who are now investing in infrastructure.” That's because, as seen here , there is no current story at the AP's home site obtained in a search on “Obama third world” (entered without quotes): The only item referencing Obama's “third world” comment is Feller's interview (the April 14 Libya story is unrelated). The wire service is still carrying a home-site story on the Chicago speech where Obama made his “third world” remark. From all appearances, at least one of their reporters was there, as these paragraphs from an unbylined Thursday evening report show: Obama says Republican efforts to go after him in a politically expedient way create problems for them.
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