Fact Check: Did President Obama Throw A Reporter Out Of A Press Conference?

  After the recent dust-up at President Trump's press conference a few days ago, where CNN's Jim Acosta wound up seeing his White House press credentials revoked, a video from a June 2015 made a comeback.

  In a wrong-headed case of "whataboutism", this video, from an LGBT Pride event held at the White House, and that featured President Obama being interrupted by an anti-Gay rights protester. After repeated requests by the President to stop interrupting the event, he instructed Secret Service to remove the person.

Let's clear up a few things...

1) This was not a press conference. The President was there delivering remarks about LGBT Pride Month back in June of 2015...

2) The person he had removed was not a credentialed member of the media, by rather someone who had somehow worked their way into the event and then decided to interrupt the POTUS by screaming and yelling. The person was heard yelling, "Shame on you, you shouldn’t be doing this,”

3) President Obama gave him the option of being quiet or being removed. He refused, so the President had Secret Service remove them from the room.

4) Given the hostility from the media at large toward Trump's handling of Jim Acosta and the striping of his "hard pass", it would be hard to find any media outlets that would defend Obama had he done the same thing. Which clearly, he did not.

5) Here are three different media outlets, the Associated News, the Washington Post, and Snopes:

AP NEWS coverage...

Washington Post coverage...

Snopes coverage...

Once again people with an urge to support the current President seem willing to twist, misrepresent, deceive others into either believing claims the White House or Trump Administration distributes or finding some other nonrelated story and insisting that it is something that it wasn't.

It's a pretty intense time right now in the United States and on social media. We're very polarized and too often talk past each other. That's not going to do anyone any good at all.

I'm as guilty as anyone, but every day, I try to fact check stories and claims I see on my social media platforms.

With the startup of the 2020 Presidential Election not too far away, it would help things if we just remember to slow down a tad, regardless of what side you're on (or even no side) and do a few minutes of research to find out what really happened.