Joe Concha: Arm Twisting From Left Spurs Obama to Action

It takes arm twisting from the left to force President Barack Obama into action, according to Joe Concha, a columnist at media watchdog Mediaite.com.

"It always seems the pressure from the left gets his attention. For whatever reason, the right, he just expects it all the time and … he almost enjoys it to a certain level," Concha said Thursday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.

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"But that when a woman like [Maureen] Dowd of the New York Times … or Dana Milbank of the Washington Post start to talk about how the country is burning, how we're in complete disarray and there's the president off golfing, that really got his attention."

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