
Obama: A Legacy of Ashes
Barack Obama left office with a Nobel Peace Prize earned before he had governed a single day, and this compilation from The Corbett Report argues that the eight years between the prize and his final address amounted to broken promises rather than the peace and prosperity he was awarded for. Built entirely from clips pulled off FOX News, CNN, C-SPAN, and the Associated Press, the film runs through the case against him point by point: expanded drone strikes, the rise of ISIS during his tenure, and a war in Afghanistan that became the longest in American history. It revisits the Affordable Care Act's unmet guarantees, NSA surveillance and the privacy fights that followed the Snowden revelations, and the lobbyists the film says shaped legislation behind closed doors. There is no new reporting or original interview footage here, only the editing of existing news coverage into a single argument. The film's thesis is blunt: the mythology built around Obama outran what his administration actually delivered.