Former president Barack Obama sat down with "CBS Mornings" cohost Nate Burleson to talk about all the big issues facing America, like gun control and such.

However, even Burleson seemed surprised by Obama's answer when asked "what keeps you up at night?":

The thing that I'm most worried about is the degree to which we've, we now have a divided conversation, in part because we have a divided media, right?

The thing that keeps Obama up at night is that the media does not have the same undivided narrative? Here I would have thought it would be unabashedly profiting off the same capitalism he derides.

Anyway, he continues,

Um, but when I was coming up, you had three TV stations. And people were getting a similar sense of what is true and what isn't, what was real and what was not. Today, what I'm most concerned about is the fact that, because of the splintering of the media, we almost occupy different realities. If something happens, in the past, everybody could say, ‘All right, we may disagree on how to solve it, but at least we all agree that, yeah, that's an issue.'

Now, people'll say, ‘Well, that didn't happen,' or ‘I don't believe that.'

And one of, I think, the goals of the Obama Foundation and one of the goals of my post-presidency is, how do we return to that conversation? How can we have a common set of facts?

It used to be so easy to keep people in line with the media when there were only three networks that had the same talking points.

The internet has made life hard for totalitarians.

What sorts of common sets of facts would Obama like to get back to?

Here's his example:

We may disagree on gun violence, in terms of what the best prescriptions are, but we can't deny the data that says the United States has levels of gun violence that are 5, 10, 15 times more than other countries.

He can't even get the facts straight about whether there's 5, 10, or 15 times more gun violence than other countries.

Here's a fact Obama wouldn't want discussed in terms of gun violence.

Gun-control proponents like to point to Japan, which has the strictest gun laws in the world, and only has a firearm death rate of .02 per 100,000 people; whereas the United States has a firearm death rate of 10.87 per 100,000 people.

And if you leave it there, it sounds like we have a real problem.

However, most gun deaths in the United States are from suicides. If you take suicides out of the equation, the US doesn't even make the top ten nations in terms of gun deaths despite having the most per capita civilian firearms in the world by far.

Japan has a suicide rate of 17.5 per 100,000 people. The U.S. has a suicide rate of 14.1 per 100,000 people, which Includes most of those firearms deaths mentioned above.

Clearly, guns are not the problem or Japan would be doing better than the U.S., not worse.

So in terms of Obama's hypothetical utopia where a united media spews nothing but his version of the world, I guess I'm solidly in the "I don't believe that" camp.