Faux News can't help itself. They've stepped in it AGAIN. Faux bloviator
Juan Williams was caught cheating. He
did a little plagiarizing in a column he wrote.
This was the second Faux plagiarism scandal of the past week. Add that to Bill O'Reilly's calling a guest a
liar because the guest insisted on using FACTS (something of a dirty word at
Faux) and it was a typical week at the least trusted "news" outlet in
the country.
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Four years ago, as a newly
elected president began his efforts to rescue the economy and strengthen the
social safety net, conservative economic pundits — people who claimed to
understand markets and know how to satisfy them — warned of imminent financial
disaster. Stocks, they declared, would plunge, while interest rates would soar.
Even a casual trawl through the headlines of the time turns up one
dire pronouncement after another. “Obama’s radicalism is killing the Dow,”
warned an op-ed article by Michael Boskin, an economic adviser to both
Presidents Bush. “The disciplinarians of U.S. policy makers return,” declared
The Wall Street Journal, warning that the “bond vigilantes” would soon push
Treasury yields to destructive heights.
Sure enough,
this week the Dow Jones industrial average has been hitting all-time highs,
while the current yield on 10-year U.S. government bonds is roughly half what
it was when The Journal published that screed.
That
quote is from Nobel Prize winner economist Paul Krugman, columnist for The New
York Times. The DOW has been in record
territory recently as the right-wing economic geniuses who advised both Bushes
or wrote for The Wall Street Journal DIDN'T predict. They and others, like the morons on Faux
Business, said Obama's policies would DESTROY THE ECONOMY.
THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING.
It's the same noise we get about Obama-care. Before the election
the Republicants were SCREAMING how Obama-care was going to be a disaster. Today, more and more Republicant governors
are signing their states on to Obama's Medicaid fix. That list includes Kasich … of OHIO, who, of
course, was a-gain before he was a-fore it. Some flat earthers are teachable, others are
not.
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In
other gun news: A
recent poll found that a Democrat who supported universal background checks
running against a Republicant who didn't would win by a 24 point margin.
The
same poll found that a Democrat who supported high-volume clip bans running
against a Republicant who didn't would win by a 14 point margin.
And finally, the
same poll found that a Democrat who supported an assault weapons ban running
against a Republicant who didn't would win by a 15 point margin.
The
conclusion: being in the pocket of the gun and ammo lobby ain't what it used to
be, particularly as gun ownership is at an all time low.
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