Because of course they would! Even though Fox Business host Charles Payne had to twist himself into a pretzel to go along.
In a discussion about the precipitous drop in the stock market this morning, America's Newsroom cohost Sandra Smith "just wondered" to Fox Business host Charles Payne how much to blame Democrats. Predictably, Payne went right along with the partisanship.
SMITH: Let me just throw this out here. How much of this is Democrats winning control of the House? I mean, since Election Day, the midterm Election Day, the Dow lost 4% on.
PAYNE: I think it's the tone. You know, the very next day, the market was up. But since then, the tone of Democrats who have declared war on President Trump, I think, have been a real negative way for the market, particularly - I think Americans want to see legislation, not more investigations. You know, I don't think they want to see [Democratic Rep.] Maxine Waters spending a whole lot of time digging up dirt on Deutsche Bank when people are trying to - you know, live their lives.
SMITH: Fair enough.
By the way, the market dropped 1,033 points on February 8, 2018, more than 800 points on October 10, and 600 points on October 24, all more than the 425-point drop during this discussion. Yet, I don't recall anyone on Fox blaming Republicans.
Watch the divisive propaganda below, from the November 20, 2018 America's Newsroom.
“It’s a guarantee that Fox News will try to blame the House Democrats when two bits of fun happen in 2019 – the first is the moment when taxpayers realize how much of a beating they took from the Tax Transfer, including millions of people actually getting tax INCREASES and now owing large, unexpected federal tax payments.”
AMEN Kevin! Mark my words: because I’m a New York State (i.e. a big blue state) homeowner, I’m going to be one of these people who will GET HAMMERED BY A HUGE HIKE IN MY FEDERAL TAXES which will undoubtedly result in me OWING THE IRS A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF $$$$ IN 2019 instead of getting a substantial rebate like I did this year due to the local property taxes deduction GETTING CAPPED at $10,000. Once again, this all goes back to Universal Tax Rule #1 from the Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Donald Barlett, James Steele and David Cay Johnston: when rich individuals and big multinational corporations don’t pay taxes or pay less than their fair share, WORKING CLASS AMERICANS ALWAYS GET STUCK MAKING UP THE DIFFERENCE IN THE END!
The economy’s been declining under Trump since he got control of it. If someone told me that the numbers are actually a lot worse, and they’ve just been lying about them to conveniently develop a case of honesty to blame it on the Dems with…
Actually, I’m waiting for that to happen. There’s no way the Dow can still be that high with all the layoffs and bankruptcies going on, someone has to be reporting fake numbers.
It couldn’t have anything to do with, say, Apple claiming people are growing reluctant to spend $1,000 on their overpriced phones causing tech woes. Or Trump’s tariffs cutting Chinese soybean demand by 90%. Or the effect on sales of Trump’s tariffs overall when the come in effect in January. It couldn’t be worries of our historically long recovery coming to and end. It couldn’t be profit takers in an inflated market. It couldn’t be all the debt Trump and his Republican cronies are racking up spooking the market with fears of federal borrowing crowding out private capital and rising interest rates.
No, it’s because our narcissist president got his ass kicked in the House midterms and him and his sycophants can’t stand it so they strike back. With bulls—t.
No surprise here. After spending the entire year predicting a “red wave” and getting ready to gloat about doing a lot more damage to the middle class voters who rejected them, Fox News and the Right Wing media have lurched into Plan B – Gloat about the Senate, Gloat about Florida and Georgia and then blame every single problem that happens on the Dems barely breaching the gerrymandering firewall in the House.
The GOP played a pattern like this in 2007, when they lost the House at that time – they blamed the entire Bush Recession on the Dems having just landed into the majority in the House when all of the Right Wing mismanagement chickens came home to roost. (Their hope had been to escape the White House and have the crash happen after President Obama took office, but the crash happened nearly a year earlier and the blame was placed on the appropriate parties.)
It’s a guarantee that Fox News will try to blame the House Democrats when two bits of fun happen in 2019 – the first is the moment when taxpayers realize how much of a beating they took from the Tax Transfer, including millions of people actually getting tax INCREASES and now owing large, unexpected federal tax payments. We can already anticipate how Fox News and AM Radio will try to game this as “Democrats always raise your taxes”… And the second is the inevitable downturn in the domestic economy – fueled by the Pence White House’s complete incompetence in handling trade issues around the world, and by the backfiring of the Tax Transfer, which did not raise incomes for most people but instead just gave a sugar rush to the wealthy at everyone else’s expense. As the economy turns in the other direction from the recovery we were seeing during the Obama presidency, Fox News will of course blame the Democrats everywhere they can.