Once again, those Fox News hypocrites who complain the left plays class warfare jumped at the chance to do so themselves for the sake of swiping at President Obama. In a Special Report segment today that purported to be about “rough economic news,” reporter Doug Luzader gratuitously mentioned that the Obama’s spent more on dinner last night than most others in Hawaii can afford. Then he immediately moved on to suggest that Republican presidential candidate – and Mitt Romney, of all people - is more in touch.
Luzader said,
“Even here in the Aloha state, they’ve said hello and good-bye to jobs. The unemployment rate here is on the rise again. Not many can afford the $260 that the President and First Lady are believed to have spent on dinner at this island restaurant last night.”
Immediately thereafter, the segment showed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney saying, “I don’t think the president understands.” Luzader added, “Out on the campaign trail, Republicans hammer the president almost daily on the economy.”
Luzader didn’t mention that Romney has far more money than Obama. Nor did he mention where the Romney family goes out to eat.
Owning a $12 million dollar house on the Pacific and about three other multi-million dollar properties and having a $500,000 charge account at Tiffany’s shows you represent the 99%.
Faux logic at its best.
Remember, Hypocrisy is a standard tool for Faux. It is an actual practice. It is anti-journalism.
Yeah, Doug — ’cause nothing says “man of the people” like quadrupling the size of your $12 million La Jolla, CA mansion:
http://www.lajollalight.com/2011/08/24/mitt-romney-prepares-to-remodel-beachfront-la-jolla-home/
And, for all the whining the righties continually do about the unemployment rate, I repeat my suggestion: since the 1 – aka the “job creators” – obviously aren’t doing their job, any tax breaks they receive should be conditional on the unemployment rate falling below a certain percentage {say 3-5.} I don’t believe in unearned entitlements for the top 1% any more than they do for the bottom 99% . . .
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/04/19/159555/us-corporations-outsourced-americans/
As you can see from the chart, the economic recession has had little impact on Corporate Americaâs patriotism. In fact, in 2009, representatives of many of the nationâs most powerful corporations attended the â2009 Strategic Outsourcing Conferenceâ to talk about how to send American jobs overseas. Conference organizers polled the more than 70 senior executives who attended the conference about the behavior of their companies in response to the recession. The majority said their companies increased outsourcing in response to the downturn, with only 9 percent saying they terminated some outsourcing agreements:
The day Fox News regrets segments like this is fast approaching….
