FBN’s Varney Blames Obama For Donald Trump’s Popularity

Stuart Varney whined that pundits have “missed the point” about Donald Trump’s popularity: It’s Obama’s fault and the pundits won’t admit it.

VARNEY: There is an orgy of analysis about Trump’s incredible run; the pundits are having a field day. I think a lot of them have missed the point. Trump is popular because so many voters have really had it with President Obama. It is the president who is at the center of the citizens’ righteous anger. The pundits tiptoe around this. They rarely name the president as the source of Trump’s support. It’s usually some vague anger or exclusion.

“He’s touched a nerve,” they say. “He’s using the language of the street to reach everyday people” or “He tells it how it is.” That’s all true but at the heart of the anger is the failed presidency of Barack Obama.”

Varney began to smear Obama with the “secret Muslim” dog whistle.

VARNEY: Many everyday, churchgoing Americans are outraged at the president’s failure to help Christians who are being slaughtered and persecuted around the world. He doesn’t lift a finger.

Really? I was not aware it was the United States’ job to go around the world defending Christians.

VARNEY: They are not happy with the president’s perceived tilt away from Judeo-Christians.

Varney also accused Obama of “go(ing) around the Constitution to make illegals legal” and and “the utter failure to secure the border.”

“Of course people are angry, but it’s not some vague discontent. It is burning anger at what President Obama has done and what he has done in our name,” Varney added.

Varney concluded by attacking pundits for not acknowledging this “truth,” even though Varney didn’t cite a single piece of evidence or statistic to back up his claim.

VARNEY: It is Donald Trump who has given voice to the outrage over the president’s performance. The pundits know this but they won’t say it. If they say it, they admit those failures and this they will not do. Yet again, Donald Trump has turned the political world upside down. He’s running against the president and his failures and that’s why he’s winning.

That’s right, Trump's success has nothing to do with the nearly $30 million in free airtime Fox gave Trump in the second half of 2015 nor how Fox has worked tirelessly to promote Trump’s presidential candidacy. Or is that something Fox pundits know but won’t say?

Watch Varney below, from the February 25 Varney & Co on Fox Business Network.

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commented 2016-03-01 01:09:21 -0500 · Flag

Here’s an excellent rebuttal of Varney’s absurd argument. Too bad the border wasn’t more “secure” before Varney crossed it.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/02/ross_douthat_says_obama_created_trump_that_s_nuts.html

commented 2016-02-27 14:29:37 -0500 · Flag

Um, it’s kind of funny how EVERY Republicon candidate has attacked Obama during the current campaign. (Hell, the incumbent Senator of my state*, running in one of his first real primary challenges in several years, decided to run against Obama in his first campaign ad. He’s talked about Obama’s “failures” and how he’s “stood up to” and “will continue to stand up to” Obama—completely overlooking the fact that Obama will NOT be the President for most of the Senator’s next term. It’s only been in the past couple of weeks that he’s bothered to get around to discussing/attacking his primary opponents.)

But Varney fails to acknowledge that because THAT does NOT help explain tRump’s “popularity.”

*I refuse to call him “my Senator.”

commented 2016-02-26 21:22:21 -0500 · Flag

He’s lived on our turf for forty years and became an American citizen only three months ago?! He doesn’t even have the right to kiss the president’s dog’s ass. He can lecture people about the government only from last November forward. And this year will be the first year he would have been able to vote. It sounds like he doesn’t care for Trump. Well, guess what? That’s who will be left to vote for. And nobody cares that you’re so sad.

commented 2016-02-26 19:43:22 -0500 · Flag

I’m tired of hearing this smarmy British piece of shit run his mouth. Go back to whatever hole you crawled out of.

commented 2016-02-26 16:54:03 -0500 · Flag

Varney is running at the mouth. The ‘killing Christians’ comment is a blatant lie/fallacy, and Stupid Varney knows it. Paid propaganda shill p.o.s.

commented 2016-02-26 16:43:00 -0500 · Flag

The best this fucker can do is Fox News?

commented 2016-02-26 16:41:15 -0500 · Flag

Thanks to Shitstain Varnish for clearing that up. I can blame all of my spring lawn moss on that black, socialist, Kenyan radical in my White House.

commented 2016-02-26 16:31:51 -0500 · Flag

Trump is popular because so many voters have really had it with President Obama. It is the president who is at the center of the citizens’ righteous anger. The pundits tiptoe around this. They rarely name the president as the source of Trump’s support. It’s usually some vague anger or exclusion.

Shorter Stewie Varney and Trump supporters: “How DARE that Obama serve as President while black!!”

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commented 2016-02-26 16:17:46 -0500 · Flag

I’m sure the Republican establishment has no such bizarre theories as to who is responsible for the Trump ascendancy. And even while many Fox programs are pimping Trump, the “business end” of their empire makes a sad attempt to pin this on their usual target. Be a grown up and take your lumps Ailes.

commented 2016-02-26 16:04:45 -0500 · Flag

There is nothing under the sun or in the universe that FOX cannot blame President Obama for – nothing.