Fox News now thinks low gas prices under Obama are bad

[unokitty]

Atlantic Magazine

The sudden collapse in gas prices is a mix of good news (energy production is up, all over the world) and bad news (there is no good economic growth story, anywhere).

CNN Money

If you like your cheap oil, you can keep your cheap oil.

Uno

 

[OutHouse]

so when will the price of groceries start to come down due to cheaper fuel?

 

[rudder]

Well, thank goodness they used a question mark!

But that doesn't explain the sheer insanity of Fox News and this screen on 9/15/14 while talking about U.S. inaction militarily against ISIS. The bottom caption says, "No military action against ISIS yet, despite coalition to fight terrorists" while simultaneously showing a side bar labeled FOX FACTS "Military Action Against ISIS" and the first fact is "U.S. has conducted at least 160 airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq"

Guess the bottom caption could have used a question mark, too, eh?

Maybe the caption should have referred to what country was being discussed. Kind of hard to determine what the caption refers to when there is no sound. Airstrikes in Iraq had been underway, Syria not so much. But hey gotta love that liberal outrage.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

This thread delivers!

 

[ElFenix]

Did you miss the question mark at the end of the caption?

 

[ivwshane]

Nobody learns do they? After the oil embargo way back when, one person did, Carter, and he was bullish on ways to get us off of oil dependency so that we wouldn't be vulnerable to political and consequent economic turmoil by being effectively held hostage. Ronnie R killed that because he wasn't a thinking man like Carter in this regard. Clinton, nope. Either Bush? Obama? None have been people of the required vision and so we find ourselves with a potential problem with oil, perversely because the price is going the opposite direction. Still I don't see this as having to create deflation. If wages/jobs improve and a lower cost of everything that consumes oil offsets human employment costs then there would likely be an increased level of spending which can offset any minor deflation. No, I'm not a pretend economist, but it looks reasonable.

Have you seen our oil production and our oil dependency numbers lately? You don't think Obamas energy policy has anything to do with it?

 

[thraashman]

When is Doc Savage Fan going to stop murdering smurfs?

 

[VRAMdemon]

It isn't just Fox News, but all American news networks. Yes, Fox has an obvious slant to the right and then, almost in an act of facetiousness, claim to be fair and balanced. Any news network that would hire Rachel Maddow, also is obviously slanted as well.

It is the job of the media and the press to report facts and the truth in service to the citizens of this country to keep them informed. It is not there to play politics or interject personal opinion and ideologies in the guise of journalism. All media outlets serve the will of and follow the agenda of their owners. It is used to shape the zeitgeist and manipulate public discourse by spinning the language, distorting or perverting the facts, focusing news attention on things that are meant to distract or invoke a particular emotional response in the public etc.

The news media outlet, whether conservative or liberal, is delivering news in a way similar to how store fronts sell things out front to hide the mob operation in the back room. The reality of it is that money and consolidation of power are the ones that are shaping the content broadcasted to manipulate, distract, and control the public.
The press doesn't do what they existed to accomplish in the first place anymore, to give a voice to the common citizenry. Now it simply exists as a sycophant which is channeling propaganda.

The problem is that there seems to be a growing trend in this country that all opinions are valid, regardless if they are supported by facts, figures, science or reality. Fox News is a symptom of that trend. It panders to Middle Americans who like to get enraged whenever they are presented with something that contradicts what they already "know" to be true, based on their "common sense".

 

[Brovane]

Have you seen our oil production and our oil dependency numbers lately? You don't think Obamas energy policy has anything to do with it?

The biggest cause of the increased oil production is sustained higher oil prices. A lot of this new development in the US can only operate profitably when the price is over $50 barrel.

 

[HomerJS]

look at all these other places asking the same question.

But lets keep bashing fox like good lib drones.

"This time, cheaper gas may fuel trouble" - Detroit news
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/bu...14/10/12/can-cheap-gas-hurt-economy/17174753/

"The great American oil debate: Is cheap fuel good for the U.S.?" - Fortune
http://fortune.com/2014/10/22/american-oil-prices/

"You're Enjoying Low Gas Prices, But Is It Really A Good Sign" -NPR
http://www.npr.org/2014/10/23/358062856/youre-enjoying-low-gas-prices-but-is-it-really-a-good-sign

Why Cheap Gasoline Could Be Bad For America's Economic Comeback -Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/christo...-cheaper-gasoline-be-good-or-bad-for-america/

Did these same sources blame Obama for high gas prices then flip-flop just to take shots at Obama??

 

[Brovane]

Did these same sources blame Obama for high gas prices then flip-flop just to take shots at Obama??

That is what the flip-flops are for.

 

[HomerJS]

Well, thank goodness they used a question mark!

But that doesn't explain the sheer insanity of Fox News and this screen on 9/15/14 while talking about U.S. inaction militarily against ISIS. The bottom caption says, "No military action against ISIS yet, despite coalition to fight terrorists" while simultaneously showing a side bar labeled FOX FACTS "Military Action Against ISIS" and the first fact is "U.S. has conducted at least 160 airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq"

Guess the bottom caption could have used a question mark, too, eh?

Haha. This is so Fox.

 

[Brovane]

 

[BUnit1701]

Liberal Rage 101 : Via the medium of television, the only thing communicating information is the caption...

 

[Vic]

Looks like McOwned got a job at Fox. Good for him!

 

[Thebobo]

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/fox-asks-will-cheap-gas-hurt-the-economy

Its a valid point FOX does this a lot. Posting a bigger picture wont change that.

 

[xBiffx]

Its a valid point FOX does this a lot. Posting a bigger picture wont change that.

So was what I posted. It was taken directly from MSNBC from the looks of it. And MSNBC was at least unbiased enough for a second to point out it was a mistake and it happens to all of them from time to time.

Now, in fairness, every network makes on-screen mistakes from time to time, and I imagine Fox’s graphics team probably wishes it could take this one back. It was almost certainly more a mistake than an attempt at deception.

But don't let that get in the way of the liberal outrage.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

When is Doc Savage Fan going to stop murdering smurfs?

Fox News is clearly biased...and I'm not arguing otherwise. However, Detroit News, Fortune, NPR, Forbes, CNN, etc., etc. have all speculated on the potential adverse affects of lower oil prices. But when Fox News does it...well that's different...at least within the depraved minds of partisan hacks who cannot help but salivate and froth at the mouth in outrage at the mere mention of their name. Surely the Pavlovian "intellectuals" among us can find better examples of Fox News bias...examples which are much less embarrassing to themselves that won't so thoroughly expose the true depth of their limited intellectual capacity. No?

 

[dainthomas]

Are you a complete moron?

"Is Doc Savage Fan a complete moron?"

"Does Doc Savage Fan like dudes?"

Some people are asking.

 

[dmcowen674]

Fox News now thinks low gas prices under Obama are bad

So they spend a lot of air time hypnotizing their loyal followers Obama is responsible for gas prices being so high. Gas process have been coming down. Guess where Fox goes next?

http://www.examiner.com/article/fox-news-host-now-thinks-low-gas-prices-are-a-bad-thing-under-obama

Predictable?? I would expect this kind of spin/lie from politicians but I thought Fox was a fair and balanced legitimate news organization?

They are not a legitimate news organization and proud of it.

They are labeled as an Entertainment Organization.

They can post 110% lies and bullshit as they do and perfectly legal as free speech.

 

[compuwiz1]

Did you miss the fact Fox always does that allowing them to post inflammatory headlines and deny at the same time...

Obama birth certificate fake?
Obama is the antichrist?
Obama born in Kenya?

Congratulations......a trifecta!

 

[dmcowen674]

1) It is the job of the media and the press to report facts and the truth in service to the citizens of this country to keep them informed.

2) It is not there to play politics or interject personal opinion and ideologies in the guise of journalism.

3) All media outlets serve the will of and follow the agenda of their owners.

You have 1 and 2 wrong. They are not news organizations, they are Entertainment organizations.

3 you have correct. They can lie 110% and it is ok as free speech.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Have you seen our oil production and our oil dependency numbers lately? You don't think Obamas energy policy has anything to do with it?

I know that oil prices are tied to the global market. The decrease in oil prices are due to cutbacks in use in other industrial nations. Consequently the global price of oil is not Obama's credit or fault. This is an item traded on the open market and subject to speculation and manipulation of supply and demand.

Note I said nothing about Obama's oil policy which I have no personal problem with. What you might have missed was my comment about needing cheap energy which is something other than fossil fuel. Ideally we would be off national grids and generating power through alternative means with a more robust topology. The Grid has become very complex and vulnerable and producing one's own energy should be obvious, if it's inexpensive. If single installations were to prove disadvantageous then a network of local clusters of power sources would provide redundancy without the need for a completely interconnected system.

All of this was being thought about during the Carter years and it's fallen to the wayside ever since. If we had invested the resources appropriate to such a task over the last 40 years who knows what we might enjoy today? We might have avoided trillions in wars and who knows how many deaths? The side discoveries might have been of incalculable value. What happened instead? Drill baby drill.

 

[bshole]

"Is Doc Savage Fan a complete moron?"

"Does Doc Savage Fan like dudes?"

Some people are asking.

Why in the hell is another person's sexuality any of your business? You have quite a nerve....

 

[unokitty]

So stating the truth is a problem...

Well said.

Uno