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"Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson interviewed U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long to discuss the Democrats' charge that Republican policies are anti-woman. She introduced the segment saying "many Democrats at last week's convention accused Republicans of waging a war on women, but Republican women would beg to differ."
Carlson asked Long if it "could be insulting" for Democrats to focus on social issues and the two quickly pivoted to the economy with dubious talking points about how women have fared economically under Obama."
A sin that the bloated defense industry will be cut back while the US infrastructure is crumbling? Of interest, 70 per cent of the economic stimulus was spent on defense.
Why is this? It's because every US congressman has a pet defense program in their backyard.
Republicans, of course, would prefer to cut back people programs like Social Security or Medicare rather than hallowed defense boondoggles.
A former Fox news employee said: Shep is on really thin ice. If he wasn't so popular and highly rated (and highly paid) Roger would have yanked him off the air months ago.
Rightardia thinks the Huffington Post story is hilarious. Shepherd Smith is perhaps the only "honest news broker" on Fox News.
We are certain the 'main stream" media would snap him up in a heart beat if he left Fox News and put him in a prime time news spot. .
. . . she followed moms' advice: Marry "A good, preferably rich man."
Yep, that's the secret to a successful marriage from the folks who suggest the Democrats are engaging in class warfare.
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http://www.flackcheck.org - FlackCheck.org awards Orchids to Fox News host Bret Baier for showing President Obama's entire statement as prelude to panel discussion of meaning of "you didn't build that."
Rightardia agrees with Obama and Hillary Clinton. it does take a village to raise a young person. parent, teachers, neighbors and friends all impact on a young person's life.
The Republican view is that success is like a gunfight: the fastest draw wins.
Both CNN and Fox news got the healthcare ruling wrong in the rush to get the story out first.
Wolf Blitzer and reporter Kate Bolduan reported that the individual mandate had been struck down.
Bill Hemmer said during the "breaking news" that the individual mandate had been declared unconstitutional. Fox anchor Bret Baier tweeted the same misinformation.
The "Fast and Furious" gun-tracking program was an unconscionable waste of money to promote senseless acts of violence, just like the movies for which it was named. (02:59).
A Contempt of Congress citation is toothless and little is likely to happen to Attorney General Eric Holder.
Obama should return the favor to the "do nothing " 112th Congress and refuse to cooperate using Executive Privilege.
The problem with Fox news is most of shows contains more opinion than news.
The only news person on Fox news is Shep Smith. The others are predictable ideologues.
Researchers at Farleigh Dickinson University updated a study they had conducted in late 2011:
The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly — a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all. On the other hand, if they listened only to NPR, they would be expected to answer 1.51 questions correctly; viewers of Sunday morning talk shows fare similarly well. And people watching only The Daily Show with Jon Stewart could answer about 1.42 questions correctly.
There Is No Stimulative Effect Of Unemployment Benefits -- None Whatsoever.
From the August 30 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show
Limbaugh added: [T]his regime, from Pelosi to any number of people, try to make the claim that unemployment benefits stimulate the economy. Jay Carney even said, "Oh yeah, I mean, it really works out there, you putting money in people's pockets that they're gonna go spend, they're not ganna save it. And so, yeah, it'll stimulate the economy."
Where does the money come from? You have to take it away from somebody before you give it to somebody else. It's a wash. There is no stimulative effect of unemployment benefits -- none whatsoever. Whether you borrow the money, or print it, or get it via taxes, you still have to take it from some place in the private sector to give it to somebody else in the private sector. It zeros out. And probably is a net negative because it also has the added benefit of promoting laziness, slothfulness. The longer you pay people not to do anything, the longer they'll not do anything. Premiere Radio Networks, The Rush Limbaugh Show, 8/30/11
First of fall, the Federal government doesn't not rob Peter to pay Paul. The federal government collects taxes and is obligated to spend these revenues before the fiscal year ends. What is the most effective way to spend the tax dollars: that is the real question?
Mark Zandi of Moody's economics answered this question with a study. the results of which are shown in the following chart. His study identifies which tax programs have what some call a "multiplexer effect."
People who have lost their jobs will spend most of the unemployment compensation to pay bills and buy groceries. This money is quickly churned back into the economy.
Tax cuts that benefit the affluent may be banked. Some wealthy Americans may purchase precious metals such as gold and place it in a safe deposit box or under their bed. The money is not rolled back into the economy.
Some tax cuts like the FICA payroll tax holiday are stimulative because these cuts benefit a broad segment of the population: middle class/working Americans,
Cuts that benefits small segments of the population such as the corporate tax cuts for C-corporations, the Bush tax cuts and accelerated deprecation have far less " bang for the federal buck."
Are you surprised that Fox News and Rush Limbaugh aren't enamored with the Zandi study? its basically debunks many of the foundations for supply side economics.
This one of the funnier ones Rightardia has seen in a while.
Obama celebrates at the Lincoln Memorial, Jon Kyl rounds up abortion statistics to the nearest 90, and "Fox & Friends" explains why there's no need for Planned Parenthood.
Ralph Reed explains to Sean Hannity how the Obama ruling on contraception will tear the social fabric apart in the case of the safety net for the poor. Of course, the ruling on insurance providing a birth control prescriptions has marginal effect on homeless shelters or food depositories for the poor.
The Catholic Church is doing a fine job of helping the poor compared to most protestant churches that provide lip service and occasional annual events , but do little else.
When GW Bush was president, he proposed turning the US welfare system over to the churches. Church leaders showed little interest in Bush's idea.
Ellen Ratner tried to make the case for birth control coverage, but Hannity cut her off and changed the subject with an irrelevant abstract question: Do you believe in religious freedom?
Hannity also suggested that Ratner's contention that 53 per cent of Catholic women want birth control coverage was untrue. Hannity always has to have the last word, doesn't he?
Fox News doesn't understand the effectiveness of Food Stamps. Rightardia has published the table that Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics produced that made it clear that food stamps were far more stimulative and had more bang for the buck than tax cuts.
Eric Bolling's view is common for conservatives who just "can't be fooled by the facts." Bolling is wrong about Food stamps and Vilsack is right on.
Recently the mayor of Las Vegas went on the Food Stamp or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) diet. You can lose a lot of weight if you only eat $4.06 worth of food every day.
