Fox News guest: Hannity is ‘so upset that the economy is rebounding’

[AgingAmerican]

Raw Story

A Fox News guest who took on Sean Hannity for blasting President Barack Obama even as employment dropped to the lowest level in more than four years reaveled on Tuesday that the conservative host and others at Fox News are “so upset” that the economy is recovering.

During a panel discussion on Monday, Hannity talked over Occidental College Associate Professor of Politics Caroline Heldman as she tried to point to positive economic indicators like that the unemployment rate had dropped to 7.7 percent and the stock market was soaring.

“Nine million fewer Americans in the workforce!” Hannity interrupted. “You hear Nancy Pelosi, others talking about the stock market. Do any of those people on food stamps, are they investing in the stock market, Caroline?”

“I’m impressed that you’re now concerned about the poor, thank you for that,” Heldman shot back.

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I have a friend who lives at home with his Republican family. He acts puzzled when I tell him Hannity and FOX favor Republicans. He is truly flumoxed by it. He says, "Do you really think so?" Brainwashed.

[AndyA]

1. Faux News feeds the hatred on the right

The right wingers are addicted, and Faux News takes advantage of that by telling them what they want to hear. They reinforce the hatred, bigotry, and fear of the right.

That's why Faux gets away with so many outrageous lies. It's what Faux viewers want to hear. Since they expect and anticipate that their addiction will be fed by Faux, they don't question what they hear.

Little by little, a few on the right are beginning to see that their support of the GOP and Tea Baggers isn't in their best interest, and they are questioning what they are being told. It's a small start, but hopefully one that will grow in the coming days. There are many, however, who will never be convinced, they are too far gone.

I read on another forum about how the mess in Detroit is all Obama's fault. Every bit of it. They ignore the fact that Detroit has been declining for decades, and that much of the damage took place long before Obama took office, yet somehow he is responsible for all of it.

[Berlum]

2. Big Brother (R - Fox) is jerking RepubliProle strings

[Paul E Ester]

3. The stock market

is not the economy. It's a casino run by computers and is disconnected from financial indicators. The unemployment rate is a better indicator, but do you really believe less than one in 10 people of working age are unemployed? The reason the number is down is unemployment benefits ran out thousands for unemployed and the statistics took them out of the labor force as if they did not exist.

The job situation in America will not improve but will continue to deteriorate as more jobs are automated or outsourced.

There is no economic engine to drive the economy, ok maybe fracking and pipelines might do something.

We have a service economy where labor will be squeezed in an ongoing effort to eeek out profits from less.

Better indicators might be, are people still liquidating 401Ks to pay bills, are personal debt levels going up or down. Are americans paying more or less for goods and services. Is fuel taking up a greater or lessor chunk of the budget. Those type of numbers would be more useful than the two "economic" numbers cited in the article.

Greenspan's theory on underwear sales as an economic indicator was fairly straightforward.

"If you look at sales of male underpants it's just pretty much a flat line, it hardly ever changes," NPR's Robert Krulwich explained of the theory, after Greenspan's book "The Age Of Turbulence" was published. "But on those few occasions where it dips that means that men are so pinched that they are deciding not to replace underpants. And [Greenspan] said 'that is almost always a prescient, forward impression that here comes trouble.'"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/underwear-sales-growth-economy_n_1952214.html

You buying new underwear?

[AgingAmerican]

5. The last crash convinced me this is true

The stock market doesn't really mean anything. Money that exists mostly on paper. Bubble-o-nomics.

Still, it's funny watching FAUX tie themselves in knots over stuff like this.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

4. It's sad that there's some here on DU that seem just as upset...

As the FOX News crowd and use the same RW memes to push that the numbers are deceiving.

We need an exodus of these freeper moles.

[kevinmc]

6. I have a year 16 old nephew who's a RWNJ

he watches FOX and takes after his Dad .... who is not as bad as his son. On election night when I told him Obama was going to win he couldn't believe it ...... I told him if he quit watching FOX News the results of the election wouldn't have surprised him .... he got mad and took off. Since then I have slipped Colbert Report on the TV and he likes that show .... think that show will turn him around eventually and see how dumb it is to be a FOX News junky.