FLYING PIG ALERT: Neil Cavuto Rebuts Trump On Obama Record

[packman]

Source: Crooks and Liars

Willie Geist was surprised that Fox News, of all places, fact-checked Trump on his rant about Obama regulation yesterday.

"I want to clarify a couple of things. He said that no president in history has cut regulations as much as he has. That is true. I think he might have mischaracterized the regulations that were added under Barack Obama, they were largely financial related," Neil Cavuto said.

He talked about the 2008 meltdown and said many of the regulations were geared toward stabilizing the banks.

"So more than half the regulations the Obama Administration added were post the meltdown. Another point -- when the president referred to the horrible results -- or the disappointing results of the prior administration for adding those regulations, be that as it may, the unemployment rate did, under Barack Obama, go down from a high of 10% to around 4.7%.

Read more: https://crooksandliars.com/2020/07/flying-pig-alert-neil-cavuto-rebuts-trump

[RussBLib]

1. I was shocked when I saw this

Something has changed at Fox. Now, if they could scrape Hannity, Ingraham, and Carlson out of prime time, AND NOT REPLACE THEM WITH ANYONE WORSE, we will be getting somewhere.

I bet Trump dumps on Cavuto in 3, 2, 1...

[Progressive Jones]

8. The word on the street is Ingraham is bucking

for Limbaugh's gig when he dies, which probably won't be that long from now.

[Greybnk48]

2. This cracked me up! Thanks!

[left-of-center2012]

3. From the linked article ...

"Not only did the Dow triple during his (Obama) tenure but the increased regulations and other things that policed the financial companies, those companies did well, Americans did very, very well. So I just want to put that in some -- in some context here."

[Greybnk48]

4. Good for Cavuto!

I haven’t watched him in years, but I used to before Fox went completely toxic in the 90’s.
Edited to add: I was responding to the “Flying Pig Alert.” It hit my funny bone.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. This from Kyle Griffin on Twitter along with Mediate article....

Link to tweet

Text:

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

Fox host Neil Cavuto cut away from Trump's deregulation speech to fact-check his claims on the economy under Obama.

"It was not a disaster under Barack Obama," Cavuto said.

7:30 PM · Jul 16, 2020

Mediate.com article:

Fox News’ Neil Cavuto Cuts Away From Trump Speech to Fact-Check Attacks on Obama’s Economy
By Aidan McLaughlin
Jul 16th, 2020, 5:31 pm

Link: https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-neil-cavuto-cuts-away-from-trump-speech-to-fact-check-attacks-on-obamas-economy/


KY.......

[cstanleytech]

6. My money is on him only saying this to try and save his career

after being one of Trump and the Republican parties water carriers because he can see that the Republicans are going to lose and lose big.

[Progressive Jones]

9. Cavuto has pushed back on Trump before. Not enough, but... nt

[SWBTATTReg]

7. And Mike Wallace told rump that he was wrong in his assertion that Biden wanted to defund...

the police etc. Rump had a brain fart as a result, told his aides to go get the charter to check his claim, Wallace still stuck to his guns.

Good, the media is starting to fact check rump on all of his idiotic claims...

[Progressive Jones]

10. Yeah. What did Trump mean by "charter"? nt

[SWBTATTReg]

11. that's what others were wondering too. People were thinking that rump meant for his ...

aides to look up the wording on the police issue to determine what Biden had said that rump was claiming (when Wallace said, No, PINO, you're wrong (and of course the PINO didn't like being called a liar to his face)).

[blitzen]

12. Cavuto is one of the few good guys on FOX. n/t

[ck4829]

13. Kick

[Cha]

14. KICK!