Fox News - Last Weeks' Rise In The DOW Was Due To Tea Parties - Tea Party Rally

[Median Democrat]

I guess we now have a way to explain away any increases in the DOW. When the DOW falls, its the Obama bear market. When the DOW rises, its a tea party rally. Now, rince and repeat 1000 times, and maybe the Republicans will win back Congress in 2010. My take is why don't we just simply declare Rupert Murdoch president already?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200904180004?f=h_top

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Six weeks after saying that "some are calling" the Dow Jones industrial average's then-downward trend President Obama's "bear market," and asking, "Is it?" host Brenda Buttner introduced the April 18 edition of Fox News' Bulls & Bears by saying: "Call it a tea party rally. Wall Street's sure partying, up six weeks in a row. The bulls came out about the same time these guys started to shout, saying no to big government, big taxes, and big bailouts. Will that keep investors saying yes to stocks?" Buttner went on to ask the show's panel: "After months on its back, the market comes back the same time Americans fight back against big government. Is that a coincidence?" During the segment, Fox News on-screen text read: "Stocks Rally As 'Tea Party' Rallies Take Nation By Storm" and "Stocks Rally As 'Tea Parties' Catch Fire; Coincidence?" Buttner was not alone in suggesting that Obama was responsible for the stock market's poor performance even though the Dow Jones average was on a downward trajectory months before his inauguration; indeed, several of Buttner's Fox News colleagues referred to an "Obama bear market" in early March.

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[Fleshdancer]

1. Last week I had a birthday, I didn't owe taxes, and I had a good hair day...

Thank-you tea baggers!

:rofl:

[tularetom]

2. Actually that may be true

Once the markets saw how pitiful the opposition was to Obama's economic programs, they collectively breathed a sigh of relief and began to buy.

[Jack from Charlotte]

22. I've worked for three Wall Street firms and it was sort of a running joke....

about what........... CAUSED.........the market to do whatever it happened to do on any certain day.

I recall when I was a young punk rookie at Bache my mentor told me to wait for a market closing statement that came over the wire before going home. The firm's top PR guy, analyst, Larry Wachtel, would tell ...why the market might have done whatever it did that day. That way if/when someone that night at a party or a bar or your neighbor asked why the market was up or down.... you had some plausible explanation.

Of course the only real cause/effect on market movement was more buying or more selling.

Now whenever I hear a guy saying.....why the market did whatever...he's just a pr schmuck

[NC_Nurse]

3. Puh-leeze. These people are so self-inflated. It amazes me what a bunch of

vacuous windbags on Fox can imagine about themselves and their so called "movement". I've seen bigger movements in a toilet bowl, fer chrissake!

[CBR]

4. Extremely vacuous...

even with hannity, oreilly and the rest, the one that bugs me the most is Gretchen Carlson-- everything about her makes me cringe.

[Median Democrat]

11. Sadly, There Is A Segment Of The Population Who Accept Fox's "News" As The Gospel Truth

Can you imagine having a perspective where Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck's rants are the "truth"? Where time and space don't exist, because President Obama somehow cause the recession, which began in December 2007? Where political definitions lose meaning, so an oxymoron like "liberal facist" actually makes sense? Yet, millions of Fox viewers do live in that alternate reality.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

20. ..

:spray:

[geckosfeet]

5. How do these liars get away with this? Isn't this fraud?

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Thanks to the Tea Parties, we have been having fabulous weather lately.

Obama had really screwed up the weather until Fox News and the Teabaggers came to the rescue.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. The weather was beautiful on Teabag Day.

Therefore the teabagging must have caused the weather to be beautiful.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. except where the weather was nasty...therefore, in those places,

Obama's fascist-ray-feminist-talks-to-commies-socialism-anti-gun gun woke the Prince of Darkness who somehow overcame Gawd's true might and foiled the bagging, but didn't foil their spirits, as inflamed by jaysus as they are.

they might try Preparation H for that inflammation....

[Renew Deal]

8. OK, and what about the previous 5 positive weeks?

:shrug:

[Politicalboi]

9. They didn't plan this overnight

Ya know. :rofl: They have been planning this for about as long as they say they did. Thank God Faux Noise keeps us "infromed" or we would have thought this was done by Obambi. LOL!

[Arkana]

10. Hey, I took a shit at 9:00 AM on tax day instead of 8:00 AM!

That's why the stock market rose! Totally! I'm series!!!!

[spanone]

12. i knew it, the rednecks have controlled wall street all along...

bwhahahahaha

[Patsy Stone]

13. Are they also responsible for Susan Boyle's success?

:)

[JayMusgrove]

15. If Susan is a proper Scott, she DRINKS tea,,, she doesn't

waste it on stupid demonstrations.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

14. The good news is most Americans aren't gullible enough to believe this tripe.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/117415/Americans-Confident-Obama-Economy.aspx

Obama and the Dems are so set when the economy and unemployment turn.
:party:

March 26: U.S. Markets Wrap: S&P 500 Advances in Best Month Since 1974
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHOOUq_1HIfI&refer=home

Yeah, the market rallied because of the upcoming Teabaggers party.
:rofl:

Breda Buttface can blow me BTW, she is so whoring herself out.

[Cha]

16. Really?

[Hansel]

17. Yes, because nothing says confidence like teabags dangling from a hat. n/t

[LynnTheDem]

18. And no terrorists attacked us last week coz of the teabaggering.

No really.


Rightwingnuts; the stupidest MFers on the planet.

[Median Democrat]

19. well, DOW Is Down, Time For Fox To Break Out The Obama Bear Market Graphic

If it recovers, then they need to be ready with the Teabagger rally graphic, and the down with socialism crawl.

[jillan]

21. Anyone care for some KoolAid with that?