Fox Apologizes For Chart Comparing Stock Performance After Killings Of Black Men

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Fox News host Bret Baier tweeted out a statement of apology from the network after it was dragged for airing a chart that compared stock market reactions to the historic and ongoing killings of black men.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1313148
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Sick.

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Trumpism tone deafness.

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Reminds me of the robber who does not regret his theft but is very, very sorry for having been caught at it…

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If Fox added context it would self-immolate.

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"The network said the graphic “should have never aired on television without full context.”

Context? CONTEXT? The full context is that this was intended propaganda for Fox News consumers. It’s not just a depraved graphic; it’s the mindset behind creating such things for their viewers.

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Again, this is “saying the quiet part out loud.” It proves the BLM point: the elites of this country have designed and built a system by which they profit on the suffering and death of black people.

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When things like this happen I wonder how it went through the whole chain of approvals it had to get to air without someone saying, “Are you fucking crazy?”

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And the equivalent graph with stock market reactions to white-collar perps receiving slaps on their wrists?

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I’ll bring the marshmallows, but I hear burning irony is a known carcinogen.

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‘Without full context’? And what exactly would that be, Bret? Just putting the best face possible on a murder?

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“We forgot to include the week after Kristallnacht. That market just exploded.”

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This is what Nixon and friends called a mind fuck.
Doesn’t have to true just get it out and some will believe it forever.

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Historically, there has been a disconnect between what investors focus on and what happens across the rest of the country,” Li said during the segment

This is pretty much a lie. I think “investors” are acutely aware and respond according to their own needs to what is happening across the country. And “full context” would have meant showing the breakdowns as to what components of the market were most effected…military and arms/munitions stocks perhaps?!?

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The ‘are you fucking crazy’ guy was absent that day.

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Full context - killing black men is good for the economy. Right? Far right??

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Wait for Fox and their sympathizers to claim “after all cotton futures went up after Lincoln was assassinated”.

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This is what Trumpism, the right-wing and the GOP are all about.

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We just had one of the most intense and important weeks in American history and we’re in the Midst of a global pandemic and senator Ted is tweeting grievances about toilet paper. https://t.co/ewF4MsaheY

— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) June 6, 2020

Priorities

So, in March, at the start of coronavirus lockdown, I went on Amazon to try to buy toilet paper. I bought the only kind that was available. It finally arrived yesterday, shipped from China. Pitiful! 🤨🤨 pic.twitter.com/GeQqdzhTHw

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 6, 2020
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The FOX chart was fronted by Susan Li.

Stocks Are Rallying Despite Nationwide Protests. That’s Typical. - WSJ https://t.co/55n8WveclW

— Susan Li (@SusanLiTV) June 6, 2020
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