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Democrat Chris Van Hollen Destroys Fox News’ Fiscal Cliff Propaganda
Fox Entertainment (aka, “news”) anchor Gregg Jarrett was working hard for his GOP today, but Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) was having none of it. Jarrett was trying to blame the President for not talking to Republicans. Van Hollen schooled the silly man with this, “Why is that? Do you know the answer to why that is? Why is that? It’s because Speaker Boehner walked away from the talks he was having with the president. That’s a matter of public record.”
Apparently they don’t “do” public records in Fox News’ “brain room”.
Here is the video:
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Transcript:
Jarrett: You’ve got 20 million Americans unemployed or underemployed, and these are people who are desperate to put food on their table, to pay their rent, to keep the roof over their houses, and they have no expectation that Congress is going to do anything to help them. Don’t they deserve more than that?
Van Hollen: Well, certainly millions of Americans are out there struggling, and certainly they deserve a Congress that will avoid going over the fiscal cliff, which is why the president has been working hard to bring the leaders together…
Jarrett: Has he really?
Van Hollen: ….I think you and your viewers should know that Speaker Boehner has absolutely refused to even hold a vote on the bill that passed the Senate which would avoid the tax fiscal cliff. We aren’t even asking him to vote for it, just hold a vote. Let the people’s house do its business.
Jarrett: It takes more than one side to compromise, congressman. You know that compromise is endemic in Washington politics. And the president, we looked it up today, and I had our brain room confirm it, and they say there has been no face to face discussion between the president and anybody on the Republican side in eleven days. He’s the leader of the country. He can call a discussion anytime he wants, and he hasn’t, which does question the sincerity of the president.
Van Hollen: Why is that? Do you know the answer to why that is? Why is that? It’s because Speaker Boehner walked away from the talks he was having with the president.That’s a matter of public record. The president can’t force the speaker to talk. What happened was the speaker walked out of the talks with the president. The speaker then decided to come up with a plan that says he is going to ask people making over a million dollars to pay a little bit more in taxes to help reduce the deficit. It was rejected by his own party, so then he sent his members home on vacation. I’m over on the Senate side, right now. They’re in session. Speaker Boehner let the House members go. So first he walked out on talks with the president, then he sent everybody home.
Van Hollen knows of what he speaks, because he is the top Democratic spot on the House Budget Committee. He’s also a lawyer and has a masters in public policy. In other words, Jarrett’s worst nightmare: Someone who knows something about the topic at hand.
The “brain room” at Fox might wish to recall that this is not the first time Boehner has walked out on Obama in the middle of a looming fiscal crisis. The speaker also walked out during talks that created this fiscal cliff. In July of 2011, the New York Times reported, “Negotiations over a broad deficit reduction plan collapsed in acrimony on Friday after Speaker John A. Boehner suddenly broke off talks with President Obama, raising the risk of an economy-shaking default.”
Good thing Gregg knew what Republicans would say to each of Jarrett’s facts. I mean, heck, it’s like fair and balanced over there. In Fox world, Boehner didn’t really go home empty handed after being humiliated by his own caucus. In Fox world, this is all Obama’s fault because he is not “sincere.” No, it’s not the Congress, which is set to “go down in American history as the most unproductive session since the 1940s.”
When asked for comment on the record of the 112th Congress, Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), pointed to the 115 times the Republican minority has held up a bill’s passage by threatening to filibuster it. House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) office did not return a request for comment.
No, it’s not the GOP’s filibusters or the tea crazy House. Don’t look at the facts, you evil liberals. It’s the President, ‘cuz Jarrett can feel it in his brain room.
Only a Fox News viewer would accept such a fallacy as a given. What proof do we have that Gregg Jarrett can read Obama’s mind and heart? None. But he is positive that he knows Obama’s motives, just because. So he bases his entire argument on this fallacy and when confronted by Van Hollen’s facts, Jarrett’s snide condescension morphs into duck and dodge avoidance. HOT HOT HOT ball!
In Fox world, Obama’s intentions are free game and the fiscal cliff is his, too. He’s the big bad boogeyman that brings them ratings gold from the primitives. They watch with their fear/rage center set on high alert just waiting for the hate crack to be delivered from the pusher. Check.
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40 Responses to Democrat Chris Van Hollen Destroys Fox News’ Fiscal Cliff Propaganda
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Stephanie
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Jarrett is a Republican stooge it is quite obvious that the Corporate Corruption in our News Media is so Anti-American they should be shut down for promoting economic terrorism in an attempt to destroy the US economy. Pure Propaganda is what FoxNews is with interests AGAINST the betterment of 98% of Americans. Fox News is a CRIMINAL ORGINIZATION.
George Sirois
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
I personally loved the end of the video, where Van Hollen opened up a flurry of facts like Ray Leonard did at the end of each round against Marvin Hagler. All Jarrett could say was, “Uhhh… we’re out of time!”
Tom
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 2:34 pm
Mine too. Van Hollen brought it and then some.
Jim Acero
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 3:30 pm
That was fantastic!
Van Hollen: Boehner should allow the Senate to hold a vote on the bill.
Jarrett: Boehner would say they’ve already voted to extend all the tax cuts.
Van Hollen: They had a vote and they voted it down and passed another bill on a bipartisan basis.
Jarrett: Oh, we’re out of time…
Amazing that anyone with a brain can watch this and NOT see what happened. Oh wait, this is Fox, so I guess that explains that.
Sandra
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 10:59 am
I too took note of how quickly Jarret resorted to ‘we’re out of time.’ He was smacked down with the facts and had no factual response so shut the interview down. FCUK NOISE employees are well trained in the art of deception and lies and can’t handle facts. More Dem lawmakers should try to get on FCUK and call these liars out with truth and facts.
Rita Nicholson
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Republicans need hate, fear and lies just as a heroin addict needs his/her fix. It is sad that the GOP has become a Group of Psychotics.
SinghX
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 7:20 am
You had the correct answer to begin with,(Fox/right wingers=addicts)but psychotic and addictive personalities are not the same thing…
Addiction is a process of buying into false and empty promises; false promises of relief, false promises of emotional security,a false sense of fulfillment, and the false sense of intimacy with the “world”…and, that is exactly who they are/what they do.
I would change your ending and “leap” in a different direction:
Republicans need hate, fear and lies just like fundamentalist Christians need Satan; without Satan luring them into a world of “sin”, there would be no fear, hate and lies about a sky-god coming down and raining vengeance upon their souls.
Eugene Kiedrowski
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Faux Gnus ‘Brain Room’: Hello …..Hello…Hello…Hellooooooooooo (echo, echo, echo)
Eykis
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Did ya’ll know Jarrett is ALSO a lawyer? At least he claims to be one~like Megyn Kelly and Kimberly Guilfoyle, Laura Ingraham, these are actually people with higher education and KNOW THEY ARE LYING TO AMERICAN RUBES~
@damspahn
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
In Fox’s world, what color is the sky?
1voice1vote
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Menacing.
mjh
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Red.
In Fox’s world, nothing is blue . . .
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Junkface
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 8:16 pm
Not true.
In Fox’s world, Communism is blue.
Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Fox uses the word communism, but has no idea what it is. Its the Doocy syndrome
mjh
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 9:54 pm
They think it [communism] is synonymous with Socialism . . .
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KatzKids
Dec. 30th, 2012 at 2:14 am
Exactly, but let’s not forget they also throw “Fascist & Marxist” around with equal ease, covering all the bases. They fail to understand the definition of those policies, just as they have no clue what socialism means. They think, just because their base is clueless that the rest of us are as well. Preaching to the ignorant.
1voice1vote
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
The Senate acted. The President has had his pen at-the-ready. And where is Boehner’s House of Representatives? On a tax-payer funded vacation, yet again.
1 January 2013 headline: Republicans raise taxes on 100% of Americans.
Patricia
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Prior to the failure of “Plan B,” House Republicans had offered several plans, starting with Boehner’s plan to raise $800 billion in revenues without raising tax rates. All were rejected by the White House and the Senate–which has not even passed a budget for three successive years, contrary to federal law.
While the President and the Senate leadership engage in a good cop-bad cop charade, the likely reality is that they have calculated that the “fiscal cliff” is bound to take place (and perhaps even suits their interests), and their sole focus is to convince the public that Republicans are to blame.
Given that President Obama’s call to McConnell was the first he had received in over a month from any Democrat on the issue, it is probably that going over the “fiscal cliff” was the President’s intent from the start.
fredaruthproject
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Please try harder to offer facts in support of your perspective, versus Republican talking points. Be aware that truly knowledgeable people respond to articles on this site!
Tim
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 5:53 pm
Actually, Patricia, the republicans are to blame for the fiscal cliff. The “fiscal cliff” was designed by the republicans as a “compromise” giving the democrats most of what they asked for in a budget as a concession to get what they wanted as to not “filibuster” again on the issue. The republican plan was to make sure Obama appeared as a failure and would not gain re-election. With a republican president the reasoned they would be able to continue the fiscal calamity that the fiscal cliff will actually fix. The fiscal cliff is only a cliff to the republican party, the middle class that will be be mildly affected by it will be fixed with a simple stimulus rebate (a la GW Bush.)
majii
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 10:20 pm
The things you don’t know are appalling. Before negotiations were begun, it was agreed that only Boehner would meet with the president. Do you know why this was so? Because Article I of the Constitution states that all bills dealing with money must begin in the House. McConnell deliberately stayed out of negotiations. When he was asked about Boehner’s Plan B, he refused to give an answer that indicated he supported it. He probably did this because he knows that the Senate had already passed a bill which would extend the middle class tax cuts some time ago, and he didn’t want to involve himself in Boehner’s failure to lead. When President Obama made his initial offer, Boehner offered nothing. The president then declared that he wasn’t going to negotiate with himself. A short while later, Boehner offered his proposal that would raise $800 Billion in revenue. President Obama knows that $800 Billion in revenue over 10 years won’t reduce the deficit by very much if Boehner’s deal raises taxes only on those making over 1 Million, preserves the estate tax, and doesn’t close loopholes that deal with stocks and dividends, so he rejected it, with good reason. He is also very much concerned about keeping his campaign pledge to rid us of the tax cuts for the rich, and he is concerned about our unemployed citizens and with protecting our social safety net programs. It’s rather easy to think there are simple solutions to complex problems if one doesn’t fully understand the economics behind them or the real human impacts of certain measures. Boehner’s offer to the president wasn’t serious. If one always screams about the deficit but is unwilling to act in a way that reduces it effectively, one is only blowing smoke.
C.
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 2:57 pm
Van Hollen was on MSNBC too this morning, they gave him a lot of time to explain everything. He did a great job.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L...
JCNow
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 5:17 pm
@Patricia: Do you mean the Republican deal where they offered unspecified tax revenues by eliminating unspecified tax expenditures for unspecified tax payers for unspecified periods of time? That plan? LMAO.
PamT
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 5:18 pm
On the ropes and — oh, look at the time! This was a good one, and Van Hollen didn’t take the BS from Jarret.
Larry Dillon
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
I love Faux News Entertainment.Especially now.The Tea-Nuts are imploding on every single issue and we can sit back and watch the train wreck from a safe distance via Faux News.Absolutely delightful.Proving over and over again Conservatism is as dead as door nail.Becoming more irrelevant with each passing day.A stagnant ideology thats became archaic dry and again irrelevant.
danny6114
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 6:05 pm
Maybe they should issue helmets for the”Brain” room, they’re evidently damaged.
MlK
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 6:49 pm
@Patricia you realize its not the senate or presidents job to pass a budget right? Though Obama and the Senate have offered a budget to the house every year the house refuses to work with him….
that’s like locking a ruby in a box destroying the Key, and complaining when someone states they cant open it….
M.R.M
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 6:51 pm
funny a “brain room” with NO active brain cells in it! i just wonder how many people, who watch “FOX NOISE”, understood, how stupid the fox news team, reallllllly is?…. lmao…. 8^)
savageDOG
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 7:21 pm
M.R.M., i hate to say this, but those rightwingers do not see anything except hate. i am virtually a lonely person in Texas, where bucketheads believe the echoes of FUX news. i have otherwise intellegent family members who seem to me, like the prey of spiders caught up in a web, and they have made that web their home.
SinghX
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 8:07 am
The addictive personality cycle creates a classic “exploding head” world-view for themselves*. The cycle is made up of four steps: pain, feeling the need to act out,acting out and feeling better, pain from acting out…
They Fox “junkies” continually seek relief from their “pain” (itchin’ fer a fight, guilt, anger, impulse to blow a fuse, pain of loosing an election etc.). They do this by avoiding what they consider the unpleasantness of reality; for instance,they hide behind their “patriotic” persona so they don’t have to accept icky stuff, like “we’re here, we’re queer so get over it”. They think watching Fox is the “normal” way to get rid of the “itch” and feel good about themselves…let me repeat–they think this is all normal!
They feel the pain of reality, feel the need to “explode” because their “patriotic” persona is in danger*, their head “explodes”, then, more pain as reality sets in…and they start all over again.
*Fox makes sure to create the “itch” to keep the “patriots-god-fearing-good-christian-gun-owners “jones’in” for their next high.
Rita Klinsky
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 9:33 pm
Send Jarrett back to Court TV that is all he is good for.Oh they are off the air just like Jarrett should be
steve-annie
Dec. 28th, 2012 at 9:46 pm
There’s a “brain room” at Fox News?? Oh, I get it … that’s where they keep the one brain they all have to share among themselves!
stumptownhero
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 12:01 am
Yes and that brain resides in the head of one Abbey Normal!
Sandra
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 11:16 am
I think he meant to say brain dead room but slipped up and cut the interview short.
stumptownhero
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 12:04 am
Pure Journalistic Gold here from the last paragraph:
In Fox world, Obama’s intentions are free game and the fiscal cliff is his, too. He’s the big bad boogeyman that brings them ratings gold from the primitives. They watch with their fear/rage center set on high alert just waiting for the hate crack to be delivered from the pusher.
steveo
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 12:16 am
There must be water in the “brain room”.
RozB
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 9:22 am
A Brain Room at Fox. Jarrett made a funny.
Edward Robinson,Sr.
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 11:03 am
Continue To Be Courageous And Firm In Your Comittment To Represent The Interest Of All The People.
garyd552
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Can one call a place a brain room that only consists of a hamster running on a wheel?
Thinking Person
Dec. 29th, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Just take up the Matter of Unemployment. Leave everything else for the incoming Congress.
Is there ANYTHING that Prevents us from doing this?
NO.
There is NO FISCAL CLIFF. Congress can come back on January 07 and start over, with our NEW Congress.
I really hope the media will start asking – why can’t we just start again on Monday?
There is no reason, law, condition that prevents us from doing so.
Obama’s admin should make the case why the Unemployed should be extended and why the rest will wait till the next Congress convenes.
Period.