{"id":52025,"date":"2022-02-11T13:44:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T21:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52025"},"modified":"2022-02-11T13:50:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T21:50:45","slug":"america-hating-fox-news-roots-for-trucker-convoy-to-sabotage-the-booming-biden-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52025","title":{"rendered":"America-Hating Fox News Roots for Trucker Convoy to Sabotage the Booming Biden Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two years America has been struggling to stay afloat in a turbulent sea roiled be a deadly pandemic. And despite having been dealt a depressed nation (economically and emotionally) by his &#8211; sometimes malicious, sometimes incompetent &#8211; predecessor, Donald Trump, President Joe Biden&#8217;s efforts to restore the nation&#8217;s health and prosperity have been remarkably successful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-sad-emoji.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News Sad\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36477\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51465\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">grossly underreported <em>&#8220;Biden Boom&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong> is well under way, with the country experiencing the strongest two-year performance on growth, jobs, and income in decades. Former Under Secretary of Commerce, Robert Shapiro, recently summarized the unprecedented gains, including&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Over the first three quarters of this year, real GDP increased at a 7.8 percent annual rate.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;From January 20 to December 7, 2021, the S&#038;P 500 Index jumped 21.7 percent.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;From January through October, all wage and salary income paid by private businesses increased 2.4 percent after inflation, compared to gains of 0.3 percent for the comparable period in 2019 and 0.7 percent in 2018.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;5,675,000 Americans who were unemployed when this year began had found new jobs by November.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The jobless rate fell from 6.3 percent last January to 4.2 percent in November, or by one-third over 11 months.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Oil prices have fallen by more than 20 percent over the past three weeks.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fox News, however, is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51974\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outraged by this uplifting economic news<\/a><\/strong>. So they have embarked on a crusade to sabotage these achievements, and to undermine the welfare of the nation and its weary but hardy people.<\/p>\n<p>The America-bashing gasbags at Fox News have been observing the allegedly anti-vaccine trucker convoys in Canada with near orgasmic glee. They have noticed that the truckers have blocked highways, disrupted commerce, and interfered with public safety services (police, fire and ambulance). And they have concluded from that that this would be just dandy for the United States.<\/p>\n<p>As <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/coronavirus-covid-19\/fox-news-goes-all-promoting-anti-vaccine-mandate-canadian-truckers\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported by Media Matters<\/a><\/strong>, <em>&#8220;Fox hosts are extremely excited about the protests,&#8221;<\/em> and that <em>&#8220;The network devoted 10 hours and 8 minutes to the story from the first mention of the convoy we found on January 18 through February 10.&#8221;<\/em> Which contrasts sharply with their coverage of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52020\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump absconding with White House documents<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; many classified <em>&#8220;Top Secret&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; for which Fox devoted a single mention on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Also neglected on Fox News was the fact that the truckers participating in the convoy do not represent the trucking industry, which has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/statement-by-canadian-trucking-alliance-president-on-ottawa-protests\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disavowed them<\/a><\/strong>. Nor do they represent the Canadian people, the vast majority of whom <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/news\/almost-2-3rds-of-canadians-oppose-trucker-convoy-protest-poll-suggests-1.5772347\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">oppose the mobile protest<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News has a long history of maligning popular protest movements in the U.S. They have disparaged groups such as <em>Black Lives Matters<\/em> as lawless thugs. But Foxies like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson are praising the truckers as <em>&#8220;inspirational&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;freedom fighters.&#8221;<\/em> And they are openly salivating at the prospect of building a similar AstroTurf movement here at home. Carlson told his dimwitted viewers that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So far, that blockade has forced Ford to shut down one of its manufacturing plants and to operate another plant with a skeleton crew. Toyota says it won\u2019t be able to manufacture vehicles in Ontario for the rest of the week. GM has cancelled multiple shifts at its plant in Lansing, Michigan, due to parts shortages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So this protest is less than a week old and already it is causing deep pain to alt least on global industry. It&#8217;s hard to overstate the historical significance of what we&#8217;re watching right here. The Canadian trucker convoy is the single most successful human rights protest in a generation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tucker: That blockade has forced Ford to shut down one of its manufacturing plants and to operate another plant with a skeleton crew. Toyota says it won\u2019t be able to manufacture vehicles in Ontario for the rest of the week. GM has cancelled multiple shifts.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vxzWds7aih\">pic.twitter.com\/vxzWds7aih<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1491942668049412097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To be clear, Carlson is thrilled that a small, unrepresentative cluster of extremist Canadian anti-vaxxers and neo-Nazis are shutting down U.S. factories and putting Americans out of work. And that is the lock-step perspective across the Fox News schedule. It is decidedly unpatriotic and harmful to Americans who have nothing to do with the policies that the truckers oppose, and who just want to provide for their families in a safe environment.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there are wiser and more compassionate public servants working on behalf the American people. Press Secretary Jen Psaki addressed the Canadian trucker matter on Friday morning, noting that <em>&#8220;it has the potential to have a huge impact on workers and the American public.&#8221;<\/em> But she also offered some hope going forward by observing that the truckers have not effectively cut off transportation routes, and that the Biden administration is working with Canadians to insure that commerce on both sides of the border remains uninterrupted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Psaki: The impact of these protests, while we certainly believe in peaceful protests, has the potential to impact workers being able to travel, the ability to get food on the table to American families, to get auto parts to manufacturers who are trying to make vehicles.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8RsHkt3RTq\">pic.twitter.com\/8RsHkt3RTq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1492231719625191431?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">articles from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past two years America has been struggling to stay afloat in a turbulent sea roiled be a deadly pandemic. And despite having been dealt a depressed nation (economically and emotionally) by his &#8211; sometimes malicious, sometimes incompetent &#8211; predecessor, Donald Trump, President Joe Biden&#8217;s efforts to restore the nation&#8217;s health and prosperity have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[1141,33,1410,377,25],"class_list":["post-52025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-economy","tag-fox-news","tag-jen-psaki","tag-joe-biden","tag-tucker-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-sad-emoji.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dx7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52423,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52423","url_meta":{"origin":52025,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Lies that Poll Shows a &#8216;Majority&#8217; of Americans Blame Biden for Inflation &#8211; It Doesn&#8217;t!","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/29\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"These are difficult times for America as it struggles with both internal and external problems. 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