{"id":7458,"date":"2012-06-28T15:23:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T22:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7458"},"modified":"2013-09-20T10:36:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T17:36:34","slug":"fox-nation-in-feverish-panic-to-digest-news-that-obamacare-is-constitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7458","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation In Feverish Panic To Digest News That Obamacare Is Constitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past several months, Fox News has been been struggling mightily to dismiss the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) as a blatant overreach of congressional and executive power. They have characterized it as a job-killing, deficit-raising, breach of constitutional law. They attempted to belittle President Obama, whose background as a professor of constitutional law was mocked by the hosts and guests on Fox.<\/p>\n<p>Today was a nightmare come true for the right. Obama&#8217;s constitutional expertise was affirmed by the Supreme Court with a deciding vote provided by the conservative Chief Justice, John Roberts. Consequently, the weasels at Fox shifted into overdrive to fight back against this utterly devastating rebuke. By midday Fox Nation posted eighteen separate articles, all with negative appraisals of Obama and the Court&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Caps\/foxnation-obamacare-ruling.jpg\" alt=\"Fox Nation on Obamacare Ruling\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Some of the standouts include, <em>&#8220;A Dark Day For Freedom,&#8221; &#8220;Obama Taunts Romney After Ruling,&#8221; &#8220;Palin: &#8216;Obama Lies, Freedom Dies&#8221;<\/em> But without a doubt my personal favorite was the report of a tweet by the DNC&#8217;s Patrick Gaspard that said <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s Constitutional, Bitches.&#8221;<\/em> And then there was the story that Fox Nation posted with great alarm that the <em>&#8220;Stock Market Drops After Obamacare Upheld.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that this story was published well before the markets had closed. At the time it was posted the market was indeed down about 160 points. The Fox Nationalists may not have considered that the drop might have something to do with economic news, including a report that the losses incurred by JPMorgan, previously said to be about $2 billion, were probably closer to $9 billion. They failed to make that observation even though the biggest losers on the DOW were banking stocks. But more importantly, by the time the markets closed they had rebounded to a trivial loss of only 24 points &#8211; a 140 point reversal.<\/p>\n<p>By the logic that Fox was using, if a drop in stock prices was evidence that the business community was opposed to the Court&#8217;s decision, then the recovery minutes later is evidence that the market approves of the decision. But don&#8217;t expect to see that story on Fox. They are now fully engaged in their primary mission to destroy this presidency on behalf of the GOP and their wealthy, corporate constituency. It&#8217;s all downhill from here. Expect Fox to dial up the crazy as they encounter additional defeats, like the one today, on the road to November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past several months, Fox News has been been struggling mightily to dismiss the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) as a blatant overreach of congressional and executive power. They have characterized it as a job-killing, deficit-raising, breach of constitutional law. They attempted to belittle President Obama, whose background as a professor of constitutional law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[183,527,1142,1066],"class_list":["post-7458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-barack-obama","tag-fox-nation","tag-healthcare","tag-obamacare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1Wi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10698,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10698","url_meta":{"origin":7458,"position":0},"title":"Is Fox News The Most Flaccid Propaganda Tool Ever?","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/12\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Twelve days ago the Tea Party dominated Republican House caucus shut down the United States government in an attempt coerce the majority of the Congress into defunding, delaying, or otherwise crippling the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare). They were aided and abetted by their partners in political crime, Fox News.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11178,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11178","url_meta":{"origin":7458,"position":1},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Misquoting Michael Moore: ObamaCare Is An Awful Godsend","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/2\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the favorite methods of distorting the truth that Fox News uses frequently, is to quote liberals out of context or to leave out significant portions of their statements in order to create the false impression that they have abandoned their liberal allies and\/or their principles. And no one\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox Nation","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-reality-obamacare-moore.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10290,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10290","url_meta":{"origin":7458,"position":2},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: The IRS Commish On ObamaCare","author":"Mark NC","date":"8\/1\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Fox News must have a battalion of glassy-eyed interns locked up in a basement somewhere watching congressional hearings all day to find snippets of testimony that they can deceitfully distort. And one of those scalawags is gonna find an extra lump of high fructose corn syrup in his satchel for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11687,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11687","url_meta":{"origin":7458,"position":3},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: ObamaCare Enrollment Lagging In (Red) States","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/15\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Anti-ObamaCare Action Squad at Fox News has been disparaging the program from its inception. (Well, not from its inception when it was a Republican initiative promoted by the Heritage Foundation, but from the time it was adopted by President Obama and congressional Democrats). However, to the extent that it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox Nation","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-reality-obamacare-enrollments.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11837,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11837","url_meta":{"origin":7458,"position":4},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: The ObamaCare Honor System Deadline","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/27\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Conservative politicians and pundits have been unrelentingly negative about the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) from the outset. There have been some 50 attempts by Republicans in congress to repeal, defund, or rollback the law. And Fox News has devoted thousands of hours of airtime trying to scare people away\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox Nation","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-reality-obamacare-deadline.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-reality-obamacare-deadline.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-reality-obamacare-deadline.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":10570,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10570","url_meta":{"origin":7458,"position":5},"title":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Fox News Recycles Three Year Old ObamaCare Lie","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/17\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The professional prevaricators at Fox News really had to extend themselves to achieve their latest pinnacle of dishonesty. The lead story on their community web site, and Home of Flagrant Fallacies, Fox Nation, was another in their series of attacks on the Affordable Health Care Act (aka ObamaCare). 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