{"id":953,"date":"2008-06-22T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=953"},"modified":"2008-06-22T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T18:52:07","slug":"the-fox-frame-seven-dollar-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"The Fox Frame: Seven Dollar Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the surprise of no one, Fox News has been promoting the notion that the rise in gas prices is the fault of Democrats. Neil Cavuto posited that very theory a couple of months ago in a segment subtly titled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,352605,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Democrats to Blame for High Gas Prices?<\/a>&#8221; The introduction to the piece referenced the GOP talking point that current rates are the consequence of the <em>&#8220;Pelosi Premium.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Caps\/$7-gas.jpg\" alt=\"$7.00 Gas\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>Yesterday, the Fox business program <em>&#8220;The Cost of Freedom&#8221;<\/em> featured a segment that stretched even further to predict that Al Gore&#8217;s endorsement of Barack Obama would send gas prices soaring to seven dollars a gallon. Nothing in the broadcast explained how a political endorsement could have such a profound impact on the price of gas, but a lack of intelligent analysis never stopped Fox before.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to misleading discussions and graphics, the Fox News Ticker often articulates the right-wing view that fuel costs only became a problem with the advent of the Democratic Congress. The problem for Fox is that, despite their best efforts, the <a href=\"http:\/\/tonto.eia.doe.gov\/dnav\/pet\/hist\/mg_tt_usM.htm\" target=\"_blank\">availability of facts<\/a> persists, and they contradict the Fox propaganda. Indeed, gas prices have increased 78% since January 2007, when the new Congress was sworn in. What the Fox Ticker does not tell you is that prices increased 54% from the Bush inauguration until the January 2007, and 174% throughout the Bush administration. Neither does it tell you that Republicans in Congress and the President, whose signature is required to pass legislation, have worked to stifle every Democratic proposal.<\/p>\n<p>In case you didn&#8217;t know, you can correspond with the Fox News Ticker. So if you want to tell the Ticker off, write <a href=\"mailto:theticker@foxnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">theticker@foxnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the surprise of no one, Fox News has been promoting the notion that the rise in gas prices is the fault of Democrats. Neil Cavuto posited that very theory a couple of months ago in a segment subtly titled, &#8220;Democrats to Blame for High Gas Prices?&#8221; The introduction to the piece referenced the GOP [&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":[1,8],"tags":[72,183,33,135],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-al-gore","tag-barack-obama","tag-fox-news","tag-neil-cavuto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-fn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":930,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=930","url_meta":{"origin":953,"position":0},"title":"Rupert Murdoch Predicts Obama Landslide","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/29\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This week's All Things Digital Conference brought Rupert Murdoch to the stage for a surprising interview that included his views on the economy, Barack Obama, and the 2008 election. 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