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fearandwar:

In a segment falsely blaming Obama for rising gasoline prices, Fox News’ America’s Newsroom aired the following chart yesterday. It shows three data points — including the vague “last year” — plotted nonsensically on the x-axis:

“Last year” refers to gas prices last February; Fox’s chart omitted what happened in the 13 months between February 2011 and last week. Here’s how Fox’s source, AAA, displays the data (green line):

I can remember watching Fox when Bush was president and O’Reilly and other commentators saying you can’t blame the president for gas prices. Evidently, that only holds true for Republicans.

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That’s why you can’t Repubs seriously, to me. They shift the blame so goddamn much that every word out of their mouth is terribly unreliable. The republican party is the party that cried wolf. 

Source: fearandwar
Notes: 26 2/23/12 — 4:36pm Short URL: http://tmblr.co/ZRL8xvGvgw6t
 
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