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Fox News exploited the violent turmoil in Iraq to baselessly lay blame for increasing gasoline and oil prices at the feet of President Obama. Fox hosts cited Obama's alleged "policy mistakes" in Iraq as the impetus for the rising cost of petroleum products, continuing a long pattern of attacking Obama over the price of gasoline while ignoring the fact that global market trends are largely out of the president's control.
On the June 13 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade and Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney discussed the impact of the recent turmoil in Iraq on the global oil market. Varney used the opportunity to attack President Obama for the withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq from 2009 through 2011:
VARNEY: Let me make this very clear, we are all paying for the president's policy mistakes. The retreat in Iraq, the chaos in Iraq, will be paid for by us at the pump.
Fox has a storied history of blaming this president for rising oil and gasoline prices.
In 2008, Fox personalities defended President Bush against unsubstantiated charges that the White House was somehow responsible for a rise of oil and gasoline prices, frequently citing the fact that petroleum is part of a global commodity market whose prices are affected by events beyond the United States' control. However, since taking office in 2009, President Obama has faced relentless attacks from Fox News and its allies bent on blaming his administration for both cyclical market trends and one-time price spikes. Here's Fox News in 2008:
are you seeing the double standard that has been a part of the republican rhetoric from before day one, demonizing his plans for laws then blaming those same actions for all the turmoil and problems of the world if that were true Pres. would truly be the most powerful man in the world ever, is this unintentional praise or just the regular Obama bashing without any substance?
amazing how one Black guy they have tried to block at every turn was still able to influence the world when they said he knows nothing about foreign policy or how gov't works and they wish he'd learn how to be an AMERICAN WELL IT'S CLEAR THAT REPUBLICAN INTERPRETATION OF AMERICAN FALLS SHORT OF THE MANTLE OF WHAT IT'S SUPPOSE TO STAND FOR, WHILE PRES. WELL HE IS A REAL AMERICAN AND THAT MANTEL APPLIES TO HIM.
