I was watching FOX News* the other day and saw the headline: "Consumer Confidence Is Down Due To The Debt Crisis." I appreciate the BIG BOLD graphics on FOX for those of us who don't see as well as we used to; I also appreciate the short headlines for those of us who don't like to think too much; and I appreciate the easy-on-the-eyes FOX girls. :p
"Consumer Confidence Is Down Due To The Debt Crisis" - what does that mean? What is 'consumer confidence?' How do they measure that? Is that different from 'consumer indifference?' :p
Nobody explained. FOX seemed to expect that their viewers would know exactly what 'consumer confidence' is, how they measured it and that President Barack Obama was to blame for it being down.
"Consumer Confidence Is Down Due To The Debt Crisis"-- why not gas prices or jobs, jobs, jobs as being the reason 'consumer confidence' is down? Because Republicans have no answers there.
But the 'debt crises' is something they hope to hang around Obama's neck. Make no mistake: The debt ceiling is a political number -- having nothing to do with economic realities, the conditions on the ground.
It's all politics.
I criticize Kelly's producers for airing such a non-story -- a political hatchet job.
* I still have a crush on Megyn Kelly -- tho she was off that day, replaced by another Bleach Blonde Bobble-Head.
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