[quote=outtamojo]Tucker Carlson of all people was actually fair and balanced about this but of the 5 senators who sold stock my always trumper coworker could only name Feinstein![/quote]
Here’s why your always trumper coworker could only name Feinstein. This is the headline on fox:
Dianne Feinstein, 3 Senate colleagues sold off stocks before coronavirus crash: reports
As would any actual news organization, the NYT looked at the circumstances surrounding the sales and found that Feinstein, along with republican senators Johnson and Inhofe, made trades that were not suspicious:
Feinstein has said that she did not attend the Jan. 24 briefing; her stock was in a blind trust, which means she didn’t make the decision to sell; and the transaction lost her money, because the trust was selling shares of a biotechnology stock, the value of which has since risen. Inhofe’s transactions were part of a systematic selling of stocks that he started after he became chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Johnson sold stock in his family’s plastic business, as part of a process that has been occurring for months; his sale also occurred well after stock market began falling.
So the headline on the fox website is highly misleading. Bullshit, really.
This is but one of millions of examples of right-wing propaganda misleading and manipulating their marks into voting against their own interests.
