{"id":1113,"date":"2010-04-10T05:27:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T12:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2010-04-10T05:27:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T12:27:50","slug":"what-fox-thinks-of-europeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/10\/what-fox-thinks-of-europeans\/","title":{"rendered":"What Fox Thinks of Europeans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The audacity of this view matches its lack of integrity.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Fox_News_Nazi\"<\/a> Last night, while debating raising taxes on the wealthy with radio host Mark Levine, Fox Business host Stuart Varney claimed that progressive tax policies will turn us into Europeans, who are \u201c<\/font>a pack of Pagan losers<\/font><\/a>\u201d: <\/font><\/p>\n

VARNEY: Europe is paralyzed with debt, subject to massive entitlement programs, and riddle with anxiety. We are going down that road with our taxation policies. And once we enact a VAT, a hidden sales tax, we\u2019ll go even further down that road. It is profoundly un-American. We\u2019re going to resemble Europeans, who are essentially, a pack of Pagan losers.<\/span> And I don\u2019t want to go in that direction!<\/font><\/p>\n

Watch it:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Varney\u2019s claim is ironic, given the fact that the Fox Business host is British-born and a graduate of the London School of Economics. [Faux Noise delinked<\/em>] It should be noted that Western Europeans enjoy a lower poverty rate, an economy nearly as large as China and the United States combined, much more generous worker benefits and vacation time, and a higher per capita GDP growth rate <\/font>than the United States<\/font><\/a>. [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

What else would we expect from the GOP Reichsministry of Propaganda?<\/font><\/p>\n

I assure our European Readers that the bulk of Americans do not share this insanity.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The audacity of this view matches its lack of integrity. Last night, while debating raising taxes on the wealthy with radio host Mark Levine, Fox Business host Stuart Varney claimed that progressive tax policies will turn us into Europeans, who are \u201ca pack of Pagan losers\u201d: VARNEY: Europe is paralyzed with debt, subject to massive […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}