FNC's MacCallum Slams 'Unpatriotic' and 'Inhumane' Media Rooting for a Recession

Ryan Foley | August 16, 2019
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After reporting that "fears of a recession seem to be running high and some in the media seem almost giddy that an economic downturn would hinder President Trump's chances in 2020," The Story host Martha MacCallum played a "sampling" of media figures weighing in on the effect of a recession on President Trump's re-election bid. After the montage concluded, MacCallum told Victor Davis Hanson of The Hoover Institution that "I was listening to a lot of different news networks this morning, as I often do...getting a read on what everybody's saying about what's going on and, you know, I couldn't help but feel that there was a bit of sort of enthusiasm for the possibility that maybe the economy might tank." According to MacCallum, "I think that that's, you know, just sort of a generally...unpatriotic, I think, and it's also sort of...inhumane to hope that people will suffer a bad economy so that you can get rid of a President that you don't like." Hanson agreed with MacCallum's analysis, arguing that "very wealthy people who were pretty comfortable to say that they want a radical downturn in the economic lives of millions is pretty callous and hypocritical." Hanson added that the fear of a recession fits into the "periodic hysterics" the media obsess over, including the "25th Amendment, emoluments clause, Logan Act, Robert Mueller, (and) obstruction-collusion." Hanson noted that the aforementioned examples of left-wing hysteria occupy "each news cycle of about two or weeks."

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