Monday, May 30, 2016

Fox Takes Clinton Out Of Context In Effort To Distract From Trump’s Hope For Housing Crisis

http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/05/25/fox-takes-clinton-out-context-effort-distract-trump-s-hope-housing-crisis/210586
"Fox & Friends deceptively edited a 2007 video of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to claim that Clinton blamed homeowners for the housing market crash and that she is “flip flopping now” to blame Wall Street. But the speech transcript shows that Clinton indeed blamed Wall Street and a host of other financial actors, saying Wall Street “helped create the foreclosure crisis” and bears “responsibility” for the crash. Fox also downplayed Donald Trump’s expressed hope for a financial crisis in 2006"