Fox Business network's financial reporter Melissa Francis.
Posted on 11/19/2014 8:10:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A Fox Business reporter is accusing her former CNBC bosses of reprimanding her for pursuing reporting angles that pointed out the mathematical flaws in the president's Obamacare law.
Financial reporter Melissa Francis disclosed on her Fox Business program "Money with Melissa Francis" that when she worked for CNBC, she was told numerous times by her superiors to stop "disrespecting the office of the president" by reporting on what she called "the math of Obamacare."
Francis explained that while at CNBC she pointed out to her viewers that it's not possible to increase the number of people receiving health coverage, including those with preexisting conditions, and not have healthcare coverage cost more for most people.
During the segmant, she also explained how the healthcare law would cause most citizens to lose their health coverage even if they liked their plan. After her segmant, she was told by her superiors, and "numerous times" after, that she needed to stop pursuing such angles that painted negative pictures about the healthcare law and President Barack Obama's administration.
"When I was at CNBC, I pointed out to my viewers that the math of Obamacare simply didn't work. Not the politics, by the way, just the math. And when I did that, I was silenced," Francis said during an interview on Fox News' "Fox & Friends."
She continued: "I pointed out that that it couldn't possibly be true — that if you like your plan, you can keep it. That was a lie. … As a result of what I said at CNBC, I was called into management where I was told that I was 'disrespecting the office of the president' by telling what turned out to be the absolute truth."
Francis added that although she's ashamed she didn't stand up to her bosses at the time, she decided to come out with her allegations against CNBC after hearing the news last week that MIT economist and Obamacare adviser, Jonathan Gruber, had said that the passing of the healthcare law relied on the "stupidity of the American voters" and a "lack of transparency."
"It made me feel terrible that [Gruber] was counting on the job of business news and what we do at Fox Business. That is to make the dollars and cents in life make sense for people. That is exactly what needed to happen with Obamacare," Francis asserted. "We are here to say, 'look guys lets do the math and lay it out.' Know the facts and then make a decision. Maybe we're still be in favor of this. Maybe you still want to go ahead, but you have to understand the real facts and we did not illuminate that."
A CNBC representative issued a statement to The New York Post saying that Francis' claims are "laughable."
"That's laughable, but we take notice because as the fastest growing network in primetime, we're always on the lookout for high quality comedy writers and actresses," the CNBC Representative said.
Francis responded to the CNBC remark by saying that they did not clearly deny the allegations.
"It is a very sarcastic-lib remark. Notice, they didn't say that 'it is absolutely not true and this didn't happen.' I think they know it is true and it happened on more than one occasion," Francis said. "To make a sarcastic remark about actresses and comedy writers just show that they are laughing at their view the same way Jonathan Gruber was laughing at the public."
In her show, Franics also slamed the liberal media for being a part of a "campaign to keep you in the dark" and claimed that Fox is the only network not a part of that campaign. Earlier in November, an ex CBS reporter accused CBS officials of keeping hidden part of a "60 Minutes" interview with Obama that could have hurt his 2012 presidential campaign.
“That’s laughable, but we take notice because as the fastest growing network in primetime,...”
Now that is laughable!
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” ......... Voltaire....................
Only the President can bring “Disrespect” to the Office of the President.
ratings in sept at 21year low lol
‘she needed to stop pursuing such angles that painted negatives pictures about the healthcare law and President Barack Obama’s Administration.’
Anyone watch the newest ‘V’ series? I remember when the reporter was interviewing Anna, the leader of the Visitors, and before the interview started, the reporter asked if he could ask her anything. She replied ‘anything, as long as you don’t paint us in a bad light’. I was watching that series and thinking about the O Admin. I was so upset when the Visitors won at the end. I was looking forward to the 2012 election and was sure the American people had awakened to the true agenda of Bammy. But, like his counterparts the Visitors, he stole back into the WH and has been continuing his destruction of America.
JADEN: Exactly. Because your mind has a duality to it. So when one thought goes into your mind, it’s not just one thought, it has to bounce off both hemispheres of the brain. When you’re thinking about something happy, you’re thinking about something sad. When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple. It’s a tool for understanding mathematics and things with two separate realities. But for creativity: That comes from a place of oneness. That’s not a duality consciousness. And you can’t listen to your mind in those times — it’ll tell you what you think and also what other people think.
WILLOW: And then you think about what you think, which is very dangerous.
She needs to name names.
It is time to name names. Who silenced you, Melissa Francis?
Their total number of viewers in prime time is still pathetic, they're just using weasel logic trying to make themselves sound better than reality.
I bet this happens on every single issue too
Could be worse, the commies could have silenced her permanently as they do in most socialist paradises.For some reason the news media doesn’t seem to want to cover it.
Figures don't lie, but liars do figure and this is the common desperation math of the losers. If CNBC is using percentage growth as a basis, then if their base period had 1 viewer and their new period had 1.5 viewers, then that is a phenomenal 50% increase. If in the same time frame Fox Business went from 100k to 110k, that would only be a 10% growth even though they had a 20,000 fold increase in new viewers over CNBC.
Not a single Republican senator or Congressman voted in favor of that monstrosity called Obamacare. It must be make perfectly clear that democrat Phd com man Gruber, called stupid not all the American voters, but just the democrat voters that put the “Liar in Chief” in the White House, in spite of his Marxist anti-American back ground, and all the Democrats legislators co-conspirators with the president and the MSM in the greatest deception against the American people in the history of the United States.
According to Obama, the MTI professor, a frequent visitor to the White House, was just an adviser. For his “invaluable advise and services” to the Obama administration professor Gruber received over 5.9 million dollars... Stupidity and corruption to the to nth power.
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