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In Record Time, Fox Host Confuses Taxes, Spending, Socialism, And Fiscal Responsibility (VIDEO)

Brian Beutler | September 27, 2010, 7:15PM

Fox News hosts are masters at shouting down their own guests when disagreements arise. Here's a somewhat less-used tactic: increasingly absurd, scattershot questions, meant to yield an admission from the guest that she's a socialist.

This afternoon, Stuart Varney interviewed Occidental College professor Caroline Heldman, with the goal of walking Heldman, in Socratic-fashion, to the conclusion that President Obama is wrong to criticize the GOP for proposing "a series of policies that are just irresponsible...they say they want to balance the budget, they propose $4 trillion worth of tax cuts."

Unfortunately Varney confused "fiscal responsibility" with spending levels, and things went south from there.

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