Deep Thought (Blame Game ed.)

Did you know that financial crisis was all the fault of minorities? Neither did I, until Fox News’ Neil Cavuto revealed the shocking secret behind the collapse of our economy: the colored folks did it!

Neil Cavuto, host of Fox News’ Your World, conflated giving home mortgages to minorities with risky lending practices, suggesting that efforts to increase homeownership among minority borrowers contributed to financial problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Discussing the decision by the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency to place Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship, Cavuto asked Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA) on September 18, “[W]hen you and many of your colleagues were pushing for more minority lending and more expanded lending to folks who heretofore couldn’t get mortgages, when you were pushing homeownership … Are you totally without culpability here? Are you totally blameless? Are you totally irresponsible of anything that happened?” Cavuto later said, “I’m just saying, I don’t remember a clarion call that said, ‘Fannie and Freddie are a disaster. Loaning to minorities and risky folks is a disaster.’

I can’t wait for the sequel from Lou Dobbs: Don’t forget the illegal aliens!

Author: Steven D

Father of 2 children. Faithful Husband. Loves my country, but not the GOP.