Once again, everything is sunshine and roses in upside-down land at Fox ‘News’. FBN host Larry Kudlow made an appearance on Special Report with Bret Baier this Tuesday and was asked about the slight increase in traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and Kudlow immediately proceeded to blow smoke up Baier’s audiences backsides.
Here’s Kudlow bemoaning all of the “hand-wringing” over the economic damage Trump has caused with his war with Iran, and pretending the number of barrels of oil that passed through the strait in recent days is some sort of a “record.”
BAIER: Larry, speaking of the Strait, you look at the traffic today — it’s much more, it’s flowing out of there. You had some stats about from June.
KUDLOW: 19 million barrels passed through yesterday. You’re probably going to go through 20 million. You were basically almost halfway back of the original shortage of world oil supply, which was about 20% out of 100 billion barrels a day. So 20 billion barrels a day.
And look, I just wanted — I guess I have to say it. This memo is non-binding. It’s just a political document that opened up a conversation, okay?
And whatever the IRGC people may or may not say, they’re like Baghdad Bob during the Iraqi war — reminds me of that — because it has no bearing on anything.
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