Fake News Works: Poll Finds 60% Say Recession Likely

RUSH: Speaking of fake media, let me explain this. This is distressing for me to have to tell you this, but I can’t hide behind this. We can’t ignore this. For the last three weeks, the Drive-By Media has been insisting that we’re on the verge of a recession when we are not. We are not anywhere near a recession, but yet the Drive-By Media — doesn’t matter which one you want to talk about — ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, take your pick, they have been relentlessly forecasting a recession. They have been telling people that we’re on the verge of it.

We have been sitting here telling people, “No, we’re not.” The Federal Reserve chairman came out Friday of last week, Jerome Powell said we don’t see a recession in the future in the next 12 months here at the Federal Reserve. And that should be the final authority on it. And yet the Drive-By Media has persisted.

And so today we have a poll. ABC/Washington Post poll conducted by landline and cellular telephone September 2nd through the 5th in English and Spanish, random sample, 1,003 adults, margin of error, three and a half points. The partisan division, 28% Democrat, 24% Republican, 37% independent. And I need to stress this is not likely voters. This is a random sample. Trump approval drops by six points. Sixty percent of this sample say a recession is likely.

[Trump] has just tweeted his absolute disgust with this ABC News/Washington Post poll on the recession, calling it typical fake news, disastrous, very damaging. And he pointed out that the ABC News/Washington Post poll that had him losing by 12 points in 2016 was so bad that he actually had his people call them and they took it down because it was so bad. But his point is, it’s giving historical reference to how inaccurate the poll is — and I don’t doubt it. I don’t think this… They use polls to make news, not reflect it.

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