Don't Bore Audie With Facts: She Prefers Iowa Farmer Calling Tariffs A 'P---ing Match' #Political
Audie Cornish wants Trump's tariffs cast in the most negative possible light.
On today's CNN This Morning, host Cornish played a clip of a plain-spoken Iowa soybean farmer: "You know, it's just a match, you know? And nobody's going to win." The p-word was muted but it's clear what he said.
A bit later, when panelist Kevin Frey [a Spectrum News reporter] launched an earnest, factual description of the effects of tariffs, Cornish eventually cut him off, saying:
"We just got a deep dive into commodities from you, which, you know, I like it. You're bringing some good energy this morning. But the farmer gave us a very, like—people understand what tariffs are now, right?"
Note that as Cornish cut him off, the panelist Frey realized he was being dissed, and actually apologized: "sorry."
The panel's take on tariffs was uniformly negative, emphasizing how they could raise prices, etc. The potential benefits of tariffs were never discussed. For example, how tariffs could encourage companies with manufacturing facilities abroad to relocate them to the United States. As has been reported:
"Multiple major auto firms — including Honda, Hyundai Motor, Stellantis, Volkswagen and Volvo Cars — are looking to open new US factories or boost their production efforts at existing sites to minimize any pain from the tariffs. Honda became one of the first companies to cave, scrapping plans to produce its new Civic model in Mexico in favor of Indiana, according to a Reuters report last week."
Tariffs can also boost the sales of American companies whose products will be more competitive with products subject to tariffs coming from abroad. That will increase employment as well as profits.
But for Cornish and the liberal media at large, Trump's tariffs, just like Orange Man himself, are bad: just a "p------g match" in which everyone loses.
Here's the transcript.
CNN This Morning
3/13/25
6:04 am ETAUDIE CORNISH: Here's a soybean farmer, to your point about farmers, saying nobody's going to win a tariff war.
SOYBEAN FARMER DOUG FULLER: You know, they aren't good for the other countries. They aren't good for me. And who could blame, who could blame them putting reciprocal tariffs on us?
You know, it's just a match, you know? And nobody's going to win.
CORNISH: Okay, real talk from Polk County, Iowa. Kevin?
KEVIN FREY: I was talking to a farmer yesterday as well from upstate New York who's a dairy farmer. And he, obviously Trump is threatening within the last week, and he's played with this before, but putting tariffs on Canadian dairy as part of the ongoing feud between the two.
And this is a longstanding issue that dates back pre-USMCA and so forth. But even if the tariffs go into a place that Trump is kind of toying with, one economist I spoke to said basically, Canada will just put up theirs and then they'll cut off any market access that they were even hoping to gain through some sort of leverage with Canada.
But on top of that, in the meantime, in the short term, this farmer was telling me that they could see an up to 10% reduction in their own bottom line because milk prices are down because of the ongoing tit-for-tat. And on top of that, some of the stuff they get from Canada, like their feed, has gone up in price because of the tariff.
CORNISH: Now, what's interesting is, you got all that. We just got a deep dive into commodities from you.
FREY: Sorry.
CORNISH: Which, you know, I like it. You're bringing some good energy this morning.
But the farmer gave us a very, like, people understand what tariffs are now. Yeah. Right? Like, he was giving me the explanation I used to hear from economists.
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