Bombings and Business

Fox News looks on the bright side of the UK's latest attempted attacks.

By Richard Whittaker, 9:51AM, Mon. Jul. 2, 2007

While the rest of the world tries to work out whether the latest terror attacks in the UK were the work of an organized cell or just some goobers with bad intent and no clue, the elves at Fox News have been looking for the upside.

Amazingly, they think they've found it. On Saturday's financial lovefest Forbes on Fox, host David Asman ran a discussion segment entitled "London Bombings: Good for GOP and Stocks?"

The bastions (we said bastions) of classy analysis then talked up the rarely discussed pros of investing in dictatorships. It seems business ethics are about as much their strong point as comedy. Remember, this is the channel whose parent company, News Corp., is trying to buy out the Wall Street Journal.

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