A very interesting exchange on last night’s CNN NewsNight With Abby Phillip (AKA The Thunderdome) proved that a worthy argument can be undermined by an ineffective spokesperson. In this case, a point on the everyday effects of tariffs on imported goods that ended with Scott Jennings standing tall in defense of American snack foods.
Watch as CNN Business editor Richard Quest makes one of the weirder and tone-deaf arguments against tariffs to air on American cable television- you’ll pay more for high-end water:
THIS IS CINEMA: CNN Business editor Richard Quest trots out fancy fu-fu water and Australian snacks as examples of things that will spike with tariffs pic.twitter.com/0EL7bvxJ62
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RICHARD QUEST: This was America’s investors and the world’s investors, if you look at other markets, basically saying they…
