No! A Soros-funded study says that Fox viewers are stupid? I AM SHOCKED.
Does Alternet actually research things for conflict of interest before they skip to their keyboards? Says Alternet:
Yet another study has been released proving that watching Fox News is detrimental to your intelligence. World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, conducted a survey of American voters that shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. What’s more, the study shows that greater exposure to Fox News increases misinformation.
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The body of evidence that Fox News is nothing but a propaganda machine dedicated to lies is growing by the day.
The first thing I do when I see one of these outfits release a study like WorldPublicOpinion.org is to go and see who bankrolls them. This study was too comical not to, and lo, it took all of two clicks to see this:
Look at the third group the WPO thanks. That’s right. The Tides Foundation. And who funds the Tides Foundation? George Soros. Soros has donated millions to the Tides Foundationa and Tides Center over the past several years.
Alternet and other progressive bloggers were far too eager to spread this false information through the blogosphere in an attempt to persuade the public through lies as opposed to presenting their ideas based on any sort of merit.
The “conclusions” were inane as they were based completely on the presupposition that the un-researched questions themselves were valid:
- 91 percent believe the stimulus legislation lost jobs
- 72 percent believe the health reform law will increase the deficit
- 72 percent believe the economy is getting worse
- 60 percent believe climate change is not occurring
- 49 percent believe income taxes have gone up
- 63 percent believe the stimulus legislation did not include any tax cuts
- 56 percent believe Obama initiated the GM/Chrysler bailout
- 38 percent believe that most Republicans opposed TARP
- 63 percent believe Obama was not born in the U.S. (or that it is unclear)
I can do this, too, except base it on actual facts instead of Soros-rhetoric. Watch:
- 91% of Alternet readers likely think that the stimulus created jobs
- 72% believe that the health care law doesn’t increase the deficit
- 72% believe that the economy isn’t getting worse
- 60% believe that climate change is real and polar bears are dying
- 49% believe that taxes haven’t gone up
- 56% believe that Obama didn’t double down on the GM/Chrysler bailouts or that Obama made that even worse by forcing out the board of a private company or how his administration refused to sell its shares and return ownership to private citizens
- 38% believe that Obama didn’t press Bush for the rest of the unspent TARP funds for further spending
- 63% believe that the birther theory was started by Democrats, specifically Hillary Clinton’s old attorney buddy Philip Berg
See how much more honest, compelling, and not stupid it is when you use facts? What is all that Soros money going for? Apparently not for research.