The Misconception: Your opinions are the result of years of rational, objective analysis.
The Truth: Your opinions are the result of years of paying attention to information which confirmed what you believed while ignoring information which challenged your preconceived notions.
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Have you ever had a conversation in which some old movie was mentioned, something like “The Gol...
Earlier this week, John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira, Center for American Progress senior fellows and co-directors of the Progressive Studies Program, noted that Americans viewed socialism as favorably as they viewed the Tea Party. Now, a new Fox News poll shows that the Tea Party is viewed less favorably than another bugaboo for the Tea Party, the Internal Revenue Service:
Fox’s poll fi...
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Jon Stewart, "Daily Show" host and unofficial cable news ombudsman, took on the Fox News' Megyn Kelly in a 10-minute segment on Thursday, skewering the network's newest face over her "fair and balanced" coverage of the health care reform bill.
Stewart may be an unabashed liberal, but he's pretty bipartisan when it comes to cable news ran...
Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins, who often ambushes liberals for host Bill O’Reilly, appeared at CPAC this weekend to help cover the event for his network. When ThinkProgress found him, he was casually chatting with a gaggle of students about working at Fox News, and about conservatism in general. Asked about Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s ownership stake in News Corp — the parent compan...
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On Fox and Friends this morning, Steve Doocy hosted a discussion about concerns from Muslim-Americans that full-body scanners at airports violate Islamic rules on modesty. After former homeland security research analyst Michael Hoffman suggested that some profiling was needed for airport security, Doocy brought up his wife’s experiences going through airport security, saying that she gets search...
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Survey showing approval rating of more than 50% for rightwing network vindicates its drive for partisan audience The onward march of Fox News, the relentlessly rightwing channel that has revolutionised American television news by making it overtly partisan, has been boosted by an opinion poll that suggests it is the most trusted news operation in the country. Almost half of all Americans surve...
By Frank Schaeffer Do you want to understand Sarah Palin's attraction to the born-again Republican/Fox crowd? Then you have to "get" the apocalyptic fantasy world they live in. Palin and FOX Palin comes from that world of hysterical paranoid delusion. It's her attraction to the people who like her. God has "raised her up for such a time as this" they believe. It is why FOX News just hired h...
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By Josef Adalian Holidays are proving to be tough for the folks at MSNBC.
The cable news channel once again decided to basically go dark during the Christmas break, replacing its usual lineup of news and talk with endless documentaries about everything from prison life ("Lockup!") to the coming end of the world ("Future Earth: 2025").
MSNBC has been falling into sleep m...
The right wing’s predictable policy prescription in the aftermath of any terror incident is to impose greater ethnic profiling of Muslims. For instance, following the Ft. Hood shooting, Sarah Palin said, “ profile away .” After six imams were removed from a plane in Minnesota in 2006, Ann Coulter justified profiling Muslims by arguing that it’s just like “ profiling the Klan .” That same year, aft...
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Last week, Fox and Friends showed a Rasmussen poll graphic revealing that a whopping 120 percent of the American public believes scientists may be falsifying research to support their own theories on global warming:
Media Matters explains Fox’s fuzzy math :
Last month, ThinkProgress also caught Fox showing a pie chart documenting that 193 percent of the public supports Sarah Palin,...
At least Fox News covers something funny every once in a while.
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Reporting on the latest Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll last night on Fox News’ local Chicago affiliate, anchor Byron Harlan employed some funny math in asserting that Sarah Palin is leading the pack for the GOP nomination in 2012:
Those figures add up to 193 percent. An accompanying graphic tried to squeeze the numbers into one pie chart:
In fact, the poll Harlan referred to did not...
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God, this guy … with the bowing, again. What little fascist-communist dictator is Obama kowtowing to this time? We don’t know, some child despot, maybe the Sultan of Cuba or the African Queen. No wonder Fox News has to name all the pictures of Barack “monster.jpg.” And that stench? Oh, that’s just the smell of the constitution burning. [ Flickr ]