--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardjwilliamstexas" <willytex@...> wrote: > > > > do.rflex: > > Jon Stewart takes down Fox News like only he can. > > > So, did Jon Stewart's follow-up attack on Fox News > come across as spiteful? Yes, since he made a big > false statement on TV in front of millions of people. > > His misstatement makes all his other statements seem > false as well. Stewart told a fib and Manning thinks > it's funny. So, I guess that makes Manning and Stewart > both really stupid liars. Go figure. > > "The way Stewart phrased the comment, it's not enough > to show a sliver of evidence that Fox News' audience > is ill-informed. The evidence needs to support the > view that the data shows they are 'consistently' > misinformed a term he used not once but three times. > It's simply not true that 'every poll' shows that > result. So we rate his claim False." - PolitiFact >
Politifact Is False: Every Poll Shows Fox News Viewers Are The Most Misinformed At DeSmogBlog, Chris Mooney debunks Politifact's "false <http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jun/20/jon-stewart/\ jon-stewart-says-those-who-watch-fox-news-are-most/> " rating of Jon Stewart's claim that "every poll" shows Fox News viewers to be the "most consistently misinformed <http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201106190001> ." Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science, explains that all five studies <http://www.desmogblog.com/jon-stewart-1-politifact-0-fox-news-viewers-a\ re-most-misinformed> done on the question find that watching Fox News and believing political misinformation on the Iraq War, global warming, health care legislation, and other contentious political issues <http://www.desmogblog.com/fox-news-effect-few-references> are strongly correlated. http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/06/22/251036/politifact-is-false-eve\ ry-poll-shows-fox-news-viewers-are-the-most-misinformed/
